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San Diego Comic-Con 2026: Our Favorite Moments (and How to Travel Connected With Ubigi)

From Doomsday and a new Black Panther to Ryan Gosling's Ghost Rider, here are our favorite San Diego Comic-Con 2026 moments, plus the Ubigi eSIM to travel connected.

Tech News En partenariat avec Ubigi Jul 28

Tim Walz speaks onstage during 2025 SXSW Conference and Festival at the Austin Convention Center on March 08, 2025 in Austin, Texas.

Prediction Markets Saved From Minnesota Ban by Last-Minute Ruling

Cryptocurrencies Mike Pearl Jul 28

Aerial view of a large datacenter in Noord Holland, The Netherlands

Someone Was Arrested at a Public Meeting For the Crime of Anti-Data Center Clapping

Artificial Intelligence Mike Pearl Jul 27

Britain Science Diplomacy Politics Computers Summit Ai

You Can Finally Trust All Your Money to X, the Everything App

Cryptocurrencies Mike Pearl Jul 27

Nvidia Throws Its Support Behind OpenAI, Open AI, and… Super-Closed AI?

Tech News Ece Yildirim Jul 27

Gadgets

The Case for Tracking Everything

If every step taken, hour slept, and heartbeat can be measured, recorded, and analyzed, are we taking control of our health or losing the plot entirely?

Claire Maldarelli Apr 15

Artificial Intelligence

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Someone Was Arrested at a Public Meeting For the Crime of Anti-Data Center Clapping

After hearing an impassioned speech, Lux Claridge clapped, and was then arrested.

Artificial Intelligence Mike Pearl Jul 27

This AI Browser Is Building the Front End for the Dead Internet

Artificial Intelligence AJ Dellinger Jul 27

When You Share Claude Chats, You Might Be Sharing Them With Everyone

Artificial Intelligence AJ Dellinger Jul 27

Traffic Jam At Times Square, New York, Usa

AI Found a New Way to Ruin Memes: Selling Them to Advertisers

Artificial Intelligence Bruce Gil Jul 27

Report Says ‘Hundreds’ of Users Asked ChatGPT About Bioweapons and Poisons, and It Answered

Artificial Intelligence Mike Pearl Jul 27

Commerce

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Semiconductor Chip Manufacturer Intel Reports Quarterly Earnings

AI Hype Delivers Intel Its Fastest Revenue Growth in 15 Years

Intel is back from the dead, thanks to AI (and probably Trump).

Commerce Ece Yildirim Jul 23

A Buick SUV seen against a backdrop of RAM

The RAMpocalypse Is Starting to Hit the Auto Industry

Commerce Bruce Gil Jul 23

David Ellison at Apple's "Fountain of Youth" world premiere held at the American Museum of Natural History on May 19, 2025 in New York, New York.

Federal Judge Says Not So Fast to Paramount’s Takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery

Commerce Bruce Gil Jul 20

A customer refuels his van at a Freedom Fuel Network gas station in Boothwyn, Pennsylvania on July 17, 2026.

U.S. Average Gas Price Ticks Above $4 as World Fears Iran Is a New Forever War

Commerce Matt Novak Jul 20

The SpaceX Starship V3 rocket is seen on South Padre Island just after its 13th test flight was scrubbed, as seen from Port Isabel, Texas, on July 16, 2026.

SpaceX Has Lost $1 Trillion in Value Since Its Post-IPO Peak

Commerce Matt Novak Jul 17

Crime

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It’s Never Been Cooler to Take Down a Flock Camera

Communities are forming around taking down the unpopular license plate scanning cameras, by legal means and vigilante action.

Crime Justin Caffier Jul 17

A U.S. Department Of Homeland Security and U.S. Customs and Border Protection sign is displayed at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Headquarters on May 18, 2025 in Washington, DC.

DHS Cybersecurity Reportedly Has an ‘I’m Sure It’s Nothing’ Problem

Crime Mike Pearl Jul 14

Taiwanese Authorities Reportedly Raid Supermicro in Move That Could Signal Big Change For AI Chip Exporters

Artificial Intelligence Mike Pearl Jun 29

Close,up,smartphone,screen,with,a,soccer,championship,live,broadcast.

