Home Depot in Los Angeles is using loud noise devices to drive away day laborers outside one store. Advocates say the high-pitched sound is causing headaches and nausea and compare the devices to sonic weapons used in crowd control.
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ASML chip machines, normally used for making computer parts, have been used by IMEC to mass-produce ultra-tiny holes that can help sensors read single molecules like viruses or DNA, opening the door to faster, cheaper medical tests.
A blockchain card game featuring Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto and other crypto figures has shut down as part of a wider wave of crypto game closures in 2025, with many projects citing funding problems and small player bases.
Waymo halted its self-driving taxi service in San Francisco after a large power outage left many of its driverless cars stalled in the streets, blocking intersections until the company suspended rides in the area.
Bitcoin is trading around $88,000 in a tight range, with analysts split on the next move. Some expect a breakout to new highs soon, while others warn that rising bitcoin inflows to Binance could signal a drop toward the $70,000 area.
Europol warns criminals could soon hijack self-driving cars, drones, and humanoid robots for theft, attacks, and cybercrime, urging police to prepare new tactics and tools to handle robot-led crimes and hacked medical robots by 2035.
Indiana lawmaker Kyle Pierce proposes a crypto bill allowing state public services to invest in funds with cryptocurrency exposure, while adding protections for bitcoin miners to ensure they are not unfairly targeted by state regulations.
New York has passed the Responsible AI Safety and Education Act, requiring AI companies making over $500M a year to follow formal safety rules and report serious AI problems within 72 hours or face fines, despite a recent Trump order limiting state AI rules.
Fundstrat’s Tom Lee responded to online debate over differing bitcoin outlooks from his team, saying the views reflect different roles and time frames rather than internal disagreement, underscoring how public comments can mix short-term and long-term views on BTC
Alphabet-owned Wing and Walmart have launched a drone delivery service in metro Atlanta, flying beyond visual line of sight to deliver up to 5 pounds of goods from select stores to homes within six miles in about 15 minutes.
Amazon says it has blocked over 1,800 suspected North Korean attempts to get jobs at the company since April, using AI tools to spot fake profiles and links to high‑risk institutions, as remote work makes it easier to pose as US-based tech workers.
Stanford researchers report that Alibaba’s Qwen open AI models have now surpassed Meta’s Llama as the most downloaded large language model family on Hugging Face, showing Chinese AI systems are matching Western models in power and global adoption.
IBM survey finds nearly half of executives say data problems are blocking their companies from using advanced AI tools, highlighting that many firms still lack the systems and setup needed to turn data into real AI results
Coros released the Nomad, a rugged fitness watch with offline maps, long battery life of up to 22 days, and accurate GPS and heart rate tracking, offering a lower-priced alternative to Garmin’s Instinct 3.
Brazil’s Itaú Asset Management now suggests investors hold 1%–3% of their portfolios in Bitcoin, calling it a distinct asset that may help protect against global tensions, changing interest rates, and currency ups and downs.
A power outage in Colorado disrupted NIST’s atomic clocks, causing its Boulder internet time servers to lose accurate time. NIST warned telecom and aerospace users to switch to its other time sources while it works to realign the clocks.
US Senator Cynthia Lummis, a leading Bitcoin supporter in Congress, announced she will not seek reelection in 2026. She has been praised for pushing clearer Bitcoin rules and is credited with helping move the Bitcoin cause forward in US policy.
MSI launches its EV Life home charger in the U.S., offering faster electric car charging of up to about 50 miles of range per hour, app-based control, and all-weather durability, aiming to make home charging simpler and more affordable.
Santiment’s Maksim Balashevich says online traders are still too hopeful for a clear Bitcoin bottom, warning BTC could drop about 15% from current levels, even as fear gauges like the Crypto Fear & Greed Index show “extreme fear” in the market.
Elon Musk says SpaceX’s new Starship rocket, designed to be fully reusable and enable travel to other planets, will be seen by future historians as a major turning point for life becoming multi-planetary, despite its current test failures.