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(July 02, 2026) – AI, Science, and Tech Updates
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Global Trending News — Today’s Breakthroughs in Science and Technology
Loaded 76 stories from 10 working feeds.
Last updated: July 02, 2026, 06:47 AM PHT
Last updated: July 02, 2026, 06:47 AM PHT
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1Cosmic dust could play key role in cracking long-standing mystery of solar corona heating
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — July 02, 2026, 06:40 AM PHT -
2'Stop the war!': The paradox of 'pressure petitions'
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — July 02, 2026, 06:40 AM PHT -
3After $18B IPO, Bending Spoons founder says success comes from minimizing luck
Anna Heim — July 02, 2026, 06:28 AM PHT -
4Cutting emissions more, removing carbon less could save 33,000 U.S. lives yearly
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — July 02, 2026, 06:20 AM PHT -
5Unlocking the 'black box' of carbon materials: Study reveals origins of defect peaks
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — July 02, 2026, 06:20 AM PHT -
6WhatsApp usernames are already raising impersonation red flags
Jagmeet Singh — July 02, 2026, 06:02 AM PHT -
7The Control Gap: Enterprise AI organizations have an ownership problem, not a technology problem — and most are governing it by hand
VentureBeat — July 02, 2026, 05:50 AM PHT -
8Hidden toll: Interpersonal violence drives most of the world's annual cost of up to US $34 trillion
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — July 02, 2026, 05:40 AM PHT -
9Lake Chad supports 2.48 million waterbirds, emerging as one of Africa's top wetland refuges
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — July 02, 2026, 05:40 AM PHT -
10Why Facebook, video calls and artificial intelligence matter for age-friendly communities
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — July 02, 2026, 05:00 AM PHT -
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12Xbox’s ‘reset’: all the news about Microsoft’s looming layoffs and studio closures
The Verge — July 02, 2026, 04:58 AM PHT -
13Apple's Hide My Email may not be hiding anything
staff@engadget.com (Anna Washenko) — July 02, 2026, 04:57 AM PHT -
14Residential environment linked to subjective well-being through life-domain satisfaction
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — July 02, 2026, 04:40 AM PHT -
15Scrolling for science: How a Twitter post discovered a new wasp in Fukuoka, Japan
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — July 02, 2026, 04:20 AM PHT -
16England breaks record for warmest June: Met Office
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18Report suggests SpaceX is testing a handheld AI device, Musk says it's 'utterly false'
staff@engadget.com (Ian Carlos Campbell) — July 02, 2026, 04:09 AM PHT -
19Ancient gum disease may have helped reshape jaws before human brains expanded
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — July 02, 2026, 04:00 AM PHT -
20Watch Atlas V rocket launch 29 Amazon Leo broadband satellites early on July 2
mwall@space.com (Mike Wall) — July 02, 2026, 04:00 AM PHT -
21NASA chief praises progress Blue Origin is making after launch failure
Eric Berger — July 02, 2026, 03:57 AM PHT -
22Walkable, greener neighborhoods linked to better physical and mental health across the U.S.
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — July 02, 2026, 03:20 AM PHT -
23Apple’s Hide My Email feature has a bug that’s been exposing real email addresses, researcher claims
Lucas Ropek — July 02, 2026, 03:18 AM PHT -
24US home battery installations hit record high on rising electricity costs
Jeremy Hsu — July 02, 2026, 03:11 AM PHT -
25Meta is reportedly building its own cloud business
staff@engadget.com (Ian Carlos Campbell) — July 02, 2026, 03:04 AM PHT -
26Beyond 3-D: Data scientists introduce novel AI tool to interpret complex biological data
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — July 02, 2026, 03:00 AM PHT -
27Nanotubes and nanosheets boost fast energy storage
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — July 02, 2026, 03:00 AM PHT -
28'Rocket's Red Glare': How NASA's Artemis 2 moon mission celebrated America's 250th birthday
jdinner@space.com (Josh Dinner) — July 02, 2026, 03:00 AM PHT -
29Superworms could replace beetles for cleaning skeletal remains
Jennifer Ouellette — July 02, 2026, 02:59 AM PHT -
30SpaceX has an AI device prototype, and it sure sounds phone-ish
Rebecca Bellan — July 02, 2026, 02:54 AM PHT -
31Ashton Kutcher leaving Sound Ventures to launch new VC firm with Morgan Beller
Marina Temkin — July 02, 2026, 02:47 AM PHT -
32DNA-based nanoswitch can flip in milliseconds and stay in one state for days without continuous forcing
