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Threads of underground fungal networks are long enough to reach beyond the Solar System

Wyatt Myskow, Inside Climate News • June 13, 2026 Hidden underground around the world lie 110 quadrillion kilometers of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal networks—webs of ultra-thin threads that, if connected in a single line, would stretch almost a billion times the distance between the Earth and the sun, according to new research published in Science on

SpaceX’s massive IPO: all the latest news

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Stevie Bonifield • June 12, 2026 SpaceX’s IPO on Friday allows the public to buy shares of the combined rocket, AI, and social media company for the first time, and raised enough money to make Elon Musk the first trillionaire. He has more wealth, on paper at least, than the economies of nations like Ireland,

Govee’s rechargeable smart table lamp is down to $60

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Sheena Vasani • June 12, 2026 Whether you’re planning a backyard barbeque or a World Cup watch party, Govee’s Table Lamp Classic can help set the mood with color-changing lighting effects. Right now it’s down to just $59.99 ($20 off) at Amazon, which is its best price yet. Govee Table Lamp Classic Where to Buy:

I held the Trump phone

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Allison Johnson • June 12, 2026 Where’s the Trump phone? We’re going to keep talking about it every week. We’ve reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone’s whereabouts. We don’t have the phones we preordered yet, but this week included an unexpected in-person encounter with the T1. You see a lot of

Elon Musk is the world’s first trillionaire

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Stevie Bonifield • June 12, 2026 Elon Musk’s net worth has passed the trillion-dollar mark after SpaceX’s IPO. His net worth, which was hovering around $800 billion before the IPO, includes the value of his 4.8 billion shares in SpaceX, along with his wealth from his other companies, like Tesla. Shares of SPCX opened at

A trillion dollars is a stupid amount of money

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Jess Weatherbed • June 12, 2026 Elon Musk is now officially the world’s first trillionaire. That is a colossal amount of wealth (and by proxy, power) for one individual to have. Its scale – a thousand times more than a billion – is difficult to fathom for those of us who aren’t among the 3,363

Siri is good now??

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David Pierce • June 12, 2026 You’d be forgiven for thinking this day would never come. Siri has spent a decade and half somewhere between “sort of useful at a few things” and “utterly disastrous, why did I even try, can it honestly not even set a timer.” But the wildest thing just happened: Apple

The world’s first trillionaire is a killer

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TC. Sottek • June 12, 2026 Hm! | Photo: Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Elon Musk’s SpaceX IPO will probably make him the richest person to ever walk the planet. And while his mountain of horrible personal conduct could fill multiple books, one fact in particular stands out: A year ago, Musk’s actions

Nothing CEO says phone prices are going to keep going up

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Stevie Bonifield • June 12, 2026 Nothing Phone 4A Pro | Photo: Dominic Preston / The Verge If you’re thinking about upgrading your phone, “the best time was yesterday,” according to Nothing CEO and co-founder Carl Pei, echoing a message we heard during MWC. As Android Authority reports, Pei said in a post on X

Valve just imported 13 tons of VR headsets in one day

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Sean Hollister • June 13, 2026 On June 10th, the German container ship Posen docked in Los Angeles after a two-week voyage from Shanghai. As Valve watcher Brad Lynch notes, it was almost certainly carrying the first mass production shipments of the Steam Frame, Valve’s new gaming headset. Import records show that Valve’s distribution partner