Bleach, Windex, compressed air, and hydrogen peroxide can permanently damage smartphones by stripping the oleophobic coating that provides fingerprint- and oil-resistant properties.
Sep 13, 2026 ·
Engadget
Clear Channel Outdoor’s consolidated revenue rose 8.7% to $438.0 million in Q2 and 10.2% to $811.9 million for the first half as it nears a planned going-private deal to be acquired for $2.43 per share, with closing expected by the end of Q3 2026.
Sep 13, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Adobe reported record third-quarter revenue of $6.76B (up 13% YoY) and said AI-first ending ARR topped $650M, growing more than 150% YoY.
Sep 13, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
RTX Ventures invested in laser-based fusion startup Xcimer under a new partnership, funding Xcimer while letting RTX explore using Xcimer’s lasers for defense-related purposes.
Sep 13, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
LightPath’s fiscal-year revenue rose 92.7% to $71.7 million (Q4 record $21.2 million, up 73.8% year over year) while gross margin expanded to 36% from 27.2% and backlog jumped to $110.9 million, with $85.6 million scheduled for delivery within 12 months.
Sep 13, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Copart agreed to buy digital auto marketplace ACV in an all-cash deal, targeting a close by the end of the calendar year and expecting earnings accretion in fiscal 2028.
Sep 13, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
GF Securities expects NAND prices to stabilize by the end of 2026, with analyst Jeff Pu forecasting high-teen quarter-over-quarter NAND prices in 3Q26 before softening to low single-digit quarter-over-quarter growth in 4Q26 on weaker mobile demand and elevated mobile/PC inventories.
Sep 13, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
CrowdStrike launched Falcon Guardian, which is designed to identify every AI agent running on a company’s computers, track its actions, and block agents that aren’t approved—especially when they try to steal login credentials or send sensitive data.
Sep 13, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Sony’s $7.85 million PlayStation Store antitrust settlement will be paid as automatically deposited store credit to 4,407,533 eligible US PlayStation Network accounts—typically about $0.91 to $33.66 in credit per qualifying purchaser, with legal fees potentially taking up to 25% of the fund.
Sep 13, 2026 ·Engadget
ZX Spectrum’s 16K/48K models can produce music beyond simple beeps by rapidly turning their single-bit piezo speaker on and off, using techniques like pulse-width modulation and other audio-encoding methods.
Sep 13, 2026 ·
The Register
Mahershala Ali plays a hitman under a moral code in Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, which blends character-driven stakes with “laugh-out-loud moments” despite being “very serious and often solemn.”
Sep 13, 2026 ·
The Verge
Lovesac reported record Q2 revenue of $161.2 million (+0.4%), but when a $20 million tariff refund is stripped out it posted an adjusted EBITDA loss of $1.3 million (vs. $0.8 million profit a year earlier).
Sep 13, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Walmart’s partnership with Inspire Brands will add restaurant delivery inside Walmart’s app, starting with Dunkin at 150 in-store tenant locations and then expanding to most of Dunkin’s roughly 10,000 U.S. restaurants (including outside Walmart stores).
Sep 13, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
External SSDs trade higher cost per gigabyte for speed (often 500MB/s+), lighter/smaller designs, no moving parts, and less power/noise use compared with external HDDs.
Sep 13, 2026 ·Engadget
A mapped male fruit fly brain with 166,000 neurons (11,700 neuron types) is being used in a Doom-playing simulation that feeds 3,335 brightness and 811 color inputs per frame into a model with 25.6 million connections to choose the next controls.
Sep 13, 2026 ·
CNET
More than a third of Designer Brands’ (DBI) float remains sold short even after it reported adjusted operating income of $39.4 million for the quarter and raised full-year adjusted diluted EPS guidance to $0.47–$0.52 from $0.28–$0.38.
Sep 13, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Fiscal 2026 revenue fell 10.8% to $1.5 billion and fourth-quarter revenue dropped 12.9% to $293.1 million, while free cash flow rose $55 million year over year and inventory declined to $153 million from $177 million.
Sep 13, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Ron Paul argues Americans should “own the gold, not the government,” citing Treasury bond buybacks rising to $6 billion in September and warning yields—especially on the 30-year—remain at multi-year highs.
Sep 13, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Dimensional Fund Advisors grew to $1.1 trillion in assets under management, with chairman David Booth describing ETF innovation as continuing due to advantages like tax efficiency and a surge in active ETF product proliferation.
Sep 13, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Carrier financing spreads a phone’s cost over an installment plan (for example, $1,200 over 24 months), but you still pay upfront costs like activation fees and taxes, may face interest if you don’t qualify, and you’re usually locked to that carrier for about 2–3 years with possible early termination fees (ETFs).
Sep 13, 2026 ·CNET
