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Dutch Grand Prix qualifying starts at 14:00 UTC at Zandvoort, where a 4.259-km lap, exposed coastal wind and 2026 active-aero rules make a stable car and a disciplined energy plan more valuable than a low-drag headline.
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Google's Pixel 11 turns American Sign Language into written English in Gboard and Live Transcribe. The launch matters because it gives signers a route into ordinary phone text fields—but it is a first release, not a universal translator or a replacement for sign language.
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The Dutch GP Sprint begins at 10:00 UTC at Zandvoort, where steep banking, coastal weather and 2026 active-aero energy management make track position more valuable than a conventional DRS-zone calculation.
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Waymo has disclosed a production 5nm ASIC that processes camera, lidar and radar data before its driving models act. The 1,000-plus-TOPS figure is less important than the design choice: a robotaxi company is now building the silicon, cooling and redundancy around its own driving stack.
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George Russell edged Lando Norris by 0.041s for Dutch Sprint pole, with Charles Leclerc and Oscar Piastri less than a tenth from the front. It is a small Friday result, but it makes Mercedes’ title advantage look more useful—and more combustible—than it did before the summer break.
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Walmart and Sam’s Club will begin accepting contactless payments at select U.S. locations on August 24, with a wider rollout promised by year-end. It is a small tap at the register, but a meaningful end to one of retail’s most conspicuous mobile-wallet holdouts.
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The Dutch GP's first competitive session arrives with one practice hour, banked corners, a C2-C3-C4 tyre range and volatile coastal conditions. The key is a calm active-aero and tyre window, not a legacy DRS-zone shortcut.
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Google's new controls let people describe what they want more or less of in Discover, tune Google News audio briefings, and add publishers as Preferred Sources without losing their place on a page. The promise is useful; the real test is whether the controls make discovery more intentional without turning it into an echo chamber.
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The Dutch Grand Prix's only practice hour arrives with banked corners, a C2-C3-C4 tyre allocation and coastal weather uncertainty. At Zandvoort, the useful early signal is a car's repeatable balance, not a headline time.
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