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Trying to explain One Night Only’s tech-enforced sex dystopia

Meredith Haggerty • August 7, 2026 From the omnipresent One Night Only trailer, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the movie glosses over its terrifying and absurd premise – in otherwise normal modern New York, single people can only have sex one night a year – to deliver an entirely traditional romantic comedy. I’m here

Why does Apple keep banning Telegram, but never X?

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Emma Roth • August 7, 2026 For roughly an hour this week, Telegram vanished from Apple’s App Store. Even during that blip, it was a stunning absence for such a major app: an avenue of communication for more than 1 billion users around the world, used widely as a secure platform for people who live

SpaceX spooks investors with debut earnings report

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George Hammond, Financial Times • August 5, 2026 SpaceX shares dropped on Wednesday after Elon Musk’s plans for blockbuster spending to position his AI and rocket company as a data center developer spooked investors. SpaceX surpassed analysts’ expectations in Tuesday’s debut earnings report, posting quarterly revenues of $7.8 billion, well above analysts’ estimates of $6.82

Puzzle Corner

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Michael S. Branicky, ScD ’95 • August 5, 2026 Ready for a fresh set of puzzles? Click here for the September/October 2026 Puzzle Corner, brought to you by Michael S. Branicky, ScD ’95, of the Puzzle Corner Puzzle Crew (aka PC2), which also includes Edward Faulkner ’03, MEng ’04, and Abe Kunin ’03. This column includes solutions

The Download: NASA’s new telescope and Chinese tech import curbs

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Charlotte Jee • August 5, 2026 This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. NASA’s new dark energy space telescope can also detect killer asteroids At the end of August, NASA is set to launch the Nancy Grace

After jacking up prices, Disney+ and Netflix consider offering free alternatives

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Scharon Harding • August 5, 2026 Disney is “exploring a free product” for streaming customers, CEO Josh D’Amaro confirmed in a call with investors today. D’Amaro, who succeeded Bob Iger as Disney’s chief in March, said that a free Disney-owned streaming service would help Disney reach more “price-sensitive” customers, which is a “strategic priority” for

EVgo starts building Tesla Superchargers under license

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Jonathan M. Gitlin • August 5, 2026 For most of its existence, the Tesla Supercharger network was both the automaker’s crown jewel and a walled garden. Tightly integrated to work only with Tesla electric vehicles, the DC fast-charging experience for Tesla customers was painless in ways that EV drivers dependent on CCS1 chargers operated by

D-Wave shows off its new entry in quantum computing race

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John Timmer • August 5, 2026 D-Wave is a bit of an oddity in the quantum computing space, having been founded back in the last century. And its initial offering wasn’t a quantum computer like those being developed by IBM or Google. Instead, the company built what’s now called a quantum annealer, a machine that

Google plans to kill Assistant on your phone on September 4

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Ryan Whitwam • August 5, 2026 Google Assistant’s days have been numbered for a while, but the company has now settled on a date to retire its pre-AI assistant robot. In an email being sent out to users, Google confirms that Assistant on Android devices will be shut down starting on September 4, forcing everyone

Weeks into explosive diarrhea outbreak, sluggish CDC plans response team

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Beth Mole • August 5, 2026 The Trump administration continues to respond sluggishly to the explosive, nationwide outbreak of Cyclospora—a unicellular parasite spread from human feces that has now sickened nearly 23,000 people in 47 states, killing two and sending over 500 to the hospital. Michigan health officials reported the two deaths Monday, and The

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Category Archives: Artificial Intelligence

Trying to explain One Night Only’s tech-enforced sex dystopia

Why does Apple keep banning Telegram, but never X?

SpaceX spooks investors with debut earnings report

Puzzle Corner

The Download: NASA’s new telescope and Chinese tech import curbs

After jacking up prices, Disney+ and Netflix consider offering free alternatives

EVgo starts building Tesla Superchargers under license

D-Wave shows off its new entry in quantum computing race

Google plans to kill Assistant on your phone on September 4

Weeks into explosive diarrhea outbreak, sluggish CDC plans response team