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Thursday, Oct 8
- Survey suggests a small Android Auto design change is proving surprisingly divisive
- Apple to launch touchscreen MacBook Pro and more on October 27: report
- Wiko launches Hi MateBook D 14 Ryzen Edition with AMD Ryzen 7 H 255, 16GB RAM & 17.5h battery life
- Real VR Fishing Gets Into The Halloween Spirit With New Free Update
- California is trying to shut down robot vs. human cage matches
- Godox Picks Up Where Profoto Left Off With Magnetic Xenon Flash for iPhone
- Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute misconduct claims, warn of chilling effect
- Renowned Mexican Photographer Graciela Iturbide Is the 15th Member of the Leica Hall of Fame
- How Microsoft built its MacBook Pro competitor
- AMD Engineer Details Zen 6 IBS Memory Profiler
- Amazon Kids Tablets are now official in two sizes
- Apple Home adds two powerful new features in iOS 27
- Galaxy phones reportedly ‘yield no profit at all’ when sold as Samsung cuts production
- Samsung Galaxy S27 leak suggests good news for pricing, but don’t get too optimistic
- DJI Neo 3 Specs and Features: What 23 Days of Leaks Have Settled
- As new EU requirements approach, researchers propose tool for assessing digital building models
- AMD GPUs Get Price Hike in China with International Increases To Follow
- (PR) ASUS Expands Zenbook Lineup with U.S. Availability of the New Zenbook 14
- Synth Riders Adds Hand Tracking Support On Quest 3
- Today’s Android app deals and freebies: Ace Attorney, Star Wars, Hacking Destiny, more
- AI-generated political robocalls could flood your phone if FCC green-lights petition
- Google is ending support for Pixel Watch’s emergency LTE ‘Safety Signal’
- Citizen's new compact Eco-Drive limited-editions get mother-of-pearl dials, lab-grown diamonds
- GlobalFoundries to produce silicon interposers for TSMC's CoWoS in the US — Five-year agreement valued at $2 billion
- Ben Affleck is an AI nerd, and the internet is impressed
- Popular AI leaderboard Arena nearly doubles valuation to $3.1B valuation in 10 months
- OpenAI’s revenue is reportedly $20 billion less than previously projected
- Google brings agentic AI to Gemini, starting with businesses
- Anthropic changes usage policy to ban model abuse and election interference
- Google just gave Gemini a new role to fill at work, and it’s a big one
- OpenAI’s math solutions aren’t meeting the field’s standards yet
- The OLED MacBook Pro may not be much thinner than the current model
- Affordable Lenovo laptop with 16 GB RAM drops below $650 courtesy of 57% discount
- Ring’s smart lock still works even if the power goes out thanks to a hand crank
- Autonomous vehicles can still see lanes through tampered sensors—but in the wrong place
- USA Today becomes the latest publisher to sue OpenAI
- SpaceXAI backs Omarchy, the controversial Linux distro, with $1.5 million in compute
- Photoshop, Premiere & more: Experienced Rust developer recreates Adobe suite with AI assistance as open source
- Older Pixel watches are losing free cellular access to several safety features
- Logitech brings its mouse & keyboard controller to Googlebook, supports Magic Pointer
- Amazon Alexa Tablet 11 launches with a 90Hz display, MediaTek processor, and a $329 price tag
- Overlooked indium selenide phase enables wafer-scale logic transistors
- Anthropic bans ‘abusive or cruel behavior’ toward Claude
- Save $300 on the top-spec Google Pixel 11 Pro XL in its first discount
- The Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 is still at its sale price, and you don’t even need Prime
- Amazon’s new Alexa Tablets are an iPad-inspired reboot, complete with the Play Store
