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“This is just typical phone company stuff,” says Seth Green, reprising his role as “Scotty don’t.” Some of the Powers band is back together, including Mike Myers as “Dr. Evil,” Mindy Sterling as “Frau Farbissina,” and Rob Lowe as “No. 2.” (Lowe still pulls off the image and likeness of the original No. 2, Robert Wagner.) Stay tuned as we dissect Verizon’s new phone plans, which, weirdly, this is all about.
The R&D team at Walt Disney Imagineering has embraced Adobe’s Firefly Foundry platform to “accelerate the design and pre-production visualization pipeline” for Disney Parks and Experiences. The partnership will use AI models trained on Disney assets to turn sketches into fully rendered concept art, 2D images into 3D prototypes, and more.
The Evoworks Evo75 and Dry Studio ATM 98 are two of the nicest keyboards I’ve ever seen and heard. One is wonderfully thocky and one is serenely stealthy.
The controversial birth control app is rolling out “Sleep Insights,” allowing users to view key metrics — including sleep duration, efficiency, and timing — alongside their daily fertility status. It requires either an Oura Ring or Natural Cycles Band wearable, and over time, can show how hormonal changes and menstrual phases can impact sleep patterns.
To ensure its new Qi2.2 wireless chargers consistently deliver power at 25W without overheating, Mophie’s StealthCharge tech relocates some of the charging components to the device’s base while a heat sink transfers heat away from the magnetic pad. The new collection includes a 4-in-1, 3-in-1, and a travel charger featuring the tech.
The X Fold 6 doesn’t launch until later this month, but we already know it’ll be compatible with the X300 Ultra’s 200mm telephoto lens. It’ll have a meaty camera of its own too, with a 200-megapixel, 1/1.4-inch main camera and a 50-megapixel, 1/1.95-inch telephoto.
A month after a jury dismissed Elon’s claims in the Musk v. Altman case, US District Judge Rita Lin dismissed an xAI lawsuit accusing OpenAI of stealing trade secrets and poaching employees. This time, it was dismissed with prejudice, meaning it can’t be refiled, unlike when she dismissed the case in February.
The judge wrote in her ruling that continuing the case “would be futile.”
Markdown is a system for writing that makes it readable to both humans and computers. It’s all about the symbols. You use - to make a list, * for emphasis, ** for even more emphasis. Brackets and parentheses turn into links. Right now Markdown is absolutely everywhere: people are maintaining their Claude.MD files for conversing with AI bots, and writing their notes in Markdown editors like Obsidian. So where did Markdown come from? It came from John Gruber. John joins the show, along with Anil Dash, to tell the story of where Markdown came from and how it took over the world.
(Also, if this title breaks something in your podcast player, PLEASE tell us about it. I really hope it does, and I’m sorry in advance.)
While on his “The World’s First World Tour” with plans to play on all seven continents, the vocalist, producer, filmmaker, and professional scooter rider was one of six people killed after two helicopters collided over Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. O Globo reports that after the crash on Sunday, one of the helicopters fell into an electric car dealership’s parking lot, sparking a fire that burned dozens of cars.
It’s still unclear what the T1 Phone even is, or if it will ever ship.
The head of the top US autonomous drone maker on China, mass surveillance, and why he thinks drones can make us safer.
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman also said more third-party chatbots in Siri and modular Apple Watch faces are coming later this year, despite not making an appearance at WWDC.
Gurman also points out a few hints at WWDC about Apple’s rumored foldable iPhone, which could launch as soon as September, as well as a touchscreen Mac.
After first debuting at CES 2026, the Champ Stack 10K, renamed to the Sharepower, is now available through Apple and Nimble’s online store for $79.95. The 10,000mAh power bank magnetically bifurcates to become a pair of 20W 5,000mAh batteries. One features a short lanyard-stye USB-C cable while the other uses a folding USB-C connector.
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Meta only donates tens of thousands of pairs of smart glasses to blind veterans when it’s in extreme distress.
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Oof the PR crisis must be bad
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But the bigger battery is the only one that matters.
On Sunday, the rich and powerful gathered to watch men choke each other out on the White House lawn. Welcome to peak idiocracy.
Unlike Eric Schmidt or Gloria Caulfield, Pichai didn’t mention AI. Instead, it seems the students were protesting Google’s broader politics, and chanted “Free Palestine” over Pichai’s speech as they filed out.
Quinn Nelson is one of the lucky (?) few to actually get their hands on the T1. The Trump Mobile emails kept going to spam, the site is broken, and a customer service agent asked for his password over the phone. Spoiler: Things didn’t get better once he turned it on.
