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.
Beats has partnered with The Pokémon Company to launch a special edition of the Beats Pill portable Bluetooth speaker. Adorned with Pikachu and Mimikyu, the special edition speaker comes in a custom retail box and will be released on October 15 in the US, China, and the UK.
The global campaigns to break China’s dominance of vital rare-earth markets are shaping up into one of the signature geostrategic struggles of the early 21st century. Hundreds of mining companies, government agencies, and industrial facilities scattered across North America, Australasia, and Europe are striving to wrest share from Chinese firms, which control roughly 90 percent of the markets for rare-earth oxides and rare-earth metals.
Microsoft has redesigned its Photos app for Windows 11, overhauling the editor and image viewer, and combining photos and videos from your PC, OneDrive, and iCloud into a single space. The new combined gallery experience aims to make it easier to manage and view your photos without jumping between apps or devices, while also improving…
One of the singular features of Baotou, an industrial city of 2 million people in Inner Mongolia, is a 10-square-kilometer (4-square-mile) lake that is among the most polluted in the world. The artificial lake, referred to by the name of the dam associated with it, Weikuang Dam (or Baogang Tailings Dam), has for decades collected the effluent from minerals processing for China’s globally dominant iron, steel, and rare-earths industries.
Following the launch of its $50 subscription-free security camera last month, Shelly announced another new accessory for smart home automation today that can keep track of multiple people as they move through rooms or large spaces without recording them. The Shelly Presence Gen4 sensor uses mmWave radar technology instead of a camera to detect the…
NVIDIA appears bent on supercharging its push towards open-weight models, especially after it recently inked an agreement to acquire Hugging Face, the platform that serves as a huge repository for just such AI models. As a case in point, consider that NVIDIA has just unveiled three new open-weight models: the 120-billion-parameter Nemotron 3.5 Super VL to coordinate always-on agents, the Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B 24GB for optimizing local agentic workloads, and the Nemotron…
NVIDIA today released Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, an open 120-billion-parameter model that delivers the fastest task completion and highest accuracy for specialized always-on agents. Joining it are two new edge models: Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B 24GB, optimized to balance intelligence and speed per GB for local agentic workloads, and Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B 4GB, optimized…
Ever spot random symbols in a chatbot's answer and wonder what they were doing there? Those symbols are Markdown, a text format that has been around since 2004.
Today in a new story at TIME, the publication interviewed CEO John Ternus but also spoke to Greg “Joz” Joswiak, Apple’s SVP of Worldwide Marketing, who addressed the “lunatic fringe” of AI in Silicon Valley, hardware threats from OpenAI, and
Deal | Greentoe has the Seiko Presage Cocktail Time SRPL63 at $367, a third off the $550 MSRP. Seiko’s own store is sold out, the best authorized price is $440 and grey market shows it at $386. It's a neat, compact 34 mm piece with a subtle yet elegant pale green textured dial.
In this episode, SpaceNews’ Mike Gruss talks with NASA’s Shatel Bhakta, the principal systems engineer for Moon Base, about what’s needed between now and 2028 and the incremental steps to…
The demand is being driven primarily by customers' expectations of continued investment in AI, Fouquet said. It also comes as Samsung and TSMC committed during the third quarter to using ASML's High NA extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines. These next-generation tools are considered important to the Dutch equipment maker's future...
The Ugreen NASync DXP2800 GT impresses in our review with powerful hardware but still lacks volume encryption. Individual folders can now be encrypted, but is that enough? We explain the differences and discuss who should be concerned about this missing feature.
The Minisforum S5 was initially introduced at Computex 2026, and the company has now made the all-flash NAS available for purchase. This compact system is powered by the Intel Wildcat Lake platform, and the option without any SSDs costs $599, making it relatively affordable.
KeyBanc analysts have come away from their recent trip to Asia with an overwhelmingly positive view of Intel's foundry-related momentum, echoing the rosy outlook espoused by Piper Sandler back in September. As per the emerging picture, Intel Foundry is on track to win sizable orders from the who's who of the AI/hyperscaler world for its 18A-P and 14A processes, with the bulk of the orders skewed towards the latter, however.
Amazon.com Inc. today debuted two new wearable, artificial intelligence-enabled devices aimed at making everyday life simpler by listening to conversations and helping users remember what matters. Bee is a personal AI device, coming in the form of Frontier, a wristband, and Eclipse, a credit-card-shaped magnetic snap-on for smartphones. It can listen into calls and conversations,…