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Trump announces skilled worker visas will now cost $100,000

All the fawning by tech CEOs wasn’t enough to convince Donald Trump to back off his crusade against immigrants. Yesterday the president announced that the government would be adding a $100,000-a-year fee on all H-1B visas in an effort to…

Prime members can get three months of Kindle Unlimited for free

A cool new perk recently became available for Prime members: for a limited time, you can get a three-month subscription to Kindle Unlimited. If your ebookshelf is looking bare, Amazon is currently offering a three-month subscription to Kindle Unlimited for…

xAI releases cheaper, fast language model Grok 4 Fast

xAI has introduced Grok 4 Fast, a lighter version of its flagship model. According to the company, it performs on par with Grok 4 in most tasks but uses about 40 percent less compute. That efficiency also translates into lower…

The wafer-thin iPhone Air is surprisingly strong

You’d be forgiven for assuming the iPhone Air would snap like a twig under pressure. It’s almost impossibly thin at just 5.6mm. But, its titanium frame is not only stronger than aluminum, it’s also more elastic. YouTuber JerryRigEverything demonstrates this…

Republicans’ political purge is just getting started

Barely over a week after right-wing activist Charlie Kirk’s public killing at a Utah campus, speech attacks in the name of the self-proclaimed free speech advocate are piling up. Law enforcement officials have custody of suspected shooter Tyler Robinson, a…