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How the Apple Watch defined modern health tech

Digital health screeners weren’t a thing until the Apple Watch. It’s shaped how we think about wearables ever since.

Victoria Song
Waiting for Trump PhoneWaiting for Trump Phone
Allison Johnson
Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
8BitDo celebrates Apple’s 50th anniversary with a 5-pound keyboard.

The company has given the all-aluminum NES 40th edition of its Retro 68 Keyboard an Apple II-inspired makeover. The new AP50th Limited Edition features a shell, keycaps, and buttons all made from aluminum alloy, and for $499.99 it will ship in June 2026 with a pair of matching wireless programmable buttons.

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Thomas Ricker
Thomas Ricker
“With this burn to the moon, we do not leave Earth, we choose it.”

The Orion spacecraft is now on a course to take four astronauts around the moon in four days time.

Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
“They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

The abrupt closure of a tuition-free private school founded by Priscilla Chan, Mark Zuckerberg’s wife, will dump extra students into a local school district, increasing expected enrollment by 20 percent.

Now there’s a $70 million bond measure up for votes to help deal with the influx. The text of the measure says the closure created “an immediate crisis” for the school district.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Meta may not fund the Oversight Board after 2028.

The company has already reduced funding to the Oversight Board this year and “has signaled that it will do so again in 2027 and 2028,” according to Platformer’s Casey Newton. The two sides are still in talks.

The best AirPods deals you can get right nowThe best AirPods deals you can get right now
Sheena Vasani and Brandon Widder
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
The CFTC is suing three states for trying to regulate prediction markets.

Lawsuits against Arizona, Connecticut, and Illinois accuse the states of violating the CFTC’s “exclusive regulatory authority” over prediction betting markets operated by companies like Kalshi and Polymarket. The CFTC claims the three states have attempted to “outlaw, regulate, or otherwise restrain” prediction betting as concerns grow over potential insider trading.