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📵 Tech leaders strictly limit their children's screen time

📱 EU moves toward age limits on kids using social media

🚗 Waze adds Gemini AI features and a motorcycle mode

🚀 SpaceX is cleared to launch Starship again

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Apple stock has rallied roughly 15% since its June low, pushing back into record territory, as investors reward the company for staying out of the expensive AI data-center arms race.

Bloomberg links Apple's roughly $600 billion surge to rising skepticism about hyperscaler AI spending, with traders fleeing chipmakers and cloud giants and treating Apple's restraint as a strength rather than a weakness.

Analysts also shrugged off Apple's recent price hikes, betting margins hold and foldable iPhone demand delivers. Funny how the company investors mocked for weak AI now looks safe precisely because it spent less.

A wave of tech leaders including Peter Thiel, Bill Gates, and Snap's Evan Spiegel say they tightly restrict their own kids' screens, even as their companies keep the rest of us scrolling.

At the 2024 Aspen Ideas Festival, Thiel said he allows his two young children just 1.5 hours of screens a week. Gates withheld smartphones from his kids until age 14 and banned phones at dinner.

Their instincts now have data behind them. A 2025 review of nearly 98,000 people linked heavy short-form video use to poorer attention and worse mental health, though the findings show correlation, not proof.

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen backed age-appropriate limits on kids' social media Monday, after an expert panel recommended restricting access for under-13s until platforms prove they are safe by design.

The panel pointed to an EU survey: adolescents average 4.5 hours of screen time on school days and 6.1 on weekends, and nearly one in three say social media leaves them stressed, sad, or excluded.

Notably, neither the panel nor von der Leyen called for an outright ban, and any real law needs all 27 member states to agree. The proposal itself won't arrive until after the summer.

Google is rolling out five new Waze features, two powered by Gemini. Drivers can now report road closures and bad addresses by talking, or search for a destination by voice, like the nearest cheap gas.

The other three additions: a Motorcycle Mode with two-wheeler shortcuts and hazard warnings, a "less chatty" voice setting so prompts stop drowning out your music, and routes tailored to your past driving habits.

One catch: the voice search is beta-only and Motorcycle Mode covers just seven countries, none the US. Google still hands Waze AI in careful doses, saving the full Gemini treatment for Google Maps.

The FAA closed its review of May's Starship booster failure on Monday, clearing SpaceX to launch again as soon as Thursday, July 16, the rocket's second V3 flight and its first since June's record IPO.

SpaceX and the FAA traced the failure to heat damage on propulsion parts and faulty engine-alarm settings. SpaceX says it reworked the startup sequence and alarm systems so the booster flips and relights more reliably.

This flight carries the first real V3 Starlink satellites, upgrades from May's dummy versions. It's SpaceX's first test since June's record IPO, so its "fly, fail, fix" habit now plays out in front of shareholders.

A) Yes - 81% 🏆

B) No - 19%