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The Timekettle W4 AI look like a supersized pair of wireless earbuds. | Image: Timekettle Timekettle has announced a new pair of real-time translation headphones called the W4 AI Interpreter Earbuds. They use bone conduction technology that helps improve accuracy in loud environments. Available now for $349 in navy blue and sandy gold color options, the earbuds are a more affordable alternative to... View Source

Lenovo just announced some new gaming products at IFA, including the Legion Pro 7 laptop. The specs here are impressive. The laptop ships with AMD's newest Ryzen 9 9000 HX series processors and options go all the way up to the Ryzen 9955HX3D. The Windows 11 computer also features NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPUs and purchasers can go up to the RTX 5080. There's a 16-inch 240Hz OLED panel with a 0... View Source

Laptop stands are a dime a dozen, but this one adapts to you. It also “dances.” Lenovo’s Smart Motion Concept laptop stand, announced at IFA 2025, automatically raises and lowers itself and turns and tilts to position your laptop at an ergonomic eye level. It’s a lot like an amped-up Apple Center Stage webcam, but the whole laptop adapts to you and your posture. That’s basically what it felt like... View Source

Australian-made video game Hollow Knight: Silksong is captivating users who’ve waited seven years for a glimpse, shooting to the top of the charts... View Source

At the beginning of the year, Lenovo gave us an early design preview of its next flagship gaming handheld — the Legion Go 2. Today, at IFA 2025, the company is fleshing out the rest of the system with more details regarding its specs, price and availability. In terms of its overall appearance, not much has changed on the outside of the Legion Go 2. It has the same general shape and detachable cont... View Source

Lepro TB1-Pro AI table lamp. | Image: Lepro We’re all used to having our lights respond to verbal commands at this point. But normally, there’s a middleman passing our commands along, whether that’s our phone or a smart speaker that is actually listening to what we say. Lepro is eliminating the need for a separate controller by building a microphone directly into the power cord on its new AI Light... View Source

Anthropic is blocking its services from Chinese-controlled companies, saying it’s taking steps to prevent a US adversary from advancing in AI and threatening American national security... View Source

Tesla has expanded availability of the Tesla Robotaxi app. They have allowed highway robotaxi driving in Austin. This needs a safety driver but the safety driver is generally not intervening. Waymo does not drive passengers on the highway yet... View Source

West Australians should get particularly good views, but the eclipse will be visible from the whole country given favourable weatherGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastSet your alarm, pray for clear skies and prepare to be awestruck in the early hours of Monday morning, when Australia becomes the prime location to witness a rare total lunar eclipse.A blood moon, as it is cal... View Source

Apple Inc.’s annual sales in India hit a record of nearly $9 billion in the last fiscal year, signaling growing consumer demand for its flagship devices as the company ramps up its retail footprint in the world’s most populous country... View Source

Boeing’s has shown a new rendering of the F/A-XX 6th generation navy stealth fighter. It conceals canards, tail surfaces, and wing tips, but shows a bubble-shaped cockpit canopy similar to the F-47. The radome appears narrower, and no vertical stabilizers show which should improve stealth. The wingtips and canard placements are concealed, making it difficult ... Read more... View Source

Warner Bros. Discovery has filed a lawsuit against popular AI image generator Midjourney, accusing it of stealing and exploiting its intellectual properties. The complaint revolves around the AI tool's ability to generate images and videos of Warner Bros.' popular fictional characters, including Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Scooby Doo, Bugs Bunny and his friends from Looney Tunes... View Source

Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. sued AI startup Midjourney alleging theft of its intellectual property, saying the company allowed customers to generate images and videos of characters like Wonder Woman and Superman without permission... View Source

A unit of Mexican fintech Klar has entered an agreement to buy Grupo Financiero Banorte’s digital bank Bineo, a move that brings it closer to operating with a banking license... View Source

The global artificial intelligence investment frenzy is fast rewriting the fortunes of companies in the semiconductor industry. One notable laggard is Tokyo Electron Ltd... View Source

Xiaohongshu Technology Co. is on track to triple its profit to $3 billion this year, making progress with commercialization on the way to a potential public listing... View Source

Qantas Airways Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Vanessa Hudson and her top leadership team were docked A$800,000 ($522,000) in pay for a cyberbreach that impacted millions of customers, as the airline attempts to shows it’s taking a harder line on accountability and governance... View Source

OpenAI is preparing to design and produce its own AI chip with help from Broadcom Inc. in 2026, the Financial Times reported, citing unidentified people familiar with that tie-up... View Source

Since the start of last summer, DuckDuckGo has offered a handful of AI chatbots from OpenAI, Anthropic and others directly through its browser. And while it's mostly low-cost models like GPT-4o mini and Claude 3.5 Haiku on offer, the feature, Duck.ai, allows you to use those tools without sacrificing your privacy. As a service, that appears to have resonated with DuckDuckGo users, and now the... View Source

A wave of so-called digital bond issuance in Hong Kong in recent days is showing rising appetite for the securities that use blockchain technology... View Source

Google must pay $425 million to the plaintiffs of a class action lawsuit that accused the company of collecting users' data even after they've turned off a tracking feature, a federal jury has decided. The lead plaintiff sued Google back in July 2020, arguing that the company still harvested data even though it tells users they can disable tracking under Web & App Activity through it... View Source

President Donald Trump said he would be imposing tariffs on semiconductor imports “very shortly” but spare goods from companies like Apple Inc. that have pledged to boost their US investments... View Source

Meta currently has lots of priorities Mark Zuckerberg likely never would have imagined back in the early days of Facebook. The company has pivoted from social networking to the metaverse and, most recently, to AI. But somehow, one of its earliest — and most useless — features has not only survived but is apparently getting a revamp. I'm talking, of course, about the poke, which Meta is once a... View Source

LinkedIn will now require some users to verify their identity before they change job titles in an attempt to cut down on scams on the platform. The new identity verification rules will specifically apply to executives and recruiters who interact with job seekers or represent a company in one form or another. As part of these changes, LinkedIn says users who add or update their title to anything re... View Source

We’re now several months into a brand new Nintendo generation, and waiting impatiently for important information such as the release date for Metroid Prime 4 and the whereabouts of the next 3D Mario game. But in the meantime, the company has been gradually updating its various retro console emulators on Nintendo Switch Online, with the latest being the Game Boy Advance. As spotted by Nintendo Ever... View Source