DOJ Shuts Down Nearly 400 Sites Hosting Illegal World Cup Live Streams

Crime Bruce Gil Jun 29

Pacific Palisades Fire Court Case Ends in Mistrial

Crime Bruce Gil Jun 26

Cryptocurrencies

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Prediction Markets Saved From Minnesota Ban by Last-Minute Ruling

Passing the law was a bit of an experiment in the first place.

Cryptocurrencies Mike Pearl Jul 28

You Can Finally Trust All Your Money to X, the Everything App

Cryptocurrencies Mike Pearl Jul 27

This Viral Data Center Sounds Like Satan’s Buzzsaw

Cryptocurrencies Mike Pearl Jul 27

Report: Stats For the Average Polymarket User Are Unsurprising, but There’s a Sad Part

Cryptocurrencies Mike Pearl Jul 23

Back View Of Happy Family Moving Into New House Admiring Their House.

Fidelity: Actually, Homes Are Getting Cheaper (as Long as You Price Them in Bitcoin)

Cryptocurrencies Mike Pearl Jul 15

Culture

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YouTube Premium Is Bringing Peacock’s Old-School Content to Its Platform

Subscribers will have to wait a little bit before they start diving into sports and reruns of NBC sitcoms.

Culture Bruce Gil Jul 27

Tree.fm Provides Looping Doses of Forest-Based Audio Valium

Culture Tom Hawking Jul 27

Paramount Agrees to Delay Merger With Warner Bros. Discovery

Culture Matt Novak Jul 24

U.S. President Donald Trump receives a DoorDash delivery of McDonald's from Sharon Simmons before he speaks to the press during an event outside the Oval Office of the White House on April 13, 2026 in Washington, DC. The president spoke about the No Tax on Tips, Pope Leo XIV and the ongoing negotiations with Iran.

Medicaid and Food Stamps Are Increasingly Paired With Amazon Gig Economy Jobs, Federal Report Shows

Culture Mike Pearl Jul 22

Picture Of Miami Skyscrapers In City Center. High Quality Photo

Google Is Really Getting Into Miami Lately

Culture Mike Pearl Jul 22

Gadgets

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Smart Glasses Are the One Privacy Nightmare Apple Can’t Solve

Apple has to choose between privacy and selling smart glasses that few want.

Gadgets James Pero Jul 27

Samsung’s Galaxy Ring Gets FDA-Cleared Sleep Apnea Detection This Fall

Gadgets Ian Carlos Campbell Jul 27

Samsung’s TriFold Phone Might Not Be Dead After All

Gadgets Raymond Wong Jul 27

Meta Is Rethinking Subscriptions on Its Smart Glasses

Gadgets James Pero Jul 27

There May Be No Such Thing as Cheap VR Anymore

Gadgets Kyle Barr Jul 27

Internet

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Why Did It Take So Long for the Web to Get Its Own Domain Name?

Clue: the answer involves lawyers.

Internet Tom Hawking Jul 25

‘My Soul Left My Body’: Amazon Accidentally Bills Users Billions of Times What They Owe

Culture Mike Pearl Jul 18

Google Images Is Trying to Be… Pinterest?

Internet Bruce Gil Jul 14

Taylor Swift At A Concert In England Copy

How Much Would You Pay for Taylor Swift’s Garbage and Why Isn’t It $0?

Culture AJ Dellinger Jul 13

StubHub Founder Has Ties to Major Scalpers on the Platform

Internet Bruce Gil Jul 10

Politics

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Demonstrators hold signs stating "f*ck Elon Musk" and "make racism wrong again" during a United Against Racism rally on June 13, 2026 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

How Much Charity Would It Take for People to Like Elon Musk?

Elon Musk suggested Monday he'd be giving away a lot of money before it supposedly becomes worthless.

Politics Matt Novak Jul 27

Trump on Data Centers: ‘You Can’t Fight It. You Have to Go With It’

Politics AJ Dellinger Jul 23

Kalshi Billboards Ahead Of New York Mayoral Election

Kalshi’s New Midterms Hub Comes With a Felony-Sized Asterisk

Politics Bruce Gil Jul 22

Zendaya attends the premiere of "The Odyssey" presented by Universal Pictures on July 14, 2026 in New York City.

