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Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 8 is $300 off ahead of Black Friday
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Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 8 is $300 off ahead of Black Friday

Android fans with a bit of iPhone Duo envy, take note: The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 is discounted to $1,599.99 at both Amazon and Best Buy, a hefty $300 markdown from its usual price, and just $50 higher than the lowest w

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Muse has a voice mode now

Meta now lets you have voice conversations with your Muse AI agent in real time, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today. The feature has been rolled out to me, and I gave it a spin on the iOS app while writing this article.

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EA is bringing 25 classic PC games to Steam

Electronic Arts is launching 25 classic games on Steam, including "Anniversary Editions" of the motorcycle racer Road Rash and six Wing Commander titles. These Anniversary Editions preserve "the original look, feel and c

TechnologyWire · The Verge

Claude AI can plug directly into your bank account

Anthropic has a new pitch for managing your personal finances: let Claude do it instead, with a new Personal Finance feature that connects it to your bank and card accounts via the Plaid bank bridging platform. You can a

TechnologyWire · The Verge

‘Total repudiation’: The blue wave is about to hit AI

On Tuesday night, Democrats made history as they took control of the House and the Senate, and a blue wave swept through traditionally red and swing states - with the nation's first Black woman governor elected in Georgi

TechnologyWire · The Guardian

UK government considers smart glasses ban over secret filming concerns

Minister hints at restriction on selling technology ‘to certain users’ amid worries over surreptitious filming of women The government is considering placing restrictions on smart glasses amid concerns the technology is

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Google Says Its AI Rebuilt a 40-Year-Old Ocean Model in 59 Minutes

Google has demonstrated how far autonomous AI coding agents may be able to go. In a new experiment, its Gemini 4 Argon model helped migrate the core of a decades-old coastal ocean simulation from Fortran to Rust in just 59 minutes. Google reports that the process uncovered six longstanding software bugs, reduced memory consumption by 54% and improved simulation speed by 1.88 times. The experiment raises a bigger question: could AI finally help modernize the aging software behind some of the world's most important scientific research?

TechnologyWire · The Verge

X says its updated web app is way faster

X is introducing a new version of its web app that it says is much faster than before, and it's now rolling out the updated app "one country at a time" for signed-in users. "Open a profile on X.com over a slow connection

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Qualcomm is betting big on data centers as smartphone sales sink

With smartphone sales tanking by around 20 percent compared to 2025, Qualcomm is looking to data centers to help boost its bottom line. During its Q4 2026 earnings call, the company laid out its plans to make a splash in

TechnologyWire · The Verge

17 better ways Elon Musk could have wasted $446 million

One of the basic problems of spending too much time on social media is that you are cooking your brain by reading posts from a pack of attention-seeking lunatics. If your social media of choice is the site formerly known

TechnologyWire · The Verge

How I learned to love an obnoxious phone grip

Much like a great recipe, it started with a stick of butter. This wasn't real butter; it was a friend's new phone grip, complemented by a phone case with bold stripes. Butter is in vogue now, or at least that's what a 12

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Google’s Pixel 11 phones are up to 27 percent off

You can save a heck of lot of money on Google’s Pixel 11 phones through November 8th, whether you want the best-for-the-least Pixel 11, or the slightly pricier Pixel 11 Pro that takes better photos. Even the big Pixel 11

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Xbox previews two new ways to control cloud games

I revealed yesterday that the new Xbox Nano controller supports a Wi-Fi connection directly to Xbox Cloud Gaming, and now Microsoft is making it official today. Two new Xbox previews will let players try out using a phon

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Nothing teases a screen-free AI device ahead of launch next month

Nothing CEO Carl Pei said in a post on X that the company's launching its first AI device in December. That's just a little over a year after Pei announced plans for "AI-native" devices and an AI operating system. He did

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Apple will check shared iCloud links for ‘harmful content’

Apple will start checking iCloud items that are accessible to anyone who has the link for "harmful content" starting with iOS 27.3 and other 27.3 updates, the company says. "When you share an item that can be accessed by

TechnologyWire · The Guardian

French blood banks hacked in latest cyber-attack on Europe

Temperature and defrosting thresholds raised to ‘very high levels’ at three cold stores stocking vital blood products France’s national blood service has said hackers accessed control systems and boosted temperatures at

TechnologyWire · The Guardian

UK to deploy facial recognition in biggest-ever immigration crackdown

Documents show Home Office developing programme to use technology for general immigration enforcement The Home Office is preparing to deploy facial recognition technology at transport hubs and public events as part of th

TechnologyWire · The Verge

All the news about The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake

Ahead of the release of Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto VI, Nintendo is launching its own fall juggernaut: a Switch 2 remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. The remake, which is releasing 28 years after the lau

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The biggest modding site in PC gaming is taking a stance on AI

The PC gaming mods repository Nexus Mods is making disclosures about AI mandatory for uploads of new mods, meaning that mod authors will have to declare "whether AI has been used in their work," the site announced today

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Please stop asking me when the AI bubble will pop

People, including on this staff, keep asking me with varying degrees of excitement or trepidation when the AI bubble will burst. I'll tell you what I tell them: If I knew that, I would make a life-changing bet on the mar

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Sonos adds new Presets and prepares for the 27voice AI beta

Sonos is rolling out a big app update that includes new Presets and early access to its AI voice assistant. You can create a preset to play music at a specific volume in a certain room, which will appear directly on the

TechnologyWire · The Guardian

Binance battles to save its brand after record $6.3bn crypto hack

World’s largest crypto exchange faces fallout from angry customers, and Lula wins with WhatsApp This was originally published in TechScape, a newsletter about how technology shapes our lives. Sign up to receive it here T

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Bambu’s nine-nozzle H3C foretells the future of 3D printing

Three years ago, I told you how home 3D printers had evolved for speed, producing parts in minutes that used to take hours or days. Now, the next evolution is here: printers that can swap between materials on the fly, mi

TechnologyWire · The Verge

Peak Design expands its collection of wireless charging accessories

Peak Design, best known for its backpacks and travel bags packed full of useful features, announced it's expanding its collection of chargers and charging accessories with new devices that focus on pairing premium materi

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The 2026 iPad Mini is a terrific tiny tablet — for a big price

The iPad Mini sometimes feels like a trap. It is, in some ways and for some people, the perfect iPad: meaningfully larger than my phone's screen but still small and light enough to use for reading in bed or gaming on the

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Apple set an iPhone sales record even without a new standard iPhone

Apple had a record-breaking quarter for iPhone sales - despite not releasing a standard model during its latest refresh. In its fourth-quarter earnings report released on Monday, Apple says it earned $57.58 billion in iP

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Meta will end Quest 2 OS updates in 2027

Meta is planning to release the last OS update for its Quest 2 and Quest Pro VR headsets by March 2027, the company announced today. The last OS update for those devices is planned to be v213, and after that, Meta will c

TechnologyWire · NPR

Your writing was flagged as AI. What does that actually mean?

As editors turn to imperfect AI detection tools to weed out machine-generated submissions, writers who say they were falsely accused of using AI are left wondering what triggered a positive result.

TechnologyWire · NPR

Who benefits when massive AI data centers come to town?

The battle over data centers is hitting the ballot box. Brookings scholar Darrell West talks about how the backlash against the AI boom, flock cameras and tech companies is crossing party lines.