Snap unveils $2,195 AR glasses as CEO Evan Spiegel bets on a post-smartphone future

Snap CEO Evan Spiegel Specs New AR: A New Opportunity to Bring Computing to the World Around You

Snap’s CEO Evan Spiegel speaks to CNBC on June 16, 2026. CNBC Snap CEO Evan Spiegel is betting that consumers are so tired of looking at smartphone screens that they’ll be willing to pay more than $2,000 for augmented reality glasses that bring digital scenes into the user’s field of vision. “Nearly 20 years after …

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Sweden is to ban mobile phones in schools, joining screens on student shelving

Sweden is to ban mobile phones in schools, joining screens on student shelving

MALMÖ, Sweden (AP) — Sweden has long been a leader in the adoption of digital technology Mobile phones should be banned in schools Part of a broader, international turnaround that will begin in the fall for the next academic year Using screens in classrooms. Starting in 2023, the Scandinavian country’s center-right coalition government is pursuing …

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Apple’s Screen Time updates are too little, too late

The Screen Time interface has been redesigned to make it easier to use, with guidance on how much time to allow your child.

Apple’s spending so much of its WWDC keynote on parental controls was surprising for a number of reasons. But the biggest thing is that despite all the airtime, it doesn’t announce anything new beyond a redesigned interface. All the mentioned features are already there or have been upgraded to current options. Why Apple chose to …

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Solidion Technology was granted 7 new patents for composite anode materials for batteries aimed at humanoid robots, space-based artificial intelligence data centers and the lunar economy.

Graphene-confined Si-rich composite anodes for lithium-ion batteries

The newly granted patents further strengthen the already world-leading portfolio of patents in anode materials for high-power and fast-charging lithium batteries. Dallas, June 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Solidion Technology Inc. (“Solidion” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: STI), an advanced battery technology solutions provider, today announced the grant 7 new US patentsBringing together the company’s IP portfolio …

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Solidion Technology was granted 7 new patents for composite anode materials for batteries aimed at humanoid robots, space-based artificial intelligence data centers and the lunar economy.

Solidion Technology was granted 7 new patents for composite anode materials for batteries aimed at humanoid robots, space-based artificial intelligence data centers and the lunar economy.

The newly granted patents further strengthen the already world-leading portfolio of patents in anode materials for high-power and fast-charging lithium batteries. Dallas, June 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Solidion Technology Inc. (“Solidion” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: STI), an advanced battery technology solutions provider, today announced the grant 7 new US patentsBringing together the company’s IP portfolio …

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Apple is developing an automatic iPhone lock feature to deter snatch thieves

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Apple is developing a new security feature that will automatically lock an iPhone if it’s taken out of a user’s hand, building on its existing anti-theft measures to deter tech thieves. The American tech giant has continued to make upgrades to its smartphone security ecosystem, including remote monitoring, remote-locking capabilities and strict anti-theft protocols designed …

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Major AI firm insists on ‘pausing’ development as risks mount

Major AI firm insists on 'pausing' development as risks mount

Anthropic proposes that the world’s top artificial intelligence companies should come up with a unified way to halt the development of advanced AI systems, which risks humans losing control as the technology advances rapidly. The company behind the Claude chatbot said in a blog post Thursday that as AI gets increasingly faster at performing sophisticated …

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From optical modules to chips — China’s technology supply chains are keeping pace with global AI growth

A researcher demonstrates a smart touch glove with rolled fiber chips by weaving the chips at Fudan University in Shanghai, east China, January 19, 2026. (Xinhua/Liu Ying)

A researcher displays rolled “fiber chips” and a smart tactile glove made by weaving the chips together at Fudan University in Shanghai, east China, January 19, 2026. (Xinhua/Liu Ying) As the global push for AI computing power has unleashed an unprecedented wave of infrastructure build-out, Chinese-made optical modules and the chips that transfer and process …

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