The Brutalist Report - tech
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- Protecting Engineers' Skills in the AI Era [1d]
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- GLP-1s Are Being Linked to Fewer Serious Infections, Including TB [1d]
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- Models Don't Go Rogue [1d]
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- Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out [1d]
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- If a startup worth your career [1d]
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- GPT-6 Astra makes major gains in the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index [1d]
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- Three-LLM: Three.js-based WebGPU LLM inference engine [1d]
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- OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on ARC-AGI-3 [1d]
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- Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users? [1d]
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- The death of San Francisco's Market Street [1d]
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- GPT-6 Astra System Card [1d]
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- GPT-6-Astra: infinitely pairs of consecutive primes with distance at most 186 [1d]
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- The asteroid currently hitting front end web development [1d]
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- Arrested for a Late Manuscript: Seicho Matsumoto's 'Tokyo Express' [1d]
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- 'Fakers' by Rory Cormac Review [1d]
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- GPT-6 Astra [1d]
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- Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tok/SEC [1d]
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- Never Forget How Eagerly Apple and Google Coddled Fascism [1d]
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- OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra [1d]
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- The Double Matthew Walker Knot by Fable 5.1 [1d]
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- OpenAI says it has overtaken Anthropic with its latest AI model [1d]
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- "Welcome to the AGI era," OpenAI says as GPT-6 Astra debuts [1d]
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- Winter 2026/2027 First Forecast: Super El Niño Drives a Major Weather Divide [1d]
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- The paradox of diffusion distillation (2024) [1d]
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- Instrument Clusters Are Now Paid Extras in Two Hyundai Models [1d]
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- Sanders introduces bill to ban artificial superintelligence and pause AI [1d]
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- How concerned should we be about Astra's recurrent architecture? [1d]
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- Usbsid-Pico: Bridging Real Commodore 64 Sound to Modern USB [1d]
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- Cheap Desktop 400GbE Switch MikroTik CRS804-4DDQ-HRM Review [1d]
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- Founding Creative Engineer – Gooseworks (YC W23) Is Hiring [1d]
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- Launch HN: Mireye (YC S26) – Infrastructure for Physical World AI Agents [1d]
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- Launch HN: Mireye (YC S26) – Infrastructure for Physical World AI Agents [1d]
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- Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60% [1d]
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- OpenAI's new reasoning technique alarms AI safety experts [1d]
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- Texas Data Center Map: See where data centers are operating or planned [1d]
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- Prediction: AI Will Collapse [1d]
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- VC isn't VC anymore – understanding the rise of Cancer Capital [1d]
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- Sony makes bold claim about game ownership [1d]
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- K2 Horizon: Frontier Performance, Radically Open [1d]
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- ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok Are Down [1d]
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- Anatomy of a Browser [1d]
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- Ask HN: Why are OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down? Coincidence? [1d]
