NTSB investigators confirm Tesla driver overrode Full Self-Driving system in fatal crash - Engadget
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is also investigating the crash.
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Michael Butler, the driver of a Tesla Model 3 that fatally struck a woman in her Texas home, manually overrode the car's Full Self-Driving (Supervised) system "by pressing the accelerator pedal to 100 percent," according to a preliminary investigation from the National Transportation Safety Board.
Skullcandy Crusher 1080 review: Haptic bass meets whisper-quiet ANC - Engadget
The new flagship headphones blend Bose audio and big bass.
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RATING : 7.8 / 10
- Solid ANC
- Well-balanced sound
- Unique bass experience
- Dated design
- Heavy for prolonged use
Skullcandy has spent years carving out its own niche in the headphone market. While brands like Sony, Bose and Sennheiser were fighting over which had the best sound quality and noise cancellation, Skullcandy leaned into its reputation on one thing above all else: bass. The Crusher line, with its signature haptic bass system, has always been unapologetically over the top and front and center for the brand.
Microsoft is reportedly training salespeople to talk down OpenAI and Anthropic
Microsoft appears to be prepping its sales team to get more competitive with the other major players in the AI industry.
At an internal meeting on Tuesday, the company’s executives outlined a plan for salespeople to negatively compare AI products from companies like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic to its own, according to a new report from Bloomberg. The meeting, billed as a strategy session for the new fiscal year, reportedly leaned heavily on pitching the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of Microsoft’s in-house models against those of its rivals.
Starlink's new V5 home dish is smaller and more energy-efficient - Engadget
It's now available in certain regions, but only for the company's cheapest internet plan.
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Lucid Motors denies report it’s considering bankruptcy
Lucid Motors is denying a report that it’s weighing filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
Nick Twork, the company’s chief communications officer, told TechCrunch in a statement that the “rumors are completely false.”
Google faces another AI training lawsuit from major publishers
A group of publishers and authors have filed a class action lawsuit against Google, accusing the tech giant of using their copyrighted works to train its AI platform, Gemini.
The group of plaintiffs, which includes Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier, author Scott Turow, and S.C.R.I.B.E., also alleges that Google intentionally removed or changed copyright information on these works to “conceal… that its Gemini Models were trained on stolen materials,” according to the lawsuit.
What can you do with a Roku TV without internet access? - Engadget
If you lose internet, you still have entertainment options.
The rise of Roku TVs, smart TVs and streaming boxes has been a boon for couch potatoes, but only if the Wi-Fi is working. These devices lose the vast majority of their functionality when the internet goes out. After all, you can't open up the Netflix app without access to Netflix.
The Download: Claude’s inner workings, and the future of world models
Plus: New York has become the first state to enact a data center moratorium.
July 14, 2026
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The wildest allegations in Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI
11:22 AM PDT · July 13, 2026
Apple’s trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI is packed with a number of extraordinary allegations that paint a picture of a coordinated effort to extract confidential information from current and former Apple employees. But what’s perhaps most striking is how casually the alleged misconduct is described, including one message that reads, “LOL, I found out I can access the [network storage], so funny.”
Sam Altman’s space data center trash talk is what most experts already believe
Sam Altman and Elon Musk traded barbed social media posts over the weekend, drawing new attention to the gap between vision and reality for the space-compute business.
Responding to Musk accusing him of being a scammer, Altman said, “homeboy you’re the one sellling [sic] public market investors on short-term space datacenters.”