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — July 02, 2026, 02:40 AM PHT -
33Future Hyundai and Kia cars might never need air fresheners thanks to UV tech
staff@engadget.com (Lawrence Bonk) — July 02, 2026, 02:30 AM PHT -
34Neocloud Together AI raises $800M, leaps to $8.3B valuation
Julie Bort — July 02, 2026, 02:29 AM PHT -
35Lime begins life as a public company after years of uncertainty
Sean O'Kane — July 02, 2026, 02:24 AM PHT -
36Trump drops restrictions on Anthropic’s Mythos and Fable models
Tim Fernholz — July 01, 2026, 10:16 AM PHT -
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40Krafton settles with Subnautica 2 developer after drawn-out dispute over $250 million
The Verge — July 02, 2026, 01:55 AM PHT -
41Cloudflare’s new policy pushes AI companies to pay for publishers’ content
Sarah Perez — July 02, 2026, 01:48 AM PHT -
42The 49 Best Outdoor Deals From the REI 4th of July Sale
Scott Gilbertson — July 02, 2026, 01:45 AM PHT -
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44Ithaca's king defies the gods in final The Odyssey trailer
Jennifer Ouellette — July 02, 2026, 12:58 AM PHT -
45Autonomous vehicle hype is back, and Humble Robotics is bringing it to freight
Theresa Loconsolo — July 02, 2026, 12:48 AM PHT -
46After spooking Trump into safety testing, Anthropic AI models get global release
Ashley Belanger — July 02, 2026, 12:44 AM PHT -
47My favorite Kindle alternative is $30 off after a recent price increase
The Verge — July 02, 2026, 12:28 AM PHT -
48Messy Subnautica 2 saga ends with Unknown Worlds CEO departing again
staff@engadget.com (Kris Holt) — July 02, 2026, 12:08 AM PHT -
49As AI Reshapes Global Energy Systems, Melbourne Leads Through Engineering Collaboration
Melbourne Convention Bureau — July 02, 2026, 12:01 AM PHT -
50Anthropic Added a New Security Measure to Get Back Into the Trump Administration’s Good Graces
Hugo Lowell — July 02, 2026, 12:00 AM PHT -
51Anthropic is bringing back Claude Fable 5 globally after US lifts export control order — where can enterprises access it?
carl.franzen@venturebeat.com (Carl Franzen) — July 01, 2026, 11:51 PM PHT -
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53A space history mystery: What happened to the Viking arm used 50 years ago?
Robert Pearlman — July 01, 2026, 11:20 PM PHT -
54NASA will send a soccer ball to the moon —if the US wins the World Cup
mwall@space.com (Mike Wall) — July 01, 2026, 11:00 PM PHT -
55Restaurants can now accept orders placed directly from ChatGPT and Claude thanks to Square's new, low-fee, no setup integration
carl.franzen@venturebeat.com (Carl Franzen) — July 01, 2026, 10:41 PM PHT -
56LLMs are stuck in a groupthink groove. This startup is trying to get them out.
Will Douglas Heaven — July 01, 2026, 10:35 PM PHT -
57Venice AI becomes a unicorn with $65M Series A as its privacy-first AI platform takes off
Ram Iyer — July 01, 2026, 10:25 PM PHT -
58Gemini Spark, Google’s agentic assistant, is now available on Mac
Sarah Perez — July 01, 2026, 10:20 PM PHT -
59Meta, like SpaceX, looks to turn excess AI compute into cash
Rebecca Bellan — July 01, 2026, 09:43 PM PHT -
60UK likely to intervene in Paramount takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery
Daniel Thomas, Financial Times — July 01, 2026, 09:24 PM PHT -
61Motorola Phones Now Have a Built-In Travel eSIM for Mobile Data Outside the US
Julian Chokkattu — July 01, 2026, 09:00 PM PHT -
62The Download: Anthropic launches Claude Science, and California’s carbon manure math
Thomas Macaulay — July 01, 2026, 08:10 PM PHT -
63UN report says policymakers are struggling to keep up with pace of AI development
staff@engadget.com (Mariella Moon) — July 01, 2026, 08:03 PM PHT -
64The Orbital Data Center Hype Machine Is Already in Orbit
Harry Goldstein — July 01, 2026, 08:00 PM PHT -
65Digital resilience compounds when AI and human expertise scale together
VentureBeat — July 01, 2026, 08:00 PM PHT -
66The Best Automatic Litter Box of 2026: Petkit and Litter-Robot
Molly Higgins — July 01, 2026, 07:38 PM PHT -
67Scientists find no link between Tylenol and autism, again, after Trump warning
Beth Mole — July 01, 2026, 07:01 PM PHT -
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69NASA audit puts Boeing's Starliner under an even bigger microscope: When will it fly astronauts again?
Elizabeth Howell — July 01, 2026, 06:00 PM PHT -
70Space Lasers Show How Venezuela’s Earthquakes Reshaped the Earth’s Crust
Jorge Garay — July 01, 2026, 04:30 PM PHT -
71Gemini Spark comes to Google's Gemini app for macOS
staff@engadget.com (Mariella Moon) — July 01, 2026, 11:29 AM PHT -
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73Wayve launches $85M employee tender offer at $8.5B valuation
Marina Temkin — July 01, 2026, 10:04 AM PHT -
74US government allows Anthropic to redeploy its Mythos and Fable AI models
staff@engadget.com (Mariella Moon) — July 01, 2026, 09:59 AM PHT
