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20 stories on the Product beat — every filing on this desk, newest first.
A car without a steering wheel or pedals is back in public conversation. That description points to a robotaxi, an autonomous passenger vehicle designed to carry passengers without a human operator touching the controls at any point in the…
A first look is out for "La Bola Negra," the Cannes-winning film from Spanish directing pair Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, who work together under the name Los Javis. A first look is early promotional material released before a project…
Kelani Jordan won the NXT Women's Championship on Sunday night, defeating Kendal Grey at Heatwave in what many are calling one of the best women's matches of the year. NXT is WWE's third main brand, a separate roster with its own events…
Grayson Waller is the new NXT Champion after outlasting three opponents in a four-way match at Heatwave, a format where any of the challengers can pin the reigning champion to take the title, putting the belt in danger from all sides at…
The short version: a YouTube creator just became the single largest owner of GoPro, the action camera company. Mark "Markiplier" Fischbach has taken an 8.5 percent stake in GoPro, Bloomberg reported. A stake is simply the share of a…
Two of Apple's most visible executive roles are opening up at the same moment the company is changing chief executives. Phil Schiller, who has headed the App Store (Apple's built-in platform for downloading software onto its devices) and…
A monopoly is a market where one company faces so little competition that it sets prices without consequence. Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico says American healthcare is th
A folding phone, a device with a flexible display that physically bends so a larger screen can collapse to pocket size, is among the products analysts expect Apple to reveal at a launch event now set for September 9. If correct, it would…
Injured reserve is the NFL's designation for players who cannot return during the current season. The Los Angeles Chargers placed starting center Tyler Biadasz on that list Sunday after the 28-year-old tore his ACL in a joint practice with…
North Korea launched a missile barrage after the country dismissed what has been described as an overture from the Trump administration. An overture is a first-move diplomatic gesture meant
More than $125 million in contracts traded on Novig, a newly launched prediction-market platform, in its first seven days. Notional trading volume, the figure Novig cited, counts the face value of every contract that changed hands, not the…
A relief pitcher who launches into his strikeout celebration before the umpire signals the third strike is said to have jumped the gun. Jumped the gun means the celebration came before the official call. That is what happened Saturday at…
A hybrid drivetrain, meaning the car pairs a gasoline engine with electric motors to generate more combined output than combustion alone, defines the most powerful production car Lamborghini has ever built. The company unveiled the…
A new category of investment account called a Trump Account is now open, and millions of parents are working through a practical question: does this belong in their family's financial pictu
Personal care for children sits in a different aisle from baby products, and the gap between those two aisles is what Frida is moving to fill. The baby products company is launching what the industry calls a new category, meaning a product…
Private capital is heading into American shipbuilding. Shipbuilding, in its naval form, is the construction of warships and submarines at specialized yards with purpose-built equipment and trained manufacturing labor. JPMorgan Chase CEO…
The domestic box office has a new preview record. Sony and Marvel's "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" earned $72 million from preview screenings, which are ticket sales collected before a film's official opening day. The studios project the film…
Medical clearance is the formal sign-off a physician issues when a patient has recovered enough to safely resume their regular duties. Senator Mitch McConnell does not have it. His doctors have not cleared him to return to work as he…
Wall Street now has the option to pay for real-time access to market-moving social media posts. The product runs on an API, which is software infrastructure that lets one system automatically pull content from another without a human…
The commercial air taxi race has a new military dimension. Archer, a maker of eVTOL aircraft (the abbreviation stands for electric vertical takeoff and landing, meaning aircraft that rise vertically like a helicopter and cruise under…