SpaceX’s Starfall Flew Again — and Shared Its Falcon 9 With a Rival Capsule
A Falcon 9 rose over Cape Canaveral in the pre-dawn dark on Tuesday carrying 32 payloads into orbit — and two of them were built…
AI & Generative Tech
Claude Code Is Turning Smart TVs ‘Dumb’ — and Owners Are Loving It
It started with a sponsored ad on a parent’s TV. A developer got tired of watching an ad play before…
OpenAI Is Racing to Close a $30B Round Before Anthropic’s IPO Sets the Price
Thirty Billion, on Fast-Forward OpenAI is in a hurry, and Anthropic’s IPO is the reason. According to Reuters, the ChatGPT…
AI Agents Are About to Start Haggling — Anthropic Is Asking Lawyers to Write the Rules
Before the Bots Start Haggling Anthropic is quietly asking lawyers how AI agents should negotiate — and the fact that…
Smartphones & Mobile
OnePlus Is Putting a Real Fan Inside the Ace 7 — and It’s About More Than Gaming
OnePlus is about to put a spinning fan inside a mainstream phone, and it’s not hiding the engineering. OnePlus China…
iPhone Duo Delivery Dates Are Moving Up — the Sellout Panic Is Already Easing
From December to Launch Day Four days ago, the iPhone Duo was backordered into 2027. Now some buyers are getting…
iPhone Duo Sold Out in 3 Minutes — Here’s Why Apple Can’t Make Enough
Gone in Three Minutes: The Timeline Apple’s first foldable sold out faster than almost any iPhone in recent memory. Pre-orders…
Verizon Wants $10 a Month for iPhone Handoff — Double T-Mobile’s Price
The Two-iPhone Tax Verizon has confirmed it will charge customers $10 a month for Apple’s new iPhone Handoff feature —…
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Google and Synaptics’ New Wearable AI Chip Sips Just 6 Milliwatts — But There’s a Catch
Your next smartwatch could run AI without ever talking to the cloud — and sip less power than a dim…
Touchscreen MacBook Pro: What Apple’s Oct 28 ‘Pro and Tell’ Event Will Reveal
Apple said on Monday it will host a “Pro and tell” event in Los Angeles on October 28 — and…
Street Fighter II Lands on Your Wrist for $79.99 — No Bluetooth, No Wi-Fi, No Problem
Thirty-five years after Ryu and Ken first squared off in arcades, you can fight them on your wrist. My Play…
Apps & Software Tools
ChatGPT Locked Chats: What the New PIN Lock Really Protects — and What It Doesn’t
OpenAI has given ChatGPT users a way to hide individual conversations behind a lock. Announced on Tuesday, October 20, the…
This Free App Streams Hi-Res FLAC With No Ads — the Catch Is Your Headphones
The Pitch: Studio Sound for Zero Dollars A free app that streams CD-quality and hi-res FLAC audio, shows no ads…
Robotics & Automation
Eka Robotics Just Raised $150M to Give Robots a Sense of Touch
Robots still aren’t very good at picking things up. Despite billions of dollars of investment and endless hours of video…
Hyundai Just Built a War Room for Its Humanoid Robots — but the Union Gets a Veto
The War Room: Hyundai’s New RX Team Hyundai Motor Group has created a dedicated RX Business Strategy Team to oversee…
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AI Agents Are the New Insider Threat, Says Microsoft: ‘Frontier Models Cannot Be Trusted’
Microsoft wants you to trust its AI security products. It does not want you to trust the AI models themselves…
Anthropic Is Giving Away 5% of Itself — a Pledge That Could Top $100 Billion
Anthropic announced Sunday that it will commit 5% of its shares to a new Anthropic Public Benefit Fund — a…
The Leap Second Is Dead: Timekeepers Just Killed the Tweak That Kept Crashing the Internet
The world’s official clock just lost a second it will never get back. On Thursday, timekeepers from 69 countries voted…