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- Elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex [1d]
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- .name Termination [1d]
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- Codex Is Down [1d]
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- Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived [1d]
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- ChatGPT and Codex Is Down [1d]
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- ChatGPT Is Throwing 404 [1d]
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- Show HN: I made a word building game supporting anagrams and one handed use [1d]
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- Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly [1d]
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- Mom Gets 6-Mo Suspended Sentence for Letting 5-Year-Old Walk to the Pond [1d]
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- New York Times and The Athletic workers demand company scrap Kalshi deal [1d]
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- Astronomers Detect a 10-Sided Structure in Saturn's Atmosphere [1d]
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- Fuck Off as a Service (Foaas) [1d]
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- ICE Has a $2M Contract for Spyware That Can Hack Phones Without a Click [1d]
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- Elevated Errors for Multiple Models [1d]
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- Show HN: Reactor Atlas [2d]
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- Nvidia to acquire Hugging Face [2d]
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- Nvidia to Acquire Hugging Face [2d]
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- Sources: Index Ventures dropped plans to invest in AI assistant Town after Instinct, which Index is backing, complained about a potential conflict of interest (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media) [1d]
- Sources: Crusoe raised $3B+ at a ~$30B post-money valuation; Atreides Management and Valor Equity Partners co-led the round, with Mubadala Capital participating (Bloomberg) [1d]
- Sources: PayPal has paused plans to sell its VC portfolio for $900M-$1B after bids came in lower than hoped, months after deciding to wind down PayPal Ventures (Axios) [1d]
- Oura files for a US IPO, reporting a $924.3M net loss on $1.21B in revenue for the nine months ended June 30, vs. a $182.8M net loss on $697.6M a year earlier (Subrat Patnaik/Bloomberg) [1d]
- Adobe names Customer Experience Orchestration president Anil Chakravarthy as CEO, effective December 1, replacing Shantanu Narayen, who becomes executive chair (Annie Palmer/CNBC) [1d]
- OpenAI commits $1B in subsidized model access, training, support, and partnerships to a new initiative aimed at protecting essential services around the world (Sam Sabin/Axios) [1d]
- Sources: Crusoe signed a ~$13B, five-year deal with Jane Street to provide GPUs and other infrastructure for AI training and inference via its cloud platform (Bloomberg) [1d]
- GPT-6 Astra scores 62.7% on ARC-AGI-3 with the standard harness and 99.9% with a new provider adapter harness; Claude Opus 5 scored 30.2%, and GPT-5.6 Sol 7.8% (Greg Kamradt/ARC Prize) [1d]
- DOD's Emil Michael says Anthropic is still a designated supply chain risk, a day after Howard Lutnick said it resolved its issues with the Trump administration (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg) [1d]
- A White House official says Zuckerberg opposed a US AI regulator in a call with Trump last month; another source says he didn't ask Trump to change his stance (Politico) [1d]
- Microsoft AI debuts MAI-Transcribe-2, a speech recognition model that it says beats Gemini 3.5 Transcribe and GPT-Transcribe, at $0.10/audio hour through 2026 (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat) [1d]
- OpenAI says Astra was built on its largest-ever training run, using more than 100,000 GPUs at its Stargate site in Texas (Ina Fried/Axios) [1d]
- OpenAI calls GPT-6 Astra the "world's best computer use model"; in tests, it booked DMV appointments and searched job listings faster than the average person (Maxwell Zeff/Wired) [1d]
- OpenAI prices GPT-6 Astra at $10/1M input tokens and $50/1M output tokens, matching Anthropic's pricing for Claude Fable 5.1 (The Deep View) [1d]
- OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, initially available to organizations in its Daybreak Access program; Greg Brockman says "we are now in the AGI era" (Hayden Field/The Verge) [1d]
- Sources: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab is in talks to raise $1B+ at a $40B+ pre-money valuation, lower than the $50B+ valuation it sought last year (The Information) [1d]
- Humain launches humain-m3, an Arabic-language model developed with MiniMax, amid controversy among US allies over sovereign AI built with Chinese models (Bloomberg) [1d]