The new Street Fighter movie has been given a release date of October 16, 2026. Kitao Sakurai is directing the project and a few generic plot details have been disclosed. The story will be set in 1993, a nod to the year Street Fighter II was released in arcades, and will have familiar characters from the game uncovering "a deadly conspiracy" in the midst of all their street fighting. It... View Source

Payments giant Stripe Inc. and crypto investment firm Paradigm are incubating a new blockchain designed for stablecoin payments... View Source

Firaxis, longtime developer of the strategy series Civilization, is laying off an undisclosed number of staff, Game Developer reports. The studio's publisher and owner 2K confirmed that the layoffs were happening as Firaxis "restructures and optimizes" for "adaptability, collaboration, and creativity." The layoffs follow turmoil at another 2K studio, Cloud Chamber, which i... View Source

On Thursday Senators grilled Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., about vaccines and turmoil at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Health experts responded to Kennedy’s claims on social media in disbelief and anger... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss the sell-off of Salesforce shares following a lackluster topline growth forecast that suggests AI isn't paying off just yet. Plus Apple plans to launch an AI-powered web search tool for Siri to rival OpenAI. And HPE CEO Antonio Neri discusses the company’s earnings, Juniper Networks acquisition and partnership with Nvidia.  (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

That was fast. A week after a new feature for sharing long-form text was spotted in the Threads app, Meta is making the experiment official. Threads users will now be able to append text snippets of up to 10,000 characters to their posts in a feature Meta says is meant to support journalists and creators on the platform. As Engadget detailed last week, the feature is fairly basic for now. Sel... View Source

Midjourney allegedly generated these images of Batman and the Joker. | Image: Warner Bros. Discovery via Midjourney Warner Bros. Discovery is suing Midjourney over claims the AI startup “brazenly dispenses its intellectual property as if it were its own,” as reported earlier by The Hollywood Reporter. In the lawsuit, Warner Bros. Discovery alleges that Midjourney generated “countless” infringing i... View Source

JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. are leading a roughly $38 billion debt package to fund data centers connected to Oracle Corp. in Wisconsin and Texas, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

The White House hosted several tech and AI leaders at an event today centered on teaching artificial intelligence in US schools. Many of the big tech companies — including Amazon, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic — have already issued press releases with their commitments to a pledge from the White House to help "foster early interest in Al technology, promote Al literacy and proficien... View Source

Curiosity Navigation Curiosity Home Mission Overview Where is Curiosity? Mission Updates Science Overview Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Curiosity Raw Images Images Videos Audio Mosaics More Resources Mars Missions Mars Sample Return Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover MAVEN Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars Odyssey More Mars Missions Mars Home 4 min... View Source

Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are among the companies committing to help prepare Americans for a world dominated by AI technology at a White House event on AI education Thursday. First Lady Melania Trump hosted a meeting of the White House’s AI education task force where several CEOs touted their commitments. President Donald Trump is expected to host tech CEOs in the Rose Garden later on Thursday... View Source

Paramount Skydance Corp. signed a three-year agreement to distribute Legendary Entertainment’s upcoming films in cinemas, the latest in a flurry of deals for the studio since new management took over weeks ago... View Source

Sesame Street creator Sesame Workshop and YouTube have announced a new "extended partnership" that will bring episodes of the iconic children's show to the platform and a series of workshops for creators on "how to create content that is entertaining while also promoting learning." This new YouTube partnership joins an existing Netflix deal to stream new episodes of Sesame... View Source

Broadcom Inc., a chip supplier to companies like Alphabet Inc. and Apple Inc., delivered a solid sales forecast for the current period, lifted by AI-fueled demand for its custom chips and networking gear... View Source

LEGO just revealed the Star Wars Ultimate Death Star set, which is a massive beast that includes over 9,000 pieces. The company says it's the largest LEGO Star Wars set ever made. It's also the most expensive LEGO set ever, Star Wars or not. It costs a whopping $1,000. It may set you back around a month's rent, but just look at this thing. It's a legit monster. The set ships wi... View Source

These devoted followers in Mycogen might be the true outliers of the Seldon Plan... View Source

Ryu in Street Fighter 6. The new Street Fighter movie, which has been in the works since 2023, now has a cast and a release date. The film hits theaters on October 16th, 2026, and the cast includes some big names like Jason Momoa, 50 Cent, Orville Peck, and Eric André, according to a series of posts from an X account for the movie. Here is the cast revealed in those posts: Andrew Koji is Ryu Noah... View Source

Revolut Ltd. has appointed former Societe Generale SA Chief Executive Officer Frederic Oudea as chairman for its new Western Europe operation, as the fintech firm ramps up its effort to displace bricks-and-mortar banks across the region... View Source

Netflix has shared a pair of updates about its animated Tomb Raider show. The second season of Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft will air on the streaming service on December 11. However, that second season will also be the final one for the project. Legendary Television is behind the show, which premiered in October 2024 on Netflix and stars Hayley Atwell of MCU fame as the titular Tomb Raide... View Source

Despite its slimmer frame, the Galaxy S25 Edge still offers all-day battery life. If you’ve ever wished your phone didn’t protrude so much while in your pocket, then the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge might be made for you. Samsung’s ultra-slim Android phone features the same 6.7-inch OLED display as the Galaxy S25 Plus, but the device’s 5.8mm thick design makes it feel completely different. Right now, y... View Source

Intel Corp., the chip pioneer that’s now partly owned by the US government, told investors that 2026 will be a critical year for its manufacturing technology and should show whether it’s ready to move ahead with a more advanced process... View Source

A new peer-reviewed study alleges that 18 of the 100 most-downloaded virtual private network (VPN) apps on the Google Play Store are secretly connected in three large families, despite claiming to be independent providers. The paper doesn't indict any of our picks for the best VPN, but the services it investigates are popular, with 700 million collective downloads on Android alone. The study,... View Source

The answer to this supposedly simple particle physics question isn’t so simple... View Source

Amit Kshatriya, a veteran of NASA's Moon to Mars program, has been named NASA associate administrator, the agency's top civil-service role... View Source

It's no secret that Microsoft has been struggling to sell its Copilot AI assistant to businesses. The steep pricing has put many businesses off paying extra for Microsoft's AI services, especially when OpenAI's ChatGPT has been gaining traction in the all-important enterprise market. Microsoft is now getting ready to tempt more businesses into paying for Copilot, with a familiar trick: bundling. M... View Source

