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The fatal flaw in how America handles heat waves
The US has built its homes, schools, and hospitals so thoroughly with AC in mind that most buildings have no built-in defense against the heat at all. | Angela Weiss/AFP It was not the...
California judge strikes down disputed cardroom regulations after major gambling authority challenge unfolds
A California Superior Court judge has struck down state regulations aimed at the cardroom industry, ruling that the Bureau of Gambling Control exceeded its authority by adopting rules that would...
Tesla’s Model Y L finally comes to the US with six seats and a $62,000 price tag
Tesla has started taking orders for the Model Y Long Wheelbase in the US and Puerto Rico.
Sony’s PlayStation disc factory is already being repurposed
The video game disc is dead, and Sony's been planning to kill it for some time, according to a report out of Austria. The man who leads Sony's discmaking operations, Sony DADC president Dietmar...
Meta has released an app for making generative AI games
Pocket is listed in app stores but seemingly unavailable in the US.
A very Trump July 4
Donald Trump arrives on the "Freedom250 train" on his way to attend the grand opening of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, North Dakota on July 1, 2026. | Saul Loeb/AFP via...
Tesla driver faces manslaughter charges over Texas crash that killed a woman inside her home
The man whose Tesla struck and killed a woman inside her Texas home last month is now facing manslaughter charges, as reported earlier by The Wall Street Journal and local news outlet KHOU 11....
Cloudflare will filter out web crawlers that serve AI companies
The hosting platform wants sites to have more control over how AI companies use their content.
Meta has a new app called Pocket that is absolutely nothing like the old Pocket
Mozilla shut down the well-loved read-it-later Pocket app last year, and now Meta is launching an app called Pocket with an entirely different, AI-focused pitch: this new app lets you make and share...
Medicare is now offering $50 GLP-1 prescriptions. The US may never be the same.
The latest breakthrough for GLP-1 drugs isn’t scientific. It’s financial. As of July 1, Medicare is providing coverage of GLP-1 medications for weight loss for just a $50 co-pay, potentially...