A SpaceX Share for Every Child, and No Instructions
The post ran to two sentences. Next year, Elon Musk said on X on Monday, he will give one of his SpaceX shares to every kid in America. “This will…
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…
Nvidia’s RTX Spark Goes on Sale in Six Cities, With Lines and Few Orders
The queue outside the San Francisco venue on October 17 was the kind that hardware launches are staged to produce. RTX Spark laptops went on sale in six cities the…
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…
Foxconn Buys Half of Mitsubishi Electric’s Car-Parts Business
Foxconn said on October 16 that its investment arm Lin Yin had signed an agreement to acquire 50 percent of Mitsubishi Electric Mobility from Mitsubishi Electric for 115 billion yen,…
Tesla Opens Roadster Orders With a $250,000 Deposit and a Car That Cannot Yet Fly Legally
Tesla began taking reservations for its long-delayed Roadster on October 16, and the price of a place in line is not a deposit in the ordinary sense. The performance version…
Brussels Prepares Fast Approval for a European Satellite Venture
The European Commission is preparing to grant rapid antitrust approval to a satellite joint venture underpinned by the IRIS squared constellation, according to a Bloomberg report on October 15, after…
Apple’s First Foldable Sold Out Its First Run in About 30 Minutes
Apple opened preorders for the iPhone Duo, its first folding phone, at 8 a.m. on October 16. Within roughly half an hour, every color and storage configuration had slipped from…
A Former xAI Engineer Tells New York’s Council That Grok Shipped Without Guardrails
Devin Kim, who worked as an engineer at xAI, told a New York City Council committee on October 16 that he warned colleagues from January 2025 that Grok could help…