Sierra Technologies Inc., the artificial intelligence startup founded by OpenAI Chairman Bret Taylor and former Alphabet Inc. executive Clay Bavor, has raised $350 million in a financing round that values the company at $10 billion... View Source

Honda is preparing to announce its first electric motorcycle with fast charging, based on a new teaser video the company shared on Instagram. The video shows off the new e-motorcycle on test rides in Europe and teases the date, September 16, when Honda will presumably introduce it. Plans to expand Honda's lineup of electric motorcycles have been in the works since at least 2022, when the comp... View Source

15 spacecraft both those on heliocentric orbits and also the spacecraft grouping at the planet Mars will have chances to look at interstellar 3I/Atlas over the next few months. Today Psyche spacecraft on 2025 September 4 has a chance to look at 0.302 AU distance as 3I/Atlas passes by Mars. October, the martian spacecraft array ... Read more... View Source

When players take the field at the start of the NFL season, many will be sporting the new, subtly different F7 Pro helmet, which some have speculated might be the safest one football has ever seen. That's significant for a sport that, over the past two decades, has become as well known for concussions as end zone celebrations. Schutt Sports, which makes the F7 Pro, claims that 35 percent of active... View Source

The brain implant company cofounded by Elon Musk filed to trademark the product names Telepathy and Telekinesis. But it turns out that another person had already filed to trademark those names... View Source

OpenAI plans to launch a new AI-powered jobs platform next year to help match employers with candidates who have artificial intelligence skills in a bid to accelerate the technology’s deployment across businesses and government agencies... View Source

Belkin unveiled several new products today at IFA 2025. Its lineup included a wall charger and car charger that will be available starting this month, plus four entries in its SoundForm audio collection. But the standout item from the consumer products brand is its new Qi2 25W wireless charging puck.  The UltraCharge Magnetic Charger 25W promises to power an iPhone from zero to 50 percent bat... View Source

Tom Lee, co-founder and head of research at Fundstrat Global Advisors and the chairman of Bitmine (an Ethereum treasury company), provides a bullish outlook on both Bitcoin and Ethereum. They each have distinct use cases and potential for massive growth. The conversation covers the bull cases for each asset, short-term catalysts, regulatory developments, and broader ... Read more... View Source

Data from NASA's InSight lander suggests there's a chunky mix beneath the surface of Mars... View Source

Hollow Knight: Silksong, the sequel to the indie smash hit Hollow Knight, is finally out, and according to Silksong’s credits, the game features the voice of Eric Barone, the creator of another indie smash hit, Stardew Valley. (You may also know Barone by the name ConcernedApe, which he goes by online.) You can see Barone’s name listed under the “Additional Character Voices” section of Silksong’s... View Source

TCL has announced the QM9K, its latest flagship QD mini LED television series. The QM9Ks will be the first panels in the industry to feature Gemini on Google TV, a new feature that we first learned about at the start of this year. TCL/Google Using the standard "Hey Google" voice prompt, viewers will be able to find a movie or TV show, ask questions using natural language about any topic... View Source

Meta is adding a new feature to let you add a bunch of extra text to Threads posts — no screenshots of text blocks required. Starting today, Meta is rolling out a tool that lets you attach up to 10,000 characters of text to Threads posts, giving you a way to build upon the 500-character text limit already available when making a post. It’s kind of a Threads-y take on X’s Articles feature. You can... View Source

Google's Circle to Search tool just got a bit more useful, as it can now continuously translate text while scrolling. Until now, people had to restart the process every time the content on the screen changed. The update ensures the translation feature will keep on ticking along. Google says this is great for getting "more context for social posts from creators who speak a different langu... View Source

The interstellar visitor appears to have a lot in common with its solar system brethren... View Source

Around six years ago, a new rallying cry rippled through Washington: "Break Up Big Tech." It was a slogan emblazoned on campaign posters, uttered at congressional hearings, and beginning, it seemed, to echo through the halls of the nation's antitrust enforcers. Momentum in the legislatures eventually petered out, but the enforcers at the Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission remained mor... View Source

Canada’s stock market is beating the US handily in 2025 in a trend that’s just getting started and can run for the next five to seven years, according to Vanguard Group chief economist and head of investment strategy Joe Davis... View Source

Tesla has made its iOS Robotaxi app available for all iPhone users to download as it expands service beyond a group of early access users for the first time. Beyond the current lack of an Android app (Tesla says one is on the way), there are a couple of things to bear in mind here. The company's proper robotaxis are currently only available in Austin, Texas. There's also a waitlist, so y... View Source

6 Min Read Upcoming Launch to Boost NASA’s Study of Sun’s Influence Across Space Soon, there will be three new ways to study the Sun’s influence across the solar system with the launch of a trio of NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) spacecraft. Expected to launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 23, the missions include NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration... View Source

Google is adding Veo 3 software capabilities to its video generation feature for Google Photos. US-based users can turn static images into four-second videos by clicking either the "Subtle movements" or, for the more adventurous, the "I'm feeling lucky" options under the Create tab in Google Photos. According to Google spokesperson Michael Marconi, you can get your photo subjects to dance or showe... View Source

Doña Ana County in New Mexico is the furthest thing from a tech hub... View Source

The video-generation model Veo 3 has come to Google Photos, bringing even more AI tomfoolery to the platform. This allows users to do all sorts of wacky things. First and foremost, the pre-existing photo to video feature has been significantly improved. Google says that it can now be used to turn "still images into even higher-quality clips." There's also a tool called Remix that tr... View Source

This competition provides a hands-on opportunity for participants to gain critical skills in engineering, computing, electronics, and more that will be required for America’s technical workforce. If you are in sixth to 12th-grade at a U.S. public, private, or charter school – including those in U.S. territories – your challenge is to team up with your schoolmates and develop a science or technolog... View Source

AST SpaceMobile (ASTS) is developing a space-based cellular broadband network that provides direct-to-cellphone connectivity worldwide. This would eliminate deadzones without requiring special antennas like existing satellite phones and will work on standard smartphones. Their satellites, known as BlueBird, are designed to deliver 4G/5G service from low Earth orbit (LEO) by beaming signals directl... View Source

'The aliens are coming to Earth? I'm going, 'Here’s the bill. Credit or debit? Have a good day.’'... View Source

