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Trevor Noah is hosting Google’s Pixel 11 launch event

Jay Peters • August 6, 2026 Google is set to host its next live Made by Google hardware launch event on August 12th, and the company says in a new video that comedian Trevor Noah will be hosting the show. The video indicates that the event will feature other celebrities and influencers as well, including

Meta ordered to pay an additional $567 million in public nuisance ruling

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Jess Weatherbed • August 7, 2026 Meta has been ordered to pay $567 million in the second phase of New Mexico’s landmark child safety case, bringing total charges to nearly $1 billion for being a “public nuisance.” In a ruling published on Thursday, the Santa Fe district court found that Meta’s platforms are a “significant

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

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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

Life lessons: Joe Newman on what life so far has taught him

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August 6, 2026

Why Scientists Redesigned the Botox Enzyme With AI

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SingularityHub – Shelly Fan • July 28, 2026 Researchers say AI vastly improves a technique used to engineer proteins. As a proof of concept, they redesigned the Botox enzyme to snip a protein linked to ALS. Building new enzymes is a labor of love. These proteins are the body’s chemical workhorses, speeding up the reactions

Heat Is an Orbital Data Center’s Greatest Foe. These Tiles Dump It at the Source.

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SingularityHub – Shelly Fan • August 4, 2026 Sophia Space and Caltech want to fold the bulky parts of a space-based data center—solar cells and radiators—into all-in-one tiles with chips. Every time you ask ChatGPT a question, computer chips in a massive data center whirl into action. In the blink of an eye, they ping

Microsoft quietly purges 32GB of RAM recommendations from its website — company reels from the effects of the memory shortage as it released 8GB base models for Surface laptops this year

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Jowi Morales
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August 5, 2026

China’s CXMT targets 30% DRAM memory market share by 2030 with sixth mega-fab — future plans bottlenecked by access to advanced chipmaking tools

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Anton Shilov
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August 5, 2026

$4,429 order for a ROG Astral RTX 5090 cancelled by Nvidia due to a ‘late’ price increase, with Asus blamed — marketplace buyer refunded after immediate $500 increase, with top-spec GPU now almost 2.5x higher than MSRP

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Ben Stockton
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August 5, 2026