qz

2026-08-12

10 inventions that came out of trying to survive extreme heat

These inventions born from extreme heat, from Gatorade to the pith helmet, show how people engineered survival in the world's hottest climates [...]

qz

2026-08-12

The best and most affordable air purifiers, according to Consumer Reports

Air purifiers can hum loudly enough to disrupt focus during work calls. Consumer Reports tested five models to find the quietest options [...]

Destination

2026-08-12

Vijay Rayapati, CEO and Co-Founder of Atomicwork – Interview Series

Vijay Rayapati is the co-founder and CEO of Atomicwork. Before founding the company, he served as Senior Vice President and General Manager at Nutanix, where he led the End User Computing business following Nutanix's acquisition of Frame, the cloud desktop company he founded and scaled as CEO. Earlier in his career, he held engineering and product leadership roles at VMware and Microsoft, giv [...]

Destination

2026-08-12

I'm more excited about smartphone colors than any actual new features in 2026

Forget AI, we are most looking forward to fun new colors this coming hardware season. [...]

Destination

2026-08-12

US tries to override New York gambling laws, orders Kalshi to keep operating

Trump admin claims New York suing Kalshi created "market emergency." [...]

Destination

2026-08-12

Do you really need an expensive fan to stay cool? I tested 5 handheld models from £17 to £130, and one budget pick stole the show

Do expensive fans really cool you down faster? I tested five models at different price points to find out. [...]

Destination

2026-08-12

Lovable Series C Doubles the Vibe Coding Startup’s Valuation to $13.3 Billion

Stockholm-based Lovable has raised $400 million in Series C funding at a $13.3 billion valuation, the company announced on August 12, 2026, following its Series B in December 2025 (valuation not disclosed in the company's announcement). Menlo Ventures led the round, with the Scaleup Europe Fund, managed by EQT, co-leading. The round draws a deliberately global cap table. New investors include [...]

venturebeat

2026-08-12

SpaceXAI debuts Grok 4.6, overtaking Kimi K3's performance and matching GPT-5.6 Sol for world's third best on Artificial Analysis

Elon Musk's company SpaceXAI, formerly known as xAI, has released Grok 4.6, its latest frontier AI model, with a focus on long-running agents, coding and knowledge work — and a pricing strategy designed to make those workloads cheaper to run.The model scores 61 on the third-party Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, surpassing the popular open weights Chinese model from Moonshot, Kimi K3 [...]

Destination

2026-08-12

This North Korean recruitment scam was so convincing it even fooled Google

Fake sites were popping up at the top of search engine results pages and used to convince victims to download a trojanized PDF viewer. [...]