Owners of the freshly revived Pebble Time 2 smartwatch started noticing something alarming last week. Their devices, praised for long battery life and that signature always-on e-paper display, developed cracks in the front glass. Often without any obvious impact. The reports spread quickly on social media and forums. And Pebble responded fast. The company behind […]

Alice Gilman sat down for a podcast interview back in February. She spoke openly about her startup’s vision for growing structures packed with functioning organs yet stripped of any capacity for thought or feeling. Then months later she moved to stop it from airing. The episode never went away. It dropped anyway. And the resulting

Volkswagen has officially entered the electric bicycle market with the launch of its first smart e-bike models, marking a significant step for the German automaker into personal mobility solutions. The announcement, covered extensively by Mashable, highlights how the company aims to blend automotive engineering expertise with modern cycling technology to create connected bikes that appeal

Boston Dynamics has a new idea for its four-legged machine. The company wants Spot, its well-known robotic dog, to help deliver packages straight to front doors. A fresh demonstration shows the robot working alongside a human driver. The driver loads parcels onto a conveyor belt strapped to Spot. Then the machine trots off to drop

Samsung faces another display headache with its flagship Galaxy S26 Ultra. Users across forums and social platforms have spotted a persistent reddish discoloration smack in the center of the screen. The flaw emerges weeks or months after purchase. It transforms what should be crisp whites and neutrals into a distracting warm cast. But the problem

  Governor Gavin Newsom wasted little time. On July 13, 2026, he signed SB 168 into law. The measure creates MyFirstEV. It delivers an instant $3,500 discount at the dealership for California residents buying their first zero-emission vehicle. Buyers attest they have never owned one before. They drive away with the savings already applied. No

Software teams have long treated open source libraries as free resources. Grab them, deploy them, move on. But that assumption now shows dangerous cracks. Chris Ford and Richard Gall at Thoughtworks call it the zero-cost fallacy. Distribution comes cheap. Maintenance demands real human effort. And in the age of autonomous AI agents that generate, review

  Plex went dark on July 14. Thousands of users suddenly found themselves locked out of their own media libraries. The popular platform for organizing and streaming personal collections of movies, television shows and music suffered widespread disruptions that hit its free ad-supported streaming catalog, live TV features and core server connectivity. Reports poured in

Standard SEO advice promises rankings and traffic. For travel sites it delivers neither. Budgets disappear into content campaigns that generate impressions but few bookings. Google has remade the rules. What once drove visitors now feeds its own products first. Dan Taylor laid this out plainly yesterday in Search Engine Land. The head of technical SEO

Google marked the 25th anniversary of its Images service with a stark redesign. The familiar clean search box at images.google.com has vanished. In its place sits a dynamic, always-fresh gallery of photos drawn from across the web. From Blank Canvas to Endless Scroll The change landed July 14. It transforms a once-spartan entry point into