Waymo says it has scaled the compute power 20x over eight years and runs robotaxi operations on trunk-installed processors designed for low-latency, ruggedized, redundant, real-time sensor fusion.
Aug 20, 2026 ·
The Verge
Death By Audio’s Amp Crash combines a tiny 3-watt amp with a 2-inch speaker and an internal microphone, so you can capture the real speaker-in-a-room distortion (not a digital amp-sim) into a DAW or another amp.
Aug 20, 2026 ·The Verge
OpenAI’s latest internal math breakthroughs—spurring debate after the release of “10 Advances in Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science” and claims that its newest model (likely Astra) solved multiple long-running problems—have triggered an “existential crisis” among mathematicians over what mathematics and mathematicians’ roles should be in the AI era.
Aug 20, 2026 ·The Verge
Nintendo’s next Switch 2 exclusive, The Duskbloods, is an Elden Ring developer FromSoftware-made eight-player vampire multiplayer game built around earning “virtue” points across four phases as players are removed via “culling” until one team remains.
Aug 20, 2026 ·The Verge
FromSoftware’s next game, The Duskbloods, is a competitive multiplayer vampire game launching exclusively on Switch 2 later this year and published by Nintendo.
Aug 20, 2026 ·The Verge
Decommissioning about 40,000 SpaceX AI1 satellites each year would burn them up in the atmosphere, while roughly 160,000 more would be moved to an outward “disposal” orbit, removing about 1,000 tons of copper and 170 kilograms of gold per year from Earth’s material life cycle.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Ars Technica
NetBSD 11.0 adds 64-bit RISC-V support plus a new MICROVM kernel designed to boot x86 VMs in about 10 milliseconds on 2020-era processors.
Aug 20, 2026 ·
The Register
Apollo Atomics says its compact steam generator design can shrink nuclear reactors by 40x versus conventional designs, enabling a 300-megawatt plant to be built in under 24 months and targeting 3 cents per kilowatt-hour power costs.
Aug 20, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell about 0.6% shortly after Thursday’s open as the S&P 500 also traded lower following President Donald Trump’s threat to Iran of a “most crushing economic operation ever taken against any country.”
Aug 20, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Bitcoin rose more than 10% in the past 24 hours to trade above $70,000, while Ethereum climbed nearly 15% to break above $2,000.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Enovix (ENVX) dropped in three steps through June—12.9% on June 7, 9.2% on June 10, and 10.2% on June 23—after an outside investor exited over a departing manufacturing-process lead, investors reacted to a soft Q2 revenue guide tied to slower-than-expected Honor smartphone-battery qualification, and a broad Nasdaq semiconductor selloff hit shares.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
X is reportedly in talks with Circle Internet Group to use USDC stablecoin payments to pay influencers and content creators, including royalties through its Original Content Rewards Program.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Osmosis is a free open-source DJI Osmo app that reverse-engineers DJI’s camera protocol to let users review, preview, trim, and wirelessly download footage without relying on the closed-source Osmo app.
Aug 20, 2026 ·The Verge
A misconfigured ClarityCheck people-search service left roughly 450 GB of images of adults, teenagers, and children—about 9 million photos of faces in an Amazon S3 bucket—publicly accessible via URLs found in the company’s website code.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Ars Technica
HM Revenue & Customs awarded Capgemini a £37 million contract to migrate ETMP from SAP ECC 6.0 to S/4HANA, extending the supplier relationship from 2004 to a potential 28 years through 2032.
Aug 20, 2026 ·The Register
U.S. debt has topped $40 trillion for the first time, contributing to rising government borrowing costs across the G7.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Eagle Capital Management says Capital One Financial (COF) has 20% returns on equity and could deliver about 20% EPS growth over the coming years, which it links to potential earnings growth and multiple expansion.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Alcoa (AA) is expected to deliver mid-teens EPS growth over the next several years as Chinese aluminum supply tightens after smelter caps stopped net capacity adds.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
NASA’s Swift Observatory rescue effort is effectively over, and Katalyst Space’s Link spacecraft will stop trying to capture or boost Swift to higher altitude because of an ongoing “attitude control issue.”
Aug 20, 2026 ·The Verge
Bitcoin rose above $71,000 to a two-month high as short liquidations surged and risk-on sentiment pushed crypto stocks higher.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
