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- GM installs robots at flagship EV factory after laying off 1,300 workersby Jeremy Hsu on June 22, 2026 at 9:52 pm
US autoworkers union warns of robot automation as dark factory future looms.
- Report: Kennedy Space Center not ready for era of super heavy rocketsby Eric Berger on June 22, 2026 at 9:28 pm
SpaceX has told NASA it plans to launch Starship every eight days from Kennedy.
- Man used massage gun on his tired eyeballs. It went as well as you’d expect.by Beth Mole on June 22, 2026 at 9:02 pm
He had retinal tears and bruises from squishing his eyeballs with the gun.
- Polymarket’s viral videos showed people winning big, but the bets were fakeby Jon Brodkin on June 22, 2026 at 8:10 pm
“Winning” bets were made on cloned website and would have lost money, WSJ finds.
- Following user outcry, AMD reinstates memory encryption in consumer CPUsby Dan Goodin on June 22, 2026 at 7:16 pm
Critics saw the move as an underhanded way to steer them toward more costly chips.
- Valve’s Steam Machine ships June 29 for $1,049, but you probably won’t be able to buy one yetby Ryan Whitwam on June 22, 2026 at 7:02 pm
Valve says it’s using a randomized purchase queue to make the experience “less frustrating and more fair.”
- NHTSA investigating alleged Tesla Autopilot crash that killed woman in her homeby Ashley Belanger on June 22, 2026 at 5:10 pm
Tesla touts Autopilot as lifesaving a day after grandmother died in crash.
- Lucid lays off 1,500 workers in second big cut of the yearby Jonathan M. Gitlin on June 22, 2026 at 3:22 pm
The cuts and redundancies are part of a plan to “simplify the company,” the CEO says.
- A US military exercise in space got underway with barely anyone noticingby Stephen Clark on June 22, 2026 at 3:18 pm
The Space Force wants to cut the time to field new satellites from years to weeks, days, or hours.
- 1,250 hp hybrid Corvette shatters the Pikes Peak production recordby Tim Stevens on June 22, 2026 at 3:07 pm
The high-altitude race is a unique test of car and driver.









