Joe Macken, a truck driver from New York, spent over 20 years building an intricate scale model of the city from balsa wood and foam board in his basement, eventually creating more than 800,000 structures. After his daughter posted videos of the project on TikTok and they drew over 10 million views in a week, the Museum of the City of New York invited him to display it. The exhibit, titled 'He Built This City,' opened in February and runs through October 12.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-18
Crusoe, the company behind construction of one of OpenAI's largest data center projects, has closed a $3.9 billion funding round valuing it at nearly $31 billion. The company is now expanding into factory-built, smaller-scale data centers alongside its large infrastructure work.
wsj.com
· 2026-09-17
General Motors is overhauling the infotainment system in its next-generation Chevrolet Silverado 1500 and GMC Sierra 1500 trucks, arriving later this year as 2027 models. The update includes new animated graphics, simplified menus for towing and off-roading, larger touch targets across more than 60 inches of combined screen space, and picture-in-picture support for Apple CarPlay and Android Auto.
theverge.com
· 2026-09-15
QueryStory, founded by former Google Chronicle co-founder Shapor Naghibzadeh, has launched publicly after raising a $6 million seed round from Brightmind Ventures and New York Life Ventures at a $60 million valuation. The startup applies techniques Naghibzadeh developed for cybersecurity investigations to build large language model tools that let enterprises query proprietary databases and construct fact-based narratives from the results.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-08-26
Android Auto mirrors a driver's phone onto a compatible car display for navigation, music, messaging, and apps, working over USB or wirelessly. Android Automotive OS, in contrast, runs natively on the vehicle's own hardware without requiring a connected phone at all.
engadget.com
· 2026-08-23
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