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Solid-state batteries still aren’t ready, but gels are

Semi-solid state batteries are a less volatile bridge to the future.

Thomas Ricker
X-Men ’97 has what Masters of the Universe is missing

The two projects highlight how it takes more than nostalgia to reinvigorate a franchise.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Gore Verbinski says we need an AI “rating system” for movies.

The director of Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die says he’s not totally against AI and wouldn’t fault a young indie filmmaker for turning to it if they couldn’t otherwise afford to create a key portion of a film. But he is concerned about its impact. According to Variety, saying:

You almost need a rating system. If you use AI to write a script, you get an F. What people are most afraid of is that there is no transparency. People are afraid of what is real and what isn’t.”

My first 24 hours with Siri AI on the Mac

Siri is better, but its limitations are much more obvious on a Mac than an iPhone.

Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Never Post’s Mike Rugnetta on the creative process and the value of reliable power

The podcast host, YouTuber, musician, and audio engineer has a lot on his plate.

Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Gene Shalit, the pun-loving film critic dies at 100.

Shalit was a staple of Today for 40 years, from 1970 until his retirement in 2010. In addition to his iconic and pun-laden reviews, Shalit was also a regular guest on Late Night with David Letterman and What’s My Line?

My yard is dying, so I made an app for that

How a yard work to-do list turned into a vibe-coding project.

Allison Johnson
Apple’s new AI photo editing tools mostly work, for better and worse

What is a photo, iOS 27 edition.

Allison Johnson
The future of Hollywood isn’t feeding prompts into vanilla gen AI models 

AI wasn’t just slop at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
SpaceX reportedly rented out Colossus 1 AI data center after it ran into latency issues.

While SpaceX plans satellite-based AI servers, Bloomberg reports it ran into trouble trying to develop and run Grok AI in Memphis, citing unnamed sources. They claim that deals renting capacity to Anthropic ($15 billion annually) and Google ($920 million per month) happened following hardware variation and lag issues:

Elon Musk’s company had planned to train its most cutting-edge AI models on a massive amount of computing power by using a cluster of three data center campuses. However, the firm encountered latency issues when connecting Colossus 1 with two other sites located more than 10 miles away, the people said, compounded by aging network infrastructure.

Victoria Song
Victoria Song
My mayor’s Muslim, my bagel’s Jewish, my heart rate’s fried, KNICKS IN FIVE!

Oura says New Yorkers’ hearts were palpitating on Wednesday night during Game 4. Turns out, baseline heart rates increased by 3.7 beats on average at the final buzzer. Heart rates were also elevated for the entirety of the game, and nobody seemed to get a peaceful night of sleep. Guessing we’re in for more of the same on Saturday.

Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
DJI and Insta360 are suing each other over baby steadicams.

DJI sued in China when Insta360 muscled in on drones, and both companies are Spider-Man Pointing in US lawsuits now they’re competing on stickcams. Recall: Insta360 just launched its Osmo Pocket competitor Luna Ultra in the US, but DJI can’t sell its Osmo Pocket 4 here.

Find the complaints here, here, here, and here.

An Osmo Pocket and an Insta360 Luna baby stabilized gimbal camera face off in the spiderman pointing meme image.
DJI is suing over both visual similarities and control methods; Insta360 is suing over stabilization methods and location sharing.
Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Spotify’s first editor videos for New Music Friday are here.

Spotify’s bringing its editor commentary from The Drop Weekly to its New Music Friday playlist, so you can hear from the playlist’s curators about why they picked some of their weekly new release highlights. This week they’re spotlighting Olivia Rodrigo, Ayra Starr, ANOTR, Adéla, and Emei.

Screenshots of Spotify editor clips in its New Music Friday playlist
Image: Spotify
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David Pierce
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Meta is donating its AI glasses to the more than 130,000 blind veterans in the US.

Smart glasses, like the Ray-Ban Meta, have become a resource for people with disabilities. Meta says the company and its partners will provide hands-on training for all the veterans who receive a free pair of AI glasses through the Blinded Veterans Association or TechSoup.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
SPCX opens at $150 per share.

As reported by CNBC, the New York Times, and others, trading commenced at a price 11 percent above the $135 IPO price, but lower than the $175 shown in some earlier indications. It’s already spiked as high as $167, before falling back to $155. As long as the share price remains above $138, that is enough to make Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire.

It also gives SpaceX a market cap of over $2 trillion, making it currently the 6th most valuable public company in the US.

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Allison Johnson
Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
“I shouldn’t have half a billion subscribers.”

Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson said that today during a special event livestream for his YouTube channel becoming the first one to hit 500 million subscribers.

Who agrees with him?

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Nothing in Best Buy.

If you’re in the US, you can now find the Nothing Phone 4A Pro, Phone 3, Headphone A, and Ear 3 in person at over 500 Best Buy stores across the country, giving you a chance to toy around with the devices before you buy one.

Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Lewis Hamilton’s group chat is “50/50” on the Ferrari Luce.

While talking to the press ahead of a race in Barcelona this weekend, Hamilton said his friends’ reaction to the Luce was “mixed, like you see on social media.” “Mixed” is definitely one word for the online reaction to Ferrari’s new EV, which attracted a wave of memes and criticism over its design.

Andrew J. Hawkins
Andrew J. Hawkins
Ford’s $30K electric truck could be smaller than a Maverick.

The Autopian spotted the highly anticipated EV in Long Beach this week. Although it was heavily camouflaged, the outlet was able to estimate its measurements to be around 64-inches tall and about 195-inches long, which would make it a little smaller than a Ford Maverick. That’s extremely interesting to me as a person who thinks most trucks today are way too big for their britches. Sure, it’s no kei truck, but for Ford, it’s practically microscopic. Bring on the baby trucks!

Ford’s diminutive electric truck is expected to go on sale in 2027.
Ford’s diminutive electric truck is expected to go on sale in 2027.
Image: The Autopian
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Andrew J. Hawkins
Lauren Feiner
Lauren Feiner
Google is suing to dismantle a phishing kit operation it says has scammed hundreds of thousands of people.

“Outsider Enterprise” allegedly distributes phishing templates that have scammed people out of millions of dollars. Google says over a million fraudulent URLs are linked to the group, and that over just two weeks, it sent 2.5 million messages to Android users with links to fraudulent websites.