Brent crude has surged more than 50 percent since the Strait of Hormuz closure, and European consumers are responding by dramatically accelerating purchases of solar panels, heat pumps, and electric vehicles.
Sony's second PlayStation 5 price increase in under a year took effect on April 2, pushing the PS5 Pro to $900 and the standard console to $650 as AI-driven memory demand and trade tariffs compress margins across the gaming hardware industry.
London-based consumer electronics startup Nothing is developing AI-powered smart glasses with cameras, microphones, and speakers for a first-half 2027 launch, alongside new AI-focused earbuds arriving later in 2026, as CEO Carl Pei reverses his earlier resistance to the wearable form factor.
South Korean fabless chip designer Rebellions has closed a $400 million pre-IPO round led by Mirae Asset and the Korea National Growth Fund, bringing total funding to $850 million as the company launches rack-scale inference platforms and prepares for a public listing.
The FDA approved Foundayo (orforglipron), a once-daily oral GLP-1 receptor agonist from Eli Lilly, for adults with obesity or overweight. It is the first new molecular entity approved under the National Priority Voucher program and the fastest NME approval since 2002.
Austin-based Aalo Atomics unveiled its completed Critical Test Reactor at Idaho National Laboratory on March 20, built in just 36 days, as the startup races to achieve criticality ahead of the DOE's July 4 deadline.
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee has voted to accept Tekton, the Kubernetes-native CI/CD framework with 600-plus contributors and 11,000 GitHub stars, ending its tenure as a CD Foundation graduated project.
The Eleventh Circuit upholds Florida's cultivated meat ban as Australia launches consumer retail, splitting the global market between expansion and prohibition.
Angela Lipps spent nearly six months in jail after Clearview AI flagged her for bank fraud in a state she had never visited, even as Tennessee Highway Patrol considers a million-dollar contract with the same company.
Oracle ends security patches for MySQL 8.0 on April 30, leaving 58 percent of monitored instances on an unsupported version with no fix path for new vulnerabilities.
Italy's data protection authority hit the country's largest bank with two separate fines totaling nearly 50 million euros for an insider data breach and unlawful customer profiling.
Cox Automotive data shows new EV sales dropped to 212,600 units in Q1 2026, while used EV sales climbed 12 percent to 93,500 units with prices approaching parity with gas vehicles.