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  • No Man’s Sky is coming to the iPhone and iPad
    by Andrew Webster on October 12, 2026 at 2:00 pm

    The No Man’s Sky universe is about to get a little bit smaller – but in a good way. Hello Games announced that its long-running sci-fi exploration game will be coming to iOS, with versions for both the iPhone and iPad available starting on October 28th. According to Hello’s Sean Murray, the mobile version of

  • Android is the best and worst thing about Googlebooks
    by Dominic Preston on October 12, 2026 at 2:00 pm

    My first week with the new Android-powered laptops has been about as rocky as anyone’s, but I’ve slowly learned to like them, even if love still feels a ways off. Every moment that’s impressed me has been thanks to Android, whether I’ve been accessing a native version of a useful app or quickly checking my

  • The OnePlus 16 is the company’s most interesting phone in years
    by Dominic Preston on October 12, 2026 at 1:13 pm

    Today the OnePlus 16 launched in China, the company’s first flagship phone since quitting both the US and European markets this summer. As luck would have it, it also looks like the company’s best phone in some time. Like most OnePlus phones, the 16 is positioned around performance, with a Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen

  • Microsoft’s new AI chip makes it less reliant on Nvidia’s GPUs
    by Tom Warren on October 12, 2026 at 1:00 pm

    Microsoft is announcing its third-generation Maia in-house AI chip today, designed to be the “primary AI inference system” for Microsoft’s products and services. Maia 300 not only improves the cost and efficiency of running AI workloads in the cloud, it’s also more capable of handling the latest reasoning models and agentic tasks. Maia 300 will

  • The Fitbit Edge is for folks who don’t want to go totally screenless
    by Victoria Song on October 12, 2026 at 1:00 pm

    The Fitbit Edge may not be Google’s best-kept fitness-tracking secret, but as of today, its existence is official. The tracker sits smack-dab between the recently launched Fitbit Air and the more powerful Google Pixel Watch 5 in the company’s current wearable lineup. Basically, if you have smartwatch fatigue but don’t want to give up notifications,

  • CMF’s first wireless speakers look like musical milk cartons
    by Andrew Liszewski on October 12, 2026 at 1:00 pm

    The CMF Speaker Series are the first portable Bluetooth speakers from the budget-focused brand that Nothing created but is in the process of spinning off into an India-based standalone subsidiary. As with many of CMF’s products, like the Headphone Pro that launched a year ago, the new speakers deliver affordability alongside unique designs and bright

  • How Apple can win the smart home
    by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy on October 12, 2026 at 12:00 pm

    This week, Apple is hosting its first-ever dedicated smart home event. While the company hasn’t shared details about what it will reveal at the “Welcome Home experience” in New York City on Tuesday, October 13th, it doesn’t take an army of internet sleuths to deduce we’ll get news about Apple Home – specifically, new hardware.

  • Inside the mini factory where GM builds its EV future
    by John Voelcker on October 12, 2026 at 11:00 am

    If you’re driving through GM’s sprawling campus in Warren, Michigan, you’d likely ignore the pair of adjacent, anonymous white buildings tucked away in the upper reaches of the 710-acre space. Inside those buildings, which total half a million square feet together, is a massive construction project that’s still in progress. Once completed, it will house

  • A college in Illinois tried to cancel its Flock contact and it refused
    by Terrence O’Brien on October 11, 2026 at 8:06 pm

    In April of 2025, Elgin Community College had six Flock safety cameras installed to “enhance the safety and security of students.” But by September of that year, the school’s administration grew concerned that Flock was sharing data with Customs and Border Patrol, that camera feeds were not properly secured, and that both law enforcement and

  • Silicon Valley is falling in line with Trump’s attempt to rename AI
    by Terrence O’Brien on October 11, 2026 at 6:33 pm

    When President Donald Trump announced his plans to rebrand artificial intelligence as “super intelligence,” you’d be forgiven for being skeptical that it would catch on. While most of the broader population is sticking with AI, some of Silicon Valley’s most powerful are falling in line and trying to give Trump the great AI rebrand he