The Govee TV Backlight 3 Pro will be available sometime in late September. Govee has launched a new TV backlight kit for folks who like to add immersive lighting that syncs with whatever is playing on the display. The Govee TV Backlight 3 Pro features an “industry-first HDR triple-camera wide-area color matching system,” according to … Read more
Govee has some colorful new ideas for how a light strip can decorate your home. Its latest, the Permanent Outdoor Lights Prism, puts three lights in every bulb along the strip, with a prism lens above them that’s designed to create three distinct or blended beams of light. The strip supports full color, and Govee … Read more
We’ve covered OpenAI on Decoder in several ways this summer, from how it’s navigating the AI talent wars to how people are starting to feel attached to ChatGPT. Next week, we’re airing a recent conversation I had with Bret Taylor, the chairman of OpenAI’s board. But today, I want to zoom in on the battle … Read more
Ecovacs’ latest mopping robovac may not need to take charging breaks while cleaning your home. The company says its new Deebot X11 Omnicyclone uses GaN-enabled fast charging to power up every time it returns to its base station for mop rinses, allowing it to keep cleaning without stopping to charge. The X11 Omnicyclone robovac comes … Read more
Real men use electric chainsaws in temperatures down to -25C (-13F). | Image: Bluetti Bluetti’s at IFA 2025 with the world’s first portable power station built around a sodium-ion battery, and a second, slim unit designed to mount next to the fridge to keep it running during a blackout. The Pioneer Na (get it? Na … Read more
RWAs may bring billions in climate investments onchain by offering a new blockchain-based “trust” layer for institutional investors.
Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin fortress faces Peter Thiel’s Ether agility. Two giants, two treasuries — who’s making the smarter bet?
Tiger Lake, now in public beta, bridges Postgres and the lakehouse with a continuous, real-time data loop. It removes the need for pipelines and orchestration, enabling unified dashboards, faster monitoring, and AI agents grounded in live + historical context. Built into Tiger Cloud, Tiger Lake simplifies architectures while powering scalable, intelligent, real-time applications.
Regulations, hype cycles and pie-in-the-sky promises have scuppered blockchain city projects across the globe… but one has succeeded.
Boerse Stuttgart Group unveiled Seturion, a digital settlement platform designed to streamline post-trade processes for tokenized assets across Europe. The blockchain-based infrastructure aims to eliminate cross-border frictions, unify fragmented settlement systems and cut costs by as much as 90%, the exchange said Thursday. The platform, which is open to banks, brokers, traditional and digital trading … Read more
In this digital age, it’s safe to assume that if you have a startup, that startup has a website. This is a great first step, but this is also where a lot of startups come across their first problem. It’s a problem that often goes unmentioned, and it’s this: Your website doesn’t clearly explain what … Read more
From Cyprus to Afghanistan, crypto has shown its value in times of crisis. Now, with Washington rewriting the rules, the industry faces its most decisive moment.
The EnerGeek GT01 will be available in black or white color options. | Image: Baseus Baseus has announced a new accessory that can wirelessly charge a Qi2-compatible smartphone directly on an outlet, making it useful as a hands-free wall mount. It’s reminiscent of a similar wireless charger that Zens released last year, but Baseus’ new … Read more
The Nxtpaper 5G Junior ships with a choice of blue or orange case included. TCL has been making its E Ink-inspired Nxtpaper phones for years, but it’s taken the company until now to realize that parents are a likely demographic for it. That’s finally been remedied with the Nxtpaper 5G Junior, a kids phone launching … Read more
CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index. The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 4036.82, down 1.2% (-47.12) since 4 p.m. ET on Wednesday. One of 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: POL (+0.6%) and XRP (-0.3%). Laggards: UNI (-2.8%) and NEAR (-2.8%). … Read more
A generation ago, the biggest story in business was the rise of software. Today, the biggest story is the rise of clarity. Across crypto, clarity — on rules, on guardrails, on compliance — is neither aspirational nor an afterthought. It is becoming the main driver of institutional scale and legitimacy. Where software devoured inefficiency, clarity … Read more
Outgoing CFTC Commissioner Kristin Johnson said prediction markets pose risks to retail investors, and slammed companies exploiting license loopholes for event betting.
Officially licensed NFT platform NFL All Day is revamping the collector experience, adding new autographed moments and more.
Adobe is planning to bring its video editing software Premiere to the iPhone. The company has listed the app on the App Store with a pre-order link and an expected release date of September 30.
Nvidia announced last month that it’s planning to upgrade its GeForce Now cloud gaming service to RTX 5080 GPUs. Now, we have a date for that upgrade: September 10th. The upgrade will allow GeForce Now subscribers to rent what’s effectively an RTX 5080 in the cloud, with a huge 48GB of memory and DLSS 4 support. Nvidia’s … Read more
Adobe is bringing its video editor Premiere to iPhone, promising “pro-level” editing on the go for free. The app will launch later this month, with an Android version also under development. The Premiere app features a familiar multi-track timeline, with support for an unlimited number of video, audio, and text layers. There’s automatic captioning, 4K … Read more
LinkedIn is trying to help put a stop to recruitment scams by requiring anyone with a recruitment-related job title to verify their place of employment. Executives will have to go through the same process, while company page verification is now rolling out more widely too. Existing recruiters won’t need to go through verification immediately, but … Read more
Apple Watch is getting an improved Strava interface and Live Segment support. | Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge Strava is bringing what it calls a “cleaner and more intuitive” experience to the Apple Watch along with Live Segments. The changes are meant to address growing demand from athletes turning to Apple’s wearable, according … Read more
Eight years after breaking every record with an $800, 7,541-piece Star Wars Millennium Falcon, the Lego Group is introducing its first $1,000 set. It’s an intricately detailed Death Star nearly two feet tall (52.3cm), a foot and a half wide (48cm) and over a foot (38.3cm) deep, with enough compartments to re-enact nearly every iconic … Read more
Optical zoom takes on generative AI. In case you missed it last week among other big news items, Google shipped a phone camera with a zoom feature that uses generative AI. That’s right: the Pixel 10 Pro comes with AI right inside the camera app that cleans up otherwise crappy digital zoom images all the … Read more
PlayCube is a cross between a Rubik’s Cube and TARS. | Image: TCL TCL is not a brand that elicits desire, typically, yet here I am, looking at its IFA 2025 announcement of the PlayCube, wondering how a projector that pays homage to both a Rubik’s Cube and TARS can fit into my life. The … Read more
Victim Kuan Sun praised Venus and partners after $13.5M recovery, calling it “a battle we actually won” through joint efforts.
Productivity software maker Atlassian has agreed to acquire The Browser Company, which makes the Arc and Dia browsers, for $610 million in cash.