Baidu announced Baidu World 2026 will take place on Nov. 12 in Beijing under the theme “The Next Act: Intelligent Organizations,” featuring one main forum, 12 sub-forums, more than 30 AI open classes and a 6,000-square-meter exhibition area.
Leiphone reports Orbbec has cut its lawn-mower robot ODM business after cumulative shipments reached only several thousand units, citing FCC rules, a crowded market and weak downstream customer volume. Its outdoor-robot perception modules continue.
Geely launched the Galaxy Warship 700, its first new-energy hardcore SUV, in Hangzhou on Oct 10, offering three powertrains and six variants at a limited-time launch price from 169,800 yuan.
Step 5 Preview joins Tencent WorkBuddy with two weeks of exclusive free access for research, data analysis and document generation.
Apple released iOS 27 parental controls and child safety features with its September 2026 updates, adding age-based content filters, web browsing approvals, communication limits and redesigned Screen Time tools, according to SSPai.
ARMSX2 v2.8.3 has added the MaliSX2 Vulkan GPU driver for Android devices with Arm Mali graphics, a change Android Authority says can improve PS2 emulation performance on older Pixels and some MediaTek hardware.
Microsoft has released Microsoft-Decision-1, a decision model post-trained on Alibaba's Qwen3.5-9B that it says beats LLMs and Jev 1.13.0 on latency and accuracy in structured decision tasks, and is being tested across all its business areas.
South Korea's defense ministry opened the military's first AI transformation base in Pangyo to train humanoids and multi-legged robots for dangerous military tasks, with plans for five bases nationwide.
Modded Gboard app PixelBoard brings Rambler voice typing to any Android phone without root, per Android Authority.
Roman fort in Wales yields coins that may support a Mabinogion tale of Emperor Magnus Maximus, Oxford archaeologist says.
Most U.S. nuclear reactors have adopted AI tools this year, mainly for paperwork and compliance, not operations.
Fast-food chains and supermarkets are expanding AI pricing and checkout tools, as a federal antitrust lawsuit alleges McDonald's overcharged customers. Experts warn the tools could make dynamic and personalized pricing more common, complicating inflation measurement.
TechRadar has published a coffee machine deals guide by senior staff writer Max, telling readers not to wait for Black Friday and highlighting six machines with steep discounts, according to the article headline.
Apple may unveil HomeView display on Oct. 13, plus new HomePod mini and Apple TV 4K, per Bloomberg via Android Authority.
Councils in England that have dropped pay-and-display machines are passing app service fees of 10p to 30p on to drivers, pushing some hourly parking bills up by as much as 40%, the Guardian reports. Van operators face an extra £2.5bn in diesel costs this year as pump prices hit record highs.
Oct. 13 Korean history: Kim Dae-jung's Nobel, inter-Korean talks, Kakao privacy, Korea-China currency swap and 'Squid Game'.
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew said AI will drive major breakthroughs in physics, biotech, chemistry and materials science within three years, as ByteDance expands AI research and Chew warns of cybersecurity risks.
Dell's Top Tech Event runs through Oct. 12 with laptop discounts up to $500. TechRadar highlights five picks from $499, including the Dell 15, Dell 16, Dell 14 Plus, Dell 16S, and XPS 13.
Liu Nianqiu founded Feimoyi in 2026 to build open-world Physical Agents, backed by near-$100M IDG-led seed funding.
A retrospective published by Shaoshupai’s Matrix community on Oct. 12, 2026 traces Sony’s mini-notebook line from the 1998 VAIO Picturebook to the 2009 VAIO P, covering hardware, the Transmeta switch, performance trade-offs and the netbook debate.
Australian Greens urge blocking the U.S. livestream of Nidal Hasan’s execution as officials weigh limited options.
TII released Falcon-ASR, a 1.6B Arabic speech model reporting 20.92% average WER in its tests, available only as a hosted demo.
Let's Encrypt will shorten its default TLS certificate validity from 90 days to 64 days starting Feb. 10, 2027, with a further cut to 45 days planned for 2028 and a shorter domain-validation reuse window.
Googlebook updates add Samsung phone support to Better Together features and fix setup, rolling out over the next few days.