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This story appears in the May 2026 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe » Most of us are experiencing technology fatigue. It’s not only the amount of time that life requires us to interact with technology, but also the number of items required to keep our tech-driven lives running. More screens, more chargers, more cords. Enter, a generation of products meant to minimize the time we have to spend interacting with technology — or, at least, the parts of technology that stress us out. From a sunrise clock that helps keep your phone out of the bedroom, to a tablet notebook with…

Food delivery service DoorDash is quick to hold restaurants accountable for their mistakes—but not without evidence. Dissatisfied customers have to provide proof that something was wrong with their order, be it a missing item, late delivery, or improperly prepared food, before the company will issue a refund (potentially on the restaurant’s dime, depending on the nature of the mistake). But in the AI era, verifiable proof is harder to come by, and one customer’s viral post about tricking DoorDash into giving her a refund shows that despite the company’s best efforts, its anti-fraud measures aren’t foolproof. On TikTok, a user…

Apple‘s big design overhaul for macOS 26 looks great on iPhones. But on most Macs? Not so much. The company’s macOS 26 Tahoe introduced the same Liquid Glass interface seen in iOS 26—translucent effects and glass-like textures designed for crisp OLED displays. The problem: most Macs still use LCD screens, which don’t render those effects as well. The result is transparency and shadows that make text harder to read. Apple is now planning what insiders call a “slight redesign” for macOS 27 to address the readability issues, Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman reports. The Liquid Glass look isn’t going away—it’s being refined.…

Depthfirst’s cofounders all have history in AI security, whether with Google DeepMind, Databricks or Block.DepthfirstThe launch of Anthropic’s AI model Mythos a month ago sent shockwaves through the cybersecurity world. The tech was so advanced, the AI company said, that it had found dozens of severe bugs in critical internet code. Now, cyber startup Depthfirst says its own AI model has found even more bugs that Mythos missed for just a tenth of the cost, including critical flaws that could affect the majority of people using the web today. Depthfirst CEO Qasim Mithani says that because Depthfirst optimizes its models…

Published May 12, 2026 08:00AMKey Takeaway: The best mountain bike shorts of 2026 are the Patagonia Dirt Craft (best overall), DhARCO Gravity Shorts (best value), Leatt MTB Trail 6.0 Cargo (best pockets), POC Women’s Motion (best for women), and Fox Racing Ranger (best minimalist). When shopping, look for four-way stretch fabric, a DWR finish, at least two zippered pockets, and an inseam between 11–13 inches. You don’t need mountain bike shorts to ride—just like you don’t need a swimsuit to go swimming. But the right pair will make a long ride a whole lot more comfortable. The best mountain bike shorts…

Twelve years ago BuzzFeed Inc reportedly valued itself at almost $1 billion, scaring off rumored interest from the Walt Disney Company. Fast-forward to this week and BuzzFeed is selling a controlling stake to Allen Family Digital for $120 million—$100 million of which isn’t due for five years. Allen Family Digital, associated with Byron Allen, will control about 52% of BuzzFeed’s outstanding shares at $3 each. BuzzFeed’s shares were up more than 101% to over $1.49 on Tuesday morning. The stock has been trading at under a dollar a share for most of this year. What the deal means for BuzzFeed…

Richard (Yifan) Zhou, Co-founder & CEO of Aemon (YC W26).The moment a car can drive itself, the driver ceases to be the center of the system. The road becomes the product: lane markings, maps, signals, guardrails and rules for what to do when the unexpected happens. I believe software is about to make the same turn. The defining asset in engineering will no longer be code alone. It will be what I call rightware: the tests, benchmarks, simulation environments, business rules and failure cases that define what “right” means before a line of code is written.I use that word on…

This article is republished with permission from Laser Wars, a newsletter about military laser weapons and other futuristic defense technology. On April 30, the Financial Times reported Israel had sent a version of its 100 KW Iron Beam high-energy laser weapon to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to help Abu Dhabi fend off hundreds of missiles and drones fired by Iran since the beginning of the U.S. military’s Operation Epic Fury. The FT notes the deployment is one of the first examples of major defense cooperation between the two countries since the 2020 Abraham Accords—a display of “the value of being Israel’s friend,”…

Published May 12, 2026 03:05AMSweden has a secret that even many of its residents don’t know. Hidden throughout the countryside, there are more than 200 cabins and cottages where you can stay for a night for free. These dwellings range from primitive forest huts in sun-dappled glades to quintessentially Scandi-designed 19th-century cottages—think red-painted timber, wool rugs, and walls etched with botanical designs. Formerly used as logging cabins, hunting lodges, or summer retreats, they are now preserved as cultural monuments to a simpler way of life. With some newer ones recently purpose-built to encourage people to spend more time outdoors, they’re…

The new Jabra Panacast U30 is a video and soundbar for holding hybrid meetings in smaller meeting rooms and huddle spaces for up to six participants.JABRADanish electronics brand Jabra has launched the PanaCast U30, a USB video bar designed for small meeting rooms and huddle spaces where people bring their own laptop and simply connect to the video bar’s built-in camera and sound system using a single USB cable. Designed for small meeting rooms and huddle spaces for up to six people, the Jabra PanaCast U30 offers intelligent video technology with professional-quality audio, all housed in a compact bar that’s…