- I’m unreasonably excited about Googlebooks getting custom ROMs
- Google rolls out improved SynthID AI content detector, now available globally
- I’ve been waiting for brass to come to the retro camera trend, and this film brand has finally done it (again!) with a camera that looks like it stepped out of the 70s
- Department of War dishes out $1.5 billion loan commitment to boost semiconductor supply chain
- Jabil discusses the pace of humanoid robot development and production
- Apple announces surprise ‘Welcome home’ launch event
- The Snapdragon X is two years old and still better than Intel Wildcat Lake
- Walkabout Mini Golf Adds Mulligans, Hand Tracking & A New DLC Course Today
- Sony’s Omnidirectional Mic Captures Spatial Audio Into Your Smartphone
- How Oracle turns days of work into minutes with ChatGPT and Codex
- Natura’s $99 smart ring puts AI agents on your finger
- Goodfire says its new ‘inside-out’ monitors catch rogue AI agents at a fraction of the cost
- Best antivirus for Windows PC in 2026: 7 apps to keep your PC safe
- Taylor Swift helped turn this retro video camera into a US$20 million hit in under a year. Now this popular camcorder just got its first fresh look
- Helm.ai reaches $70M in signed commercial contracts for its foundation models
- Goldman Sachs expects new employees to manage AI agents from day one
- Finland orders Google to stop work on two AI data centers over alleged deforestation
- Garmin Fenix 8 is blazing bright as the sun, even in dark rooms
- Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra has built-in magnetic USB-C charging
- AI pricing lawsuit against McDonald's raises new antitrust questions
- Deals: AirPods Pro 3/Max 2, all-time lows on M6 Mac mini, Apple Watch Series 12, 18 Pro cases, more
- Samsung’s over-ear headphones might be called ‘Galaxy Studio’
- No, I Don’t Want to Restyle My Photo With AI
- Why this macro photographer shoots carnivorous plants with a 50-year-old Pentax lens
- Apple iPhone 18 Pro
- Google’s AI note-taking app transcribes your meetings completely offline
- The Surface Laptop Ultra finally has a release date — and a starting price of $2,599
- Lenovo releases new budget laptop with 120 Hz display and over 45% longer battery life than older model
- There’s a clear divide between Galaxy S27 tiers, as the latest leak lists price
- Here's how thin the iPhone Air 2 will be despite having better battery life than its predecessor
- Dell launches powerful new mini-PC with 128 GB RAM and Nvidia RTX Spark
- Brand-new compact camera launches with 6x zoom in 126g body
- New Outlook stores your settings in a hidden file. You should back it up
- Asus launches ProArt GR1X Mini PC with Nvidia RTX Spark Superchip
- OpenAI GPT-6 Introduces Intelligent UI With Interactive Tools, Faster Responses and More
- Less is seemingly more with this Super8-esque super-simple digital video camera that records 6-second clips – I must say, I love the thinking
- NVIDIA Commits $1 Billion to Advance US Science Over the Next Five Years
- Google Cloud announces ‘Gemini agent’ as ‘universal agent for work’
- FunFitLand Adds Knee Strikes & Brings Space To Apple Vision Pro
- OM System Has New Photography Gloves That Store Your Lens Cap
- Oppo Find X10 and Find X10 Pro Max to launch globally on October 21
- Windows Search is becoming your PC’s new AI-powered control center
- Samsung is already testing One UI 9.5 for non-flagship models
- iQOO 16 India Launch Could Be Near as CEO Shares Cryptic Teaser
- Can China match up with Meta’s Muse in race to harness AI agents?
- Can you trust Meta’s Muse or OpenAI’s Dots to run your life?
