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The first Test between South Africa and Australia is scheduled for October 9-13, Australia's first five-day match in South Africa in eight years. Coverage is split across Sky Sports, Willow TV, FanCode and Kayo Sports, with no dedicated free live stream.
TRAE has combined its TraeWork and TraeCode products into one entry point with switchable Agent and IDE modes, folding automation tasks, templates, an assistant and artifact management into a workflow that runs on desktop, web and mobile.
Microsoft will let Family and Premium subscribers share Copilot and AI features with up to five people, but OneDrive storage drops from 1TB per person to a shared 2TB pool.
Sharpa, founded by former Hesai executives, introduced its first fully self-developed humanoid robot D01, a smaller tactile dexterous hand W02 and an exoskeleton data glove AE01 at IROS. The company is building a full-stack manipulation system that combines body hardware, tactile control, world models and real-task data.
Utopai Studios is moving AI-assisted film and TV into Hollywood guild production and a 2027 slate led by The Most Serious Fart.
Isembard, an automated manufacturing startup, has opened a factory in Southwark, London, that it says is the largest in the UK capital since World War II. The plant makes components for rockets, satellites, drones and humanoid robots, and is staffed by veterans, Amazon alumni and a former VC.
openJiuwen has released and open-sourced an enterprise-grade AgentOS that brings multi-agent collaboration, self-evolution, compute affinity, and enterprise security into one foundation for large-scale agent deployment. The platform is part of an open ecosystem and an all-in-one acceleration offering announced at Huawei Connect 2026.
TechRadar says Google's standard Pixel 11 is a modest update over the Pixel 10 but the better value over the Pixel 11 Pro, which offers little extra everyday performance for $200 more.
Doubao Work has added a canvas feature for complex creative tasks and integrated the lightweight Doubao 2.1 Lite model for daily office work, according to Leiphone. The canvas also connects to the new Seedream 5.0 Flash image model.
少数派 has introduced Anyway.Fonts, a free browser-based font preview tool designed for Chinese fonts, with character-gap filtering, vertical previews, poster templates and multi-font comparison.
TechRadar reports JBL's new Cove wireless speakers are finally available in Australia with a 20% discount through its coupon code, alongside an Amaysim NBN 25 plan carrying a AU$30 introductory cost.
CoreWeave is adding managed services, the Forge platform and RL Rollouts to speed AI inference and agentic model iteration as inference workloads grow, an executive says.
Apple released an AT&T carrier bundle update for iPhone 18 Pro Max users on the iOS 27.2 beta after cellular issues.
Counterpoint expects OLED notebook display shipments to rise 50% in 2026, helped by Apple's next MacBook Pro and AI PCs.
Nyrius has launched the Phoenix Prime 4K30, a $99.99 wireless 4K HDMI transmitter and receiver kit that carries video up to 50ft through walls, but it tops out at 30fps and omits Dolby Atmos, DTS, HDR and low-latency gaming support.
Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5, OpenAI added GPT-6 models to ChatGPT, and PC makers showed Nvidia RTX Spark systems. Microsoft reported tens of millions of annual Copilot+ PC shipments, Amazon launched Alexa Tablets, and Apple scheduled an Oct. 13 event.
Apple TV has added “Matchbox The Movie,” a John Cena action comedy inspired by Mattel’s toy line, to its streaming catalog, per 9to5Mac.
Google Cloud introduced Gemini Agent, an enterprise office agent with a persistent corporate identity, four types of memory, cross-app execution and multi-model orchestration that can call Anthropic's Claude.
Gallatin AI raised $50 million in Series A funding for Navigator, its AI-powered military logistics platform used by the U.S. Army and Air Force.
TechRadar's Friday, October 9 puzzle columns provide hints and answers for Quordle game #1719, NYT Connections game #1216 and NYT Strands game #950, including OLDEN, DECISIVE VICTORY and UNBELIEVABLE.
Elastic has introduced AlertZero, a set of AI agents built into Elastic Security that triage alerts, hunt threats and analyze attacks, with each customer deciding how much runs without human sign-off.
Lukas Vogel has ported Doom to run inside a SQL database, rendering 640×480 color frames with about 1,300 lines of SQL.
A new leak suggests Samsung's first over-ear headphones since 2015 will launch under the Galaxy Studio name, putting the company on a collision course with premium rivals like Apple's AirPods Max. Pricing, features and availability are still unknown.
TextExpander now offers a free plan with five active snippets and cross-platform support.