- Microsoft will open Xbox Cloud Gaming to non-Game Pass users via a pay-as-you-go model; Ultimate subs will be limited to 15 hours per month of cloud gaming (Tom Warren/The Verge) [1d]
- India-based smart ring maker Ultrahuman raised $70M, including $5M in debt, a source says at a $365M valuation, and is working with Qualcomm on a new ring (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch) [1d]
- Sources: Cursor was a top-five OpenAI customer at the start of 2026; OpenAI estimated in spring that Cursor would bring in $1B+ in annualized revenue for OpenAI (Maxwell Zeff/Wired) [1d]
- Nvidia launches Personal AI Router (PAIR), a free tool that distributes local AI inference workloads across compatible computers on a network, in beta (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge) [1d]
- Nvidia says the RTX Spark N1X launches in October in two configurations: a 20-core CPU with a 6,144-core Blackwell GPU and an 18-core CPU with a 5,120-core GPU (Andrew E. Freedman/Tom's Hardware) [1d]
- Claude, ChatGPT, and Grok are experiencing issues; Anthropic reports errors across Opus 4.8 and Opus 5, and OpenAI reports errors across ChatGPT and Codex (Ben Schoon/9to5Google) [1d]
- Upwind, which filters false security alerts in cloud apps so companies can focus on actual risks, raised $300M at a $3.8B valuation, up from $1.5B in January (Meir Orbach/CTech) [1d]
- PitchBook: 95+ investors put money into both Anthropic and OpenAI amid shifting norms; sources: Menlo, Lightspeed, and Iconiq each hold 1%-2% Anthropic stakes (Erin Griffith/New York Times) [1d]
- Sources: Saudi AI company Humain is planning to raise an initial $2.5B fund to help finance data center capacity of 250 MW in Saudi Arabia (Omar El Chmouri/Bloomberg) [1d]
- Munich-based Atira, which aims to use AI to automate the parsing and generation of complex bid proposals, raised a $15M seed led by Accel and a $2.5M pre-seed (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune) [1d]
- HTC rolls out its $499 Vive Eagle, which let users choose between Gemini or ChatGPT as their assistant, in North America, Europe, the UK, and Australia (Chris Welch/Bloomberg) [1d]
- TrendForce: for a 256GB iPhone Pro model, Q3 memory costs are forecast to be ~400% higher than a year prior but Apple won't pass on the full cost to customers (Ben Lovejoy/9to5Mac) [2d]
- Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9B, its second-biggest purchase after it paid $20B for Groq assets at the end of last year (Ari Levy/CNBC) [2d]
- PlusAI, which is operating autonomous freight routes in Texas with trucking company Ryder, plans to go public in a SPAC deal at an $800M pre-money valuation (Pragyan Kalita/Reuters) [2d]
- I loved the minuscule weight of this Logitech gaming mouse — but I was even more surprised by its price [1d]
- I've reviewed all the major 360 cameras from Insta360 and DJI, but this $300 GoPro Max 2 Labor Day deal is easily the best value [1d]
- 8 of the best Garmin deals at Amazon's Labor Day sale — five-star smartwatches for running, the gym, and outdoor adventures [1d]
- Federal agencies sued amid allegations Trump admin could be using AI safety framework to hide AI manipulation and corruption [1d]
- GPT-6 is here, but what if we just said 'no thanks' to Astra, a model so powerful that we may never fully understand it [1d]
- Anker's 'personal fabric printer' will let you print customs designs on t-shirts and bags — new 'Direct-to-Garment' printing looks perfect for your side hustles [1d]
- The Grand Tour presenters had Amazon meeting 'days after' Richard Hammond Throttle House cameo on YouTube — 'we had no idea of any details' [1d]
- Amazon's Labor Day running shoe sale is surprisingly good — save up to 48% on Nike, Hoka, Brooks, and Adidas [1d]
- DJI Osmo 360 II vs DJI Osmo 360: DJI's pricier second-gen 360 camera fixes one major downside [1d]
- US export controls actually helped China iron out tech supply chain 'chokepoints', report finds [1d]
- Oura on notice? Circular Ring 3 series unveiled, with blood pressure monitoring and contactless payment [1d]
- ExpressVPN joins the short list of VPNs built for Amazon's Vega OS Fire TV Sticks [1d]
- Persona 4 Revival plays fantastically, but I'm still not convinced it's an essential remake of Golden [1d]
- How has this not been done before? This gaming laptop's innovative integrated stand helps keep the CPU cooler — and helps with ergonomics too [1d]
- IT helpdesk impersonation hits Microsoft Teams once again, with the hackers hiding their activity within legitimate tools [1d]
- Death Stranding movie director is being given 'a lot of freedom' to tell 'standalone' story separate from Hideo Kojima video game franchise — 'I like things where it could be easy to miss the mark' [1d]
- I tried TCL's phone with a paper-like OLED display, plus its new nxtPaper tablets, and I was seriously impressed — here's why [1d]
