Following up on the success of the Pura X, Huawei has, for quite some time now, been working on a new non-folding smartphone with a similar 16:10 screen aspect ratio. This device is now rumored to be launching in September. According to a previous leak, it will be powered by a Kirin 9-series chipset, and will have a battery capacity of at least 7,000 mAh. The device is also said to have a 50MP main camera using a 1/1.3" type sensor, as well as a 50MP periscope telephoto camera and a ..

The US military was defeated by Ukrainian drones in military exercises, demonstrating the latter's superiority and its ability to teach drone defense countermeasures.

Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg is the latest Big Tech name to pen a letter thousands of words long about AI.

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar met with investors following a week of turmoil in the C-suite that included the sudden departure of revenue chief Denise Dresser.

Former Cambridge professor Jason Arday, who resigned last week amid allegations of plagiarism and questions about his academic record, has been found dead at age 41 in London. The BBC reports: Jason Arday was found "unresponsive" at an address in Battersea, south London, on Friday afternoon, emergency services said. Metropolitan Police officers were called by the London Ambulance Service. A 41-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene and his next of kin have been informed, the force said. ..

The company will also be able to expand its fleet across more of the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles.

Flock Safety is tightening controls on its nationwide license plate reader network after mounting backlash over privacy and documented police misuse. By January 1, law enforcement customers will be required to use automated auditing, tie searches to specific case numbers, and accept a shorter seven- day default retention period. Critics, including the ACLU, argue the changes still leave too much surveillance power in police hands. The Associated Press reports: In an interview, Flock CEO Garrett ..

Get Visual Studio Professional 2026 and 15 coding courses for $41.99, usually $1,999.99, through August 16.

Nvidia's stake in SpaceX, which came through an investment in xAI, was worth about $21 billion at the end of the second quarter.

At a press conference outside Madison Square Garden, politicians, musicians, and privacy advocates argued for tighter restrictions on how public venues deploy biometric surveillance.

The Trump administration is set to allow cybersecurity firms to fight fire with fire.

There's a constant battle in ice cream to come up with new flavours and to keep costs down.

Avatar Aang, Heartstopper Forever, and Exit 8 are among the films deserving of your eyeballs this month.

France's Constitutional Council has struck down a law that would have banned children under 15 from social media, ruling that it disproportionately restricted freedom of expression and lacked adequate privacy safeguards around age verification. President Emmanuel Macron has asked the government to rewrite the measure, with the goal of putting a revised version in place before spring 2027. Reuters reports: "The Council holds that the contested provisions, on the one hand, disproportionately ..

The Unitree G1 has found online fame as a relatively affordable robot that can charm a crowd. But can it ever hold down a real job?

ChatGPT's new feature sounds an awful lot like Windows Recall.

That makes it the cheapest EV in Kia's lineup.

SanDisk and Koxia have unveiled next-generation QLC 3D flash memory technology, said to increase bit density over the previous generation by 60%

As Google rolls out some useful additions, we spotted evidence of on an AI- powered Auto format feature in the works.

Someone missed the point of an iPhone billboard, prompting Apple to pull the advertisement down after it was accused of normalizing "electronic babysitting." Image credit: La Repubblica Apple has removed one of its billboards in Milan, Italy, after public outcry. The ad in question depicted a toddler holding a food-smeared iPhone paired with the text "Tutto ok, e iPhone," which translates to "It's okay, it's an iPhone." Apparently, the Italian children's rights watchdog Autorita Garante per ..

Qualcomm is expected to unveil its next-generation flagship chipset the Snapdragon 8 Gen 6 Pro at the annual Snapdragon Summit next month, and it just leaked in an AnTuTu 11 benchmark run. The SM8975, as it is known internally, managed an impressive 4.83 million points. For reference, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 usually hits between 4 and 4.6 million points. This means the upcoming chip offers a mere 5% boost in AnTuTu. Though, as usual with leaked benchmark runs, this is likely unfinished ..

Samsungs Haus of Fold Roadshow is now taking place in Pavilion KL, offering visitors hands-on experiences with the Galaxy Z Series through dedicated zones focused on productivity, creativity, entertainment and everyday use.

The U.S. is looking to scale defense manufacturing and chip away at China's drone dominance.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: After its cloud storage provider went defunct, a PBS affiliate decided to sue a data center provider to regain access to 50TB of TV shows, videos, and other data dating back 70 years. As reported this week by Current, a trade newspaper covering public broadcasting, St. Louis affiliate Nine PBS filed a lawsuit against Iron Mountain Data Centers on July 28, seeking access to the data. In the litigation filed in Denver District Court, Nine PBS ..

Vibe Mobile has launched in Malaysia through a partnership with U Mobile, with the new MVNO offering its mobile plans via the latter's ULTRA5G network.

U Mobile has announced a strategic collaboration with OpenAI, supported by AWS, to explore AI applications across customer service, enterprise solutions, software development, network operations, and cybersecurity.

OpenAI's C-suite turnover gives investors another reason for concern as the company pushes toward a mammoth IPO.

The invisible SynthID will remain.

Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from Kyiv Post: Ukraine's military intelligence (HUR) has identified an Nvidia Jetson Orin computer module inside Russia's new S-71 Monochrome air-launched cruise missile, potentially indicating the use of artificial intelligence technology in the weapon, the agency said Wednesday, Aug. 12. The finding was published in the 'Components in Weapons' section of the HUR's War&Sanctions; portal, which documents foreign electronic components found in ..

Chairman and CEO of LG Corp. Kwang Mo Koo visited the Nvidia headquarters at Santa Clara, California, to sign a memorandum of understanding with CEO Jensen Huang. This memorandum focuses on expanding the AI capabilities of both companies. LG and Nvidia CEOs posing with a miniature humanoid robot The headline-grabbing announcement is that LG plans to unveil a humanoid robot in the first quarter of 2027. This bipedal robot will use Nvidias Jetson Thor for on-board compute and the Isaac GR00T open ..

Players can now play classic console games natively on Mac thanks to a growing scene of fan-made decompilations and recompilations. Here's how to get started. Image credit: Nintendo If you've been around the block a time or two, you're probably familiar with emulation. It's the process in which a piece of software emulates an environment that another piece of software can run on. But there are problems with emulation. The first is that it relies on an emulator, which can come with its own host ..

Google has a week to make it easier to find third-party app stores.

iVANKY's FusionDock Ultra combines 26 ports, quad 6K displays, 120Gbps bandwidth, 10Gb Ethernet, and 140W charging for Apple Silicon Macs.

Google gives users control over visible Gemini watermarks.

Intel Gamer Days 2026 is now live with a retail bundle offering two upcoming games with qualifying Intel hardware purchases.

A federal judge has ordered Google to remove what he called "anticompetitive friction" that makes rival Android app stores harder to find and install. The order is part of the remedies stemming from Epic's antitrust victory, which already requires Google to carry competing app stores inside Google Play and give them access to its app catalog. The Verge reports: It's been nearly three years since a jury unanimously decided that Google had an illegal monopoly over Android apps, and almost two ..

Insomniac Games has confirmed Marvel's Wolverine will have New Game Plus at launch and a 'story-driven' side activity called Nightmare Doors.

A new toggle lets you clean up Google Health's home screen.