A free, community-built add-on called the 'I have ADHD' skill has gained traction online for trimming Claude's verbose, meandering responses into more concise, front-loaded answers. Android Authority's Calvin Wankhede tested it for two weeks across both Claude Chat and Claude Code, installing it via a skill.md file from GitHub and enabling it through Claude's Customize settings. He reports it significantly reduces the chatbot's tendency to preach and add unnecessary preamble.
At the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, the bipedal robot Tiangong Ultra clocked a 9.39-second 100-meter sprint, edging out Honor's Lightning at 9.47 seconds and both beating Usain Bolt's 2009 world record of 9.58 seconds. Neither robot could stop cleanly, with each crashing into padded foam barriers past the finish line.
Falling costs have spurred a surge in grid-scale battery storage proposals across the US, but aging grid infrastructure and equipment shortages are causing massive backlogs. Roughly 750 gigawatts of storage capacity are now waiting for interconnection approval, with median wait times rising from about 1.5 years in 2015 to 5 years in 2025. Utilities like Con Edison and PG&E report project queues swelling by hundreds of percent, citing shortages of transformers, breakers and skilled labor.
Meteoric, a startup founded by two Cambridge engineers, is developing autonomous drone fleets designed to fly into low- and mid-altitude clouds above solar farms and physically alter water droplets to reduce cloud reflectivity. The company says this chemical-free approach could boost energy output from existing solar installations by 10-30%, costing an estimated $30-60 per hour to operate, far cheaper than traditional cloud-seeding aircraft.
A June 2026 Resume Builder survey of 1,000 recent bachelor's degree graduates found that 34% had a job offer pulled back after accepting it, with 13% saying it happened more than once. Separately, 68% reported being ghosted by employers after interviews, and 65% believe AI is reducing entry-level openings in their field.
Asus' new 32-inch ROG Strix XG32UQWMS is a Tandem OLED gaming monitor delivering native 4K at 240Hz, with a frame rate boost mode pushing to 480Hz at 1080p. It supports Adaptive-Sync, DisplayHDR 500 True Black, and a wide DCI-P3+ color gamut, while dropping extras like RGB lighting and built-in speakers to keep costs down.
A Reddit user reported finding a PNY GeForce RTX 5080 OC graphics card marked down to $702.56 at a local Walmart, well below its $1,249 listed price and Nvidia's $999 MSRP. The buyer verified the box contents matched the correct model and found the card in good condition before purchase.
A technology explainer walks through the history of the transistor, starting with the electric relay invented in 1835 for telegraph systems. It explains how relays used a small current to control a larger one, solving signal-loss problems over long telegraph wires, laying groundwork for the switching logic that transistors would later perform electronically.
With Jane Schoenbrun's new film Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma drawing theater crowds, critics are revisiting the director's 2021 debut We're All Going to the World's Fair. The film follows Casey, an isolated teenager who takes part in an online horror ritual called the World's Fair Challenge and documents her supposed transformation for an internet audience. Her only real connection forms with JLB, an older stranger who insists she's in danger.
Google has carried its Qi2-based Pixelsnap magnetic charging system over to the new Pixel 11 phones, refreshing the accessory lineup with new cases from Google and third-party makers like dbrand, Spigen, Mous, Case-Mate and Bellroy. The Ring Stand accessory also returns in colors matching the new phones, though the Pixelsnap Charger Stand no longer matches the new Fog color option.
Local officials overseeing data center projects in Marshall, Michigan, Salix, Iowa, and Box Elder County, Utah, have reported credible death threats and safety concerns tied to their votes. Marshall's council faced threats after passing a building moratorium, Salix's leaders were threatened over a land annexation for a possible Google site, and a Utah commissioner now has police stationed at his home. NBC News reports this pattern is spreading nationally, with officials targeted regardless of how they vote on data center proposals.
Between late 2016 and August 2026, China brought 27 new nuclear reactors online, while the United States added only two in the same period. MIT nuclear engineering professor Jacopo Buongiorno notes that China has become the global leader in building nuclear power plants, part of a broader strategy to support its shift toward a fully renewable grid.
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