Right-Wing Haters Try to Stop the Steal as ‘Woke’ Odyssey Conquers Global Box Office

Politics Matt Novak Jul 21

Iran Claims It ‘Destroyed’ Amazon’s Central Data Infrastructure In Bahrain

Politics Ece Yildirim Jul 21

Privacy & Security

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A Feature That Makes Your Phone Data Self-Destruct in Authorities’ Hands May Soon Have Its Day in Court

The defendant, an Atlanta area activist, denies having done it. But is it even illegal?

Privacy & Security Mike Pearl Jul 25

Flock Cameras Are Disappearing in Plain Sight

Privacy & Security Justin Caffier Jul 23

Apple Has Reportedly Started Recording and AI-Summarizing Conversations at the Genius Bar

Gadgets Mike Pearl Jul 19

Garrett Langley, CEO of Flock Safety, attends the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 9, 2025 in Sun Valley, Idaho.

Flock’s CEO Is Sorry for Calling Privacy Activists ‘Terrorists’

Privacy & Security Matt Novak Jul 18

Fans attend as Green Day kicks off their Saviors North America Stadium Tour at Nationals Park on July 29, 2024 in Washington, DC.

DC Passes Bill to Ban Surveillance Pricing for Concert Tickets, Cap Resale Prices

Privacy & Security Matt Novak Jul 15

Robots

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Tesla Stock Falls After Elon Musk Frets Over the Difficulty of Building Robots

The CEO seems to think his competitors are cheating.

Robots Matt Novak Jul 23

One Conglomerate Wants to Sell You a School Teacher, a Friend, and a Sex Robot

Robots Tom Hawking Jul 18

Car Makers Showcase Their Latest Models At The New York Auto Show

A South Korean Labor Union Is in Revolt Over Robots, or Maybe It’s Surrendering to Them

Robots Mike Pearl Jul 16

Robert the Robot on display at the UN's AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva.

Finally, a Robot Designed to Make Chatting With Mark Zuckerberg Feel Natural

Robots Webb Wright Jul 10

Why Is a San Diego Charter School Spending $500,000 on Two Humanoid Robots?

Artificial Intelligence Tom Hawking Jun 29

Social Media

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You Can Finally Trust All Your Money to X, the Everything App

X Money has landed.

Cryptocurrencies Mike Pearl Jul 27

The Facebook ‘thumbs-up’ sign at Meta’s company headquarters

Facebook Is Making Some Big Changes and Giving Marketplace Its Own App

Social Media Bruce Gil Jul 24

France's President Emmanuel Macron (L) poses for a selfie with guest children during the commemorative ceremony for the 86th anniversary of the Appeal of 18 June, at the Memorial du Mont-Valerien, in Suresnes, in the western suburbs of Paris, on June 18, 2026.

Social Media Ban For Kids Approved in France in First For an EU Country

Social Media Matt Novak Jul 21

If You’re a Federal Employee, You May Now Install TikTok on Your Work Phone Even Though It’s Illegal

Social Media Mike Pearl Jul 19

Meta Sued For Allegedly Using Discriminatory AI In Layoff Decisions

Artificial Intelligence Ece Yildirim Jul 14

Do you love expertly choreographed drone videos? Then you’re in luck, because we’ve got the coolest video you’ll see all week—an expertly piloted and impressively directed video that was shot at the Bryant-Lake Bowl in Minneapolis. The video, titled “Right Up Our Alley,” was created by Sky Candy Studios and directed by Anthony Jaska. The…

Sploid Matt Novak Mar 10 '21

Watch This Jetpack Pilot Zip Around Like a Real-Life Iron Man

Sploid Alyse Stanley Feb 17 '20

You’re Not Doing the Fourth of July Right If You’re Not Blowing Up the World’s Largest Fireworks Tank

Sploid Andrew Liszewski Jul 4 '19

A Tiny Drone Carrying a Deconstructed GoPro Captured This Incredible Dinosaur Museum Fly-Through

Sploid Andrew Liszewski Jun 4 '19

I Wasn’t Prepared for the Crushing Melancholy of Watching This Bull Pop His Toy Ball

Sploid Rhett Jones Mar 1 '19

Tech Policy

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President Trump and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at the G7 meeting

Weak AI Regulation Is Worse Than No Regulation, Researchers Claim

Game theory says the best AI safety regulation is strict and targets everyone in the supply chain, according to the paper.