- Artificial is a wicked satire that also sticks to the facts
- Cal AI’s 19-year-old founder just raised $10M for his new AI startup
- Software could be the easiest fix for hyperscalers' AI power squeeze, researchers say
- I used Claude to find the online accounts I’d forgotten about
- Throwback Thursday: Sigma APO 50-150mm F2.8 EX II
- What does Amazon know about you? The answer is buried in your account info
- Ukrainian drones hit Russia's Yandex data centers housing two top supercomputers
- Yashica’s New $170 Point-and-Shoot Has the Looks but Not All the Charm of the Cameras It Emulates
- Why POCO M8 Power Is Worth Considering for Your Next Smartphone Upgrade This Diwali
- DJI Osmo 360 II Beginners Guide: Getting Started With 360
- AWS launches open-source Physical AI Toolchain for robotics
- Vivo Y600s Pro launched with 10,200mAh battery and 120Hz AMOLED display
- WhatsApp is creating a new Contacts tab in its app
- Rally Up: ‘Gears of War: E-Day’ Launches on GeForce NOW
- Is the new Fire TV Stick 4K really faster? It depends
- Upcoming iQOO Neo 12 spotted on Geekbench with Snapdragon 8 Elite-series chip, 16GB RAM
- AMD seeks 'broader partnership' with Samsung as it looks to secure memory supply
- American jailed for commanding 10,000 bots to stream his own AI-generated songs
- Ethereum Researcher Cautions AI Could Threaten Crypto Wallet Security
- Report: Samsung is cutting up to 30% of its smartphone production in Q4
- This Disembodied Hand Is All the Robot You Need
- Pollo AI turns creative ideas into campaigns with OpenAI
- AMD's EPYC Verano AI host CPU will reportedly use a special SB1 socket
- The smartest PC upgrade in 2026 isn’t a new computer — it’s a monitor
- Photokina camera expo is coming back from the dead... sort of. Here's what's really happening
- Oppo and Honor to lead wide-screen candybar push after Huawei Pura X View
- Sigma’s very first zoom lens for Nikon Z mount could be the ultimate 'one-and-done' superzoom for crop-sensor photographers
- Alibaba’s AI cloud revenue set to surge over 50% as investment blitz pays off: analysts
- Sam Altman believes “the world should accept some bad things happening” for the benefits of AI
- Nvidia's big bet on physical AI aims for safer robotaxis, humanoid robots
- Meta Is Working On A Virtual Cinema Environment For Quest & VR Glasses
- SpaceX reportedly seeking $40 billion debt package for Nvidia AI hardware
- Former Groq engineers sue board over $20 billion Nvidia deal
- Chuwi UniBook review: A $449 laptop that gets a lot right
- Score a 1080p gaming PC for less than $1,000 right now, fitted with Nvidia or AMD GPUs
- S&P 500, Nasdaq end lower as crude prices jump, chip stocks weigh
- Huawei’s AI chips have overtaken Nvidia’s sales in China, a meaningful step toward building a homegrown alternative
- Taiwan indicts 10 for smuggling US military-grade chips to China, parts routed to missile and radar programs using forged Taiwan defense institute orders
- Oppo Find X10 Series Global Launch Date Confirmed; Key Features, Colour Options Revealed
- Samsung Electronics announces its earnings guidance for Q3 2026
- Solo developer rebuilds Adobe Creative Suite in Rust using Claude, releases it free to all
- Googlebook’s highlight features require Android 17 on phone, while Intel (x86) versions might struggle to run some apps
- “All Doom players aspire to go medium-format eventually.” Watch classic 90s video game run on Hasselblad X2D 100C camera
- AI breakthroughs in robotics won’t change your life any time soon
- China’s AI chipmaker Biren tumbles 12% as it seeks US$510 million in share placement
- Anthropic Launches Claude Haiku 5.5 as Faster, Cheaper Model for High-Volume AI Tasks
- Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra, Surface RTX Spark Dev Box Launched With Nvidia RTX Spark: Price, Specifications
- Google Rolls Out SynthID Detector Globally for AI-Generated Images, Videos and Audio
- Building a safer path to autonomous industrial AI
- RedMagic 12 Pro+ design and color options revealed ahead of launch
- KargoBot Starts a Mixed Freight Network in Ordos With Cabless Transport Robots
- Galbot and Tsinghua's LATENT Wins an IROS Award for a Humanoid Tennis Forehand
