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BYD Takes Its $14,500 e7 Sedan Global, Pressing Tesla on Price
BYD is taking its cheapest electric sedan, the e7, beyond China, and the move sharpens a price fight that Tesla and legacy carmakers have struggled to answer. The e7 starts at 103,800 yuan, about $14,500, and dipped to 99,800 yuan in a…
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US Opens Security Vetting of Frontier AI Models as OpenAI and Anthropic Restrict New Releases
ChatGPT maker OpenAI said Friday it is holding back the public release of its newest model at the request of the Trump administration, the latest move in an unprecedented federal review of…
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Cloud & Edge Computing
Cloud & Edge Computing1,044 words5 min read
Microsoft Turns On Confidential Live Migration for Azure, Ending the Patch-and-Reboot Tradeoff for Secure VMs
Microsoft has switched on Confidential Live Migration for Azure, a capability that lets a protected virtual machine move from one physical host to another without exposing its memory or…
Cybersecurity1,054 words5 min read
CISA Patch Deadline Hits Today as Hackers Exploit Critical Fortinet FortiSandbox Flaws
CISA gave federal agencies until today, July 19, to fix two critical Fortinet FortiSandbox flaws that attackers are already exploiting. The bugs, tracked as CVE-2026-39808 and…
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Robotics & Drones
Robotics & Drones1,136 words6 min read
French Startup's 40-Gram Drone Just Pulled Off the First Autonomous Air-to-Air Kill of a Flying Insect
A Y Combinator-backed French company says its palm-sized drone has, for the first time, tracked and destroyed a flying insect in mid-air with no human at the controls. Mosquitoes are next…
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Semiconductors
Semiconductors975 words5 min read
Samsung Warns 2026 Memory Shortage Will Push Chip Prices Higher for Everyone
Samsung has told buyers there's no easy way out of the memory squeeze coming in 2026. Wonjin Lee, the company's president and head of global marketing, said in a Bloomberg interview in…
EV1,289 words6 min read
Global EV sales topped 2 million in June — but the US is losing ground to China and Europe
More than 2 million electric vehicles rolled off dealer lots worldwide in June 2026, capping a first half that lifted global sales to 9.6 million units. The headline number hides a split…
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Battery Tech
Battery Tech1,039 words5 min read
Form Energy Takes Iron-Air Batteries Global With First Overseas Storage Project in Ireland
A Massachusetts startup has signed its first battery deal outside the United States, and the chemistry inside those cells is about as plain as it gets: iron, water, and air. Form Energy…
IoT1,206 words6 min read
Thread Becomes the Smart Home's Quiet Backbone as Shelly and Philips Hue Embrace the Mesh
Two of the smart home's most active brands pushed the same low-power radio into the spotlight this month. On July 17, Shelly's founder opened a public poll about adding Matter-over-Thread…
AI1,094 words5 min read
xAI Ships Grok Automations, Letting the Chatbot Run Tasks on Its Own
xAI rolled out Automations in Grok on July 16, 2026, a feature that lets users describe a job once and have the chatbot carry it out on a schedule or the moment an email arrives. The…