Apple has just announced the HomeView, its first smart home display - and I just got hands-on with the device, which features a gorgeous 7-inch square touchscreen and built-in Siri AI. It's designed as a smart home controller, personal assistant, and home hub for your household, so there was a lot to check out. The…
Vibe coding is all the rage right now, with new apps and services popping up almost every hour. You can now vibe code an app tailored to your needs in minutes. Google is embracing this chaos and making it easier to install these vibe-coded apps on your own Android devices through Google Play, with sharing coming later.
Siri AI is a tentpole addition to HomePod mini 2, but a CNET report today originally claimed Siri AI was coming to older HomePod mini models too. However, the story has since been updated with a correction and 9to5Mac received a statement confirming Siri AI will be exclusive to HomePod mini 2.
Google’s new Fitbit Edge tracker launches later this month and, as we get our review together, here’s a quick hands-on look at the new middle child of Google’s wearable lineup.
YouTube Music is rolling out new player labels to alert listeners when songs are fully or partially created using generative AI, including elements like vocals and composition. Users can tap the label to access more details regarding how AI was involved in the track, with YouTube planning to expand these labels to its primary video platform. [1][2]
To classify content, the service combines partner metadata disclosures—which can flag tracks as fully, partly, or not generated by AI—with internal detection tools. YouTube indicated that tracks may still be marked even if creators leave disclosure fields blank. [1]
Epic's redesigned launcher is now available in Preview. The company openly describes the new client as "vibe coded," claiming it loads game libraries 30x faster and starts up 46% faster than Steam. The overhaul also brings a cleaner interface, improved game management, and native Linux support for the first time.
It’s been less than a month since YouTube said it planned to let users post GIFs in the comments section. The time has come, and this is just the beginning of a gradual rollout.
Memory has become the scarcest resource in the AI data center, and hyperscalers are rethinking how they hand it out. Composable memory, which pools capacity beyond individual servers and assigns it to workloads on demand, is emerging as one of the most practical answers to that squeeze. The pressure is visible across AI factories where…
Sony has revealed a new lineup of games coming to the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog in October 2026. The lineup includes Horizon Forbidden West, Mafia: The Old Country, and
Shares of Oracle Corp., DigitalOcean Inc.. and several other tech firms dropped today after a chart about CoreWeave Holdings Inc.’s finances went viral on X. CoreWeave operates a cloud platform optimized for artificial intelligence workloads. The company has grown its data center network from three facilities to 51 over the past four years. It financed…
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company SpaceXSI, formerly xAI, today released Grok Voice 3.0, a new version of the speech-to-speech model behind its Voice Agent API. SpaceXSI is pitching the model to businesses that handle customer support and sales calls with voice agents. Independent testing firm Artificial Analysis ranks it first among models of its type. Artificial…
Led by Nobel laureate David Baker, researchers at UW Medicine's Institute for Protein Design have used AI to engineer reusable molecular "scissors" capable of repeatedly destroying target proteins linked to diseases like Alzheimer's and ALS. Because these proteases chop up targets repeatedly instead of clinging to just one, they could treat complex conditions at far lower doses.
Consulting firm McKinsey & Company is going to ask some entry-level candidates to have a 10-minute conversation with an AI simulation of a client as part of the interview process, according to The Wall Street Journal. The AI simulation "aims to reflect 80% of the scenarios McKinsey consultants might encounter in their day-to-day work," the…
AI factory deployment has long been a race to secure graphics processing units, but the builders of those systems are finding that compute is only half the problem. Data pipelines, storage costs and the clock on getting a cluster running now weigh as heavily as raw horsepower. The companies supplying that infrastructure are rethinking where…
Intero Biosystems is selling lab-grown human intestines to drugmakers as regulators push for alternatives to animal testing, while the startup looks to scale production and expand its organoid technology.
The Noah × Timex Boatswain is a new vintage-inspired quartz watch with an elliptical case, Roman numerals and an unusual rope-pattern minute track. Priced at $228, it is scheduled to launch on 15 October in two finishes.
Apple is rolling out its stunning Detailed City Experience in Apple Maps for users in Austin, TX. This marks a robust overhaul of Apple Maps in Austin, similar to what we’ve seen in other markets like San Francisco, Chicago, and London.
Mozilla has just launched a brand-new offering for its European customers. Firefox Enterprise is a version of the open source browser tailored to the specific needs of companies and other enterprise organizations, bundled with additional services designed to strengthen and protect digital sovereignty. For a price, of course.