Darth Vader’s lightsaber is about to become someone’s prized possession. It’s up for auction alongside a bunch of other iconic movie props, as spotted earlier by The New York Times. The auction is hosted by the memorabilia company Propstore, and it estimates that Vader’s lightsaber will fetch anywhere from $1 million to $3 million. Darth Vader had this weapon in hand in Star Wars: The Empire Strik... View Source

Microsoft Corp. is set to avoid a potentially hefty antitrust fine after the European Union got positive feedback on the US software giant’s offer to settle a probe into the allegedly illegal bundling of its Teams video-conferencing app... View Source

Adobe is bringing Premiere to iPhone for free, putting its powerful video editor in the hands of content creators on iOS. The app will offer easy exporting to TikTok, YouTube Shorts or Instagram with a single tap. Users of the desktop application will be familiar with the multi-track timeline and the app’s core functionalities. Content creators will be able to splice video footage, fine-tune down... View Source

Explore Webb Webb News Latest News Latest Images Webb’s Blog Awards X (offsite – login reqd) Instagram (offsite – login reqd) Facebook (offsite- login reqd) Youtube (offsite) Overview About Who is James Webb? Fact Sheet Impacts+Benefits FAQ Webb Timeline Science Overview and Goals Early Universe Galaxies Over Time Star Lifecycle Other Worlds Science Explainers Observatory Overview Launch Deploymen... View Source

A shot of the HushJet Purifier Compact snapped at IFA 2025. Dyson is launching a new air purifier that’s designed to look — but thankfully, not sound — like a jet engine. The Dyson HushJet Purifier Compact is launching in the US on September 30th for $349.99, featuring a new nozzle design that’s shaped to help the device blast jets of air at high speed, similar to how a concentrator works on a hai... View Source

Eufy just introduced its latest outdoor security camera at IFA in Germany. The EufyCam S4 monitors your home using a fixed 4K wide-angle camera and a pair of 2K sensors that activate when a possible intruder is spotted and track them. Capable of auto-framing its subject, the main camera can pan, tilt and zoom in on a person as far as 164 feet away. It can also intelligently zoom out to ensure grou... View Source

NASA and Northrop Grumman are preparing to send the company’s next cargo mission to the International Space Station, flying research to support Artemis missions to the Moon and human exploration of Mars and beyond, while improving life on Earth. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will launch Northrop Grumman’s 23rd commercial resupply services mission to the orbiting laboratory. The investigations aboard th... View Source

SpaceX’s Dragon capsule demonstrated its ability to boost the ISS on Sept. 3, pushing the orbiting lab slightly higher above Earth... View Source

A federal jury in California has ordered Google to pay $425 million for violating user privacy by collecting the data of millions of people even after they disabled tracking, as reported earlier by Reuters. The decision stems from a class action lawsuit filed in July 2020, which accused Google of unlawfully accessing app activity data on users’ mobile phones from July 2016 to September 2024. The l... View Source

New research shows that filtration systems that remove PFAS can also get rid of other harmful substances. Whether they’ll actually be introduced is a different matter entirely... View Source

Figma Inc. shares tumbled after the design software company gave an annual revenue outlook that failed to impress investors in its first report as a public company... View Source

The Browser Company — the maker of the Arc and AI-centric Dia browsers — is set to have a new owner. Atlassian is buying it for around $610 million in an all-cash deal, which it expects to close in the second quarter of its fiscal year 2026 (i.e. by the end of the 2025 calendar year). According to The Browser Company, it will continue to operate independently as it builds Dia. A private beta for t... View Source

NASA NASA astronauts Jonny Kim and Zena Cardman, both Expedition 73 Flight Engineers, pose for a portrait inside the International Space Station‘s Unity module during a break in weekend housecleaning and maintenance activities. Kim and Cardman are both part of NASA Astronaut Group 22 selected in June 2017 with 12 other astronauts, including two Canadian Space Agency astronauts, and affection... View Source

Astronomers have doubled the number of black hole and neutron star mergers detected via gravitational waves in a "stellar graveyard," as well as "hearing" the heaviest black hole binary yet... View Source

Hollow Knight: Silksong launched today, and immediately afterward the major video game storefronts were struggling to stay online. Shortly after Silksong’s 10 AM ET release time, Steam, the Nintendo eShop, Xbox, and PlayStation stores all displayed error messages or failed to load entirely. Hollow Knight: Silksong is one of the most anticipated indie releases in recent memory. Its gravitational pu... View Source

Huawei Technologies Co. introduced an update to its groundbreaking trifold phone on Thursday, iterating on a novel form factor and underscoring its hardware engineering capabilities... View Source

Hollow Knight: Silksong is officially available for purchase, after six long years of waiting. The anticipation is at a fever pitch. Fans have swarmed to Steam to purchase the game and, well, it looks like they overloaded the system and shut it down. The same thing seems to be happening to the Nintendo eShop and the Xbox Store.  Multiple social media users and data from services like DownDete... View Source

Patricia White is a contracting officer at NASA’s Stennis Space Center, where she contributes to NASA’s Artemis program that will send astronauts to the Moon to prepare for future human exploration of Mars. NASA/Danny Nowlin When NASA’s Artemis II mission launches in 2026, it will inspire the world through discovery in a new Golden Age of innovation and exploration. It will be another inspir... View Source

Artificial-intelligence agents—touted as AI’s next wave—could be vulnerable to malicious code hidden in innocent-looking images on your computer screen... View Source

Solar eclipse maps show crisp lines for the path of totality, but in reality, the edges of the path are fuzzy, jagged and sometimes wrong by hundreds of meters or more... View Source

Amazon’s satellite internet service, Project Kuiper, will partner with JetBlue to provide in-flight Wi-Fi starting in 2027. It’s Project Kuiper’s first deal with an airline as it aims to keep up with the SpaceX-owned Starlink, which has already snagged satellite internet agreements with United Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines, Air France, and several others. Amazon has been working on its Starlink comp... View Source

MTN Group Ltd., Africa’s largest wireless carrier, is considering reviving talks to acquire smaller South African rival Telkom SA, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

TCL is showcasing a new phone at IFA 2025. A late entrant to the modern mobile market, the company tries to differentiate its devices with NXTPAPER eye-comfort screen tech. The new NXTPAPER 60 Ultra is TCL's first phone to feature the latest version of that technology, which it first introduced in a tablet at CES 2025. The idea behind NXTPAPER is to strike a balance between e-paper and OLED s... View Source

