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An anonymous reader shared this report from CNET: Finland-based IXI Eyewear has raised more than $40 million from investors, including Amazon, to build glasses with adaptive lenses that could dynamically autofocus based on where the person wearing them is looking. In late 2025, the company said it had developed a glasses prototype that weighs just 22 grams. It includes embedded sensors aimed at the wearer's eyes and liquid crystal lenses that respond accordingly. According to the company, the ..

Asus had a lot of amazing devices on display at CES 2026, but these were my favorite by far

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang "said one of his biggest takeaways from 2025 was 'the battle of narratives' over the future of AI development between those who see doom on the horizon and the optimists," reports Business Insider. Huang did acknowledge that "it's too simplistic" to entirely dismiss either side (on a recent episode of the "No Priors" podcast). But "I think we've done a lot of damage with very well-respected people who have painted a doomer narrative, end of the world narrative, science ..

"The clock is ticking" on the Hubble Space Telescope, writes the space news site Daily Galaxy, citing estimates from the unofficial "Hubble Reentry Tracker" site (which uses orbital data from the site space-track.org, created by tech integrator SAIC): While Hubble was initially launched into low Earth orbit at an altitude of around 360 miles, it has since descended to approximately 326 miles, and it continues to fall... "The solar flux levels are currently longer in duration elevated than ..

To further push the limits of consumerism , Google has launched a new open standard for agentic commerce that's called Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP). In brief, it's a framework that combines the power of AI agents and online shopping platforms to help customers buy more things. Thanks to the introduction of UCP, Google is offering three new online shopping features. To start, Google's AI mode will have a new checkout feature that allows customers to buy eligible products from certain US ..

New Khadas packs insane hardware into a 0.43 liters capacity, while leaving cooling and thermal management a complete mystery.

Here are the highlights of HP's CES 2026 announcement, which includes a new PC tucked within a keyboard, and a rebranding exercise involving all of its OMEN gaming products.

Minisforum beats Dell, HP and Lenovo to unveil first Ryzen AI 9 HX470 mini PC - AI X1 Pro-470 supports 12TB SSD storage and up to 128GB DDR5.

Footage of the 2024 discovery appears in NatGeo's new documentary series Pole to Pole with Will Smith

Alphabet-owned Wing "is expanding its drone delivery service to an additional 150 Walmart stores across the U.S.," reports Axios: [T]he future is already here if you live in Dallas where some Walmart customers order delivery by Wing three times a week. By the end of 2026, some 40 million Americans, or about 12 percent of the U.S. population, will be able to take advantage of the convenience, the companies claim... Once the items are picked and packed in a small cardboard basket, they are loaded ..

Xiaomi's 17 Ultra retained its crown as the trendiest phone in our database in the second week of 2026. And just like the first week of the year it was joined on the podium by the Galaxy A56 in second and the Galaxy S25 Ultra in third. [#InlinePriceWidget, 13322, 1#] Newly unveiled Poco M8 Pro came in fourth, ahead of another new face - the Realme 16 Pro+. In sixth sits the iPhone 17 Pro Max. The Redmi Note 15 Pro+ climbed to seventh, followed by the star of CES 2026 - the Motorola Signature. ..

Walmart partners with Alphabet-owned Wing to add hundreds of new locations and build a coast-to-coast delivery network.

The loss of the federal EV tax credits may have been a huge blow to prospective buyers, but California wants to fill that gap for its residents. Governor Gavin Newsom's proposed budget for 2026-2027, which was released on Friday, includes a "light-duty zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) incentive program" that details a one-time infusion of $200 million. According to the budget summary , this incentive program is "a critical part of the Administration's strategy to keep ZEVs affordable and accessible ..

Gentoo Linux posted its 2025 project retrospective this week. Some interesting details: Mostly because of the continuous attempts to force Copilot usage for our repositories, Gentoo currently considers and plans the migration of our repository mirrors and pull request contributions to Codeberg. Codeberg is a site based on Forgejo, maintained by a non-profit organization, and located in Berlin, Germany. Gentoo continues to host its own primary git, bugs, etc infrastructure and has no plans to ..

