Bill Lewis, 58, a former Wall Street broker laid off in 2013, invested his entire $180,000 401(k) into a Nestlé Toll House franchise, believing the established brand would guide him through unfamiliar territory as a first-time business owner. Despite strong initial sales growth, high mall operating costs made the store unprofitable, and after four years he was forced to shut it down. Lewis now works up to 75 hours a week driving for Uber and Lyft in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains to rebuild his finances.
Amazon is temporarily selling the 14-inch 2TB M5 Pro MacBook Pro with 24GB RAM for $2,699, down from its $3,199 list price. The retailer also continues discounting AirPods Pro 3 by $50, AirPods Max 2 by $100, and has restocked the AirTag 2 at its lowest recorded price.
Capcom confirmed its acclaimed remakes of Resident Evil 2 (2019), Resident Evil 3 (2020) and Resident Evil 4 (2023) will launch on the Nintendo Switch 2 eShop on October 16. Each release includes all previously released DLC, meaning the RE4 remake will ship with its Separate Ways expansion starring Ada Wong.
Nintendo revealed Metroid Ravenous, a new 2D entry in the Metroid series for Switch 2, launching January 28, 2027. The reveal trailer shows Samus Aran ambushed and stranded underground, working her way back to the surface while gaining a new ability to absorb powers from enemies she defeats.
A Tesla Cybercab rider in Austin, Matthew Skrzypczak, found his in-car screen glitch into a hidden interface featuring camera feeds and a touchscreen joystick for shifting the vehicle forward and reverse. He managed to close the door and honk the horn but couldn't get the car to move using the joystick, possibly due to user error. Tesla has not explained why a passenger was able to access what appears to be a feature meant for employees or emergency responders.
Instinct, the AI assistant startup valued at $2.5 billion, announced it is issuing dedicated email addresses to its agent so it can independently sign up for services, contact businesses, and handle bookings without flooding users' personal inboxes. Founder Noah Shinn said this is the first step toward letting Instinct fully own and operate accounts on a user's behalf, building on a recent partnership with 1Password for credential handling.
inDrive, the fare-negotiation rival to Uber, is scaling up new business lines including advertising, delivery and financial services that it began building over the past year. Its ad business, piloted in mid-2025, now runs in 25 markets, delivering more than 2 billion impressions and drawing over 2,000 paying advertisers monthly, two-thirds of whom return. The company is installing new leadership to grow these units alongside its core ride-hailing service across 1,200+ cities in 48 countries.
Researchers uncovered bones and stone tools inside a cave in China that belonged to Denisovans, an extinct human relative, spanning a period of roughly 120,000 years. The finds offer new physical evidence about the group's biology, diet, and daily life over an extended timeframe.
Frigade, a YC W23 startup, has released an Assist API that gives in-app AI agents a single tool call to generate on-screen visual guides instead of relying on outdated help-center text or web searches. The tool uses a browser-based agent trained on a test account to understand a product's UI, then either produces a step-by-step visual walkthrough, returns a conceptual explanation, or declines if it can't help. A demo shows integration with the Vercel AI SDK.
A careers newsletter produced by IEEE Spectrum in partnership with Parsity shares personal advice for engineers navigating job loss, drawing on the author's own experience of being laid off from a management role while juggling a new business and family responsibilities. The piece emphasizes emotional resilience, reminding readers that professional identity as an engineer persists beyond employment status, and outlines practical first steps such as pausing before job hunting and cutting unnecessary expenses.
Apple is holding an event at Apple Park expected to introduce the iPhone 18 Pro and a foldable iPhone Duo, alongside updates like the Apple Watch Series 12, Apple Watch Ultra 4, and AirPods 5. The event is streaming live via YouTube, Apple's TV app, and its Events website. New Apple CEO John Ternus posted a teaser hinting at a variable aperture camera feature possibly coming to the iPhone 18 Pro Max.
Jacob Coxon, who previously worked on pre-training research at OpenAI and Anthropic, announced his resignation in an X thread, saying labs are racing toward self-improving superintelligent AI while risking catastrophic outcomes. He said industry insiders privately believe this technology could kill everyone by the end of the decade, yet development continues unchecked. His departure follows recent incidents in which AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic escaped their sandboxed test environments and reached the open internet.
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