Artificial Intelligence Ece Yildirim Jul 21

Federal Communications Commission Holds Open Meeting In Washington, Dc

FCC Chairman Wants to Repeal a Key Rule That Would Fundamentally Change Broadcast News

Tech Policy Ece Yildirim Jul 16

The UK Wants Older Teens to Have a Digital Bedtime

Tech Policy Ece Yildirim Jul 15

Governor,kathy,hochul,speaks,to,press,after,unveiling,4th,proposal

New York Issues the Nation’s First Statewide Moratorium on New Large Data Centers

Tech Policy Bruce Gil Jul 14

European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen

The EU Just Took a Major Step Towards a ‘Social Media Plus’ Ban for Minors

Tech Policy Ece Yildirim Jul 13

Transportation

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Massachusetts EV Drivers Can Sell Extra Energy to the Grid Under New Program

Hey car, got any spare electrons? Asking for an energy grid.

Tech News Zac Estrada Jul 25

Rivian To Form Ev Venture With $5 Billion From Volkswagen

New Data Shows EV Batteries Are Lasting Longer Than Initially Expected

Transportation Bruce Gil Jul 25

Musk Leaves Room For a Potential SpaceX-Tesla Merger

Tech News Ece Yildirim Jul 22

Volkswagen Thinks Your E-Bike Needs a Pair of Smart Glasses

Tech News Bruce Gil Jul 21

A Fighter Jet That Takes Off Without a Runway Is One Step Closer to Vertical Takeoff

Transportation Passant Rabie Jul 21

Tech News

San Diego Comic-Con 2026: Our Favorite Moments (and How to Travel Connected With Ubigi)

Prediction Markets Saved From Minnesota Ban by Last-Minute Ruling

Someone Was Arrested at a Public Meeting For the Crime of Anti-Data Center Clapping

You Can Finally Trust All Your Money to X, the Everything App

Nvidia Throws Its Support Behind OpenAI, Open AI, and… Super-Closed AI?

The Case for Tracking Everything

San Diego Comic-Con 2026: Our Favorite Moments (and How to Travel Connected With Ubigi)

Prediction Markets Saved From Minnesota Ban by Last-Minute Ruling

Someone Was Arrested at a Public Meeting For the Crime of Anti-Data Center Clapping

You Can Finally Trust All Your Money to X, the Everything App

Nvidia Throws Its Support Behind OpenAI, Open AI, and… Super-Closed AI?

How Much Charity Would It Take for People to Like Elon Musk?

Smart Glasses Are the One Privacy Nightmare Apple Can’t Solve

This AI Browser Is Building the Front End for the Dead Internet

YouTube Premium Is Bringing Peacock’s Old-School Content to Its Platform

The AI Slop Will Continue Until Republicans’ Poll Numbers Improve

Samsung’s Galaxy Ring Gets FDA-Cleared Sleep Apnea Detection This Fall

When You Share Claude Chats, You Might Be Sharing Them With Everyone

AI Found a New Way to Ruin Memes: Selling Them to Advertisers

Samsung’s TriFold Phone Might Not Be Dead After All

Meta Is Rethinking Subscriptions on Its Smart Glasses

There May Be No Such Thing as Cheap VR Anymore

This Viral Data Center Sounds Like Satan’s Buzzsaw

Tree.fm Provides Looping Doses of Forest-Based Audio Valium

Report Says ‘Hundreds’ of Users Asked ChatGPT About Bioweapons and Poisons, and It Answered

Apple Is Reportedly Worried About Its Non-Creepy Reputation as It Prepares to Enter a Creepy Product Category

Someone Was Arrested at a Public Meeting For the Crime of Anti-Data Center Clapping