- US Senator demands NSA update VPN guidance over foreign spying risks [1d]
- Apple TV has shared a trailer for new movie Being Heumann — and fans of the Oscar-winning CODA won't want to miss it [1d]
- Lenovo just put NVIDIA's Arm superchip in two Yoga laptops, but professionals might be more enthused by their AI-centric memory configurations [1d]
- Lenovo's 990g ThinkBook 14x Gen 2 is the only laptop at its AI-centric launch with no AI claims attached, and that might be intentional [1d]
- Lenovo's ThinkCentre X Ultra puts 128GB of unified memory in a 1.6-liter box, and you can cluster four of them together [1d]
- Lenovo's fanless mobility-centric Project AeroBlade weighs under 830g and has Thunderbolt, which is more than the ThinkBook it potentially won't replace yet [1d]
- Nvidia's game-changing RTX Spark laptops are coming in October - but price information is still MIA [1d]
- Want a ride in Uber and Wayve's first driverless London taxis? Here's how to boost your chances [1d]
- ‘You can really unleash a lot of creativity’: Philips Hue founder George Yianni explains why its AI upgrades will be genuinely useful and 'a bit of a game changer' [1d]
- Celebrate Apple's new CEO with discounts on its best-selling devices — AirTags, AirPods, iPads, and more from $79.99 [1d]
- Shark's latest vacuum is three cleaners in one, and adjusts itself to suit your home [1d]
- GTA 6 is getting two limited-edition DualSense wireless controllers inspired by 'Vice City’s unmistakable style' — here's when you can pre-order [1d]
- I spent a week with the Google Pixel 11 Pro, and I think Google has perfected the Pixel formula [1d]
- VPN deal of the week: Save $30 with Windscribe's back-to-school discount [1d]
- TechRadar now has an app — here's what you need to know [1d]
- Beyerdynamic is back with affordable Aventho Y wireless headphones — and the 90-hour stamina alone can be my 'why' [1d]
- Clicking 'Allow' on a Google and Microsoft permission screens could give hackers access to your entire account, FBI warns [1d]
- Google is quietly building an AI version of Canva inside Workspace — and Nano Banana could make it seriously useful [1d]
- Surprise: someone’s actually making a new 4K Blu-ray player! But it’s not exactly a mainstream option — this reference player is for audiophiles as much as cinephiles [1d]
- Final Fantasy Resonance offers the exact old-school vibes I wanted to see from the first HD-2D game in my favorite RPG series [1d]
- Thomson Reuters hit by cyberattack that saw court documents across 11 states accessed by a hacker [1d]
- This Dell 15.6-inch 2K Touchscreen laptop is $450 off, and it's the best Labor Day laptop deal I've seen yet [1d]
- Give your NAS a massive storage upgrade with this 16TB WD Red Pro hard drive deal [1d]
- The best Labor Day smartwatch deal isn't from Apple, Garmin, or Samsung — it's a five-star fitness tracker that's now under $130 [1d]
- If your old Chromecast and Google Home devices are having setup issues, you’re not alone — thankfully, Google’s latest update has fixed this [1d]
- Research finds AI agents haven't quite mastered real-world browsing tasks despite claiming they can [1d]
- Belkin has announced two super-slim semi-solid-state power banks — and we’ve already had an early look at them [1d]
- California lawmakers approve plug-in solar bill— as authorities promise potential savings of up to $450 a year [2d]
- Microsoft wants to make Windows 11 'secure by default' — but some gamers are up in arms about this security feature that 'wrecks' their frame rates [2d]
- I just saw Hisense’s world-first 3D micro-LED TV, and it looks incredible — this could finally solve 3D TV’s biggest problem [2d]
- It’s Silly I Didn’t Learn This 60-Second Blender Cleaning Trick Earlier [1d]
- Xbox Game Pass Subscribers Are Losing a Big Perk This November [1d]
- Today’s NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 4, #915 [1d]
- The Best of IFA 2026: AI Dishwashers and Earbuds and Toothbrushes, Oh My! [1d]
- Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Sept. 4, #711 [1d]
- GPT-6 Stole the Show, but Anthropic, Meta and Google Also Had New AI Models This Week [1d]
- The iPhone 18 Pro Max Could Start at $1,300, an Analyst Predicts. You Can Thank RAMageddon for That [1d]
- The New iPhones Could Cost 10-20% More, an Analyst Predicts. Thanks a Lot, RAMageddon [1d]
- Ultrahuman Eyes Gesture Control for Future Rings With Qualcomm Boost [1d]
- This Rare $60 Mosaic Foods Discount Makes Feeding Yourself Easier and Cheaper [1d]
- I Test 3D Printers and These Are the 3 Worth Snapping Up During Labor Day Sales [1d]
- Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Sept. 4, #1903 [1d]
- Today’s NYT Connections Hints and Answers for Sept. 4, #1181 [1d]
- Has Apple Lost Its Edge? 40 Years of Apple Marketing Explained [1d]
- The Take It Down Act Is Just the Beginning of Fighting AI Abuse Online [1d]
