7 Day Archive

• Xbox Elite Series 3 Controller Specs Leaked Out of Microsoft’s Own Design Lab
• AI Routed a 16-Year-Old Up Crown Mountain. He Ended Up on a Climb Called the Widowmaker.
• On Friday, Free Gemini Is Just Flash-Lite. Paying $4.99 Still Won’t Get You Pro.
• Lucid Delivered 3,806 Cars Last Quarter. It Only Built 2,954.
• Nintendo’s Two New Free Switch Apps Are for Toddlers, and a Wooden Block Calls Up the Character
• The Department of War Will Pay Up to $75 Million to Turn an EV Battery Line Into Drone Cells. Only $22 Million Is Funded.
• Xbox Finally Has a Platinum Trophy, and It’s Called a Mythic Achievement
• The Foldable iPhone is Here: Our First Impressions of the iPhone Duo
• The iPhone 18 Pro’s Secret Weapon: How a Variable Aperture Camera Will Change Your Photos
• M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review: Huge Local AI Performance (for a Price!)
• Bloomberg: Apple Postponed Its Camera Pendant, and Is Prototyping a Screenless Fitness Band
• Nikon’s $1,400 Z5IIC Is a Full-Frame Camera You Can’t Put to Your Eye
• Oracle Says Its New Mexico Stargate Site Is On Schedule. It Filed to Delay the Rent Anyway.
• Google’s Pixel Watch Can Now Estimate Your Blood Pressure
• The OLED iPad mini Is Reportedly Close. Not Every Rumor About It Is Solid.
• Nissan’s Pixo Is a 161-Mile Electric City Car. It Is Not Coming to the US.
• Samsung Pushed a Test Build to Korean Fridges Two Days Before Chuseok
• Alibaba Says the Zhenwu V900 Is China’s Most Powerful AI Chip. It Won’t Say How Fast.
• Quake Champions Tore Out the Battle Pass and Loot Boxes. Now It Costs $10.
• Meta’s Muse Charm Puts Your AI Agent on a Keychain by December
• YouTube Will Build a Feed From Your Description
• Meta’s $1,299 VR Glasses Weigh 100 Grams Because the Computer Rides in Your Pocket
• YouTube Studio Will Soon Test Three Cuts of Your Video to Find the Best Hook
• Beat Saber Goes Controller-Free and Supernatural Comes Back in Meta’s Connect Games Slate
• YouTube Is Putting a Gemini Editor in Shorts That Trims Your Pauses for You
• Muse Is Replacing Meta AI on Meta’s Glasses, and You Get to Name It
• YouTube Shopping Is Headed to 35 Countries, and Ask YouTube Wants to Answer Your Shopping Questions
• Bentley’s First EV Charges to 80 Percent in 16 Minutes. It Also Pipes In Fake Engine Noise.
• Meta’s Glasses Can Now Be a Hearing Aid, If You Pay $150 to Turn It On
• OpenAI Hired Three Patreon Leaders to Build Creator Products
• Meta Muse Can Now Run Your Mac and Shop at Walmart, and Meta Takes a Cut of What It Buys
• YouTube Music Is Getting an AI Voice That Pitches You Podcasts Every Week
• Ray-Ban Meta Audio Ditches the Camera, Keeps the Mics, and Costs $349
• YouTube Live Borrows TikTok’s Gift Battles, and Most of It Waits Until 2027
• Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 Adds Aviators, an Action Button, and $70 to the Price
• YouTube Shorts Now Come in Seasons, and YouTube Wants You Watching Them on TV
• Meta Is Betting on 3D VR Movies Again, and This Time It Brought Disney+, ESPN, and James Cameron
• Meta Ray-Ban Display Finally Leaves the US, Months After Meta Hit Pause
• YouTube Is Adding Group Chats So You Stop Sending Its Videos to iMessage
• YouTube’s Deepfake Detector Will Start Listening for Your Voice Later This Year
• YouTube’s Custom Feeds Turn Your Homepage Into a Prompt Box
• Apple Intelligence Now Wants 14GB Free, and 256GB iPhone Owners Pay for It
• Clicks Wants $499 Today for a Keyboard Phone That Ships in December
• Apple’s Hardware Boss on the iPhone Duo Crease: ‘Hold Us Accountable to That, Please’
• California Wants a Kill Switch for Frontier AI. The Order Never Says What One Is.
• Joby’s Plane Flew 3,199 Miles Across America. Its Pilot Never Touched a Thing.
• SpaceX Plans to Retire Crew Dragon Eventually. NASA’s Backup Is Still Starliner.
• Twitch’s CEO Put GTA 6 Multiplayer in 2027. Nobody at Rockstar Has.
• Laser Strikes on Aircraft Fell 24% This Year, and the FAA Says It Knows Why
• Paris Opened a Criminal Probe Into Smart Glasses Filming, Five Days Before Meta Connect
• Google’s CC Is a Family AI With Its Own Google Account. Six People Choose What It Sees.
