2026-07-30

AI is coming for the cheap seats on your favourite flight route

The lucky dip of stumbling on a cheap seat on a popular flight is starting to disappear. Airlines are handing their pricing to artificial intelligence, and on busy routes that mostly means one thing: higher fares. Carriers have long priced seats with analysts and rules of thumb, such as bumping fares by 20 per cent […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-07-30

Snap will show off its AR Specs at a September 16 event

The company is promising the first in-depth look at the $2,195 glasses. [...]

2026-07-30

This land belongs to you and me — even Willie Nelson is pushing back against data centers

Country music icon Willie Nelson has issued a strongly worded statement about the encroachment of data centers in rural locations across the US. [...]

2026-07-30

I tried Android Auto offline while on a road trip, and it beats mobile data in 2 ways

A recent trip upstate revealed the benefits and limitations of running Android Auto in low- to no-signal areas. [...]

2026-07-30

Amazon's cloud business grew 37% as quarterly revenue topped $200 billion

AWS revenue hit $42.2 billion as total company revenue crossed $200 billion for the first time in a single quarter [...]

2026-07-30

Casio's new ring watch is an undercover Oura competitor and it's adorable

At last, a smart ring with some flair. [...]

2026-07-30

'It’s not red, it’s magenta': How ThinkPad designers gaslit IBM to save the iconic TrackPoint

The great lie that protected the ThinkPad’s signature red dot from IBM’s strict corporate safety guidelines. [...]

2026-07-30

AI price wars: OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Luna prices by 80% as model competition shifts toward cost

To quote an ancient Jedi Master "Begun, the AI price wars have!"OpenAI is sharply reducing the prices of two models in its GPT-5.6 frontier series, cutting GPT-5.6 Luna, the smallest and fastest model in the series, by 80% and GPT-5.6 Terra, the mid-tier model, by 20%, while adding a premium Fast mode for its flagship GPT-5.6 Sol model.The cuts place Luna much closer to the lowest-cost c [...]

2026-07-30

That AI wearable you don't like just got worse

The new Friend pendant features a speaker, updated models and the same off-putting ideas about how humans should use AI. [...]