Theker just raised $85M to build the factory robot that doesn’t specialize in anything

Unlike humanoid robots designed around a fixed form — think Boston Dynamics — Theker's machines are built to be reconfigured. | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 2 minutes ago

White Castle's post-Impossible replacement is a crunchy new veggie slider that's easy to order vegan

Customers do not need to change the bun, because it is plant-based. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 4 minutes ago

Maggie O'Farrell flattens 19th century Ireland into a theme-pub cliché in her new novel

Land reasserts the Gaelic language and culture in opposition to the culture of the British colonisers, but relies on simplistic characterisations. | Continue reading


@theconversation.com | 4 minutes ago

Kroger to pay $1.25 million after California said its Carbmaster bread labels slashed calories in half

Those numbers were then used on FDA nutrition labels and on the front of the packages in marketing. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 16 minutes ago

Homeowner thought the lump on his porch was an Amazon package until his screen door hit a large alligator

"This little fella decided to skip the swamp and upgrade to porch life this morning." | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 28 minutes ago

Kia recalls more than 6,000 Tellurides after finding driver seat belts can lock and fail to extend

The flaw may be present in only about 1% of the recalled vehicles. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 40 minutes ago

Thursday's parting shot

Day 1 of the World Cup as Mexico beat South Africa 2-0... watching the end from Fourth Street at First Avenue... | Continue reading


@evgrieve.com | 46 minutes ago

China's EV boom is moving so fast BYD says demand is now running at twice its supply

Gas-car sales in China dropped 39% in May from a year earlier. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 52 minutes ago

Aliens might exist. But there are three reasons why they’re not visiting us

The nature of space, time and the evolution of life on Earth mean it’s unlikely extraterrestrial life has visited our home planet. | Continue reading


@theconversation.com | 1 hour ago

Great Americans: The Wisdom of Sandra Day O’Connor

She made herself a formidable justice in the same way she had learned to brand calves, fire a rifle, or turn a bobcat into a house pet while growing up on her parents’ remote Arizona ranch. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 hour ago

Mitsubishi's 2027 Eclipse Sportback breaks cover as a fully electric crossover with Nissan Leaf bones

The launch also brings back a familiar name. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 1 hour ago

0% Tax Rate for Solar Power Sector! … in Bangladesh

Almost 12 years ago, I wrote about the fast adoption of small-scale solar power in Bangladesh. A couple years later, I got to talk with an expert and leader in the industry. It was an interesting and inspiring story, but apparently it didn’t continue and grow as fast as desired. … | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 1 hour ago

GoPro Mission 1 Pro Review: The Best GoPro, Just Not the Best Camera

GoPro promised us a "cinematic camera system." The Mission 1 Pro is just a better action camera. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 1 hour ago

When Faith Is Just an App

Christianity is all over social media. For a while, I thought my generation might be finding God, writes Freya India. Now I worry we are just finding content about God. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 hour ago

Dangerous heat grips the East, Midwest, and West as New York nears 100, Baltimore feels 103

Northeast commuters have also been warned to prepare for severe thunderstorms. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 1 hour ago

Wildlife officials race to stop 4-foot tegu lizards as invasive egg raiders spread across the South

They usually do not climb very high, but they are capable swimmers. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 1 hour ago

More than 40 million from Kansas City to Chicago face 70 mph winds, giant hail, and tornadoes

Some places may also get hit by multiple rounds of storms, raising the risk of flash flooding. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 1 hour ago

California predeploys fire crews to six Sacramento Valley counties before red flag conditions hit

Stopping a smaller fire from becoming a major incident can spare families significant disruption. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 1 hour ago

FirstEnergy wants AI data centers to foot the bill for new grid upgrades as energy demand surges

"Ordinary families and small businesses see their electric bills rise." | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 1 hour ago

Wind-driven Nebraska Panhandle wildfire chars nearly 9,000 acres, forces evacuations

Recovery can take months or longer. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 1 hour ago

Five things I learned from a conversation with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella

Highlights from Hard Fork Live, including Figma CEO Dylan Field on why design isn’t dead | Continue reading


@platformer.news | 1 hour ago

Elon Musk's SpaceX is about to go public, and its $75 billion IPO could be the biggest ever

At $135 a share, SpaceX would be worth about $1.75 trillion, enough to rank it among the world's 10 largest publicly traded companies. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 1 hour ago

Homeowner checks security alert expecting a cat and finds a missing Tasmanian devil a mile from wildlife park

"Keeping our fingers crossed that Mary is home safe soon." | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 1 hour ago

Pentagon expands Chinese military blacklist to 188 companies, adding Alibaba, BYD and Baidu

"A warning to American businesses, all levels of government, and the American people." | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 2 hours ago

Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive

After two days of experience with Claude Fable 5 I think the best way to describe it is relentlessly proactive. It knows a whole lot of tricks and it will deploy pretty much any of them to get to its goal. I'll illustrate this with an example. I was hacking on Datasette Agent tod … | Continue reading


@simonwillison.net | 2 hours ago

Scientists warn little-known amoebae can shrug off chlorine, hide other germs, and spread as waters warm

That "Trojan horse" effect could make pathogens harder to eliminate. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 2 hours ago

