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Vivo’s X500 Pro Max has 17 stops of dynamic range and 4K240 slo-mo
All three new X500 phones support at least one of Vivo’s teleconverter lenses. | Image: Vivo Vivo’s new X500 flagship phones have arrived in China, and as usual the company’s focus is firmly on photography. The X500 Pro Max – a new tier in its lineup – is the first phone to use new sensors … Read more
These are the first five Googlebook laptops
Google and partners are finally announcing the first laptops under the new Googlebook banner. There are five models from Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo to kick things off. They’re available for preorder starting today and arrive in stores on October 4th. Starting prices range from $899 to $1,299, putting the Googlebooks in the same … Read more
The long dream of the Googlebook
Dell’s XPS Googlebook is just one of the devices Google needs to be great. In late 2010, an up-and-coming Google executive named Sundar Pichai took the stage in front of a bunch of reporters and explained that Google had a big new idea about laptops. In the future, he said, the only thing you’d need … Read more
Apple’s clever software solution lets iPhone batteries skirt shipping limits
Apple has developed an unexpected workaround to prevent the iPhone 18 Pro Max from being hit by shipping restrictions on big batteries. There’s a “battery-firmware solution” in place on the new iPhones, according to Apple’s support page, which keeps capacity below the 20Wh limit for single-cell batteries set by international shipping regulations – but this … Read more
Teardown details the iPhone 18 Pro’s mechanical camera
Each of those teeny lens blades is around the same thickness as a human hair. | Image: iFixit iFixit’s latest device teardown shows us the inner workings of the new variable aperture lens inside Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max, alongside some repair concerns to be mindful of. The adjustable mechanical iris opens … Read more
UN says AI safeguards can’t wait for certainty
The United Nations logo at the UN headquarters in New York. | Getty Images Governments need to rein in increasingly capable AI agents before their risks are fully understood, a United Nations scientific panel warned in the global organization’s first major assessment of OpenAI’s hack of Hugging Face earlier this year. The report cements AI’s … Read more
The Hard Part of AI Isn’t Reasoning. It’s Everything That Happens After.
Why turning an AI decision into a reliable real-world outcome is becoming the real engineering challenge. There is a moment in almost every AI project that feels like a breakthrough. You give the model a difficult question. It understands the context. It produces a surprisingly good answer. Maybe it analyses a document. Maybe it writes … Read more
Amazon doesn’t trust Meta’s Muse AI agent
Meta’s Muse AI agent has been blocked from shopping Amazon on behalf of its users, GeekWire reports. A popup message started appearing on Sunday for Muse users saying that “continued access by an unauthorized AI agent violates Amazon’s Conditions of Use, to which our customers have agreed.” According to GeekWire, Meta didn’t notify Amazon that … Read more
Can Claude AI Predict Crypto and Stock Prices? What It Can and Can’t Do
Search for Claude AI crypto price predictions and you will find headlines quoting exact targets for XRP, Bitcoin, and Dogecoin. Those targets are what a chat model answered when it was asked, not the output of a forecasting system. Here is what Claude can actually do with market data, what it cannot, and where the … Read more
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Follow the Hill Combines Congressional Stock Disclosures With Automated Trading
Follow the Hill combines public stock disclosures with systematic trade selection, position sizing and exits in investors’ own brokerage accounts. September 3, 2026: Follow the Hill is bringing a systematic approach to congressional stock trading, combining public transaction disclosures with automated decisions about which opportunities to pursue, how much capital to allocate and when to … Read more
Hammed Afenifere on the Local Context AI Compliance Can Miss
A business owner with more orders than the company can fulfill may see little reason to build a website. A financial institution overseas may still need information it can’t find. The same business can be familiar to its customers and difficult for a banking partner to assess. Hammed Afenifere, co-founder and CEO of Oneremit, a … Read more
GPT-6 Astra vs. Meshy 7 for 3D Creation: What Three Creator Workflows Reveal
The Next Layer: How Creators Are Combining OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra with Meshy for 3D Generation Based on three public creator case studies published in September 2026, GPT-6 Astra appears strongest at scene reasoning, Blender automation, code, and gameplay integration, while Meshy is the more reliable choice for generating character geometry intended for rigging and animation. … Read more
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Amiga Unix, Again
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What happened to the Snowden archive
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No Dogs in Space is back to feed your need for obsessive music history
In August, I wrote about my love of the music history podcast No Dogs in Space, but mourned the fact that there hadn’t been a new episode in over two years. Little did I know that hosts Carolina Hidalgo and Marcus Parks were gearing up to announce the show’s return with season four, Punk 2.o. … Read more
Elon Musk’s latest Boring Company pitch involves a Hyperloop between Austin and San Antonio
Many of The Boring Company’s announced project have not materialized.
Is the AI industry really ready to slow down?
On Equity, we debated whether Ai executives are serious about wanting to slow down.
No one is surprised that Nvidia’s Jensen Huang thinks AI fears are overblown.
The man who may stand to make the most money from the AI boom seems to think he knows better than anyone else, including researchers who have studied and worked on AI for decades. In an interview with CBS Sunday Morning, he claimed there was a “0% chance” of AI being the end of the … Read more
Vocci’s ring adds a new form factor to meeting note-taking
Vocci’s lightweight ring costs $249, and might pose some privacy questions
Kojima Productions disputes reports the studio is in trouble
After it was announced that Sony was dropping Hideo Kojima’s Physint, and that instead the Metal Gear Solid creator’s latest title would be coming to Xbox, there were a flurry of rumors about the falling out. Bloomberg reported that the decision was driven by a number of factors, including missed deadlines, budget and profitability concerns, … Read more