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Family offices are investing in sports, from pickleball to smart soccer balls

By Stacey D. WallsJune 5, 2026

Ben Johns comes to the right side to hit a short shot against Anna Bright and Hayden Patriquine during the…

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Sources: Apple delays iPhone-connected smart glasses until late 2027, aiming to disrupt the $200-$500 mid-tier eyewear market the same way it disrupted the watch market (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 31, 2026

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple is delaying iPhone-connected smart glasses until late 2027, aiming to disrupt the $200-$500 mid-level…

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Source: Smart ring maker Oura has confidentially filed for a US IPO, expected later in 2026; Oura, based in SF and Finland, had a valuation of $11 billion as of September 2025 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 21, 2026

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Source: Smart ring maker Oura has confidentially filed for a US IPO, expected later in 2026;…

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Sources say Ola’s AI venture Krutrim’s smart assistant, Kruti, is not available to users and development of its Indian multilingual LLM, Krutrim 3, is stalled (Swathi Moorthy/The Economic Times)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 16, 2026

Swathi Moorthy / Economic times: Sources say Ola’s AI venture Krutrim’s smart assistant, Kruti, is not available to users and…

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How Lego’s Creative Play Lab built the Smart Brick, its custom chip, sensors and proprietary communications system to integrate seamlessly with existing sets (Jeremy White/Wired)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 19, 2026

Featured Podcasts Great discussion: Venture is in its peak growth era A podcast mainly about technology. Presented weekly by Angela…

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Apple releases iOS 26.4 beta 1 to developers, adding limited support for encrypted RCS messages, Apple Music improvements, Smart List for reminders, and more (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 16, 2026

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple releases iOS 26.4 beta 1 to developers, adding limited support for encrypted RCS messages, Apple…

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Smart ring maker Oura plans initial investor tender offering at a 25% discount to its $11 billion Series E valuation, aiming to stay private longer (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 23, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: OpenAI’s $50 Billion Fundraising, AI Ad Game Theory, Apple’s AI Wearable Pin The Big Technology…

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laptops with new Intel, Qualcomm and AMD chips, more AI integrations, smart home robotics, smart glasses and more (The Verge)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 3, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Meta’s AI Agent Plan, Grok’s Perversion, The Prison of Financial Mediocrity The Big Technology Podcast…

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SMART USA Institute, funded by the U.S. CHIPS Act and focused on digital twins for chipmaking, says the Commerce Department will terminate its five-year, $285 million contract (Samuel K. Moore/IEEE Spectrum)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 21, 2025

Samuel K. Moore / IEEE Spectrum: The SMART USA Institute, funded by the US CHIPS Act and focused on digital…

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LG smart TV owners say a webOS update pinned Microsoft Copilot to TV home screens, with no apparent way to remove the app; LG revealed an AI TV strategy at CES (Luke James/Tom’s Hardware)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 15, 2025

Featured Podcasts Squeak: How Evan Spiegel is building the future of computing Grit explores what it takes to create, build…

Can ASEAN’s green goals survive the data center boom? – The diplomat

Hong Kong’s Victoria Park remains silent on anniversary of Tiananmen crackdown – Radio Free Asia

Eco-brutalist resistance in Central Asia – The Diplomate

Uzbekistan’s new migration destination? America. – The diplomat

Trump’s new AI order raises the stakes in Sino-US tech competition – The Diplomat

Boeing CEO announces 737 Max production will start on new line on July 6

Family offices are investing in sports, from pickleball to smart soccer balls

Record Broadway Ticket Sales Show Consumers Are Splurging on Experiences

Lululemon (LULU) first quarter 2026 results

Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ presents ‘double taxation’ trap, lawyers say

Trump holds sit-down event in Wisconsin as apparent decline deepens

Trump’s lawsuit against the BBC massively backfired

Trump is erased as Kennedy Center begins removing his name

Scott Bessent collapses in front of Congress as he tries to defend Trump for not caring about Americans

Shocked Trump Loses Iran War Powers, Ballroom and Arms Fund on Same Day

FOIA documents reveal Amazon’s extensive control over delivery drivers it says are not employees, in a case the NLRB sought to settle on terms favorable to Amazon (Josh Eidelson/Bloomberg)

Kalshi and Polymarket sponsored X-rated publications promoting viral conspiracy theories about Los Angeles mayoral election fraud; Kalshi says he asked his paid influencers to delete posts (Max Tani/Semafor)

Part of the Trump administration’s efforts to integrate AI into the healthcare system, including an FDA fast-track regulatory process for digital health technologies such as AI chatbots (Elizabeth Dwoskin/Washington Post)

OpenAI deploys Lockdown Mode, an optional security setting designed to give users advanced protection against rapid injection attacks by limiting certain features (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)

Google Cloud says its SpaceX compute deal is a "short term" agreement "to ensure we have transitional capacity to meet growing customer demand" for Gemini Enterprise (Kate Conger/New York Times)

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Family offices are investing in sports, from pickleball to smart soccer balls

Sources: Apple delays iPhone-connected smart glasses until late 2027, aiming to disrupt the $200-$500 mid-tier eyewear market the same way it disrupted the watch market (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Source: Smart ring maker Oura has confidentially filed for a US IPO, expected later in 2026; Oura, based in SF and Finland, had a valuation of $11 billion as of September 2025 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Sources say Ola’s AI venture Krutrim’s smart assistant, Kruti, is not available to users and development of its Indian multilingual LLM, Krutrim 3, is stalled (Swathi Moorthy/The Economic Times)

How Lego’s Creative Play Lab built the Smart Brick, its custom chip, sensors and proprietary communications system to integrate seamlessly with existing sets (Jeremy White/Wired)

Apple releases iOS 26.4 beta 1 to developers, adding limited support for encrypted RCS messages, Apple Music improvements, Smart List for reminders, and more (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

Smart ring maker Oura plans initial investor tender offering at a 25% discount to its $11 billion Series E valuation, aiming to stay private longer (Bloomberg)

laptops with new Intel, Qualcomm and AMD chips, more AI integrations, smart home robotics, smart glasses and more (The Verge)

SMART USA Institute, funded by the U.S. CHIPS Act and focused on digital twins for chipmaking, says the Commerce Department will terminate its five-year, $285 million contract (Samuel K. Moore/IEEE Spectrum)

LG smart TV owners say a webOS update pinned Microsoft Copilot to TV home screens, with no apparent way to remove the app; LG revealed an AI TV strategy at CES (Luke James/Tom’s Hardware)