We've seen it all before, but some sci-fi clichés just work... View Source

The EnerGeek GT01 will be available in black or white color options. | Image: Baseus Baseus has announced a new accessory that can wirelessly charge a Qi2-compatible smartphone directly on an outlet, making it useful as a hands-free wall mount. It’s reminiscent of a similar wireless charger that Zens released last year, but Baseus’ new EnerGeek GT01 has additional functionality, including a 10,000... View Source

President Donald Trump’s administration just tore up a quiet compromise that some of the world’s biggest chipmakers have relied on to maintain crucial operations in China. That tees up four months of complex policy talks to satisfy US national security concerns while avoiding disruptions to supply chains that underpin the global electronics market... View Source

Anker took it's excellent Nebula X1 projector and said, "what if that but louder?" The result is the Soundcore Nebula X1 Pro that marries Anker's 4K, 3,500 lumen Google TV projector with a 160W Soundcore speaker, offering what should be an incredible outdoor entertainment machine.  Marrying these products wasn't just a matter of jamming them into the same box. The sub... View Source

Nvidia announced last month that it’s planning to upgrade its GeForce Now cloud gaming service to RTX 5080 GPUs. Now, we have a date for that upgrade: September 10th. The upgrade will allow GeForce Now subscribers to rent what’s effectively an RTX 5080 in the cloud, with a huge 48GB of memory and DLSS 4 support. Nvidia’s RTX 5080 upgrade for GeForce Now will include support for 5K resolutions at 6... View Source

Nvidia Corp.’s venture capital arm is investing in Quantinuum for the first time, valuing the quantum computing company controlled by Honeywell International Inc. at $10 billion... View Source

Amazon has introduced a new eero product at IFA 2025, which can provide you with connectivity in case your home internet goes out. The new product called eero Signal connects to any USB-C-powered eero device on a network that supports Wi-Fi 6 and up. It's meant to be a cellular backup, available two versions: A 4G LTE one that will cost you $100 and a 5G one that will set you back $200. Signal can... View Source

4 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Researchers Kelly Gilkey, Cy Peverill, Daniel Phan, Chase Haddix, and Ariel Tokarz test portable, handheld X-ray systems for use during future long-duration space missions at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland on Friday, March 21, 2025. Credit: NASA/Sara Lowthian-Hanna As NASA plans future human exploration missi... View Source

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This young star is surrounded by a protoplanetary disk, separating the "wings" of the butterfly... View Source

PlayCube is a cross between a Rubik’s Cube and TARS. | Image: TCL TCL is not a brand that elicits desire, typically, yet here I am, looking at its IFA 2025 announcement of the PlayCube, wondering how a projector that pays homage to both a Rubik’s Cube and TARS can fit into my life. The all-in-one Google TV projector with up to 3-hours of battery life — introduced as a concept in January — will be... View Source

Roblox Corp. will restrict certain features on its popular video-game platform in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia as child safety concerns and regulatory scrutiny intensify in the region... View Source

As frustrating as it is that governments and businesses are running roughshod over our online freedoms, at least we have plenty of good VPNs to choose from to keep us protected online. There are so many fast, intelligently designed, full-featured and affordable services on the market that the biggest problem is picking one. For any use case, you can bet at least two providers will be neck-and-neck... View Source

The September 2025 total lunar eclipse will bring a blood-red moon to skies across Asia, Australia, Africa and Europe — if you know where to look... View Source

Dia’s simplicity is neat, but its AI integration is the point. Mike Cannon-Brookes, the CEO of enterprise software giant Atlassian, was one of the first users of the Arc browser. Over the last several years, he has been a prolific bug reporter and feature requester. Now he'll own the thing: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company, the New York-based startup that makes both Arc and the new AI-fo... View Source

A $30,000 television could provide clues as to where Samsung Electronics Co.’s lineup is headed next... View Source

Roborock is launching an updated Qrevo Curv robot vacuum that offers an impressive 25,000 Pa of suction power — topping the 18,500 Pa available with last year’s model. That’s not all that’s new with the Qrevo Curv 2 Pro, either, as the newly announced robovac comes with a dual-spinning mop system that automatically detaches before passing over carpets, helping to keep them dry. And, at just 3.14 i... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Riley Griffin looks at Mark Zuckerberg’s personal effort to influence policymakers in the nation’s capital... View Source

Hue just did its biggest product launch ever as part of IFA 2025 and a key product is the new entry-level Essential smart bulb lineup. Though still not as cheap as some products you can find on Amazon, it's designed to take on budget rivals like Govee and Aqara with bulbs starting under $20.  The new range includes A19 bulbs, GU10 spots and strip lights with and without color options. Effecti... View Source

Roborock, a company best known for its robovacs, is entering a new product category: robot lawnmowers. During the IFA 2025 tech conference, Roborock took the wraps off a trio of robot mowers, with its premium RockMow Z1 featuring an all-wheel drive system to handle steep slopes of up to 80 percent, or around 38.66 degrees. In addition to sporting independent hub motors on each wheel, the RockMow Z... View Source

Nature is a prolific pharmacist. Aspirin, the blood thinner warfarin and metformin for diabetes all trace back to plants, discovered by serendipity before being transformed into drugs by modern chemistry... View Source

Someone recently asked me: Who even cares about Android tablets anymore? If that's you, you're probably feeling the same indifference towards premium Android tablets. Even Google has conceded it won’t be making new tablets and seems to have already forgotten about the Pixel Tablet. But that’s not stopping Samsung from releasing the 11th-generation Galaxy Tab S11 series, comprising the 11-inch stan... View Source

A type of bacteria found in clean rooms has an unexpected method of survival, with implications for planetary protection... View Source

Huawei has announced the Mate XTs, its second-generation trifold phone, which is available to order now in China. It’s only a minor upgrade on the first edition, but comes with new colors, stylus support, and a slightly lower price tag. The biggest addition is the ability to use a stylus on the folding screen, though otherwise the 10.2-inch display — which folds down to 7.9-inch and 6.4-inch optio... View Source

SK Hynix Inc.’s labor union approved a landmark agreement that could see each employee on average receiving about $80,000 bonus for 2025 alone, averting a strike and potentially setting a precedent for South Korea’s tech industry... View Source

