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DVD and Blu-ray sales have been in freefall for years, but the decline is slowing considerably as Gen Z buyers turn to physical media and drive a measurable uptick at video rental stores and retailers across the U.S.
Overall disc sales fell just 9% l… Continue reading DVD Sales Decline Slows Sharply as Gen Z Discovers the Appeal of Physical Media
The screeching sound that Scotch tape makes when you rip it off a surface — that fingernails-on-a-chalkboard noise most people try not to think about — is produced by shock waves from micro-cracks that travel across the peeling tape at supersonic spe… Continue reading Scientists Crack the Case of ‘Screeching’ Scotch Tape
An anonymous reader shares a report: Japan’s Fair Trade Commission raided Microsoft Japan’s offices on Wednesday as part of an investigation into whether it improperly restricted customers of its Azure platform from using rival cloud services, a source… Continue reading Microsoft Japan Raided Over Suspected Violation of Anti-Monopoly Law
An anonymous reader shares a report: Uber is one step closer to going airborne. On Wednesday, the company previewed its air taxi booking service ahead of an expected launch in Dubai later this year. The inaugural Uber Air program will let travelers boo… Continue reading Uber Previews Its Dubai Air Taxi Service
Anthropic, the AI company that has long positioned itself as the industry’s most safety-conscious research lab, is dropping the central commitment of its Responsible Scaling Policy — a 2023 pledge to never train an AI system unless it could guarantee … Continue reading Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge
HP has revealed that memory now accounts for 35% of the cost of materials it needs to build a PC, up from between 15 and 18% last quarter. And the company expects RAM’s contribution will rise through the year. From a report: Speaking on the company’s Q… Continue reading HP Says Memory’s Contribution To PC Costs Just Doubled To 35%
Apple’s forthcoming touch-screen MacBook Pro models — the company’s first-ever laptops to support touch input — will feature the iPhone’s Dynamic Island at the center top of their OLED displays and a new interface that dynamically adjusts between tou… Continue reading Apple’s Touch-Screen MacBook Pro To Have Dynamic Island, New Interface
The United States installed a record 57 gigawatt hours of new battery storage on its electric grids in 2025, a nearly 30% increase over the prior year that arrived even as the Trump administration cut tax credits for wind and solar in last summer’s One… Continue reading The US Had a Big Battery Boom Last Year
A 10-week-old boy named Hugo has become the first baby born in the UK from a womb transplanted from a deceased donor, after his mother Grace Bell — who was born without a viable womb due to a condition called MRKH syndrome, which affects one in every … Continue reading First British Baby Born Using Transplanted Womb From Dead Donor
Meta AI security researcher Summer Yue posted a now-viral account on X describing how an OpenClaw agent she had tasked with sorting through her overstuffed email inbox went rogue, deleting messages in what she called a “speed run” while ignoring her re… Continue reading Meta AI Security Researcher Said an OpenClaw Agent Ran Amok on Her Inbox