- US AI firm Anthropic enables Chinese-language options for Claude chatbot
- FAA puts $12 million behind 19 drone research projects
- Sigma 50-120mm f/2.8 Contemporary Review: You’ll Want to Take This Lens Everywhere
- Everyone can now check if an image, video, or audio file was made with AI
- Sigma’s 50-120mm F2.8 OS DC is an APS-C legend in the making, for just $799
- Z-mount is getting its first Sigma zoom lens: a 16-300mm for APS-C
- Sigma just fit a 50-120mm with a bright f/2.8 aperture in a palm-sized lens – and even Canon RF is among the three mounts
- Bali launches drone delivery trials over populated areas
- Airwise and LiveU want to fix fragmented public safety drone workflows
- Tamron Offers Nikon Z Owners a One-of-a-Kind Wide-Angle Zoom Lens
- Tamron is bringing its fast 20-40mm zoom to Z-mount
- Reporter’s notebook: my week with Huawei’s new US$3,500 trifold phone
- DJI Neo 3 Battery Goes to Three Cells. Neo 2 Owners Buy New Packs
- Tiny robot harvests battery power via skin on its feet
- Amazon Prime Air Is Hiring in Australia. The Job: Get CASA to Say Yes
- Xiaomi HyperOS 4 Opens Up to Apple Devices With AirDrop Transfers, Notification Sync and Mac Control
- UBTECH and FAW-Volkswagen Take Humanoid Robots From Quality Inspection Into Factory Logistics
- AI chip boom pushes Samsung profits to record $80bn
- Microsoft event debuts new AI-friendly hardware and Windows changes
- Disrupting AI-enabled “false front” operations
Wednesday, Oct 7
- Robot data startup Mecka AI nabs $60M from Sequoia
- “Software is over”: Bold AI developer takes aim at Adobe with open source clones
- Worcester Asks If It Can Stop Amazon Drones. Shrewsbury Says It Can't
- PTC acquisition positions Schneider Electric to challenge Siemens
- Apple, The King’s Trust launch initiative to empower young creatives
- Android’s physical navigation buttons are back on Googlebooks, but not the way you think
- OpenAI says teen ChatGPT use limited but research finds it an 'unacceptable risk'
- ChatGPT’s ‘Intelligent UI’ update fills its responses with pictures, charts, and buttons
- DJI Neo 3 Flies in First Leaked Video on a Remote With a Scroll Wheel
- It appears .agent and .agi are about to be the hot new domains
- NVIDIA, Microsoft Kick Off a New Beginning for Windows PCs with RTX Spark and AI Agents
- Announcing new builds for 7 October 2026
- Pre-order our most powerful Surface devices ever
- Microsoft Execution Containers: Policy-driven containment for AI agents
- Building Windows for hybrid intelligence
- From searching to doing: Building a faster, more streamlined Windows Search
- Fraudster jailed for using 10K bots and AI songs to outstream Taylor Swift
- New York Giants Bring Fans Onto The Field With 360° Video
- Pixel 11 series still not on Android 17 QPR1 with October update
- If you’ve been searching for a hard-to-get Ricoh GR IV, you may have a chance
- Multimodal open d1 decision models for the edge
- Teradyne Robotics, Elite Robots settle cobot dispute
- Omega Pilot Evolution Review: Dynamic Racing With Two Major Caveats
- The Team Behind VR Noir Is Back With A New Series
- Apple and LG Reportedly Developing New Matter Smart Home Devices
- Norway Proposes Temporary Ban on Smart Glasses in Public Places
- What one camera feature that doesn’t yet exist would you like to have?
- Mistral says "Le Chonk" can challenge the best AI models
- Ring’s first smart lock can be charged by turning a dial when the battery unexpectedly dies
- HiPHI: A Large-Scale Benchmark for High-Precision Human Motion and Object Interaction
- Introducing Falcon ASR
- One Model Family, Two Gold-Level Results: Fine-Tuning Nemotron for IOI and IMO
- Harmonic Drive to share how integrated actuators can reduce engineering at RoboBusiness
- Helping teens learn, plan, and shape the future of AI
- Introducing Playground: Create and play custom games
- At $1,279, Google’s Xreal Aura will go head-to-head with Meta’s VR Glasses
- Upstate Medical's New Drone Port Is Already Cleared To Fly To Utica
- Anduril's $3.7B Maryland Shipyard: Trump Adds Drone Subs, 40% Stake
- China’s open-weight AI models are winning global users. Who is capturing the value?
