As 2026 begins, MIT Technology Review publishes "educated guesses" on emerging technologies that will define the future, advances "we think will drive progress or incite the most change for better or worse in the years ahead." This year's list includes next-gen nuclear, gene-editing drugs (as well as the "resurrection" of ancient genes from extinct creatures), and three AI-related developments: AI companions, AI coding tools, and "mechanistic interpretability" for revealing LLM decision-making. ..

Rinse of the machines: A cautionary tale about relying on robots Bork!Bork!Bork! UK water company Severn Trent learned an unfortunate lesson about text-to-speech systems when a robocall to customers went hilariously wrong.

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Android tablets are slowly but surely becoming great in the shadow of the market-dominant iPad. Example, the Oppo Pad 5 Matte Display Edition, also known as the Oppo Pad Air5. This may very well be all the tablet you ever need. It has a large anti-glare display, a long-lasting battery, and solid performance. Let's touch on that last bit - the tablet has what Oppo calls a 48-month fluency protection, meaning it's TV SD certified to deliver smooth and responsive performance for at least 4 years. ..

In December 2024 the Google Threat Intelligence Group published research on the code of the commercial spyware "Predator". But there's now been new research by Jamf (the company behind a mobile device management solution) showing Predator is more dangerous and sophisticated than we realized, according to SecurityWeek. Long-time Slashdot reader wiredmikey writes: The new research reveals an error taxonomy that reports exactly why deployments fail, turning black boxes into diagnostic events for ..

DeepSeeks Engram decouples memory from computation, enabling AI models to scale efficiently while alleviating costly HBM constraints globally.

Six years after the announcement of plans to build Atari Hotels in eight cities across the US, including Las Vegas, only one now seems to be moving forward, in Phoenix, Arizona. The Las Vegas deal ultimately "didn't come to fruition," spokesperson Sara Collins told Las Vegas Sun this week, and Atari Hotels is putting its focus into the Phoenix site "for the time being." Phoenix was always meant to be the first site, followed by other hotels in Austin, Chicago, Denver, Las Vegas, San Francisco, ..

Ars Technica reports: Security firm Mandiant [part of Google Cloud] has released a database that allows any administrative password protected by Microsoft's NTLM.v1 hash algorithm to be hacked in an attempt to nudge users who continue using the deprecated function despite known weaknesses.... a precomputed table of hash values linked to their corresponding plaintext. These generic tables, which work against multiple hashing schemes, allow hackers to take over accounts by quickly mapping a ..

Researchers demonstrate a laser-based method that alters heat flow in thin silicon films using scalable nanoscale surface patterning techniques.

Friday a federal judge "cleared U.S. power company Dominion Energy to resume work on its Virginia offshore wind project." But a U.S. federal judge also ruled Thursday that another major offshore wind farm is allowed to resume construction, reports the Hill. "The project, which would supply power to New York, was one of five that were halted by the Trump administration in December...." In fact, there were three different court rulings this week each allowing construction to continue on a U.S. ..

AI-driven data center demand has intensified DDR5 DRAM prices, while server memory prioritization reduces availability for PC-focused products globally.

Amazon is reportedly adding Teresa Palmer ( The Fall Guy, Warm Bodies, Hacksaw Ridge ) to its pantheon of Norse gods for its God of War TV show adaptation. As first reported by Deadline , Palmer will play Sif, Thor's wife and eventual leader of the Aesir, in the live-action adaptation. It may not carry as much weight as the casting of the video game's protagonist that was revealed earlier this week to be Ryan Hurst , but it could hint at the direction the TV show may take. View this post on ..

It may only be the third week of 2026, but one of the most anticipated phones of the year arrived at our doorstep the Xiaomi 17 Ultra by Leica. The phone comes in an exclusive dual-tone finish, inspired by Leica cameras, complete with the signature Red Dot logo. The retail package is quite nice, featuring a 100W charger, braided USB-A to USB-C cable, a case, a metal Leica lens cap, a red wrist strap and a polishing cloth. Xiaomis top-tier flagship also features a knurled metal frame and a ..

A new article from Bloomberg says dozens of America's colleges "succumbed to a fundamental problem killing colleges across the US: not enough students. The schools will award their final degrees this spring, stranding students not yet ready to graduate and forcing faculty and staff to hunt for new jobs." The country's tumbling birth rate is pushing schools toward a "demographic cliff," where a steadily dropping population of people in their late teens and early 20s will leave desks and ..

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In another attempt to reduce our attention spans to mush, TikTok has released the PineDrama app, which offers serialized drama series that are roughly a minute per episode. As first spotted by Business Insider , the app is designed exactly like TikTok , but instead of trendy dance videos, you can scroll through and watch "micro dramas." For those new to the category, micro dramas are bite-sized TV shows shot in vertical video and available in minute-long episodes. Don't expect any nominations ..

"A mega rocket set to take astronauts around the Moon for the first time in decades is being taken to its launch pad," the BBC reported this morning. NASA is livestreaming their move of the 11-million-pound "stack" which includes the Artemis II Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the Orion spacecraft secured to it, all standing on its Mobile Launch Platform. Travelling at less than 1 mile per hour, the move is expected to take 12 hours. The mission which could blast off as soon as 6 February ..

First sighting of a 10 P-core only Bartlett Lake CPU emerges, featuring 26% better multi-core performance than the Core i5-14400, which has four more cores. 10 P-cores beat six P-cores and four E-cores.

