Samsung's Galaxy Tab S12 Ultra keeps the same 14.6-inch design and display as the Tab S11 Ultra, adds a Dimensity 9500 chip and four-channel spatial audio, and starts at $1,400, $200 above its predecessor's launch price.
Android Authority reports that the Soulog Sense, paired with the Soulog app, records and transcribes conversations, organizes them by topic and decision, and links them to related files and earlier discussions. The MagSafe recorder offers more than 50 hours of battery life and works with compatible AI tools through MCP.
Magnet Forensics has developed GrayKey Preserve and an Evidence Preservation Mode that it says freeze locked iPhones so police can reach data, defeating iOS's 72-hour inactivity reboot, according to a video obtained by 404 Media.
MyMonthlyCar lets U.S. dealerships rent used cars by the month and gives renters a path to buy.
Google has published the Viewer app for its Googlebook desktop platform on the Play Store, giving an early look at the media software headed to the first devices shipping this Sunday. The app handles images, video, audio and PDFs in one place.
Cohere released Embed 5, a two-tier embedding family for enterprise search, RAG and agentic retrieval, sharing one embedding space.
Proofpoint says a Nigeria-linked scam campaign is using stolen .edu accounts to send fake job offers and gift-card requests, leaving victims $500 short after fake checks are reversed.
Twelve South has launched Airfly Drive, a $39.99 dongle that turns factory wired CarPlay into wireless CarPlay and also supports Android Auto. The compact adapter works with more than 75 makes and model years back to 2014, requires no app or account, and can switch between two paired phones.
Nike’s Caitlin 1s, Caitlin Clark’s first signature shoe, nearly sold out within hours of their U.S. release, with resale listings above $200.
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon, MIT, NYU and Stanford built an AI called Ataraxos that beat top Stratego player Pim Niemeijer 15-1 with four draws, using just 16 GPUs and a few thousand dollars.
Shopify introduced Canvas on Thursday, a tool that lets merchants build and edit their online stores by chatting with its AI agent Sidekick. Canvas renders the store's real code in real time, allowing merchants to test interactivity, animation and different screen sizes without direct coding.
Google’s new Android developer verification rules for sideloading are live in Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand, blocking unverified apps on certified Play Services devices. A global rollout is planned for 2027.
Congress is weighing rival bills to shield ratepayers from AI data centers' power costs, as experts say residents will pay a share but the exact amount is unclear.
Sony launches QSSR AI upscaling for standard PS5, debuting in Marvel's Wolverine and Ghost of Yōtei.
Engadget's best-of-2026 list, drawn from more than 150 product reviews, names Google Pixel 11, Apple iPhone 18 Pro, MacBook Neo and MacBook Air M5 as category leaders.
A team led by Kaiming He has proposed NAT-ARC, a pure-vision method that uses ImageNet MAE pretraining to solve ARC abstraction tasks. Its best single model reached 63.4% pass@2 on ARC-1, and an ensemble reached 70.2%.
Google released Gemini 4 Argon, a flagship model it says leads several benchmarks, costs less on some tasks and is initially limited to vetted cybersecurity defenders.
HP announced the OmniBook 5 14, a $699.99 Windows laptop with an OLED display on every configuration and a chassis slightly thinner and lighter than Apple's MacBook Neo. HP also introduced the ProBook 4 G2iS, which it calls its thinnest business notebook.
Amazon Web Services' Strands Labs released Strands Decider 2B, an open-source 2-billion-parameter decision model that selects among predefined options for agentic AI workflows. It is available on Hugging Face and GitHub.
TechRadar reports the Philips LatteGo 5500 Series is 25% off at Amazon for International Coffee Day, falling to £499.99 for Prime members ahead of Big Deal Days.
According to The Verge, Meta’s $1,299 VR Glasses use a 100-gram open-air passthrough design that may make VR more approachable than sealed headsets or transparent AR glasses.
Microsoft is repositioning Copilot as an enterprise “OS for work,” adding coding and agent tools and embedding Office, while Office and Teams chief and former LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky will leave at the end of 2026 amid a leadership shuffle.
Nvidia's Ian Buck says AI factory economics increasingly hinge on tokens per watt, system design and inference, not just GPUs.
A vulnerability in a Defense Manpower Data Center file-sharing system exposed unencrypted personal data for months. The breach affected 2.76 million living individuals and 294,000 deceased individuals, according to TechRadar.