Don't be surprised if you see even more drones delivering groceries across the US since the Alphabet-owned Wing announced another service expansion with Walmart over the next year. The partnership said that drone delivery services will be available at 150 more Walmart locations in Los Angeles, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Miami metros that have yet to be announced. According to Wing, its top 25 percent of customers have ordered its delivery drones up to three times a week. To meet growing demand, ..

XPS is back after a year of absence, and Alienware is giving us a teaser of what's to come. Plus, new Dell UltraSharp monitors announced, all in CES 2026.

An anonymous reader shared this report from Engadget: If you received a bunch of password reset requests from Instagram recently, you're not alone. As reported by Malwarebytes, an antivirus software company, there was a data breach revealing the "sensitive information" of 17.5 million Instagram users. Malwarebytes added that the leak included Instagram usernames, physical addresses, phone numbers, email addresses . The company added that the "data is available for sale on the dark web and can ..

Starlink will have 15,000 Gen2 satellites in space within the next five years, after a regulatory decision.

Foreign governments are now limiting access to Elon Musk's Grok chatbot as concerns about non-consensual sexual deepfakes linger.

Micron 3610 PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSD offers high-speed QLC storage, low latency, AI readiness, compact form, and strong endurance.

The sheer amount of laptops and consumer hardware ASUS has announced in CES this year is massive - here's the overview on what's new from the Taiwanese laptop giant.

"China recently placed a supercritical carbon dioxide power generator into commercial operation," writes CleanTechnica, "and the announcement was widely framed as a technological breakthrough." The system, referred to as Chaotan One, is installed at a steel plant in Guizhou province in mountainous southwest China and is designed to recover industrial waste heat and convert it into electricity. Each unit is reported to be rated at roughly 15 MW, with public statements describing configurations ..

If you received a bunch of password reset requests from Instagram recently, you're not alone. Malwarebytes , an antivirus software company, initially reported that there was a data breach revealing the "sensitive information" of 17.5 million Instagram users. Malwarebytes added that the leak included Instagram usernames, physical addresses, phone numbers, email addres

The retail versions of the ROG Matrix RTX 5090 shipping out to customers will come with an updated TIM application that should help against accidental liquid metal leakage. Previously, sample GPUs showed a poor spread that would barely seal the metal in, with a crooked ring around the core. Now, we see several neatly-organized lanes that are much closer to the IHS, too.

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So, this is going to be a weirdly motivated list, but hear me out. Finding 5 phones to really like in a year - in 2025 and in our line of work - is no trivial task. Take Ro, for example - he only made it to 4, as did Sagar, and Ivan has 3 different but, let's face it, really same-ish foldables on his 'Top 5' list. So, in a way, I've assembled a 'Top 5' that's not entirely mine - there's one real personal pick, a couple of crowdsourced ones, and two more that are on here because of... tradition. ..

The retail giant also has a similar deal with OpenAI's ChatGPT and has its own AI-powered chatbot, Sparky.

Newegg is basically throwing in an Asus B850 Max Gaming WiFi motherboard for $10 if you get this 16GB (2 x 8GB) Team Group DDR5-6000 RAM as a combo.

Remember that re-discovered computer tape with one of the earliest versions of Unix from the early 1970s? This week several local news outlets in Utah reported on the find, with KSL creating a video report with shots of the tape arriving at Silicon Valley's Computer History Museum, the closet where it was found, and even its handwritten label. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that the closet where it was found also contained "old cords from unknown sources and mountains of papers that had been ..

Sundar Pichai gave a keynote address at the 2026 National Retail Federation. Read an edited transcript of his remarks.

The FCC has partially approved a significant expansion of SpaceXs next- generation Starlink constellation, authorizing 7,500 additional LEO satellites under a partial grant.

Can Bloom Energy's high-flying stock, fueled by generating onsite power for AI data centers, steer clear of bubble risks?

As retailers create AI agents for shopping and customer service, Google wants to secure its place in the ecommerce market.

An overview of Googles new open standard for agentic commerce and AI tools to help retailers connect with shoppers and drive sales.

MetalPrinting was at CES 2026 with its next-generation metal paste 3D printer dubbed the Gauss MT90.