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Products & Applications

Google Expands Android Earthquake Alerts to More Than 200 Regions

Google is expanding Android Earthquake Alerts to over 200 regions and adding new details to Be Ready alerts.

Companies · Products & Applications

Tesla unveils 'flying' Roadster with cold-gas thrusters

Tesla unveiled a 'flying' Roadster with cold-gas thrusters, but the stunt raises questions about its EV strategy.

Products & Applications

Grocery Store Cakes Become a Wedding Budget Fix

U.S. wedding costs average about $36,000; some couples are buying cakes at Costco and Publix to save, NPR News reports.

Research

Honeybees Directly Displace Wild Pollinators, Cambridgeshire Study Finds

A two-year Cambridgeshire study found honeybees often win flower encounters by pushing or chasing away wild pollinators, adding direct interference to competition for nectar and pollen.

Research

Le Monde publishes article on photography bicentenary and first person in a photograph

Le Monde has published an article headlined “Bicentenary of photography: In search of the first person in a photograph.” The page as accessed displayed a loading error, leaving the article’s findings and evidence unavailable.

Products & Applications · Research

Heart Rate Variability in Wearables: Promise and Uncertainty

Wearables use heart rate variability for stress and recovery tracking, but its clinical value and accuracy remain debated, a report says.

Large Language Models · Companies

DeepSeek Releases V4.1-Flash-1017 With 77.0 DeepSWE Score, Opens Search APIs

DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 on Oct. 17, 2026, claiming gains on 11 benchmarks and opening Search and Fetch APIs to all developers at $0.75 per 1,000 calls.

Products & Applications · Companies

More Than 20 Jev Alternatives Emerge in Four Weeks as Decision-Model Competition Grows

Jev drew at least 20 alternatives in four weeks, including Cloudflare, OpenAI and Perplexity, MarkTechPost reports.

Large Language Models · Companies

StepFun Releases Step 5 Preview Open Weights for Agentic Work

StepFun released open weights for Step 5 Preview, a 600B MoE with 27B active parameters and 1M-token context for agentic work.

Research

Astronomers Identify First Known Green Star, a White Dwarf 326 Light-Years Away

Astronomers say a white dwarf may be the first genuinely green star; a second may be the reddest.

Products & Applications

iPhone Duo First Batch Sells Out; Only Apple Website and Tmall Still Take Orders

Apple's first foldable iPhone sold out its first batch; only Apple's website and Tmall store still took orders, with deliveries listed into 2027.

Products & Applications

TechRadar selects 14 Amazon UK weekend deals across Lego, Ninja, Oral-B and Shark

TechRadar selects 14 Amazon UK weekend deals across Lego, Ninja, Oral-B, Shark and Bose.

Products & Applications

Ascot's British Champions Day 2026 Offers Five Group 1 Races and Free Streams

Ascot hosts British Champions Day 2026 on Oct. 17, with five Group 1 races and free UK, Irish and Australian streams.

Products & Applications

England Opens Rugby League World Cup Against Tonga in Perth

England face Tonga in Perth on Oct. 17 in their Rugby League World Cup opener; Australia's 7Plus and Seven show it free.

Policy & Regulation · Cybersecurity

South Korea deepfake sex video cases sent for review top 17,000 in eight months

South Korea’s media regulator received 17,378 deepfake sex videos for review in Jan-Aug 2026, exceeding 2025’s total.

Products & Applications

TechRadar Highlights 10 Retro Gadgets, From Step-Tracking Watch to iPod-Like Player

TechRadar spotlights retro gadgets, including a step-tracking Casio watch and an iPod-like player.

Cybersecurity · World

Hackers Raise Freezer Temperatures at Up to 700 French Supermarkets

Hackers raised freezer temperatures at up to 700 French supermarkets, spoiling food and prompting a Paris probe.

Products & Applications

TechRadar Launches Five-Question Quiz to Help Buyers Choose a Garmin Watch

TechRadar has published an interactive quiz to help shoppers pick a Garmin smartwatch, asking five questions on exercise, budget, size and outdoor features before pointing readers to a model and its full review.

Products & Applications · Companies · Cybersecurity

Perplexity Open-Sources SPACE Sandbox for AI Agents

Perplexity has open-sourced SPACE, the Firecracker microVM sandbox behind Perplexity Computer, under Apache 2.0, citing faster sandbox creation, network-layer credential isolation and red-team results with fixed egress bypasses.

Products & Applications

Sonic Lamb's Beyond Headphones Promise Felt Bass Through Skin, Set for US Launch

Sonic Lamb's $249 Beyond headphones, due in the US in November 2026, add felt bass via skin vibration, TechRadar says.

Companies · AI Chips & Compute · Autonomous Driving

Apple's Foldable iPhone Duo Preorders Slip to 2027; Tesla Shows Flying Roadster

Apple's foldable iPhone Duo preorders slipped to January 2027; Tesla showed a flying Roadster and targeted 2028 production.

Large Language Models · Companies

Microsoft unveils MAI-Base-2, a 2-trillion-parameter base model it says outruns top open-source rivals

Microsoft detailed MAI-Base-2, a 2-trillion-parameter base model it says beats DeepSeek-V4-Pro-Base on internal tests.

Products & Applications

TechRadar Explores Two Upgrades for a 13-Year-Old iMac

TechRadar published a first-person piece on two simple upgrades to a 13-year-old iMac and whether they were worthwhile.

Products & Applications

AI website builders reach 53% of surveyed U.S. entrepreneurs as freelance web postings fall

Bluehost survey: 53% of U.S. entrepreneurs use AI website builders as freelance web development postings fall.