- AI-Guided Hike Ends in Emergency Rescue at 11,000 Feet [1d]
- AI’s Very Bad Morning: Claude, ChatGPT and Grok Had Outages at the Same Time [1d]
- OpenAI’s Astra Is Here: What to Know About GPT-6 [1d]
- The 3 Best GPS Pet Trackers of 2026 After Testing Them on Our Furry Friends [1d]
- Sip and Save With Up to 50% Off a New Stanley This Labor Day [1d]
- ‘Supergirl’ Release Date: When You Can Stream the DC Studios Movie [1d]
- Motorola Spiffs Up the Razr With Swarovski Meteorite Finish, Adds Watch Ultra and Edge 70 Plus [1d]
- Nvidia RTX Spark Systems Approach the Starting Line [1d]
- Nvidia PAIR Speeds Up AI Agents by Annexing PCs on Your Network [1d]
- Lenovo Showcases Silent Ultraportable and Latest Rollable Laptop Concepts at IFA 2026 [1d]
- Amazon Deals of the Day: Amazon’s Best Smart Speaker Is Over 20% Off for Labor Day [1d]
- Dyson’s New Robot Vacuums Aim at Shark with UV Stain Detection and Powerful Scrubbing [1d]
- Dyson’s Huge Pipe-like Air Purifier Moves Like a Dune Sandworm and Blows Air Across the Room [1d]
- Dyson Unveils Its First-Ever Dryer Brush and a New Hair Straightener [1d]
- TCL Supercharges Its Stunning Nxtpaper Displays With the P80 Ultra [1d]
- Walmart Deals of the Day: Nothing’s New Ear 3A Buds Are Already $20 Off for Labor Day [1d]
- Walmart Deals of the Day: Nothing’s New Ear 3A Buds Are Already $20 Off for Labor Day [1d]
- These Meta Glasses Alternatives Found a Way to Last Longer With Snap-On Batteries [1d]
- Bose Lifestyle Ultra Soundbar Review: Bringing Uber Clarity to Your Living Room [1d]
- My Cat and I Tested Petlibro’s New Smart Feeder That Data-Tracks Food Intake. We Have Thoughts [2d]
- OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, and one of its founders thinks AGI is here [1d]
- UGREEN’s smart home hubs put an AI data center in your kitchen to protect your privacy [1d]
- From cameras to speakers, UGREEN just launched a whole smart home ecosystem in one go [1d]
- UGREEN’s new Qi2 power bank has cooling you can see, as well as feel [1d]
- Digital Wellbeing could get multi-app timers, a new dashboard, Bedtime mode tweaks, and more [1d]
- AWOL LuxVision brings 4K 120Hz and optical shift to UST projection [1d]
- Nanoleaf wall panels now work in the Philips Hue app [1d]
- Digital Wellbeing could soon give you a weekly reality check [1d]
- Govee’s new ceiling light is like a mood ring for your room [1d]
- Google weather forecasts are getting more local and more accurate [1d]
- Smartphone prices may be soaring, but Americans are getting off easy [1d]
- Philips Hue is giving Bridge and Bridge Pro users a feature they’ve wanted for years [1d]
- Is ChatGPT down for you? Here’s what’s going on [1d]
- Lenovo’s wild new laptop grows a bigger screen when you need it [1d]
- Lenovo’s latest Android tablets bring a ton of performance, seven years of OS updates [1d]
- What RAM crisis? Motorola’s latest Swarovski Razr is somehow cheaper [1d]
- This desktop robot companion is also an AI wearable you can wear around your neck [1d]
- Lenovo just showed off a laptop with new cooling tech that could replace fans [1d]
- Puck or stand? Motorola’s answer to Apple’s MagSafe lets you do both [1d]
- Aurzen’s pocket-sized folding projector gets a Pro upgrade [1d]
- The IdeaPad Vibe is Lenovo’s colorful and RAM-packed jab at the MacBook Neo [1d]
- I tried Motorola’s first Wear OS watch since 2019, and I already have a big concern [1d]
- Motorola is back in the Wear OS game with the Moto Watch Ultra [1d]
- Last chance to get the Samsung Galaxy S26 FE with a $200 Amazon gift card [1d]
- Circular’s new smart rings do something Oura and Galaxy Ring can’t [1d]
- Need fast portable storage? The Verbatim Pocket 1TB SSD is down to $139.99 [1d]
- Amazon drops the Razer Huntsman V3 Pro TKL back to its all-time low at $124.99 [1d]
- MAMMOTION brings its most capable robot mowers yet to IFA 2026 [1d]
- Is Grok not working for you? Here’s what’s going on [1d]
- Flowtica Verso snaps onto your phone with an e-paper display for AI-powered meeting notes [1d]
- Is Claude down for you? Here’s what’s going on [1d]
- Watch out, DJI: This pocket gimbal camera can turn into an action camera [1d]
- The weather app on your Pixel Watch is adding new watch face modules [1d]
- Galaxy Watch 9 owners just got a much less disruptive way to update [1d]
- This upcoming dual-screen handheld could be the perfect DS replacement [1d]
- HTC challenges Meta for the US smart glasses market with Vive Eagle [1d]
- XGIMI’s Aura 3 ultra-short-throw projectors push brightness and contrast to new extremes [1d]
- Why modular design could be the next big shift for consumer exoskeletons [2d]
- Pro cameras could finally become standard on regular flagships, and that’s good news for your wallet [2d]
- Eye-friendly NXTPAPER or an OLED screen? TCL’s new US-bound phones don’t force you to choose [2d]
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