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For the last few weeks, we’ve been running a sidebar survey about whether Electrek readers believed the announcement of Ford’s upcoming, all-electric $30,000 Fathom pickup would sink Bezos-backed startup Slate Auto before it even got to set sail. After nearly 2,700 responses, here’s what you told us.

With just one more major mission upcoming, NASA's science programs need a boost.

Without Hope, 1945 #fridakahlo #frida

Rana Foroohar: “People increasingly blame large corporations for the sense that they have ever less control over their own lives.”

“MyPillow founder Mike Lindell said he would appeal his loss in Minnesota’s Republican gubernatorial primary to the U.S. Supreme Court after the state’s top court rejected his recount bid,” NOTUS reports.

Galicia, July 2026.

From the video Photography on the Galician Coast.

The official 2026 Amazon Labor Day Sale is now live. Featuring thousands and thousands of price drops across just about every product category, the Amazon Labor Day Sale has now taken the site over with deals on everything from AirPods Pro 3 and AirTag 2 through to Bose headphones, Anker charging gear, OLED TVs, coffee makers, smart home upgrades, and just about everything in between. Check it out right here and head below for more details.

Matt Viser: “Control of the Senate could come down to a ranked-choice ballot that currently includes two Dan Sullivans (the Republican incumbent and the Republican challenger) and one Mary Peltola (a Democrat who was the state’s former at-large congresswoman). Republicans are worried that voters could be confused about which Dan Sullivan to select. Theories abound: […]

Wall Street Journal: “The Talarico campaign is still considered a long shot in red Texas, but the candidate is giving Democrats hope that they can fulfill the elusive dream of winning statewide office there for the first time since the 1990s. Race raters at Fox News, Cook Political Report and The Center for Politics all […]

“In a social media post on Sunday, President Trump said he would use the oil from his deal in Venezuela to refill the United States’ stockpile of oil, but that’s something of a pipe dream — at least in the short term,” the New York Times reports. “The agreement, announced last week, covers some 65 […]

A win! A federal judge just blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to overhaul a HUD program that funds nonprofits fighting housing discrimination. The changes would have redirected funding and left many fair housing groups competing for far fewer grants.
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The official 2026 Amazon Labor Day Sale is now live. Featuring thousands and thousands of price drops across just about every product category, the Amazon Labor Day Sale has now taken the site over with deals on everything from AirPods Pro 3 and AirTag 2 through to Bose headphones, Anker charging gear, OLED TVs, coffee makers, smart home upgrades, and just about everything in between. Check it out right here and head below for more details.

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OpenAI stated on Friday that it has notified SpaceX that it intends to wind down its contract providing OpenAI models

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AI agents are changing retrieval requirements. As organizations move from chatbots to AI systems that investigate, reason, and act on

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The green branch, 1984 #chagall #marcchagall

The who, what, when, and how of the Arpanet is usually told in heroic terms—Licklider's vision, the fervor of his disciples, the dedication of computer scientists and engineers, the work of graduate students, and so forth. Told by one of the key actors in this salient part of US and Internet history, this article addresses why the Arpanet was built.

A week ago I knocked my phone – a Google Pixel 8 Pro – off the table and watched helplessly as it bounced awkwardly onto the stone floor of our favorite restaurant. After retrieving it I noticed a splotch of dead pixels in the top right corner. This was a new phenomenon – I was … Continue reading "Inadvertent Time Travel"

Trump's minion Stephen Miller found a new talking point and some numbers pulled out of his backside to demonize immigrants over. During a segment on this Friday's The Ingraham Angle on Fox while attacking Texas Senate candidate James Talarico for his statements about ICE, Miller made this absurd claim about the so-called costs for "fake asylum seekers."

MILLER: Did you know, Laura, the cost of adjudicating even one fake asylum claim is the same cost as providing free cancer treatment to one American citizen with pediatric cancer?

Every single fraud they abet, we could provide free cancer care to one American citizen.

INGRAHAM: Well, real help to Americans who need help, especially today.

First off, the notion that Republicans would ever offer some program for free cancer treatment, even for children, is ridiculous.

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The Economist: “In just the past two months Donald Trump has described unnamed Democratic candidates as ‘jihadists’ and ‘radical lunatics.’ He has mocked opponents’ weight and appearance, said he hated Adam Schiff, a Democratic senator from California, and referred to James Talarico, the Democratic Senate candidate in Texas, as ‘Tal-a-freak-o.’ He has also attacked former […]

One of life's lessons is if someone does something evil to you, and you decide to let it go, they are sure to do it again and again until you stop letting them do it.