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Snap is launching its first consumer AR glasses, called Specs, for $2,195 this fall in the US, UK, and France. They're fully standalone, offer a 51-degree field of view, up to 20 total hours of battery life, and support prescription lenses — putting Snap directly into an increasingly crowded but still unproven smart glasses market.
Chrome is dropping Manifest V2 support, killing ad blockers like uBlock Origin. Chrome 150 removes the last workaround (June 30), Chrome 151 kills remaining flags (July 2026), with Edge and Opera expected to follow.
Microsoft is bundling all Windows 11 updates — security patches, drivers, bug fixes, and more — into a single installation requiring just one reboot per month. Part of the Windows K2 initiative, the change directly responds to...
Commodore's new Callback 8020 is a flip phone designed to cut distractions by blocking social media and browsers. Running Sailfish OS, it supports most Android apps, features retro Commodore 64 games, swappable covers, an 8-bit...
Wear OS 7 is now available for Pixel watches, featuring a redesigned UI, improved notifications, and built-in Gemini AI with live updates and smarter on-wrist tools.
Kodak is releasing new Y2K-inspired designs for its Charmera camera, bringing early-2000s aesthetics to the compact shooter. The retro-styled updates give the already-popular little camera a fresh look that taps into the current...
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A free, browser-based audio editor lets creators upload, trim, and polish audio files without installing any software. It supports MP3, WAV, M4A, and most browser-compatible formats, offering timeline editing, waveform rendering,...
Oh-my-reddit is a terminal app for browsing Reddit live, with real-time comments, vote updates, and optional GPT-4o-mini AI analysis. It reuses your browser session and supports macOS voice narration.
Researchers at KAIST used atom-level computer simulations to determine how small transistors can shrink before quantum effects cause electron leakage. They found transistors could function below 4 nanometers, giving chipmakers a...
OpenAI is preparing a major voice upgrade for ChatGPT called GPT-Bidi-1, a next-generation audio model that can listen and speak simultaneously, handle interruptions, and adjust mid-sentence. This closes a gap between ChatGPT's...
Xreal has opened preorders for its Aura mixed reality headset, set to ship this fall, powered by Qualcomm's new Snapdragon Reality Elite chipset — making it the first device to use it. Running Google's Android XR, Aura features a...
Researchers have developed a way to make sperm magnetic, allowing them to be guided remotely toward an egg inside the body. This could transform IVF by eliminating many invasive steps like hormone injections and egg retrieval....
A robot that plugs in your car while you walk away. That's the promise from Chinese tech giant Xiaomi, which has unveiled a robotic charging arm for residential garages that automatically connects to an electric vehicle after it...
Huawei launched HarmonyOS 7, the world's first operating system fully rebuilt around AI, with its voice assistant now acting as the system's intelligent core. Already running on 66 million devices with 400,000 apps, Huawei also...
Erini Lambrides grew up in Brooklyn dreaming of acting, but stumbled into astrophysics after randomly picking up Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time at her performing arts high school. Despite failing her first college...
Apple's iOS 27 update will make older iPhones — as far back as the 2019 iPhone 11 — noticeably faster, with app launches up to 30% quicker and photo library loading up to 70% faster. Supporting older devices keeps loyal customers...
EA's new Advertising Experiences division signals a strategic push to make in-game ads a core revenue stream, meaning players can expect more embedded advertising across EA titles going forward.
Facebook has added AI-powered photo-editing and question-answering tools to its platforms, but the features largely mirror what competitors already offer. The additions give users more ways to interact with AI, though they don't...
For the first time, a satellite independently identified objects of interest using AI — no human analysts required. NASA JPL's software ran Google's Gemma 3 vision-language model aboard Loft Orbital's YAM-9 satellite, answering...
A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket exploded during a routine engine test at Cape Canaveral in late May 2026, raising serious concerns about NASA's timeline to land humans on the Moon by 2028. The explosion occurred when the rocket's...
Apple scrapped its incremental Siri upgrade and rebuilt it from scratch. The new iOS 27 Siri is natively multimodal, privacy-focused, and works consistently across all Apple devices.
SpaceX went public on June 12 on the Nasdaq, raising $75 billion by pricing 555.6 million shares at $135 each — the largest IPO in history. Shares jumped 19% on the first day, closing at $160.95. The IPO made Elon Musk the...
UC San Diego researchers, working with Google, are repurposing retired Pixel phones into small data center nodes by stripping them down and running Linux instead of Android. Surprisingly, three-year-old phone chips can outperform...
Google has added a flight simulator to its web-based Earth viewer, bringing a feature previously hidden in the desktop version to anyone with a browser. Accessible through earth.google.com, it lets users fly over real satellite...