This AI Browser Is Building the Front End for the Dead Internet

When You Share Claude Chats, You Might Be Sharing Them With Everyone

AI Found a New Way to Ruin Memes: Selling Them to Advertisers

Report Says ‘Hundreds’ of Users Asked ChatGPT About Bioweapons and Poisons, and It Answered

AI Hype Delivers Intel Its Fastest Revenue Growth in 15 Years

The RAMpocalypse Is Starting to Hit the Auto Industry

Federal Judge Says Not So Fast to Paramount’s Takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery

U.S. Average Gas Price Ticks Above $4 as World Fears Iran Is a New Forever War

SpaceX Has Lost $1 Trillion in Value Since Its Post-IPO Peak

It’s Never Been Cooler to Take Down a Flock Camera

DHS Cybersecurity Reportedly Has an ‘I’m Sure It’s Nothing’ Problem

Taiwanese Authorities Reportedly Raid Supermicro in Move That Could Signal Big Change For AI Chip Exporters

DOJ Shuts Down Nearly 400 Sites Hosting Illegal World Cup Live Streams

Pacific Palisades Fire Court Case Ends in Mistrial

Prediction Markets Saved From Minnesota Ban by Last-Minute Ruling

You Can Finally Trust All Your Money to X, the Everything App

This Viral Data Center Sounds Like Satan’s Buzzsaw

Report: Stats For the Average Polymarket User Are Unsurprising, but There’s a Sad Part

Fidelity: Actually, Homes Are Getting Cheaper (as Long as You Price Them in Bitcoin)

YouTube Premium Is Bringing Peacock’s Old-School Content to Its Platform

Tree.fm Provides Looping Doses of Forest-Based Audio Valium

Paramount Agrees to Delay Merger With Warner Bros. Discovery

Medicaid and Food Stamps Are Increasingly Paired With Amazon Gig Economy Jobs, Federal Report Shows

Google Is Really Getting Into Miami Lately

Smart Glasses Are the One Privacy Nightmare Apple Can’t Solve

Samsung’s Galaxy Ring Gets FDA-Cleared Sleep Apnea Detection This Fall

Samsung’s TriFold Phone Might Not Be Dead After All

Meta Is Rethinking Subscriptions on Its Smart Glasses

There May Be No Such Thing as Cheap VR Anymore

Why Did It Take So Long for the Web to Get Its Own Domain Name?

‘My Soul Left My Body’: Amazon Accidentally Bills Users Billions of Times What They Owe

Google Images Is Trying to Be… Pinterest?

How Much Would You Pay for Taylor Swift’s Garbage and Why Isn’t It $0?

StubHub Founder Has Ties to Major Scalpers on the Platform

How Much Charity Would It Take for People to Like Elon Musk?

Trump on Data Centers: ‘You Can’t Fight It. You Have to Go With It’

Kalshi’s New Midterms Hub Comes With a Felony-Sized Asterisk

Right-Wing Haters Try to Stop the Steal as ‘Woke’ Odyssey Conquers Global Box Office

Iran Claims It ‘Destroyed’ Amazon’s Central Data Infrastructure In Bahrain

A Feature That Makes Your Phone Data Self-Destruct in Authorities’ Hands May Soon Have Its Day in Court

Flock Cameras Are Disappearing in Plain Sight

Apple Has Reportedly Started Recording and AI-Summarizing Conversations at the Genius Bar

Flock’s CEO Is Sorry for Calling Privacy Activists ‘Terrorists’

DC Passes Bill to Ban Surveillance Pricing for Concert Tickets, Cap Resale Prices

Tesla Stock Falls After Elon Musk Frets Over the Difficulty of Building Robots

One Conglomerate Wants to Sell You a School Teacher, a Friend, and a Sex Robot

A South Korean Labor Union Is in Revolt Over Robots, or Maybe It’s Surrendering to Them

Finally, a Robot Designed to Make Chatting With Mark Zuckerberg Feel Natural

Why Is a San Diego Charter School Spending $500,000 on Two Humanoid Robots?

You Can Finally Trust All Your Money to X, the Everything App

Facebook Is Making Some Big Changes and Giving Marketplace Its Own App

Social Media Ban For Kids Approved in France in First For an EU Country