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Lorde was performing at the Real Cool Festival in Madrid on Thursday and took some time during her set to speak out against AI glasses. While she didn’t specify any brands in particular, it’s likely she was taking a shot at festival sponsor Ray-Ban, which has collaborated with Me

Anthony Zurcher: From Trump critic to ally, Lindsey Graham was a political survivor of the Maga era - Published Lindsey Graham, who has died aged 71, was a political survivor. His career as a Republican senator served as a telling barometer for the dramatically changing climate i

Infantino opens door to 64-team World Cup - Published Plans for a 64-team men's World Cup are set to be assessed after the 2026 tournament, with Fifa boss Gianni Infantino saying the event needs to be "for the whole world". The proposal for an expanded tournament was put forward

From the ride to the rubble - how McCullum lost England Test job - Published There was one moment when it fell apart - an implosion from which England never recovered. Yes, there was the Ashes planning (or lack of it), Harry Brook's tangle with a nightclub bouncer and Noosa. A wh

Sen. Lindsey Graham's death stands to scramble an array of Republican policy efforts, as Congress loses one of its top White House whisperers and coalition builders. Graham, R-S.C., who died at 71, was a titan of the Senate whose close relationship with President Donald Trump hel

Scality and WEKA have expanded their partnership in France with a new joint customer support agreement that gives French organizations a single in-country point of contact for sales and tier-one technical support. The agreement, announced July 7 ahead of RAISE Summit 2026 in Pari

Bill for Hillsborough Law set to be approved by MPs - Published The long-delayed bill to create a Hillsborough Law is expected to be approved by MPs next week after the government said it could return to Parliament before the summer recess. Downing Street withdrew the legislation

The Antec Flux Pro Noctua Edition is a premium full-tower case that takes the existing Flux Pro layout and replaces the standard fan package with six Noctua G2 PWM fans. The airflow setup includes three NF-A14x25 G2 front intake fans, two NF-A12x25 G2 lower intake fans above the

The ASUS ZenScreen MB169CK is a 15.6-inch portable monitor with a 1920×1080 IPS panel, 60Hz refresh rate, dual USB Type-C inputs, and a mini HDMI input. It is a more flexible design than the older single-port ZenScreen models, with a detachable 360-degree kickstand and more conve

Apple’s self-driving car program never really got off the ground, but it may have been what made the company’s chips the powerful AI performers they are. Early in the development of the self-driving platform, Apple realized that it would need powerful on-device AI processing. Whi

Burgess’s view The last time I talked to Lindsey Graham in June, he was trying to be pragmatic about President Donald Trump’s tentative deal to end the war with Iran. The time before that, he was gently panning — but accepting — Trump’s decision to endorse Ken Paxton over John Co

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, how AI is playing a part. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! I am back from vacation. What did I miss? Turns out, quite a lot —

Lenovo's Legion 7a gaming laptop now comes with an RTX 5070 12GB GPU option — but it costs $3,375 paired with a Ryzen AI 9 CPU, SKU was previously limited to RTX 5060 RTX 5070 mobile GPUs have previously been constrained by 8GB of VRAM. Lenovo has just updated its current-gen Leg

Ireland’s data centers consumed nearly as much electricity as every home in the country combined in 2025 — server farms gulped 23% of national power despite years of grid restrictions Quarterly data center electricity consumption grew 584% from 291 GWh in Q1 2015 to 1,991 GWh in

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Sega Dreamcast driver fixes appear in Linux 7.2-rc3 — fabled console remains in favor while iconic computing architectures like i486 fall by the wayside Dreamcast driver crashes get patched with keyboard, mouse and joystick input now more reliable. A set of updates for Sega Dream

The News Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the former emir who transformed Qatar from a little-known Gulf state with declining resources into one of the world’s richest countries per capita, has died at the age of 74. The Amiri Diwan, the country’s royal court, announced his dea

Episode details Available for over a year Today, after speaking to Rachel Reeves in what’s likely to be her final interview as chancellor, Laura speaks to Paddy about what we might get from the new administration. Andy Burnham has talked about “room within [the Labour] manifesto

Per the Wall Street this week, private equity will need about nine years to clear its backlog of unsold portfolio companies. And that’s the conservative version. Bain’s 2026 Global Private Equity Report puts the whole industry at roughly 32,000 unsold companies worth $3.8 trillio

Grab a blazing-fast dual-interface M.2 SSD enclosure for just $59 on Amazon — Asus' tool-less ROG Strix Aiolos is 14% off right now, featuring transfer speeds up to 20 Gbps And, of course, some RGB. We all know by now that flash storage is facing unprecedented demand due to the A

The U.S. Department of Education's new Repayment Assistance Plan, or RAP, offers certain benefits to student loan borrowers — but only if their bill is paid on time. "Being late with a payment, by even just one day under the RAP repayment plan, will cost you," said higher educati

At some point, many retirees face a hard decision: Stay or go? Should they age in place in their longtime home that’s comfortable and familiar? Or should they move into a senior living community where they get on-site care along with activities, meals and other support?

Sotheby’s video showcases working Apple-1 serial number 01-0033 — part of its upcoming History of Science & Technology sale Other computers on sale include notable Mark-8, Altair 8800, and NeXT cubes. Prestigious scientific lots include items from Edison, Bell, Feynman, and Einst

Windows 95 didn’t detect installers, it ‘guessed’ based on the file name, says veteran dev — it simply checked for words like setup, install, inst, or localized equivalents Microsoft's Raymond Chen describes the string-matching heuristic behind the OS's system-file recovery. Wind

Big stars and old rivals - what to expect in semi-finals - Published The World Cup continues to deliver drama and unforgettable moments, and the field is now down to just four nations as we head into the semi-finals. France, Spain, England and Argentina are now two wins away from

A majority of U.S. employees now want to hold corporations more accountable via an AI sovereign wealth fund, amid dissatisfaction over a growing number of tech layoffs despite higher overall corporate profits, according to a recent poll. The national survey of 1,690 adults by res

A majority of U.S. employees now want to hold corporations more accountable via an AI sovereign wealth fund, amid dissatisfaction over a growing number of tech layoffs despite higher overall corporate profits, according to a recent poll. The national survey of 1,690 adults by res

FCC approves orbital space mirrors, first test satellites will launch this year — large spacecraft reflects sunlight to Earth’s surface for construction sites, search-and-rescue lighting, and more Ambitious startup wants to deploy more than 50,000 of these satellites by 2035. Ref

Global stock markets have been under pressure as geopolitical tensions have resurfaced in the Middle East. Moreover, investors remain concerned about the sustainability of AI-driven demand and infrastructure spending. Nonetheless, those looking for attractive stock picks amid the

Tom's Hardware Verdict Built by Gospower on a platform currently dedicated to Cooler Master, the MWE Gold 750 V4 pairs verified 80 PLUS Gold efficiency with ATX 3.1 compliance, a native 12V-2x6 connector, GPU Shield current monitoring, and a conformal-coated PCB. Regulation and r

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the data center buildout, follow Emma Roth. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers’ inboxes on Sunday at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. The fight against AI data c

The same question drives both the plot of Moana and decades of archaeological research: Why, after centuries of relative stability, did Polynesian voyagers suddenly begin settling islands thousands of kilometers away across the Pacific? The latest Moana movie is a live-action ada