Hue is best known for its smart lights, but recently the company ventured into home security with its Secure lineup of cameras. Now, parent Signify is releasing its first video doorbell, the Hue Secure, with several unique features it hopes will make it stand out against formidable competition from Nest and Amazon's Ring.  To start with, the Hue doorbell comes with a 2K fisheye camera, m... View Source

A Senate Commerce Committee hearing sounded the alarm over the U.S.-China moon race, emphasizing American dominance off Earth as the backdrop for NASA’s next funding authorization... View Source

After years of unofficial copies of Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC floating around on the internet, the software giant has released the code under an open-source license. 6502 BASIC was one of Microsoft’s first pieces of software, adapted in 1976 by Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates and early employee Ric Weiland to run on the 6502 CPU that powered the Apple II, Atari 2600, Nintendo Entertainment System, and... View Source

Samsung Electronics Co. unveiled a $650 version of its premium S25 smartphone and a pair of new tablets, the latest effort to roll out artificial intelligence features across its hardware lineup... View Source

Samsung just launched the Galaxy S25 FE smartphone at IFA. It's available right now, starting at $650. The handset is available in four colorways. This is a midrange member of the Galaxy S25 family, after the company released the S25, S25 Plus and S25 Ultra back in January and the ultra-thin S25 Edge in May. The base-level S25 starts at $800, so this is a slightly cheaper way to get in on all of t... View Source

Aeotec announced its Smart Home Hub 2 at the IFA tech show this week, marking the end of an era. The hub, produced in partnership with Samsung, is the fourth generation to support the SmartThings home automation platform, and the first without a Z-Wave radio. The Smart Home Hub 2 has twice the performance of its predecessor, according to a press release from Aeotec, and features upgraded hardware,... View Source

Investors worried about faltering momentum in the artificial intelligence trade are looking for a spark from Thursday’s earnings report by the world’s hottest chipmaker: Broadcom Inc... View Source

Smart LED light bulbs are one of the easiest ways to upgrade your home with smart lighting solutions that are both practical and fun. These color-changing bulbs let you customize your space with vibrant RGB color options, cozy warm white or any light color you can imagine. They’re compatible with popular systems like Google Home and can work seamlessly with smart switches and other light switches,... View Source

An hour of direct sunlight can fully recharge the new Eufycam S4. | Image: Eufy Eufy, Anker’s smart home brand, has announced a new outdoor security solution with a stationary 4K wide-angle camera that can spot intruders and then trigger a pair of 2K cameras to pan, tilt, and zoom in to get a closer look at their faces, even when they’re up to 164 feet away. Priced at $299, the new Eufycam S4 incl... View Source

Aspirin is commonly prescribed to patients with coronary artery disease to prevent heart attacks and strokes, but a new analysis has found that another drug, clopidogrel, is more effective and just as safe... View Source

India and Singapore pledged Thursday to deepen cooperation on artificial intelligence and semiconductors, signing new industry pacts as New Delhi works to expand trade ties with key partners and blunt the impact of 50% US tariffs... View Source

Eufy just introduced a couple of new devices at the IFA conference in Germany, including something called the MarsWalker. This little doodad picks up robot vacuums and carries them up and down stairs. That's pretty neat, considering stairs are the bane of any robovac's existence. The company says the MarsWalker automatically recognizes common stair types, including straight, L-shaped and... View Source

Eufy’s MarsWalker can transport a robot vacuum up and down stairs. Who needs legs? Eufy, Anker’s smart home brand, believes it has solved the problem of how a single robot vacuum can clean multiple floors in your home. Its new MarsWalker robot is equipped with four arms to carry a vacuum between levels, so you don’t have to lug it up the stairs yourself or buy a robot for each floor. However, you’... View Source

DeepSeek is developing an artificial intelligence model with more advanced AI agent features to compete with US rivals like OpenAI in a newer frontier of the technology, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Aqara’s smart home lineup announced at IFA. | Image: Aqara Aqara’s at IFA in Berlin where it just announced a slew of new smart home products, highlighted by a new wired doorbell camera, a video recording hub for Aqara cameras, and the company’s first battery-powered camera for outdoor use.  The new Doorbell Camera G400 is only available for wired installations, and works with Apple’s HomeKit Secu... View Source

Philips Hue’s new line of smart lights includes revamped light strips, such as the Hue Flux Ultra Bright Strip Light that can output 6,000 lumens. | Image: Hue Smart lighting company Philips Hue debuted a bunch of new products this week at the IFA tech show in Berlin, Germany, and most of them are available now. The launch, which is the biggest in the company’s history, includes cheaper smart ligh... View Source

Cambricon Technologies Corp. shares tumbled by the most in nearly five months on Thursday as investors rotated out of recent winners following its meteoric rise... View Source

The MagFusion Ark is available in multiple sizes with up to three removable wireless charging spheres. | Image: Aukey Aukey has announced a new modular charging solution called the MagFusion Ark. It combines a base station featuring up to three Qi2.2 charging pads with spherical power banks that each have their own Qi2.2-compatible pads. The spheres support passthrough charging and can wirelessly... View Source

Tesla Inc. said it has opened its robotaxi app to the general public, suggesting the company will soon roll out the service beyond a select group of early access users in Austin, Texas... View Source

ArcelorMittal SA’s ‘s talks to sell its local unit to South Africa’s state-owned Industrial Development Corp. are being held up by differences over the entity’s valuation, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Vantage Data Centers is considering acquiring Yondr Group’s assets in Malaysia in a move that would help their joint backer, DigitalBridge Group Inc., simplify its portfolio and boost growth in the Asia Pacific region, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Tech industry leaders including Meta Platforms Inc.’s Mark Zuckerberg, Apple Inc.’s Tim Cook, and Microsoft Corp.’s Satya Nadella are expected to attend an artificial intelligence event hosted by First Lady Melania Trump on Thursday and then join President Donald Trump for an evening reception in the newly renovated Rose Garden... View Source

Saudi Arabia and the UK announced more than £360 million ($484 million) in joint investment deals as the countries look to further boost economic ties and promote cross-border investment... View Source

Buyout firm GTCR is weighing a bid for Hellman & Friedman’s residential security company SimpliSafe, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

French artificial intelligence startup Mistral AI is finalizing a €2 billion investment that values the company at €12 billion ($14 billion), including the new funding — solidifying its position as one of Europe’s most valuable tech startups... View Source

