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A Shaoshupai review says Apple's folding iPhone Duo moves controls to a right-side strip, cuts effective content width, keeps multitasking basic and puts the charging port on the left half.
A TechRadar article says global employee engagement has dropped to 20%, its lowest level since 2020, and argues that companies must adopt broadcast-style visual storytelling to hold employee attention and execute strategy.
Jaguar unveiled the Type 01, a four-door electric luxury GT with more than 1,000 hp and a new design language, in New York on Oct. 6. The car is priced from £130,000 in the UK and is set to launch in early 2027.
Magico has fully reworked its A3 floorstanding speaker as the A3 2027, with new drive units and cabinet damping drawn from its M9 flagship. It is priced at $25,000 a pair in the US and £28,998 in the UK.
Google has added live UK petrol and diesel prices to Google Maps and Waze, drawing on the government's Fuel Finder service. Prices appear in searches and station listings, and forecourts must update changes within 30 minutes.
TechRadar: 60 Amazon Prime Day deals still live, including AirPods, Sony headphones and Pixel 11.
TechRadar reports that although Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days sale has ended, 27 of the event’s best deals are still available. They include a £24.99 Blink Outdoor 4 camera and Video Doorbell bundle, a record-low Nintendo Switch 2 price, and discounts on Oral-B, Shark, Kindle, Blink, Inui and Ring products. Most are set to end early next week, or sooner if stock runs out, and are likely the lowest prices until Black Friday in November.
MIT Technology Review released its 2026 Climate Tech Companies to Watch list, highlighting firms in China, next-generation batteries, geothermal and nuclear power for data centers, and long-duration energy storage.
Manus parent Butterfly Effect raised over $500 million and is rebuilding a Beijing team for China AI agents.
Geely Auto Group launched its AI-powered Smart Charge system on Sept. 23, 2026, claiming a 2,250 kW single-gun peak, battery temperatures held below 65 C and 20 percent longer cycle life, along with new batteries, charging robots and a 2027 county-coverage plan.
Apple has told developers it is adding new controls to Full Disk Access on the Mac, the permission that lets an app read nearly everything on a user's drive, according to 9to5Mac.
Architect Financial Technologies has launched Liquid Inference, a router that auctions every LLM request across competing providers and locks a maximum price before generation begins.
Microsoft has begun testing a rebuilt Windows 11 search experience that promises faster performance, lower memory use, a cleaner panel, and the ability to change settings directly from the search box.
Google has released Chrome 155 with decoding support for JPEG XL, a format it says compresses images 30 to 50 percent better than JPEG and also handles lossless compression, HDR, animation and progressive decoding.
Shengshu Technology has opened Vidu Q4 Preview, a high-expression video-generation model priced from 0.09 yuan per second, with support for up to 15 reference images and 2K or 4K output, according to ifanr.
Police departments are expanding AI-powered real-time crime centers like Axon's Fusus, while privacy experts warn the tools create broader surveillance risks than Flock cameras.
LA County is building automatic financial-aid screening to prevent hundreds of millions in medical debt.
Mole, an open-source Mac cleanup command-line tool, has become a paid Mac desktop app after reaching 60,000 GitHub stars and more than 120 contributors. Its developer says users pushed the shift and shaped safeguards for cleaning AI-generated files, while the CLI remains free and open source.
A TechRadar piece attributed to Samsara's CMO argues physical AI stalls on execution rather than budget, citing BCG, PwC and Capgemini findings on spending, value capture and robotics deployment.
Code in Android 17 QPR3 Beta 1 points to a Googlebook feature that unlocks the laptop using a nearby Android phone.
AVEVA’s Arti Garg says industrial AI must pair autonomy with safety, governance, and human oversight in physical operations.
BMW unveils the iX4, an electric X4 with up to 428 miles of range and 603 horsepower, arriving in March 2027.
OpenAI is rolling out GPT-6 to every ChatGPT tier with an Intelligent UI that builds interactive replies; paid users get GPT-6 Sol, Free and Go accounts get the less capable Luna.
Google is rolling out Pixel Connected Camera support to 11 more communication and work apps, bringing the total number of officially supported apps to 16, according to Android Authority.