• This Meta Muse Invite Code Gives You 1 Billion Free Tokens (CC2P24)
• Meta’s Muse AI Agent Will Book the Flight and Haggle the Bill (Invite Codes!)
• Safari 27 Lets an AI Agent Drive Your Browser. Apple Built the Hook Itself.
• Apple Reportedly Wants to Sell M8 Ultra AI Servers, and Nvidia May Be Wiring Them Together
• Lucid and Bolt Want 25,000 Robotaxis in Europe. Lucid Built 18,378 Cars All Last Year.
• Snap’s Specs Cost $2,195 and Run Four Hours. Pre-Orders Are Open.
• iPhone 18 Pro & Pro Max Review: THIS is What We’ve Been Waiting For! (Video)
• He Worked on AGI Safety at Google DeepMind. Now He Says AI Might Kill Us All.
• GM Brings CarPlay Back to Its Trucks, and This Time It Shares the Screen
• Oppo’s Find X10 Pro Max Has Three 200MP Cameras, Including the Ultrawide. It Lands September 22.
• Is the New iPhone Duo Worth It? Our Hands-on Impressions! (Video)
• I Tested the iPhone 18 Pro Max: Here’s What You Need to Know (Video)
• The Roku Pro Series OLED TV Is a Problem for LG and Samsung (Video)
• iPhone Duo Hands-On: Apple’s Foldable is Finally Here! (Video)
• Apple’s iPhone Duo Foldable Costs $1,999, and the Leaks Called Nearly All of It
• Apple’s iPhone Duo Foldable Is Real, Starts at $1,999, and Ships October 23
• The New Apple Watch Reportedly Listens All Day, Then Recaps Your Life Back to You
• Gurman Says Apple’s Foldable Is Called iPhone Duo, Supports Apple Pencil, and Starts at $2,000
• Apple’s Camera AirPods Were Supposed to Debut Today. Now They’re a 2027 Product.
• Razer’s $50 Reclusa X Mini Is the Cheapest Way Into the Keyboard Rabbit Hole
• Meta’s Muse Wants Your Inbox, Your Calendar, and a Card on File
• Kia’s Electric Hot Hatch Has Fake Gears, and Americans Can’t Buy It
• Nintendo’s Zelda 40th Anniversary Pro Controller Comes with a Display Stand
• Mistral Raised 3 Billion Euros, and Not Being American Was the Pitch
• The Xiaomi 18 Fold Is 219 Grams, Runs Xiaomi’s Own Chip, and Stays in China
• A 2TB SSD Now Costs $400 Because AI Data Centers Bought the Rest
• Audi’s A2 e-tron Starts at €38,200 With Up to 646 km of WLTP Range
• LEGO’s Next Zelda Set Puts Link on Epona With 1,750 Pieces
• 166 Investigations, 36 Convictions: Taiwan’s Six-Year Hunt for Hidden Chinese Chip Labs
• The Zelda movie is called The Legend of Zelda, and drops on April 30, 2027
• Logitech’s $99 MX Keypad Bets Your AI Prompts Deserve a Physical Button
• The Zelda 40th Anniversary Switch 2 Console Is Gorgeous and Game-Free
• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake Hits Switch 2 on November 5, and You Can Hum the Songs
• Switch 2 Owners Are Getting Banned, and Nintendo Isn’t Saying Why
• Huawei’s Mate XT 2 Tri-Fold Lands Two Days Before Apple’s Foldable iPhone
• 9 Smart Home Upgrades That INSTANTLY Improve Your Life (Video)
• OpenAI Says It Built an ‘Automated Research Intern,’ and Graded Its Own Work
• TCL Printed a 28-Inch Tri-Fold OLED Monitor That Folds Down to 16 Inches
• Valve Leaked Its Own Left 4 Dead 2 Trailer To Get Around The ESRB
• TCL P80 Ultra Puts NXTPAPER on an AMOLED Screen for the First Time
• Gamescom Apologizes to the Indie Devs Whose Laptops Were Stolen, Promises a Security Review
• The Xbox Disaster Microsoft Never Recovered From (Video)
• NVIDIA Is Selling RTX 50 GPUs at MSRP at PAX West, If You Can Find the Right Guy
• Verbatim’s AA, AAA and 9V Batteries Charge From a USB-C Cable, No Charger Needed
• CD Revenue Jumped 58.6% in Six Months, and K-Pop Fans Get Most of the Credit
• Audacity 4.0 Looks Like a Different App, and Edits Like One Too
• Tesla’s FSD Can Now Take the Wheel While You’re the One Driving
• Xiaomi’s Smart Band 11 Tracks Sleep HRV for About $43
• Marvel’s Wolverine Got Livestreamed Off a Retail Disc 10 Days Early