Xiaohongshu’s valuation surged 19% to $31 billion in just three months during recent transactions via a major fund, underscoring the intense investor demand for a Chinese-equivalent to Instagram... View Source

Nidec Corp.’s shares plunged 22%, the most on record, after the Japanese electronics components company announced that it has set up a third-party committee to investigate improper accounting... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc., Google, TikTok Inc. and other digital platforms have been told by Australia’s online safety regulator to prepare now for the country’s social-media ban for under-16s — three months out from when the law comes into force... View Source

Canadian database company Information Services Corp. is facing a fresh challenge from one of its top shareholders, which is pressing for major changes to the board after increasing its stake... View Source

There are three major structural body parts for the modular construction of the Tesla Cybercab and the fourth major part is the structural battery. This makes the modularly constructed Tesla Cybercab hyper efficient for mass production but should also make it easy for Tesla to get production started in a few months. Joe Tegtmeyer saw ... Read more... View Source

Salesforce Inc. projected lackluster quarterly sales growth, suggesting its artificial intelligence product isn’t yet paying off as quickly as hoped in the face of competition from emerging AI companies... View Source

Apple continues to seek a foothold in the artificial intelligence race, and its next effort could bring the company into web search. Mark Gurman at Bloomberg reports that Apple is building a search platform that it may incorporate into its AI-driven overhaul of Siri. Sources said the tool, internally called World Knowledge Answers, could also be added to the Safari web browser and the Spotlight sm... View Source

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. gave a disappointing earnings forecast for the current period, renewing concerns about tightening margins in the server computer industry... View Source

West Coast states are forming their own vaccine compact as Florida announces plans to ditch shot requirements for schoolchildren... View Source

President Donald Trump said former ally Elon Musk has no choice but to return to the Republican Party after their highly public rift earlier this year... View Source

Sometimes, rising prices for streaming services feels as inevitable as death and taxes. So when a serious discount is available, we tend to sit up and take notice. For a few weeks, you can get a whopping half off an annual subscription to Paramount+. A year of the Paramount+ Essential plan, which is ad-supported, will cost $30 compared to the usual $60. Paramount+ Premium, which is ad-free except... View Source

The four Artemis 2 moon astronauts passed the "Bobby and Pete" fitness challenge recently, performing 100 pushups and 50 pull-ups in less than 10 minutes... View Source

Eric Trump, co-founder of American Bitcoin and the son of US President Donald Trump, and Hut 8 CEO Asher Genoot discuss American Bitcoin’s business strategy on “Bloomberg The Close.” Eric Trump’s stake in American Bitcoin is now worth about $548 million, according to Bloomberg calculations, with Trump owning about 7.5% of the company... View Source

OpenAI has announced that it's making its Projects feature available to free users of ChatGPT. Projects let you organize chats with the company's AI assistant around a specific subject, and were previously one of several privileges only enjoyed by paid subscribers. While on some level Projects are glorified folders for ChatGPT conversations, the ability to set custom instructions for how... View Source

Switzerland launched an open-source model called Apertus on Monday as an alternative to proprietary models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Anthropic’s Claude, reports SWI as spotted by Engadget. The model’s source code, training data, model weights, and detailed development process are available on the AI model platform HuggingFace.  Apertus, which is Latin for “open,” was designed to “set a new bas... View Source

As part of its efforts to shore up NASA's flailing Artemis Program, the Trump administration earlier this year proposed two major changes to the agency's deep space exploration plans. First, in the president's budget request for fiscal year 2026, the White House sought to terminate NASA's costly Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft after the Artemis III mission, the first human landing... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow examine the remedies ruling in Google’s antitrust case that allows the company to retain its Chrome browser. Plus, Apple loses another top AI researcher to Meta. And Rolls-Royce CFO Helen McCabe discusses the growth of the company’s small modular nuclear reactors business. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Testing this anti-glare screen protector revealed a very dead cockroach in my ceiling. I have a dead cockroach in my ceiling, and I only noticed it thanks to a Switch 2 screen protector that, ironically, is supposed to tame reflections. The protector in question is a pre-production sample of the Jsaux Obsidian AR screen protector, which is coming in October for $21.99. The company claims it's bett... View Source

Alphabet Inc.’s Google, found by the US last year to have a monopoly in online search, avoided the most severe outcomes because the judge in the case concluded that its business was already under a growing threat — from AI... View Source

Roblox announced that it aims to roll out age estimation technology to all of its users by the end of 2025. Users on the gaming and social network will have to confirm their age in order to access communication features within the platform under the new policy. Roblox initially rolled out an age verification option to teen accounts in July as part of an effort to keep users younger than 13 from ac... View Source

Apple is working on an AI-powered search feature for Siri – but it might need Google’s help to make it happen, according to a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. As noted by Gurman, Google is currently in the lead to help Apple revamp its voice assistant, which could involve using a custom Gemini model running on the iPhone maker’s servers. The new feature, reportedly called “World Knowledge Answ... View Source

XAI Chief Financial Officer Mike Liberatore has left the company just a few months after taking the job, according to people familiar with the matter, creating a high-profile vacancy at Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup... View Source

Now that the Pixel 10 series has been out for a week, Google has begun rolling many of the software features it debuted with those phones to its older devices as part of the September Pixel drop. Starting today, if you own any Pixel device Google has released since 2021, including the Pixel 6 and Pixel Tablet, you can start to customize your device with the company's new Material 3 Expressive... View Source

A new Big Bang model does away with speculative elements, putting gravitational waves at the forefront of the creation of galaxies, stars, and planets... View Source

If you ever doubted the “console wars” were over, here’s a new piece of data to consider: Helldivers 2, formerly console exclusive to Sony’s PS5, is currently the best-selling title on Xbox. In fact, it’s the first and third best-selling game, if you count its more premium edition, and it’s currently the ninth-most played game on the platform — mostly beaten by free-to-play games like Fortnite and... View Source

Apple Inc. is planning to launch its own artificial intelligence-powered web search tool next year, stepping up competition with OpenAI and Perplexity AI Inc... View Source

We finally have our Lara Croft, well over two years after Prime Video's Tomb Raider series was first announced. Game of Thrones alum Sophie Turner has been cast in the role, according to The Hollywood Reporter. She had better start trying on khaki shorts and blue sleeveless shirts. Turner acknowledges the "massive shoes to fill" from previous actors that have played the role, shouti... View Source