For A Brief Moment, You Got To See How The Sausage Is Made

The wider public doesn't normally get to see PR coming in hot like this | Continue reading


@aftermath.site | 2 hours ago

El Niño Arrives

Above, NASA Scientist Peter Kalmus, who has been extremely outspoken and active on climate issues, has parted from the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab after 15 years – he says he was forced to resign because of his activism. He warns that this summer may be the hottest we’ve ever experie … | Continue reading


@thinc.blog | 2 hours ago

Europe is getting a 670-hp Dodge Charger Daytona, and local rivals are practically nowhere to be found

Still, enthusiasm has been tempered by concerns about real-world ownership. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 2 hours ago

(Podcast) Clockwise 660: I’m a Dirty Cheater

Our hopes for fixes in the ’27 platform updates, what we’ll do with our Intel Macs now that they’ve reached end of the road, whether we’ll trust the new Siri AI, and how we feel about Apple’s child safety and age verification answers.… | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 2 hours ago

Wild Caspian cobra rears up on Uzbekistan's steppe — and its deadly venom may hold a disease-fighting secret

Even dangerous animals can play an outsized role in human health. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 2 hours ago

How to Watch South Korea vs Czechia Free ? 2026 World Cup Live Stream

South Korea vs Czechia closes opening day in Group A tonight, and the free live stream sits on a UK channel. Here is the quickest way to watch from anywhere. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 hours ago

Thursday, June 11th, 2026

# Approaching three years since getting the Amazfit GTR 2 watch, battery life has really taken a nosedive. What started out as up to 14 days (generally around 10) has dropped to barely 3. It was time (no pun intended) to think about replacing it. Rather than getting another fully … | Continue reading


@colinwalker.blog | 2 hours ago

Tesla Model Y owner stunned by battery test result after logging 16,000 miles in 6 months with heavy usage of fast chargers

The owner pointed to a couple of habits that may have helped. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 2 hours ago

California found 1,000 hidden private jets worth $3.5 billion — now U.S. lawmakers are fighting about whether they can dodge taxes

"This data helps us to identify where those aircraft are located." | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 3 hours ago

Federico between Seasons ↦

Here’s a beautiful essay by Federico Viticci about covering WWDC for 10 years: I look at the content creators who are possibly experiencing their first WWDC, and realize: how am I still here, and still taking notes on an iPad, while these younger folks are shooting videos that … | Continue reading


@sixcolors.com | 3 hours ago

Study reveals the brain signal that tells animals to ditch a failed strategy and try something new

The team also found that the old behavior may not disappear entirely. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 3 hours ago

The ‘Creepshow’ Video Game Is Coming Sooner Than You Think

The video game adaptation of Shudder's horror anthology series was announced back in 2022. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 hours ago

Lee Raymond, 311 ppm – 421 ppm

Lee Raymond, the former ExxonMobil chief executive who became one of the country’s most important and influential climate science deniers, died in Dallas on Saturday. His death was announced today. Raymond would probably count as a world-historic figure even if viewed only throug … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 3 hours ago

Police discover 2 baby birds hatched inside the storage compartment of a training motorcycle

What might have been an ordinary maintenance check instead turned into a small wildlife watch. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 3 hours ago

America's heat crisis could send 237,000 people to the ER each year — and push medical costs past $1 billion by 2040

Extreme heat kills more people in the U.S. each year than floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, and other disasters combined. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 3 hours ago

The Kennedy Center Is a Metaphor for De-Trumpification

You can remove Trump’s name but not the damage he’s done. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 hours ago

Amazon’s Echo Hub gets a customizable new look and Ring’s AI features

Amazon's rolling out a free software update for Echo Hub devices that gives the home screen a much-needed update to the interface it launched with in 2024. It had already added Alex Plus AI support, but the new interface has a cleaner, fully customizable layout that fits more sma … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 3 hours ago

50 Years Later, A Forgotten Exploitation Thriller Has Proven Secretly Influential

Before 'Mad Max' blew open the Ozploitation phenomenon, there was Peter Weir's 'The Cars That Ate Paris.' | Continue reading


@inverse.com | 3 hours ago

Apple's OS blender

As someone who has been covering this ecosystem for nearly twenty years, the biggest shift this year, and my single biggest takeaway from the keynote, was a fundamental change in how Apple presented their software updates.For many years, WWDC keynotes followed a highly predictabl … | Continue reading


@birchtree.me | 3 hours ago

Migrating from GNU stow to chezmoi

Why I swapped GNU stow's symlink farm for chezmoi: one command to bootstrap a Mac with Homebrew packages and macOS settings, a small daily sync loop, and agent skills shared between Claude Code and Codex. | Continue reading


@rednafi.com | 3 hours ago

Apple: ‘Due to DMA, Siri AI Delayed in EU for iOS 27 and iPadOS 27’

Apple Newsroom, in an Apple Newsroom post Monday: According to EU regulators, the DMA requires Apple to give any AI system nearly unlimited access to a user’s device, as well as the ability to act on that access autonomously without a user’s ongoing visibility and control. Th … | Continue reading


@apple.com | 3 hours ago

Miami-Dade mayor moves to seize 10 acres on Fisher Island after condo developers' $400 million deal proves too rich

"Seizing private property is not the solution for public failure." | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 3 hours ago