Xpeng debuted the Land Aircraft Carrier at a launch event in Munich on Wednesday, the first time the Chinese automaker has shown its modular flying car outside Asia. The vehicle is a six-wheeled ground unit, called the Mothership, with a detachable two-seat eVTOL flight module that stows in the back. The six-rotor flying module uses […]

Apple raised the price of the iPhone 17 in Japan by roughly 10%, with the entry-level 256GB model now starting at ¥142,800 ($879), up from ¥129,800 previously, Bloomberg reported on Saturday. The iPhone 17 Pro with the same storage rose 8.3% to ¥194,800. Apple Watch and AirPods models also increased by up to 10%. Apple’s […]

TSMC posted record second-quarter revenue of over $40 billion, up 36% year on year, with net income rising 77%. The result should have been a triumph. Instead, shares fell 4%, dragging the Nasdaq 100 down 1.4% on Thursday and compounding losses from the day before. The problem was not the earnings but the spending. TSMC […]

Sateliot, a Barcelona-based satellite startup, is seeking to raise up to €150 million ($172 million), a 50% increase from the €100 million round it announced in April. The company operates a network of low-Earth orbit satellites and plans to use the funding to deploy 16 more over the next year. By early 2028, it expects […]

Apple overtook Nvidia on Friday to become the world’s most valuable company for the first time since April 2025. Apple closed at roughly $4.88 trillion as its shares held steady, while Nvidia fell 3.5% to approximately $4.86 trillion. Nvidia had held the top spot for nearly a year after becoming the first company to surpass […]

Apple and the US Department of Justice are in early discussions about settling the 2024 antitrust lawsuit that alleges Apple violated competition law through its iPhone ecosystem, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. Apple has made multiple offers this year to close the case. The discussions are active but there is no guarantee of an agreement, and […]

Tesla launched a $225 balance bike for children aged 2 to 5. It has no motor, no pedals, no brakes, and is powered entirely by toddler legs. The lightweight white magnesium frame comes with a five-way adjustable seat, the Tesla wordmark on the side, and the T logo on the front. It sold out immediately, […]

Microsoft will end OneDrive synchronisation support for Windows 10 versions before 22H2 on August 15. After that date, users on older builds will receive no more sync app updates, bug fixes, or security patches. The service itself will not immediately stop working, but Microsoft says “future functionality is not guaranteed.” Windows 10 22H2, the final […]

AWS users woke up Friday to find estimated billing emails showing charges ranging from hundreds of millions to $2.5 trillion. A unit pricing error in the AWS Billing Console’s estimated billing computation subsystem was the cause, Amazon confirmed. One Reddit user whose charges totalled $0.19 last month received an estimated bill of nearly $2.5 billion. […]

Anthropic is in very preliminary talks to lease computing power from Meta in a deal worth about $10 billion, the New York Times reported on Friday. CNBC confirmed the early-stage discussions. The talks come weeks after Anthropic announced a $1.25 billion-per-month arrangement with SpaceX to use the Colossus 1 data centre’s Nvidia GPUs. The deal […]