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Sold by its trailer as a gag reel, Tom Cruise’s strangest movie may be the most unsettling portrait of our tech and climate moment yet.

Xreal’s long-hyped Aura glasses arrive soon for $1,279. Here’s how they fare against Meta’s recently announced VR Glasses.

Aaron Sorkin’s sequel to The Social Network attempts to shame a ruling class that has proved itself shameless.

Just bought a new phone or looking to enhance an existing one? Prime Day is the time to save on accessories like batteries, chargers, and more.

The US government’s Tradewinds initiative has made it easier to throw millions of dollars at “nontraditional” defense contractors, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

DoorDash, the leading food delivery app, processed 970 million orders in its second quarter this year and generated $4.5 billion in revenue. A 10-person startup called Bites is a blip in comparison: It has just around 300 restaurants signed up in the Bay Area, where it's operating as a pre-seed startup. But this summer, Bites […]

Google has detailed an update bringing a slew of new features to its Pixel Buds 2A and Pro 2, which the company says are rolling out now. The new features were first teased in August. The biggest update is Pixel Watch-powered sleep detection, rolling out to both pairs of earbuds. If you're wearing a Pixel […]

When David Fincher's The Social Network premiered in 2010, many people still thought of Mark Zuckerberg as a genius who had revolutionized the world by creating Facebook. Writer Aaron Sorkin's script was critical of Zuckerberg's character and his ruthless approach to doing business, but it also helped mythologize the co-founder at a time when the […]

Microsoft is heading to San Francisco this morning to reveal what's coming next for Windows and Surface and a "conversation on how local AI will shape the next chapter of the PC." That conversation will include Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and Windows and Surface chief Pavan Davuluri. I'm expecting to hear […]

Most people know that Amazon collects data about your shopping history to serve up personalized product recommendations. But what some of us didn't realize is that you can check exactly what Amazon knows - or thinks it knows - about you in your settings menu. One user's findings went viral on Threads after she discovered […]

For a while, I swore by Bissell’s Little Green carpet cleaner. I liked the sub-$100 price, the fact that it was small enough to fit on a closet shelf, and that it does a good job of cleaning up little messes. However, after you clean enough spots around the place, eventually the entire carpet needs […]

Amazon announced its first smart lock that eliminates the need for a physical backup key should its rechargeable battery die while you're away from home. While other smart locks lean on hidden USB ports or metal contacts for connecting a 9-volt battery to replenish a dead battery, the new Ring Smart Lock incorporates a more […]

Following a report from Bloomberg yesterday that Apple is collaborating with LG for a new collection of smart home devices and accessories, a reliable leaker known as "pdfu" on X has revealed more details about several of the new products, including a thermostat with a "Far Sight Display" that sounds similar to what Nest offers. […]

Google DeepMind, Meta, and AI drug discovery startup Isomorphic Labs are jointly investing $300 million into Biohub, the nonprofit biomedical research organization founded by Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, as reported by Reuters. The funding is part of a $1.8 billion initiative to build AI datasets that could allow researchers to "ask, predict, […]

After launching nearly a month ago and spending several weeks as the top free app in Apple's App Store, the latest update to Meta's Muse iOS app introduces native support for the iPad. A Mac version of Meta's agentic AI tool (designed to compete with OpenClaw, ChatGPT's Dots, and Grok Bot) was released about a […]

A new personal AI assistant has arrived. Meet Tab, which announced Tuesday that it had officially emerged from stealth.

Amazon-owned Ring is entering the smart lock market with a device designed to tackle a common concern: getting locked out when the battery dies.

Google on Tuesday launched a new site that lets anyone verify whether a piece of media, be it an image, a video, or an audio clip, is generated using AI.

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Google Labs is working on a new AI-powered game-creation platform called Playground for users to build browser-based games using simple text prompts.

The “father of the iPod” says the first generation of AI gadgets failed to solve real problems — and the next wave will need to earn consumers’ trust.

Parallel Systems raised $100M to scale production of its autonomous electric rail vehicle, which can shuttle thousands of pounds of freight up to 500 miles.

The Detroit startup has widened its scope beyond mobility to help drone and robotics companies find U.S.-based manufacturers, shippers, and more.

The financing includes an $8M seed round co-led by Sequoia Capital and First Round Capital, and a $30 million Series A led by Hummingbird Ventures.

TL;DR ChatGPT remains the best overall free AI tool in October 2026: unlimited text chat on GPT-5.6 Luna, plus image generation, voice, and file uploads at $0. Claude (Free) wins for long-context writing and analysis with 200K token windows. Gemini (Free) wins for research with live Google Search grounding. Perplexity (Free) wins for real-time Q&A with citations. The rest of our list covers coding, design, video, and productivity—each with genuine free tiers that don't expire. ...

friendstudy ai — an open-source ai study companion 📚🤖 what if studying had a personal ai companion that could help you plan, learn, practice, and stay consistent? that's the idea behind friendstudy ai . i built friendstudy ai as an open-source ai-powered study companion for students who struggle with planning their studies, understanding difficult topics, and staying consistent. ✨ what it can do 💬 ask ai questions and get explanations 📅 generate personalized study ...

You ask Claude Code to change one function, and it greps for the name, opens a 900-line file, reads half of it, opens three more files, and your context window is gone before the first edit. Then the rename it does is a dozen fragile find-and-replace edits that still miss a call site. Serena fixes that by giving the agent the tools your IDE already has. It can jump straight to a symbol, list every reference to it, rename it across the project, or replace one function body without reading th...

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass What I Built TouchGrass is a voice-first outdoor activity planner powered by open-source AI. The idea is pretty simple: instead of using AI to keep people on their phones longer, I wanted to build something that uses AI to help people put their phones away. The flow is: Speak → Transcribe → Plan → Listen → Go outside The user speaks their idea, ElevenLabs Scribe converts the speech ...