Midjourney goes from generating cat images to full-body ultrasound scans
Midjourney goes from generating cat images to full-body ultrasound scans

Midjourney CEO David Holz just showed off the company’s first hardware product and plans to build a San Francisco spa, which he admitted is a bit different from the “cat pictures” produced by its AI image generator. Dubbed The Midjourney Scanner, it’s an ultrasound-based full-body scanner that uses a ring of sensors to capture vertical […]

EU won’t force publishers to keep games playable, but the Stop Killing Games fight isn’t over

top Killing Games has hit a major roadblock in Europe after the Commission rejected its proposal. Campaign founder Ross Scott says future legislation could still provide a path forward.

Illinois put community solar on a 150-year-old coal mine
Illinois put community solar on a 150-year-old coal mine

An old coal mine in Illinois is now generating community solar power for hundreds of households and businesses.

BLUETTI’s $2.2M-crowdfunded FridgePower dedicated fridge backup arrives at retail
BLUETTI’s $2.2M-crowdfunded FridgePower dedicated fridge backup arrives at retail

Summer storms and tornadoes are increasing outage risks across the US, leaving households vulnerable to massive food spoilage, compromised essential medications, and the loss of expensive premium meats. But earlier this spring, BLUETTI introduced the u…

Elon Musk gets a $116 billion Tesla payday
Elon Musk gets a $116 billion Tesla payday

Elon Musk has exercised the entirety of his 2018 Tesla (TSLA) CEO pay package, acquiring 303,960,630 shares for a paper gain of about $116 billion, according to a new SEC filing.
But he didn’t sell a single share to do it — and the stock he received is…

Tim Cook says RAM expenses are ‘unsustainable’ and Apple is going to raise prices
Tim Cook says RAM expenses are ‘unsustainable’ and Apple is going to raise prices

Apple is planning to raise prices in response to the ongoing memory shortage. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Apple CEO Tim Cook says “price increases are unavoidable:” We’re doing our best to mitigate the huge increases that are being passed to us, and we’ve been trying to shield our customers from the […]

Electrify America opens its biggest battery-backed charging station
Electrify America opens its biggest battery-backed charging station

Electrify America just opened a new “large-format” EV charging station in downtown Santa Barbara, California, adding 20 DC fast chargers and the company’s largest public battery energy storage system to date.

BMW opens i3 orders months early as buyers rush in
BMW opens i3 orders months early as buyers rush in

The new i3 is here sooner than expected. Although it wasn’t expected to go on sale until this fall, BMW has already opened orders in several markets after “high levels” of early interest.

VSCO launches Studio Pro mobile photo editing app and plans $500 per year subscription
VSCO launches Studio Pro mobile photo editing app and plans $500 per year subscription

VSCO is taking on Adobe with a new Studio Pro editing app rolling out today on iOS and coming to macOS later this year, as Bloomberg reports. At launch, the app offers tools for batch editing, style matching from a reference image, and sharing images through VSCO Galleries. VSCO says more features are coming later, […]

Epic wants to let you bring your Fortnite skins to other games
Epic wants to let you bring your Fortnite skins to other games

Epic Games has been touting the potential of an interoperable metaverse for years, though that vision hasn’t yet become a reality. But with Unreal Engine 6, the next major version of its game development engine, Epic plans to take a big step toward that theoretical future: It will let developers make games that can use […]