SpaceX and Tesla have set up special committees to discuss a potential merger, Elon Musk said, as SpaceX posted its first quarterly profit and AI became its largest revenue source. Anthropic, Tencent, Qualcomm and Chinese auto regulators also disclosed major developments.
TechRadar reports Trump officials asked CISA to secretly hack a voting machine and not disclose vulnerabilities found.
Engadget details Apple Watch Ultra 4 Action Button uses, from workouts and navigation to Accessibility and Shortcuts.
Developer says Block Blast can tune difficulty to ad value; TechRadar reports $127M in ad revenue over five months.
Anthropic draft AI safety bill would let courts block models posing catastrophic risk, Politico reports.
Oura adds Cardio Effort and automatic VO2 Max estimates to its smart ring, Engadget reports.
Apple will take pre-orders for the iPhone Duo on Friday and ship on October 23. The first foldable iPhone starts at $1,999 and comes with camera, biometric and app trade-offs, Engadget reported.
Ukraine’s 92nd Assault Brigade says it used a heavy-lift drone to evacuate a wounded soldier, calling it a first.
TechRadar posted Oct. 21 solutions for NYT Strands #962, Quordle #1731 and Connections #1228, with all puzzle answers.
Researchers in Australia have identified “circadian depression,” a subtype affecting nearly a quarter of 11,380 study participants and linked to body-clock disruption, more severe symptoms and poorer response to standard antidepressants.
DeepSeek open-sourced DeepInfer, its production inference framework for V4.1-Flash on Nvidia Blackwell and Huawei Ascend 950.
TechRadar: WD Elements 6TB desktop drive is $315 at Newegg, a plug-and-play Windows backup with two-year warranty.
Google's Fitbit Edge adds GPS, ECG and aluminum case for $180, versus the $99.95 Inspire 3's plastic design.
Developers use AI coding to strip ads, trackers and bloatware from smart TVs, with projects like dumbtv and cleanyourtv.
Inception AI says its Mercury 3 diffusion model beats GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 on 8 of 12 tests at 4-8x speed.
Fortune: Microsoft's 2028 Project Helix console is projected at $1,200–$1,800, with a 2027 handheld planned.
Sony unveiled three Android 16 Walkman players priced $1,900–$5,900, led by a gold-plated 256GB model, The Register reports.
Google is adding Personal Intelligence to Gemini in cars, drawing on Gmail, Calendar, Maps and Photos.
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue says Netflix’s ‘AI Gone Rogue’ misrepresents the OpenAI agent hack, TechCrunch reports.
Engineers at MIT and EPFL have designed a flapping-wing robot weighing less than 300 grams that can fly, dive into water, swim, and leap back into the air, inspired by birds like puffins. The robot could enable new drones for aquatic sampling and ocean science.
MIT historian Tristan Brown dates a Boston Tea Party label to the 1860s, not 1773, after reading its Chinese text in Cantonese.
Engineers made a stretchable yarn from two polyethylene types that can be melted and respun repeatedly to cut waste.
MIT mouse study links ketogenic diet to small-intestine tumors while colon tumors fell; ketone bodies were not involved.
Robotic rehab system learns from therapists and uses AI and force feedback to assist stroke patients, developers say.