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The Federal Trade Commission has sent formal information requests to nine companies, including Walmart, Uber and Delta, demanding details on how they use consumer data to set prices. The agency says it wants to determine whether firms are charging individual consumers the highest price they are willing to pay based on personal data collected about them.
Virgin Galactic has unveiled Apeiron, the first of its new Delta-class spacecraft, chosen by public poll. The company says the ship is departing its Mesa, Arizona factory for Spaceport America, but commercial spaceflight is now pushed to early Q2 2027, with a second ship following by late Q2 or early Q3 2027.
General Motors announced plans to invest more than $2 billion in its Lansing, Michigan region, including $1.25 billion to retool its Delta Township Assembly plant for future hybrid-electric vehicle production. GM is working with the U.S. Department of Energy to redirect a previously awarded $500 million Domestic Manufacturing Conversion Grant—originally meant for a different Lansing EV conversion project—toward the hybrid push. The plant currently builds gas-powered versions of the Buick Enclave, Chevrolet Traverse and GMC Acadia, and produced a record 291,000 vehicles in 2025.
MiniLake is a new open-source project (MIT licensed, Python 3.11+) that emulates the Databricks API locally, supporting real SQL queries, Delta Lake tables and Spark job execution without a cloud account or API key. It can be installed via pip or run as a Docker container, and is designed to work with tools like the Databricks SDK, CLI, Terraform and Asset Bundles pointed at a local server.
Micron has laid out its memory and storage roadmap through 2027, centered on a new 1-Delta DRAM manufacturing node offering roughly 25% higher bit density than its current 1-Gamma process. The company says 1-Delta will support DDR6, with more than double DDR5's bandwidth, and LPDDR6, claimed to be 35% more power-efficient than LPDDR5, alongside plans for 1TB RDIMMs and NAND exceeding 400 layers. Micron says volume production of 1-Delta is expected in the second half of 2027, with no official DDR6 launch date set yet.
Delta's 2.0 update introduces a dual-screen mode that uses foldable hinge hardware to emulate the Nintendo DS experience, splitting gameplay across two screens. The release also adds support for emulating Sega Genesis games, expanding the app's library of supported retro consoles.
Retro game emulator Delta has released version 2.0, adding a Liquid Glass interface redesign and dedicated support for the foldable iPhone Duo. The update includes custom controller skins for Nintendo DS layouts that adapt to the device's various folded poses, Sega Genesis ROM compatibility, improved library navigation, and audio settings that let game sound mix with music or podcasts.
Delta 2.0, the iOS game emulator, now includes optimization for Apple's foldable iPhone Duo, letting users play Nintendo DS games with controller skins adapted to portrait and landscape folding poses. The update also adds Sega Genesis emulation with matching controller skins, a custom DLC feature for classic Game Boy Advance Pokémon titles, a redesigned UI built around Apple's Liquid Glass design, and experimental support for Epilogue's GB/SN Operator cartridge adapters and custom visual filters.
Researchers built a large-scale physical model in Deltares' Delta Flume, transplanting 66 real salt marsh blocks onto a sand bed in front of a dike to study how marshes behave during extreme storms. The setup recreated field conditions, including a cliff edge at the seaward marsh boundary protected by a brushwood dam, and a sloped bare tidal flat to simulate natural wave approach before reaching the vegetated marsh.
Delta is rolling out its first major overhaul of Delta One in 30 years, adding ultra-luxury touches such as Wagyu beef burgers and a $200 bottle of wine to the premium cabin experience. The redesign marks a broader rethink of the airline's top-tier offering rather than incremental menu changes.
Newegg is offering a PC component bundle including an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU, a Gigabyte Aorus X870E Elite WiFi7 motherboard, 32GB of Team T-Force Delta RGB DDR5-6000 memory, and a 2TB Team Group NV5000 SSD for $1,165.99. The deal also includes a free Cooler Master Elite Liquid 240mm AIO cooler and a copy of Capcom's Onimusha game, with Newegg stating the bundle saves $358.98 versus buying the parts separately.
Biscoff, a sweeter variation of Belgium's traditional speculaas cookie, was largely unknown in the US until Delta Air Lines began serving it in 1986 as a stopgap replacement for peanuts during a domestic peanut shortage. The cookie, made by Lembeke-based Lotus Bakeries since 1932, had already built popularity in Belgium through a 1950s strategy of individually wrapping cookies and partnering with cafes to serve them alongside coffee. Lotus Bakeries now describes Biscoff as the world's fifth-bestselling cookie.