Articles by Shannon Harwood
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Google I/O 2026 Opens Today: Full Schedule, Every Session, and What Developers Must Watch
Google's annual developer conference opens today, May 19, 2026, at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California — and every Android developer, Firebase engineer, Flutter practitioner, and web builder with a roadmap decision to make in the next 12 months has a reason to follow today's keynote.
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Starlink Soot Hits Stratosphere 540x Harder Than Car Exhaust — No Law Stops It
Rocket soot from megaconstellation launches is accumulating in the upper atmosphere at a rate that makes it roughly 540 times more damaging to Earth's climate, molecule for molecule, than the exhaust from a car or power plant — and a federal court ruled last year that no U.S. environmental law requires a review of what that accumulation is doing.
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Alienware 15 Arrives at $1,299 With a 3-Year-Old GPU While Rivals Offer Current-Gen for Less
Dell launched the Alienware 15 on May 14, making it the least expensive gaming laptop the brand has ever sold — and within days, the gaming hardware community had reached a verdict: the $1,299 entry price buys hardware that most rivals are shipping for $100 to $300 less.
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EU Rewrites AI Act Compliance Calendar: Hiring, Healthcare AI Gets 16 More Months, Nudifier Apps Exit by Dec
European companies building AI tools for hiring, healthcare, and education gained a 16-month extension on their most demanding compliance obligations on May 7, 2026, when EU legislators agreed to the first formal amendments to the EU AI Act since it was adopted in June 2024.
