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McDonald's has teamed up with Chinese super-app Meituan to deliver food by drone to designated pickup kiosks in Shanghai's waterfront district. Customers place orders through Meituan, and drones fly meals like Big Macs and McNuggets directly to these collection points within minutes.
Boox has released three new E Ink devices: the Note Air6 C, the Note Mini C, and the Palma 3. The Note Air6 C and Note Mini C are color digital notebooks priced at $580 each, running Android 16 with new AI features like meeting summaries and side-by-side annotation, while the Palma 3 is a $340 smartphone-sized E Ink reader. Only the Note Air6 C is currently available for purchase.
Investors are reportedly re-entering rare-disease drug stocks after the departure of stricter FDA regulators under the Trump administration. The shift in agency leadership has reduced concerns about tougher approval hurdles that had previously discouraged investment in this biotech segment.
A community of Linux modders has been reworking the AMD BC-250, a cheap leftover mining GPU built from a cut-down PlayStation 5 chip, into a functional PC gaming card. The latest breakthrough unlocks all 40 of its RDNA 2 compute units and packages AMD's FSR 4 upscaling and frame generation as a Windows DLL that can be dropped into compatible games.
An investigation by The Guardian found that nearly all of the world's ten largest producers of PFAS, or 'forever chemicals,' intend to expand production to supply the booming data center industry. These chemicals are widely used in cooling systems, AI chips, circuit boards, fire suppression equipment, and cable coatings inside data centers.
A reader without formal computer science training describes spending a year using LLMs to build a complex TypeScript/JavaScript system with APIs, PostgreSQL, and multi-model AI pipelines. When trying to move the project to production, they found themselves stuck fixing cascading errors they didn't fully understand, realizing the system's complexity had outpaced their own comprehension. A programming writer responds publicly to the reader's letter, offering candid, non-definitive thoughts on learning and competence in an AI-assisted coding era.
SK Hynix is reportedly discussing options with Intel to produce memory chips in the US for the first time, possibly by leasing space at Intel's delayed Ohio fab or forming a joint venture involving cloud companies. SK Hynix has confirmed it is exploring new production sites but says no decisions have been made, and Intel declined to confirm details beyond ongoing investment in the Ohio project.
Martha Stewart, who built a lifestyle empire over five decades, has started a new company called Hint focused on artificial intelligence. The move marks a fresh chapter for a figure often credited as an early influencer, as she looks to apply her brand experience to emerging tech.
A Cybercab rider in Austin reported that a trip meant to take ten minutes stretched into a 70-minute ordeal, with the vehicle initially heading the wrong way before winding through east Austin. Electrek attributes the meandering routes to the fact that Tesla's robotaxis cannot yet use highways and operate only within a limited, pre-mapped geofenced zone, unlike Waymo which already drives on highways in some cities.
Boox introduced three new Android 16-powered E Ink devices: the Palma 3, a palm-sized ereader now built with an anodized aluminum frame and support for the InkSense Plus stylus, plus a 6.13-inch screen, 128GB storage and a 16MP camera. The company also revealed the 10.3-inch color Note Air6 C with a Dual Notes feature and keyboard accessory, and the Note Mini C, an 8.52-inch color device aimed at mobile professionals with enterprise app access.
A major cryptocurrency market-structure bill known as the Clarity Act has failed to advance, even after the industry poured hundreds of millions of dollars into lobbying efforts to secure its passage. The setback leaves crypto firms without the clearer federal rules they had hoped would settle long-running regulatory disputes.
University of Adelaide scientists led by Chunxia Zhao designed 'smart' nanoparticles that ferry mRNA specifically to tumor-associated macrophages, prompting them to produce CXCL9, a molecule that summons T cells to attack cancer. The approach, described this week in Science Advances, aims to reverse how tumors normally hijack macrophages to block immune attacks.