- Roborock Qrevo Edge 2 Flow review
- Sony Sells off Dozens of XR Patents to Meta in Apparent Pullback from AR/VR Hardware
- US risks ceding AI governance leadership to China and the EU
- Tencent Rolls Out a Wave of Vertical AI Agents, From CraftBuddy to MusicBuddy, Inside Its Own Apps
- Radisson Hotel Group brings hotel discovery into ChatGPT
- Your mapping drone can do more. DJI is now teaching you how
- Wing Lists 19 Walmart Metros. Walmart's Hometown Isn't One of Them
- RayNeo GT Max Review: Flying a Mavic 4 Pro on a Truck-Sized Screen
- FAA Raised Amazon's Omaha Drone Band on Paper. Its Noise Model Didn't
- GPT-6 and Intelligent UI for everyone
Tuesday, Oct 6
- Apple and LG team up on new smart home gear, starting with a lock, doorbell, and thermostat
- Boston Dynamics appoints former Amazon exec Rohit Prasad as new CEO
- OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT outputs by default—but only in the EU
- AMD to Report Fiscal Third Quarter 2026 Financial Results
- Pegasus 1.6 brings video understanding to physical AI, says TwelveLabs
- 15 Years of XR, Through the Lens of Road to VR
- XTEND just patented a way for payloads to steer drones
- Titanfall 2's VR Mod Is Stellar, And Its Installer Is The Best Thing About It
- Fresh Tracks VR Impression: A Wintry Mix Of Ski And Sorcery
- The UploadVR Showcase - Coming This December!
- Sovereign AI, same landlord — thoughts on the physical AI race
- Our first five impressions of Googlebooks — exciting but underbaked
- OM System PEN full review: somewhat throwback, for better and worse
- Pimax Aims to Take on Steam Frame with New ‘Crystal Pro’ Headset, Priced at $1,400
- We can’t just change the definition of ‘recording’
- FireDome builds autonomous ‘artillery’ for wildfire defense
- Atlassian and OpenAI expand partnership to turn enterprise knowledge into action
- Overview AI launches OV Spark line of AI inspection cameras
- Why Telecom Operators Are Building Their AI Strategy on Open Models
- Apple now sells Aqara’s new Adaptive Temperature thermostat and more accessories
- Would China agree to slow AI development? That’s the wrong question
- OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic
- Huge Amazon Prime Big Deals Sports Tech Tracker!
- Introducing Mistral Large 4
- As China’s AI race accelerates, ‘model fatigue’ becomes the next challenge
- How Jump Trading is scaling quant research with ChatGPT
- Sharing AI progress in mathematics
- Italian PM files to trademark her voice against AI threats
- Ring vs Arlo: which security camera system should you buy?
- Advancing computer use with Ironclad
- Not just AI. China is building technologies that challenge U.S. dominance
- This remote-controlled wagon is silly but so very useful
- DII launches ASTRA to connect buyers with drone and robot companies
- Nvidia-backed Reflection AI challenges Chinese dominance in open-weight models
- Zing explores smaller, secure hardware for drone Remote ID
- 11,000 drones just turned the Texas sky into a spectacle
Monday, Oct 5
- Teradyne invests in Bright Machines to bring robotics to AI infrastructure manufacturing
- MCP for agent-to-agent comms may be the riskiest protocol you've never heard of
- The Matic is the first robovac to get an FCC ban waiver, not that it needs it
- Quest PTC Overhauls Window Management & Brings Back Classic Home Environments
- A new kind of magnetism could unlock faster, more efficient computers
Tuesday, Sep 29
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