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Beats and The Pokémon Company announced a special-edition Beats Pill with Pikachu and Mimikyu designs, Pokémon charms, and interactive packaging. It will be available to order Oct. 15 for $149.99.
A Reddit user built a 3D-printed cradle with a 60mm Noctua fan that cuts Galaxy Watch 9 charging from 15% to 100% to 1 hour 15 minutes, targeting thermal throttling Samsung has not fixed.
Daiichi Kosho says a malware infection at a contractor may have exposed data on 8.7 million customers and employees.
Apple introduced HomeView, a $299 smart display with Siri AI, facial recognition and smart-home controls, alongside a new Apple TV 4K and HomePod mini 2. HomeView ships Nov. 13, while HomePod mini 2 arrives Oct. 30 without Siri AI at launch.
Apple's Oct. 13 'Welcome home' event signals a smart home push, with rumors of a display hub, refreshed HomePod Mini and new Apple TV 4K.
Austin-based Icon raised $200 million in Series D funding co-led by Baillie Gifford and BlackRock, bringing total funding to $700 million at a reported $1.4 billion valuation as it scales its multi-story Titan construction system.
Garmin has launched the third-generation Marq series, a six-model luxury smartwatch line starting at $2,500, £2,199 or around AU$3,500. The range uses grade-5 titanium, ceramic bezels, nano-moulded polymer antenna strips and inductive buttons, and doubles storage to 128GB.
TechRadar published an analysis warning that enterprise IT remains optimized for AI training while inference becomes the dominant workload. It cites IDC, Deloitte, McKinsey and Gartner on inference demand, agent growth, network strain and the rising role of CPUs.
Google has announced a multi-year partnership with Flo Health to build personalized women's health experiences in Google Health and Fitbit products. Google says Flo data will not be used for advertising, sold, or moved without explicit consent, following a $56 million class-action settlement involving Flo and Google; Meta was found liable after declining to settle.
Mitel Networks has launched Mitel Workforce Experience, a unified communications client that adapts to worker roles instead of devices. It targets non-deskbound and frontline employees with role-based plugins, flexible deployment and private push notifications, according to SiliconANGLE.
Bose has released $99/£99 Noise Cancelling Wired Earbuds with ANC and an inline remote but no app, settings or AI. President Raza Haider tells TechRadar the product was inspired by a campus trend and growing privacy concerns, and says the U.S. presale sold out ahead of a Europe launch on October 15.
Addigy has announced its Intelligence Suite, aimed at bringing AI control to Apple devices, in a new episode of the Apple @ Work podcast. Jason Dettbarn of Addigy joined the show to discuss the product.
TFG London, owner of Phase Eight, Hobbs and Whistles, is investigating a cyber-attack on its UK websites and IT systems that may have compromised customer data, and has paused online orders as a precaution.
AI labs are buying code and workplace archives from defunct or shutting-down startups, according to MIT Technology Review, as brokers turn failed companies’ digital remains into training data and legal questions mount.
Abu Dhabi Public Health Centre is partnering with Ultrahuman to bring its algorithms to the nationwide Sahatna app, adding biological age estimates without requiring Ultrahuman smart rings.
OPPO has detailed ColorOS 17, its Android 17-based software that debuts on the Find X10 series. OnePlus and realme will begin rolling it out on Oct. 29, 2026, with flagships first and the schedule extending into early 2027.
RUNTO data shows China’s handheld smart camera online sales reached 345,000 units and RMB 1.01 billion during the 2026 Mid-Autumn and National Day holiday weeks, with DJI taking 78.7% unit share and its Pocket series 90% of gimbal cameras.
Huawei's Hubble Investment joined an angel round for Shenzhen electronic-skin maker Vistra Robotics, DeepSeek plans to lead a seed round in Winverse AI, and HINA invested in AI music hardware company SUAVE, according to media reports.
Z.ai has released GLM-Legal, a legal AI model built on GLM-5.3-Flash. It scores 19.17% on Harvey LAB, ranking No. 7 of 79, but API access is application-only with no published price or weights.
Mozilla has launched Firefox Enterprise, giving organizations control over data storage and governance, with France, Germany, Austria and Switzerland first in line.
No Man's Sky will launch on iPhone and iPad on October 28 for $19.99 with a free trial. It will run on iPhone 11 and third-generation iPad Air, but multiplayer is unsupported and some settlement features require iPhone 15 Pro or later.
Meta released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, saying the agent-focused models rival leading systems on some benchmarks, while early users report mixed coding and 3D results.
SpaceXSI has launched the X Subscription, a single monthly membership bundling Grok, Cursor and X Premium across four personal tiers priced from $8 to $200 a month, plus team and custom enterprise plans.
Sifted reports on Luxembourg scaleups in Fit 4 Scale, including Financial Navigator, Partao, Kidola and ClimateCamp.