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A set of earbuds that sits loosely on the outside of your ear delivered Apple’s first active noise cancellation without a seal, and the 48,000-times-per-second loop hidden ...

AirPods 4 brought real active noise cancellation to an open-ear design for the first time. Here's how the H2 chip's 48,000Hz loop actually pulls it off.
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Microsoft Copilot merges into one unified app with a new paid Autopilot agent tier

Microsoft is collapsing its fragmented AI assistant lineup into a single application, and the trigger is a conversion rate that makes uncomfortable reading for the company’s AI leadership. Fewer than ...
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DOE launches $500,000 STEP Prize to push next-generation energy storage into manufacturing

The DOE's Office of Electricity launched the $500,000 STEP Prize on July 14, 2026, challenging innovators to build ...
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California’s grid batteries unleashed a record 12.99 gigawatts on a single July evening, and what that number reveals about an infrastructure race already reshapi…

California's CAISO battery fleet hit an all-time discharge record of 12.99 GW on July 9, 2026, covering 36% of regional ...
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A $1.5 billion infrastructure bet Apple just locked in with a satellite company, and the free iPhone feature that tens of millions of Americans never noticed had an expirati…

Apple's iPhone satellite messaging has been free since 2022, but a $1.5 billion Globalstar deal signals a paid tier is coming ...
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NVIDIA Vera Rubin chips begin shipping to cloud providers as AI factory buildout accelerates

NVIDIA confirms Vera Rubin AI chips are shipping to AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft and others, targeting a 10x inference cost ...
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Starlink’s average revenue per customer fell from $99 to $66 in three years, and the $11.57 billion satellite deal that just handed its only real rival a shortcut nobody in ...

Starlink's revenue per user has dropped 33% in two years. Now Amazon Leo's $11.57B Globalstar deal is accelerating a serious ...
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A refreshed electric SUV cleared 17,500 sales in six months and leapfrogged 10 rival brands in the U.S. rankings, and the automaker that every analyst called the biggest …

Toyota's updated bZ electric SUV more than doubled U.S. sales in H1 2026, vaulting the brand past 10 rivals including Ford, ...
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A single chipmaker’s data center segment posted $75.2 billion in one quarter, and the number that landed on Wall Street in May reveals just how fast the ground is shiftin…

NVIDIA's data center segment hit a record $75.2 billion in a single quarter, up 92% year-over-year, the largest quarterly ...
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A 500-megawatt geothermal plant in Utah is promising 24/7 clean power to hundreds of thousands of homes, and the rural grid constraint analysts flagged wee…

Fervo Energy's Cape Station in Utah is the world's largest enhanced geothermal project, but a Western grid bottleneck is now ...
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OpenAI GPT-5.6 launches publicly as a three-tier model family after US government review

OpenAI released GPT-5.6 publicly on July 9, 2026, as three tiers named Sol, Terra and Luna, after a US Commerce Department ...
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471 million breach notices landed in just six months of 2026, and the single platform that sent more than half of them turned out to be one most American parents trust …

The ITRC says 471.2 million data breach victim notices were issued in H1 2026 alone, already exceeding all of 2025, driven by ...