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AI Assistants Belong in Your Ears, Not on Your Face
The wearable best suited to actually carry a conversational AI assistant everywhere has been sitting in your ears for a decade.
Turning your old PC into a media server is easier than it sounds
Just load up your 100-percent legally sourced media files and go!
Former Apple retail chief’s new ‘Shop Different’ book now available
Ron Johnson, Apple’s former senior vice president of retail operations, is out with a new book today called ‘Shop Different: How Retail Revealed Apple’s Genius.’ In the book, Johnson tells the story of working alongside…
Nscale’s IPO will test Wall Street’s appetite for concentrated AI bets once again
The British AI data center developer depends on tech giants Microsoft and Anthropic for most of its revenue.
Oppo’s new phone is the first with three 200-megapixel cameras
Oppo's new Find X10 Pro Max flagship phone, launched today in China, is the first anywhere to use 200-megapixel sensors on all three of its rear cameras. A 17-stop dynamic range for the main camera, delivered thanks to…
US and China propose hotline to de-escalate AI threats ahead of Washington summit — comms channel between both nations to be left open in case of national security threats posed by autonomous artificial intelligence
The U.S. and China have proposed implementing AI red lines that will not be crossed, as well as a hotline between the two countries to provide rapid communication and opportunities for joint responses to rogue AI…
Civo plots 40 edge datacenters to power Britain's sovereign AI
First site is due in Hertfordshire next March, with Nvidia's Vera Rubin systems and a longer-term 1 GW ambition
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One of the most powerful weather apps for iPhone just came to CarPlay
One of the best things about Apple’s CarPlay platform is the robust availability of third-party apps from iPhone . This week, RadarScope, the popular and powerful iPhone weather app, was updated with support for CarPlay…
INIU’s 10,000mAh MagSafe Power Bank Makes a Perfect iPhone 18 Pro Companion for a Charging Boost
INIU's brand-new SnapGo is a pocket-sized Qi2.2 beast that charges smartphones and laptops on the go.
Apple opens a dedicated concert venue with spatial audio and multi-cam video recording
Apple Music Hall in London seems tailor-made for Apple Music Live concerts.
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Raspberry Pi locks boards to factory RAM capacities in firmware — engineer tells DIY modders 'don't waste your time' trying repairs or upgrades, company cites shady reseller scams
Raspberry Pi users are being firmware blocked from swapping the RAM chips on their SBCs for repairs or upgrades.
This $299 2TB MSI SSD is one of the least expensive PCIe 4.0 SSDs you can buy right now — just 10 cents per GB yields a speedy upgrade for your internal storage
Get a solid deal on the 2TB MSI Spatium M461 SSD. Just $299 after promo code nets one of the least expensive Gen 4x4 SSDs available today.
New DapuStor SSD pairs high-capacity QLC with a permanent pSLC region — trades 6% to 20% of its QLC capacity for more than 7x faster random writes
DapuStor’s dual-mode J5060 QLC SSD runs part of its NAND as pSLC, trading 4TB of a 30.72TB drive for 800GB of fast flash.
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It’s time for the Mac Neo
The Mac Mini is a great little desktop computer, and back when it cost $599, it was easy to recommend to anyone who wanted something speedy, simple, and cheap. The new M6 model is even better, but it starts at $899, and…
XPENG's Iron humanoid robot walked out immediately after being assembled
The humanoid robot was ready to work as soon as it was put together. It walked right out to receive its staff badge.
Campaigners tell Burnham not to trade away the UK's tech tax to please Trump
Letter lands ahead of the PM's first face-to-face meeting with the US president
Filming Wraps on the Long-Awaited Sequel to ‘It Follows’
Plus, 'Romeo and Juliet'... in spaaaaaace!
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Peloton is back with a ‘cheaper’ folding treadmill
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Meta patches Muse exploit that let attackers control the AI agent
Gaming PC with RTX 5060, 32GB of RAM, and 1TB of storage gets $500 discount — Newegg's capable ABS Cyclone Aqua prebuilt is $1,199 with code
A Volcano Toasted This Scroll 2,000 Years Ago. Here’s How Scientists Read It Without Ever Opening It
Memory chips are now more expensive to make than compute chips on a per-area basis — AI demand drives DRAM die value past leading-edge silicon
NASA chief: I'm only interested in "good deals" from international partners
Of Course, the Mortis Gods Are Part of ‘Ahsoka’ Season 2
Peloton has made a foldable (treadmill)
Meta deal will help plastics recycling startup MacroCycle build its first factory
NHS Trust IT blunder overwrites 11 years of maternity records
Polymarket is reportedly lobbying European nations not to be treated as a gambling website
Can you forget how you feel about Meta?
Longtime SUSE staff asked if they'd opt for 'voluntary separation'
China's CXMT hits 12nm-class DRAM milestone — new 5th-gen DRAM tech uses quadruple-patterning to boost die capacity by 50%
Apple @ Work Podcast: Phishing simulations for the AI era
OpenAI and Anthropic scramble for smaller data centers as massive gigawatt projects lag — 20-30 MW facilities to provide capacity as mega structures undergo construction
Commodore's forgotten Amiga Unix gets a modern revival