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E Ink tablet maker reMarkable is running a bundle deal right now that can save you between $80 and $90 when buying a reMarkable 2 along with a Marker stylus and a folio case. The savings vary depending on the bundle you configure, but this can bring your out-the-door cost down to $449 from $529 for the tablet, Marker stylus and polymer weave book folio. The offer runs through January 17. The company also sells a newer stylus called Marker Plus that lets you erase by flipping it around just like ..

A couple months ago, YouTuber Benn Jordan "found vulnerabilities in some of Flock's license plate reader cameras," reports 404 Media's Jason Koebler. "He reached out to me to tell me he had learned that some of Flock's Condor cameras were left live-streaming to the open internet." This led to a remarkable article where Koebler confirmed the breach by visiting a Flock surveillance camera mounted on a California traffic signal. ("On my phone, I am watching myself in real time as the camera ..

NBA League Pass, the streaming service that lets you catch hundreds of out-of- market NBA games, is on sale right now for up to 55 percent off. The League Pass Premium subscription is on sale for $75, down from $160, while League Pass Standard is marked down to $50 from $110. We're almost halfway through the season at this point, so it makes sense for a service like League Pass to start offering some discounts. The Standard plan includes commercials and support for only one device at a time, ..

An OLED upgrade has been tipped for late 2026 before but the schedule may have moved forward.

Intel's mainstream Arrow Lake lineup is due for a refresh later this year, and while we've already seen a lot about the desktop parts, the first mobile SKU has just appeared on PassMark with some impressive scores to boot. It beats every x86 laptop processor and gives most desktop SKUs a run for their money as well.

We now have some idea of what's at stake in the longstanding feud between Elon Musk and OpenAI. As first reported by Bloomberg , the latest filing, as part of a lawsuit that accuses the AI giant of abandoning its non-profit status, claims that Musk is owed anywhere between $79 billion and $134 billion in damages from the "wrongful gains" of OpenAI and Microsoft. Musk claimed in the filing that he's entitled to a portion of OpenAI's recent valuation at $500 billion , after contributing $38 ..

A Chinese firm has tested the worlds first megawatt class airborne wind turbine platform designed to feed electricity directly into the grid.

Most Apple products are pretty expensive, but some of the most affordable (and useful) ones are AirTags . The Bluetooth trackers are priced pretty reasonably even when not on sale, but they can be a steal if you can get them on a discount like right now. A four pack of AirTags is on sale for $65 at Amazon, which is only a few dollars more than the record-low price we saw during Black Friday this year. AirTags can be useful for people who travel frequently, helping you to keep track of ..

T2 SDE "is not just a regular Linux distribution," explains its repository on GitHub. "It is a flexible Open Source System Development Environment or Distribution Build Kit. Others might even name it Meta Distribution. T2 allows the creation of custom distributions with state of the art technology, up-to- date packages and integrated support for cross compilation." And now after "a decade of deep focus on embedded and server systems," T2 SDE Linux "is back to the Desktop," according to its web ..

OpenAI launched its low-cost ChatGPT Go subscription in India last August, priced at INR399/month. Since then, ChatGPT Go has been rolled out to 170 countries and is now available in all markets where ChatGPT is available, including the US. In the US, ChatGPT Go costs $8/month, while ChatGPT Plus and Pro cost $20/month and $200/month, respectively. You can head this way to check the pricing and features of all ChatGPT plans available in your country. In addition to announcing the global launch ..

OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman's personal notes reveal that they've been discussing turning the AI firm into a non-profit without Elon Musk.

Many U.S. states are planning bitcoin strategic reserves, and other forms of crypto financing, showing budgets are buying into the digital assets trend.

An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post: The U.S. Department of Transportation brought an automated bus to D.C. this week to showcase its work on self-driving vehicles, taking officials from around the country on a ride between agency headquarters at Navy Yard and Union Station. One of those trips was interrupted Sunday when the bus got rear-ended. The bus, produced by the company Beep, was following its fixed route when it was struck by a Tesla with Maryland plates ..

The RAM shortage could force smartphone makers to rethink priorities.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta has sent a cease and desist letter to xAI, days after his office launched an official investigation into the company over reports that Grok was generating nonconsensual If youll recall, xAI and Grok have been under fire for taking images of real individuals and putting them in revealing clothing like bikinis upon random users requests. Bontas office demands that xAI immediately cease and desist from creating digitized sexually explicit material when the ..

AirPods work most smoothly with Apple hardware, but they also connect reliably to Android phones, Windows laptops and other Bluetooth devices. The pairing process depends on the platform in use although the basics remain the same. Once the AirPods are placed in pairing mode, most devices detect them quickly and handle the remaining steps in the background. The guide below explains how to pair AirPods with Apple products, how the process differs on newer iPhones that support H2 features and how ..

The OnePlus 15 received bypass charging support for non-gaming activities last month through the OxygenOS 16.0.2.401 update. Now the OnePlus 13 has also received the same feature via OxygenOS 16.0.3.501. [#InlinePriceWidget,13477,1#] Additionally, the OxygenOS 16.0.3.501 update includes the January 2026 Android security patch and lets users edit 50MP images in the Photos app without compromising image quality. You can check the complete changelog of OxygenOS 16.0.3.501 update below for more ..

Wikipedia is 25. Founded on this day in 2001, this community contributor driven site has convincingly usurped what were once the default general reference works of choice, like Encyclopdia Britannica and Microsoft Encarta.

Greenlands location near the North Pole makes it a critical site for laser based satellite communications, expert says.

A month with the OnePlus Pad Go 2 showed me that power matters less than usability on a tablet.