Google Ditches Rainbow Circles for New App Icons
Google is giving its app icons a fresh look by moving away from those colorful circle designs you see everywhere. The company started testing gradient-style icons in late 2025 and…
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Trump turns the WHCD shooting into a pitch for the White House ballroom
Within hours of an armed gunman's attempt to enter the White House Correspondents Dinner, attended by top administration officials and hundreds of journalists, President Donald Trump did what he does…
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Bay Area Home Seller Only Accepts Anthropic AI Stock
A property owner in Mill Valley is selling their 13-acre home for Anthropic equity instead of cash. The seller will only accept stock from the AI company behind the Claude…
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Couples Use Laser Cutters and AI Tools to DIY Their Weddings
Wedding couples are ditching expensive vendors and using high-tech crafting tools to make their own decorations, invitations, and gifts. Popular machines like Cricut cutters and desktop laser engravers are becoming…
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Robots Can Now Share Skills With Each Other
New software lets robots teach each other skills, even when they have completely different hardware designs. A robot with arms can now share what it learned with a robot that…
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AI Bots Started Buying and Selling Real Stuff Online
Anthropic, the company behind Claude AI, created an online marketplace where AI bots bought and sold real products using actual money. The bots acted as both buyers and sellers, negotiating…
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Trump Fires Entire US Science Advisory Board
The Trump administration has dismissed all members of the National Science Board, the group that advises the president and Congress on science funding. This wipes out the main advisory body…
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European AI Companies Merge to Challenge American Giants
Two major AI companies from Canada and Germany are joining forces to take on American tech giants like OpenAI and Google. Cohere and Aleph Alpha announced their merger with backing…
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Americans Speak 28% Fewer Words Than They Did in 2005
New research shows Americans are having dramatically fewer face-to-face conversations than just 15 years ago. Between 2005 and 2019, the number of words people spoke out loud to other humans…
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Tokyo Plans Giant Tech Show to Challenge CES in 2026
Tokyo is launching a massive technology conference called SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026 that wants to become the world's most important tech event. The show will compete directly with CES in…
Design
Animal Charity Creates Logo That Hides Message in White Space
Working Animals International just unveiled a clever new logo that uses empty white space to tell their story. The design shows an animal silhouette, but look closer and you'll see…
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NASA's Moon Mission Just Broke a 54-Year Space Record
NASA's latest Moon mission broke a space record that stood for over 50 years. The Artemis II spacecraft traveled farther from Earth than any crewed mission in history, beating astronaut…
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Inside Ikea's Only Hotel Where Everything Is Ikea
Ikea opened the world's only Ikea hotel in the Swedish town where the furniture giant was founded. Every single item in the hotel rooms comes from Ikea stores - beds,…