Michigan Township Approves Google Data Center Site Plan Despite Residents’ Objections
Residents of a township in Wayne County, Michigan, brought the same two complaints to the planning department that their counterparts have brought in a dozen states: the water, and the…
Apple Pushes iPhone Duo Buyers Online as Stores Turn Away Walk-Ins
On the morning the iPhone Duo went on sale, the line outside Apple’s stores formed the way it has for a decade: folding chairs, coffee, a few people who had…
Qualcomm Disputes Korean Test Results That Its New Snapdragon Runs Hot
The report reached Seoul’s technology press on Oct. 17: under sustained load, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 ran hot enough to raise questions about whether Samsung would use…
Samsung Adds $22.8 Million for Texas Workers and Schools
The road into Taylor, Texas, runs past a school district, a row of grain silos and, since 2022, a construction site large enough to see from the county highway. On…
Tesla Will Take a Roadster Deposit Without Promising a Car
The clause is not in the marketing copy. It sits in the reservation terms for the Roadster, where Tesla states that a place in the queue does not guarantee delivery,…
Intel Puts a 2028 Date on a 700-TOPS Chip for Robots
The figure a senior Intel vice president offered on October 17 was more specific than product roadmaps usually get. Razor Lake-AX, he said, will reach customers in 2028 with about…
A Speed Limit of 161 Kilometers an Hour Reshapes Ukraine’s Drone War
The interceptor drones fly low and fast, chasing the jet-powered attack drones that Russia sends across the line at night, and each of them carries a small satellite terminal that…
Meta Deletes a Clause About Web Scraping and Leaves the Rest of the Terms Standing
For a few hours this week, the contract that governs how millions of businesses use Meta’s advertising and commerce tools contained a sentence that the lawyers who read it found…
Microsoft Exits a UK Data Center Deal as the Grid Sets the Timetable
The site is in Loughton, in Essex, a short drive northeast of London, on land that has been cleared for a data hall and prepared for equipment that has not…
Toyota Plans to Put Its Software Platform in Every Car by 2030
At an investor technology briefing in Japan earlier this month, Toyota Motor put a number on a slide that its engineers had been circling for five years. By 2030, roughly…
