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NASA’s new dark energy space telescope can also detect killer asteroids

Robin George Andrews • August 5, 2026 At the end of August, NASA is set to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Its quest is to help us better understand how the universe works, from the glue-like dark matter that keeps galaxies together to the elusive dark energy

OpenAI says Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit is “aggressive and oddly personal”

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Jamie John, Financial Times • August 4, 2026 OpenAI has accused Apple of waging a “careless, aggressive and oddly personal lawsuit” in a blog post rebutting the iPhone maker’s claims that the AI start-up stole top-secret information. “We do not have, nor want, any of their trade secrets,” the ChatGPT maker wrote on Monday evening,

2027 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport X proves code is as important as hardware

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Tim Stevens • August 4, 2026 Chevrolet provided flights from Albany, New York, to Denver and accommodation so Ars could drive the Grand Sport X. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. When Chevrolet introduced a hybrid system to the Corvette lineup in 2023, creating the E-Ray, many fans were confused. If it was meant

Trump admin “aware” of deaths in explosive diarrhea outbreak, delays reporting

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Beth Mole • August 4, 2026 Two people have died amid the ongoing record-breaking outbreak of explosive diarrhea from the foodborne parasite Cyclospora, Michigan health officials announced Monday. Cyclosporiasis fatalities are extremely rare, and despite the massive size of the outbreak, some experts were still surprised by the deaths. The Michigan Department of Health and

Tom DeLay helped create TV ownership cap—he says Trump FCC has no authority to repeal it

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Jon Brodkin • August 4, 2026 Tom DeLay, the Texas Republican who was House majority leader from 2003 to 2005, said the Federal Communications Commission has no legal authority to repeal the National Television Ownership Rule. Despite DeLay’s warning, the Trump FCC appears ready to eliminate the rule at its meeting this week. DeLay wrote

China is Tesla’s cash cow, but for how much longer?

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Jonathan M. Gitlin • August 4, 2026 Tesla’s factory in Shanghai had its best June ever, according to the China Passenger ⁠Car Association. Tesla built 93,579 cars in China that month, a hefty 38 percent increase compared to June 2025, according to CPCA’s data. But that production isn’t translating into bumper sales to Chinese customers.

The Pixel 11’s “glow” feature is actually called HiLight—here’s what it does

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Ryan Whitwam • August 4, 2026 Google will reveal the Pixel 11 series later this month, but leaks and teasers so far have painted a picture of phones that have barely changed since last year. One notable exception seems to be the illuminated dot from some of the teasers. This has been rumored as “Pixel

Senators demand crackdown on wildfire “prediction markets”

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Cyrus Farivar • August 4, 2026 Several US senators have written a letter to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), inquiring about the agency’s “plans to crack down on prediction markets” that offer “contracts for individuals to bet on wildfires.” “Offering bets on destructive wildfires threatens to minimize communities’ suffering, all so the rich and

Trump killed the Digital Equity Act, but US was forced to bring part of it back

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Jon Brodkin • August 4, 2026 The Trump administration said it will reinstate a broadband grant program to comply with a court ruling that prevented it from fully ignoring the Digital Equity Act enacted by Congress in 2021. The US government said in a court filing that it plans to start taking applications for grants

Texas halts data center connections to power grid amid overwhelming demand

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Jeremy Hsu • August 4, 2026 Nowhere is the US data center boom bigger than in Texas. But less than a year after declaring Texas the “epicenter of AI development,” Governor Greg Abbott has declared a moratorium on all new power grid connections for data centers—at least until developers provide more information about their projects’

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NASA’s new dark energy space telescope can also detect killer asteroids

OpenAI says Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit is “aggressive and oddly personal”

2027 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport X proves code is as important as hardware

Trump admin “aware” of deaths in explosive diarrhea outbreak, delays reporting

Tom DeLay helped create TV ownership cap—he says Trump FCC has no authority to repeal it

China is Tesla’s cash cow, but for how much longer?

The Pixel 11’s “glow” feature is actually called HiLight—here’s what it does

Senators demand crackdown on wildfire “prediction markets”

Trump killed the Digital Equity Act, but US was forced to bring part of it back

Texas halts data center connections to power grid amid overwhelming demand