2026-08-12

The 5 U.S. cities where splitting rent with a roommate pays off most

Having a roommate in the right city can help balance your budget. StorageCafe found the places where splitting rent saves you the most money [...]

2026-08-12

The most supportive and durable innerspring mattresses: Consumer Reports

Innerspring mattresses can sag or flatten years before they need replacing. Consumer Reports tested six models to find the most supportive picks [...]

2026-08-12

The data center backlash reaches Texas

Texas is auditing hundreds of proposed data centers as communities across the U.S. push back against rising costs of the AI boom [...]

2026-08-12

You’re Thinking About Online Trends All Wrong

From pessimism around dating to AI reshaping culture, cyber-ethnographer Ruby J. Thelot tells WIRED why people are putting too much stock into things that go viral. [...]

2026-08-12

Joby is buying a stealth-technology firm for $500m, and rebuilding its defence arm around it

Joby Aviation has agreed to buy Resonant Sciences, a Dayton, Ohio radar and low-observability specialist, for about $500m, in the largest acquisition the electric air taxi company has made and the clearest signal yet of where it expects its near-term revenue to come from. The structure is $450m in cash and roughly $50m in Joby […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-08-12

Brad Lightcap is leaving OpenAI after eight years to start something new

Brad Lightcap, who spent eight years at OpenAI and four of them as chief operating officer, said on Tuesday that he is leaving to start something new. He did not say what it is. “It is bittersweet to share that I’ll be moving on from OpenAI to start something new,” Lightcap wrote in a post […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-08-12

The unreleased Xbox Elite Controller 3 may have ended up in an unsuspecting buyer's hands

An Xbox Elite Controller 3 may have been sold in a marketplace, months after images of the unreleased model were leaked. [...]

2026-08-12

Google Magnifier helps me see very small print (when I can't find my glasses)

If you regularly find yourself in a situation where you've left your glasses behind and you need to read fine print or something far away, Google has an app right up your alley. [...]

2026-08-12

Ryanair signs a five-year AI deal with Google Cloud, and a second cloud to fall back on

Ryanair has signed a five-year data and AI partnership with Google Cloud, rolling out Google Workspace and Google Cloud services to 35,000 employees and making Gemini Enterprise, Google’s agentic AI platform, the centrepiece of how Europe’s largest carrier intends to run itself. The airline has tied the deal explicitly to its growth target of 300 […]<br /> This story continues at The N [...]