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1711.

China's homegrown AI accelerators to supply 90% of the country's domestic market, analysts suggest — Cambricon and Huawei expected to be the biggest winners in the shift away from Nvidia and AMD (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-18 | by Anton Shilov | tags: accelerators, ai accelerators, china

1712.

Google wants you to use its phones less - but I'm skeptical (zdnet.com)

2026-08-18 | by Nina Raemont | tags: google pixel, pixel watch, made by google

1713.

Hospitals Are Getting So Hot That Surgeries Are Getting Canceled and Staff Are Fainting (futurism.com)

2026-08-18 | by Frank Landymore | tags: nhs, northern care alliance, nhs wards

1714.

The Morning Risk Report: L3Harris Ousts CEO After Investigation Into Conduct (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-18 | tags: l3harris, ceo, quarterly earnings

1715.

GameStop customer earned over $10,000 in store credit from a stack of broken consoles — traded 'hundreds' of PlayStations, Xboxes, Game Boys, Switches, and more (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-18 | by Mark Tyson | tags: broken, broken consoles, consoles

1716.

I Put the Best Digital Notebooks to the Test. Here Are My Favorites (2026) (wired.com)

2026-08-18 | by Nena Farrell | tags: remarkable paper, kindle scribe, kobo libra

1717.

As temperatures get hotter, pesticides are more dangerous to farmworkers (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: pesticides, farmworkers, union for concerned scientists

1718.

Apple's macOS Tahoe preview may have leaked a ton of unreleased products (engadget.com)

2026-08-18 | by Steve Dent | tags: macos tahoe, airpods, iphone 18 pro

1719.

Two camera features may be unique to the iPhone 18 Pro Max, suggests leaker (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-18 | by Ben Lovejoy | tags: iphone 18 pro max, apple, camera features

1720.

Google buys Spirit Airlines data for AI training for just $10 million — purchase includes hundreds of millions of emails, Microsoft Teams chats, billions of flight pricing records, and anonymized passenger records (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-18 | by Jowi Morales | tags: airline, court, especially

1721.

‘Star Wars: Starfighter’ Was Inspired by a Francis Ford Coppola Classic (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: star wars, starfighter, francis ford coppola

1722.

The Fairphone Gen 6 Plus is officially available in US, no middleman needed (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: fairphone, gen 6 plus, /e/os

1723.

Judge allegedly outsourced entire ruling to AI and still can't be sued — federal court upholds blanket judicial immunity (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-18 | by Anton Shilov | tags: case, decision, immunity

1724.

Sainsbury's Store Pauses Facial Recognition After False Shoplifting Claim (slashdot.org)

2026-08-18 | tags: sainsbury's, facial recognition, facewatch

1725.

OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Teens (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: openai, chatgpt, teens

1726.

Fairphone is launching its latest repairable phone in the US too (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-18 | by Ivan Mehta | tags: fairphone, fairphone 6+, qualcomm snapdragon

1727.

What Parents Need to Know About OpenAI’s New ChatGPT for Teens (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-18 | tags: openai, chatgpt, teens

1728.

Fairphone is finally releasing its first official handset in the US (engadget.com)

2026-08-18 | by Sam Rutherford | tags: fairphone, fairphone gen. 6+, snapdragon 7s gen 4

1729.

ChatGPT's stricter teen mode starts rolling out today (engadget.com)

2026-08-18 | by Igor Bonifacic | tags: chatgpt, openai, study mode

1730.

Reach Capital raises $265M Fund V to back AI founders building to ‘expand human potential’ (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-18 | by Dominic-Madori Davis | tags: reach capital, ai applications, replit

1731.

Meta goes to trial over Facebook and Instagram's impact on young users (techspot.com)

2026-08-18 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: facebook, instagram, meta

1732.

Best Buy has slashed $1,350 off this 'outstanding' OLED RTX 5080 laptop — 16-inch Lenovo Legion Pro 7i features a 24-core Arrow Lake CPU and 32GB of DDR5 RAM (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-18 | by Stephen Warwick | tags: best, deals, gaming

1733.

How I turned a single Google Keep note into the ultimate productivity hack (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: google keep, android authority, google

1734.

Secret tracking device placed in rare book ends up in Amazon processing facility — destroying books to train AI models is 'all' the Vegas warehouse does (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-18 | by Jake Roach | tags: book, books, google

1735.

How Trump lost his retail appeal (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: trump, maga hats, retail stores

1736.

Why no one has a fun couch anymore (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: ikea, couches, furniture

1737.

Exclusive: You Can Finally Buy a Fairphone—a Sustainable, Repairable Smartphone—in the US (wired.com)

2026-08-18 | by Julian Chokkattu | tags: fairphone, repairable smartphone, qualcomm snapdragon

1738.

Can AI Coexist With Privacy? Proton’s Andy Yen Says It Will Have To (wired.com)

2026-08-18 | by Andy Greenberg | tags: proton, andy yen, encryption

1739.

Einride strikes deal to add 500 Tesla Semis to its fleet (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-18 | by Kirsten Korosec | tags: tesla semi, einride, saga ai

1740.

Meta Declines to Remove Horrific Posts Calling for Violence Against Muslims, Calling Them “Cockroaches” and Saying It’s “Time for Hunting” (futurism.com)

2026-08-18 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: facebook, islamophobia, ai-generated