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Wing’s drone delivery is coming to 150 more Walmarts

Wing is bringing drone delivery to even more Walmart stores in 2026. The Alphabet-owned company announced today that its drones will be flying above 150 more locations this year, including in four new cities: Los Angeles, St. Louis, Miami, and…

How TiVo killed live TV

For a while, it seemed like everyone had a TiVo. It was a plot point on major TV shows; it had A-list Hollywood fans; it became a verb as ubiquitous as Google or Xerox. The love was well-earned, since TiVo…

Show HN: Is AI hijacking your intent? A formal control algorithm to measure it

I’m an independent researcher proposing State Discrepancy, a public-domain metric to quantify how much an AI system changes a user’s intent (“the Ghost”). The goal: replace vague legal and philosophical notions of “manipulation” with a concrete engineering variable. Without clear…

Will you have to show your ID at the app store?

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the action (and inaction) of lawmakers seeking to rein in tech platforms, follow Lauren Feiner. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers’…