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This month’s Google Pixel drop includes a broader rollout of the company’s splashy UI revamp. Starting today, Google will bring its Material 3 Expressive design language to Pixel 6 devices and newer, in addition to the Pixel Tablet. Google first revealed the youthful new design language in May before launching it with its Android 16-equipped Pixel 10 phones last month. Along with a more colorful,... View Source

China started imposing levies on additional US optical fiber imports after a six-month investigation found that American companies circumvented the country’s anti-dumping measures... View Source

A PlayStation State of Play showcase all about 007 First Light shed some light on how Hitman developer IO Interactive's James Bond game works. The stream also disclosed what was, until now, a top-secret nugget of intel: the release date. 007 First Light is coming to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch 2, Steam and Epic Games Store on March 27. The State of Play included a partial... View Source

McArthur launched on two spaceflights, logging 213 days in orbit across her nearly 25 years, and held leadership positions at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston... View Source

Pixel phones will now be able to stream audio to multiple headphones at once thanks to expanded Bluetooth LE Audio and Auracast support. If you have a Pixel 8 or newer, you’ll now be able to pair two headphones at a time. That means you can make your friend listen to the new Nourished by Time single with you on the bus, or catch up on Alien Earth with your significant other on a plane.  You’l... View Source

Marketed as a tool against criminals, spyware use by governments around the world has led to scandals... View Source

IO Interactive seemingly wrapped up its assassination series Hitman in 2023, launching the anthology on practically every game platform. But it’s not done with sneaking, subterfuge, and… sniper rifles. The game developer announced that it was making a new James Bond game, teasing an "unrefined" Bond in training – yes, it’s another reimagined origin story. At a closed-door briefing at Gam... View Source

SpaceX is one step closer to nearly tripling the number of Falcon 9 launches from Florida... View Source

IO Interactive, developers of the much-beloved Hitman series, showed off its latest title, 007 First Light during a special September State of Play. In it, instead of a bald Agent 47, you play a youthful and immaculately coiffed James Bond — and that’s pretty much the biggest distinction between the two games. Watch the thirty minute stream here. As in Hitman, First Light’s gameplay demo featured... View Source

Scale AI Inc. sued rival data-labeling startup Mercor, accusing the firm and a former Scale employee of stealing trade secrets to attract new business... View Source

Ubisoft is releasing a free Discovery Tour app covering the history of Baghdad, the setting of Assassin's Creed Mirage. The game launched in 2023 without Ubisoft's "Discovery Tour" feature, a mode that's previously been packed into Assassin's Creed games — starting with 2017's Assassin's Creed Origins — and uses the game's open-world maps and character... View Source

Israel launched the Ofek 19 spy satellite atop a Shavit rocket on Sept. 2, which came as a surprise to some local residents, according to news reports... View Source

The Anker Laptop Power Bank can charge four devices at once. Anker’s Laptop Power Bank came to the rescue of my laptop and smartphone during a recent power outage. They were on the verge of dying, but its pair of retractable USB-C cables powered up my devices so I could keep working remotely. Since then, I carry it with me wherever I go, and it’s bailed me out time and again. If you need a powerfu... View Source

NBCUniversal’s ad inventory for the upcoming NFL season is 90% sold out, with the 2026 Super Bowl already fully booked... View Source

The sports broadcasting piracy network Streameast has been shut down after it was investigated for a year by a US-based anti-piracy group. Streameast is the largest illegal sports streaming platform in the world, and while active it offered its users free access to 80 unauthorised domains. This allowed people to pirate live soccer matches from the Premier League and Champions League, as well as NF... View Source

It's been a tumultuous summer for Scale AI: Meta took a multibillion-dollar stake in the company, Mark Zuckerberg hired Scale CEO Alexandr Wang and other top staff, and Scale laid off 14 percent of its workforce. Now the latest development is a lawsuit over corporate espionage in the AI industry. The AI data labeling company, which has provided training data to fuel many of the industry's leading... View Source

Amazon.com Inc. wants to refresh its aging fleet of blue delivery vans, but the small businesses that use them to ferry packages say they’re getting blindsided by repair bills of $20,000 or more that they can ill afford... View Source

It’s shaping up to be a good week for people who like enormous party speakers. Hot on the heels of JBL’s PartyBox 720 comes Samsung’s latest Sound Tower. The two new models are the ST50F and the ST40F, both of which are designed to provide music for large gatherings, indoors or outdoors. A redesigned acoustic structure houses dual dome tweeters equipped with Samsung’s Waveguide tech, which it says... View Source

The unannounced Hue doorbell leaks early. The Philips Hue store on Amazon’s UK site is hosting a number of new products that have yet to be announced as the big IFA 2025 show gets under way in Berlin, Germany. We’re seeing that rumored Hue Doorbell, a new Hue Bridge Pro (in black), a new Essential lighting sub-brand, and something called MotionAware that turns “light devices into motion sensors,”... View Source

The $85 million funding round values Exa at $700 million. ... View Source

The social media platform Instagram is finally available on the iPad as a native app. It only took 15 years, as the app first launched all the way back in 2010. We knew this was coming and, well, now it's here. The iPad is a different platform from a smartphone, so the tablet-based app features redesigned elements. For instance, the app opens directly into a feed of Reels. The iPad app also l... View Source

There are three major structural body parts for the modular construction of the Tesla Cybercab and the fourth major part is the structural battery. Joe Tegtmeyer saw that the Tesla Cybercab modules are being made in Austin and tested in Fremont and Austin. There are large numbers of the castings being made. Tesla Cybercab production ... Read more... View Source

Roblox is going to start showing ESRB ratings alongside experiences to help users in the US better understand if an experience is appropriate for a user of a certain age. The new ratings will appear thanks to Roblox’s new partnership with the International Age Rating Coalition (IARC), which was announced today. As part of the partnership, players in other countries will see age ratings from the ra... View Source

Instagram is launching a dedicated iPad app for the first time, offering a redesigned version of its popular mobile app that’s meant to encourage more video consumption... View Source

Netflix has upgraded its Moments feature for the mobile app. It already lets users save iconic scenes, but now there's a simple editor to bring it in line with something like Twitch's clipping tool. Viewers can use the tool to set start and end points, so they can turn preferred scenes into "full clips to save, relive and share anytime." Just tap the "Clip" button whe... View Source