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SpaceX scrubbed the launch of its massive Starship rocket Thursday evening, and will try again for its 12th test flight on Friday. A 90-minute launch window opened at 6:30 p.m. ET, on Thursday. During a livestream of the event, SpaceX video hosts said the company "got the vehicle

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AcuRite must kill its customers’ favorite companion app due to “obsolete technology,” VP of product development Jeff Bovee tells Ars Technica. AcuRite, which makes smart weather-monitoring devices, announced this month that the My AcuRite iOS and Android app that has been around

Artificial Intelligence Amazon Nova Act is now HIPAA eligible Healthcare and life sciences (HCLS) organizations depend on repetitive, manual browser-based tasks for critical workflows like claims processing and referral coordination. While agentic AI can automate these workflows,

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has highlighted AI as the tentpole of the company’s future, projecting a multi-trillion-dollar market opportunity that rivals the total value of all US economic activity. But the company must first win over customers who generally favor AI models from competito

Workday shares surged as much as 14% in extended trading on Thursday after the finance and human resources software maker reported results that came in stronger than expected, while bumping up its margin forecast for the full fiscal year. Here's how the company did relative to LS

While there are some shocking revelations in SpaceX’s S-1 as it gets ready to become a public company, Elon Musk’s total control of the company perhaps isn’t one of them. I could argue that the oddball provision where Elon Musk gets up to a billion more shares to add to his alrea

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Waymo has suspended robotaxi service on freeways in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Miami as it works to improve performance in construction zones, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Thursday. Waymo said it’s in the process of integrating “recent technical learnings

AT&T sued California yesterday over the state’s refusal to let the carrier stop providing phone service to all potential customers in its wireline network territory. AT&T is also asking the Federal Communications Commission to declare that California cannot enforce its rules and

Chinese technology consultant Kenneth Ren is training the workers of the future. The only thing is, they are not human. "We are essentially teaching robots to think on their own," Ren, an overseas solution expert with RealMan Intelligent Technology told CNBC recently at the Beiji

Long before Zohran Mamdani became New York City’s 112th mayor, he understood that if you want to reach young voters, you have to meet them online. Now, in classic Mamdani fashion, the mayor has taken that strategy even further. On Thursday, Polygon exclusively revealed that Mamda

AMD has introduced the Ryzen AI Halo developer platform and previewed the next-generation Ryzen AI Max PRO 400 Series, extending its push into local AI development and commercial AI PCs. The announcement centers on higher local memory capacity, stronger on-device inference perfor

Broadcom, Meta, Applied Materials, GlobalFoundries and Synopsys are joining forces to launch a $125 million "Semiconductor Hub" at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering. The new partnership will aim to speed up research and workforce development for AI-powered chip technologies,

KIOXIA America has introduced the XG10 Series, a new client NVMe SSD family aimed at performance-class OEM notebooks, desktops, and workstations. As the successor to the XG8 Series, the XG10 moves to a PCIe 5.0 x4 interface and NVMe 2.0d, giving KIOXIA a Gen5 client drive designe

AMD has introduced its EPYC 8005 series server processors, targeting edge infrastructure, telecom deployments, and compact cloud storage nodes where power, cooling, and physical footprint remain hard constraints. The new lineup scales from 8 to 84 Zen 5 cores in a single-socket d

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Spotify shares jumped 13% on Thursday after the music streaming platform laid out guidance for 2030 and reached an artificial intelligence deal with Universal Music, as the technology sparks major disruption concerns across the industry. The company expects revenue at a compounde

University graduates are booing and heckling corporate executives who praise AI during their commencement ceremonies, and the only people who seem to be genuinely surprised by this are the executives themselves. In desperate times, graduates find hope in humiliating tech CEOs ‘Th

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Microsoft is in talks to supply its custom artificial intelligence chips to Anthropic, CNBC confirmed on Thursday. A deal would represent a win for Microsoft, which is behind cloud rivals Amazon and Google when it comes to supplying clients with special-purpose AI silicon. Micros

Watch out, Suno. Spotify on Thursday announced it has partnered with Universal Music Group (UMG) to allow fans to use generative AI technology to create covers and remixes of their favorite songs. The tool will launch as a paid add-on available only to Spotify’s Premium subscribe

Elon Musk has incredible sway over the companies he leads. And while he already calls himself “TechnoKing” at Tesla, he is a real ruler over SpaceX, wielding an unprecedented level of control over one of the most valuable companies in the world. Musk’s monarchical grip on SpaceX

An international coalition of law enforcement agencies announced Thursday that they took down a popular virtual private network service used by cybercriminals and arrested its administrator. The FBI said in an alert that First VPN was so popular that “at least” 25 ransomware gang

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WASP-94A b is a hot, tidally locked gas giant orbiting close to one of the stars in a binary system roughly 690 light-years away from Earth. In a new Science study, scientists led by Sagnick Mukherjee, an astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins University, used the James Webb Space Teles

Google is about to look really different, and if you’re not a fan of the AI Overviews feature, then you’re not going to like what’s coming. At the Google I/O 2026 keynote this week, the company announced that it is overhauling Search to embrace a conversational, AI-driven approac

Oura, the maker of the eponymous smart ring that tracks the health and sleep of wearers, has confidentially filed a draft of its IPO prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the company announced on Thursday. Oura did not specify the timeline for an IPO, saying it

Artificial Intelligence Intelligent radiology workflow optimization with AI agents Many healthcare organizations report that traditional worklist systems rely on rigid rules that ignore critical context, radiologist specialization, current workload, fatigue levels, and case compl

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On Wednesday, Zillow abruptly lost access to thousands of property listings in the Chicago area after filing a lawsuit accusing a private listing network owner of colluding with the nation’s largest brokerage to harm consumers by hiding homes. According to the Chicago Sun-Times,

Object First reported 118% year-over-year bookings growth in the first quarter of 2026, reflecting an increased enterprise focus on immutable backup storage as a core defense against ransomware and other destructive cyber events. The company continues to position immutable storag

In quantitative finance, researchers build algorithms to trade assets, derivatives, and other financial instruments. A key part of that work is finding signals: patterns in messy market data that may help predict future returns. These signals can come from price and volume data,