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Apple's HomePod Mini 2 is here, and we've gotten a close-up look at the second-gen smart speaker. The HomePod Mini 2 comes with an upgraded S10 chip capable of powering Siri AI, though Apple says support for new AI features will roll out as part of a future update. It also offers a sound glow […]

Apple is getting into smart displays with its new HomeView. It has a seven-inch squircle design, looking similar to a gargantuan Apple Watch mounted to a speaker base. The $299 HomeView is meant to be the centerpiece for Apple's big push into the home, as it's capable of controlling a host of smart home tech. […]

The HomeView smart home display announced by Apple today comes in two models that both cost $299: one with a speaker base, and the other being a self explanatory "Wall Mounted" version. If you want the latter, however, you'll actually have to pay at least $59 more - the mounts required to actually affix the […]

The startup will sell some of its assets to Disney for $20 million.

As AI data centers and EVs drive up demand for copper, Giraffe Bio has unearthed a $6.4 million seed round to help miners extract more of the mineral.

American Express is introducing a new framework designed to ensure AI agents only make purchases their users have authorized, potentially preventing costly mistakes and disputes as AI-powered shopping grows.

Apple is taking a big swing at the smart home market with its latest product that competes with Amazon Echo Show and Google Nest Hub.

The new Apple TV 4K costs $299, comes with Siri AI, and will be available on November 13.

The NPCI, which operates the UPI network, said it was postponing the planned October 15 rollout of the 0.4% fee due to the festive shopping season.

The new devices work with HomeView, the company's new smart home hub which can be used to control accessories and interact with apps.

The new $149 HomePod mini with Siri AI and a 'SoundGlow' visual feature will be available starting October 30.

The new X Subscription combines X's paid features with AI tools like Grok and Cursor, offering plans ranging from $8 to $200 per month.

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After years of declining subscriber numbers and falling revenue, Bumble just agreed to a $1.3 billion acquisition.

Siri can now learn users' preferred music app, allowing Spotify listeners to request songs, podcasts, and playlists without specifying which app to use.

Twenty founders just earned their shot at Disrupt glory. They're headed to the main stage at TechCrunch Disrupt to compete for the $100,000 prize and the coveted Disrupt Cup.

What started as a Python problem-solving exercise gradually became my first publicly documented software project: Transaction Auditor. I was practicing Python functions, loops, lists, sets, and file handling when I began working on a problem involving financial transaction records. Initially, the goal was simple: read transaction data and calculate useful statistics. But as I developed the solution, I discovered that building a reliable program required much more than getting the calcul...

Disclosure: this is an independent hands-on test. Both tools were run on ordinary customer accounts; neither company supplied review access or saw this piece before publication. For this test, I imagined a product page where shoppers could turn the little skeleton around. I wanted three things from the asset: its joints had to read as joints, the back had to survive a full spin, and the page had to carry the file without an absurd wait. I did not expect the most important byte number to ch...

“LLMs think in text, but true AGI requires the leap of conscious nescience through human cognitive anchoring.” Current LLMs are trapped in interpolation — merely shuffling existing data. This article presents Proof-of-Concept (PoC) simulation to break this loop. The Challenge: Can an AI restricted strictly to pre-1911 data independently derive Albert Einstein’s 1915 General Theory of Relativity without relying on future training data? The HTI(Human-Tuned Interface) Solution: Pas...

Hi everyone! I am happy to take part in Hacktoberfest 2026. I am still learning and trying to improve my coding skills by working on projects. I have created a project called LocalBizAI using Python and Flask. I am learning new things through this project and hope to improve it further. My GitHub Project: https://github.com/yogeswarimurugan23-ops/LocalBizAI I look forward to learning from other developers and being part of this community. Hacktoberfest #DEVChallenge #Py...

This is an independent test. Nothing here came from vendor access: both tools were used on my own free and paid accounts. For an illustrative product-page scenario, the detail worth inspecting is not the clip's overall silhouette but the two U-shaped jaws and the purple finish around their tips. I zoomed into those features in the matched offline renders. One file showed a gray patch where the source picture stays purple—even though the mesh underneath might be sound. I gave the same pi...

In 2006, researchers handed 395 adults a pill bottle. The label said "Take two tablets by mouth twice daily." Then they asked each person to count out the pills they would take in a day. Among patients with low literacy, 71% could say the instruction back. Only 35% could count out the right number of pills (Davis et al., Annals of Internal Medicine). I keep coming back to that gap. People could read the words and still take the wrong dose. A page of labels like that one A hospital disc...

I pulled the cheapest paid tier from each app's own pricing page (verified September 2026): App Monthly Annual Annual / Monthly Replika $19.99 $69.99 3.5 months Character.AI+ $9.99 $94.99 9.5 months Kindroid $13.99 $139.99 10.0 months Nomi $15.99 $99.99 6.3 months The right column is the part nobody advertises: how many months of the monthly plan one year of annual actually buys. For Replika, annual is like getting ...

As a programming student learning web development, I'm discovering that creating a website is about more than making it look good. A website should also be accessible, understandable, and usable by different people, including those who rely on assistive technologies. For my accessibility audit, I examined my portfolio's index.html file and learned how semantic HTML can help create a better user experience. What is semantic HTML? Semantic HTML means using elements that descri...

If you've scraped anything at scale, you've hit the wall: the first 50 requests work, then you get 403 s, CAPTCHAs, or empty pages. The site has noticed that one IP is asking for a lot. Residential proxies fix this by routing each request through a real household connection, so your traffic looks like many ordinary visitors instead of one busy server. But how you rotate those IPs matters as much as having them. This post covers the two modes you'll actually use, rotating and sticky, with P...

A comment keyword looks like a small copy decision. In practice, it controls whether someone can enter the DM workflow without confusion. The best keyword is not the cleverest word. It is the word people can notice, remember, type, and connect to the promise in the post. Make the keyword match the offer Use a word that names the thing being requested. GUIDE, CHECKLIST, DEMO, PRICE, and WAITLIST create clearer expectations than broad words such as INFO or YES. The caption and first DM...

Atlassian's rebuilt MCP server, now generally available, enforces three things on every call. It uses OAuth 2.1 with PKCE, so the agent only gets the user's existing permissions. It sorts tools into read, write and destructive, so clients can ask for confirmation. And it applies admin-level scopes and audit logging. This article shows how to build the same three controls into your own MCP server with the official Python SDK, following the current MCP specification (2026-07-28). What you'll b...

Independent review. I ran both tools on my own accounts, free and paid, with no vendor-provided access or early access of any kind. Your game needs a knight. Then it needs eleven more. That's the moment image-to-3D stops being a toy and starts being a line item — storage, bandwidth, and a credit balance that drains while you watch. I asked around about which tool to use. The same two names kept coming up: Meshy and SupaVoxel. So I ran one knight illustration through both, downloaded bo...

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