A Cornell ecologist is working to establish 'smoke ecology' to understand how wildfire smoke affects animals, especially birds, as fire seasons grow longer and smoke spreads far beyond burn zones.
Hack The Box released AI Range Enterprise Edition to grade AI agents against the roles they are assigned, and to score the human staff working alongside them.
Google has retired Gemini Gems and replaced them with Skills, configurable prompts that can be invoked inside any Gemini chat and chained into multi-step workflows. The change moves customization from separate Gem chats into the main chat interface.
Android Authority's review says CUKTECH's $69.99 25 Power Bank SE offers 25,000mAh, a built-in braided USB-C cable and 100W charging in a slim body. Its main drawback is slower output when multiple ports are used at once.
Fields Medalist Terence Tao, until recently one of AI's loudest advocates in mathematics, now says model companies are pushing automated proof generation too fast, warning of "proof indigestion" and contaminated training data. OpenAI has responded with an advisory group based at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study.
Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days sale is live, offering discounts on Apple devices, TVs, appliances, headphones and Amazon hardware, with many deals limited to Prime members.
Statcounter data reported by TechRadar show Windows 11 reached 71.5% of Windows installs in September 2026, as rising Windows 10 ESU fees push users to upgrade.
Android Authority poll: most readers leave Bluetooth audio codec on default; nearly a third do not know it exists.
Amazon has cut Razer's 11-port USB-C travel dock to $69.99, 47% off its $129.99 list price.
Reka released Rho-1, a 19B omni-reasoning model that handles text, image, video and robot actions in one network.
Foreign Minister Cho Hyun said South Korea is weighing diplomatic measures over North Korean mine explosions inside the DMZ and remains aligned with Washington on North Korea policy and denuclearization.
South Korea reviews DMZ mine response, calls Ukraine apology insufficient, and tracks 28 IPs in bank hacks.
The Verge reviews BougeRV's DuneRover, a remote-controlled wagon with animated lighting, finding it surprisingly capable on hills and sand. The Kickstarter prototype has rough edges, and production units are not expected until February 2027.
Amazon cuts the Google Pixel 11 Pro XL to $999 from $1,299, a 23% Prime Day discount and the lowest price since launch.
A developer team has released DroidDeck, an Android app that runs Steam games with a SteamOS-like interface, though it requires high-end Snapdragon hardware and remains early-stage.
OpenAI's 28-day sprint opened with about 50% faster GPT-6 Astra and Sol, but ads, EU watermarks and subscription cuts drew backlash.
Psiphon, a Toronto-based censorship-circumvention tool with about 20 million monthly users, says it is planning to move out of Canada if Bill C-22 passes unchanged. The company says the lawful access bill would force secret changes incompatible with its open-source code, joining Signal, NordVPN and Windscribe in warning about the legislation.
Meta’s v128 update adds walking navigation to Ray-Ban Meta glasses, while v129 brings new audio accessibility controls.
New research argues the Voynich manuscript was misbound in the 15th century and read in the wrong order.
Android Authority reports Google is developing a Focus Peaking feature for Snapseed's camera that would highlight in-focus areas in the viewfinder. The latest app version also adds HaldCLUT support for LUT workflows.
Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days has cut the reMarkable 2 bundle — tablet, Marker Plus stylus and grey folio — to £379 from £529, the lowest price TechRadar says it has recorded for the full set.
Researchers from PhAI Labs, CUHK, Fudan, Stanford, Oxford and Princeton have released JEPA-Anything, a domain-agnostic framework that applies one shared learning recipe to build world models across seven fields, according to MarkTechPost. Its Orthogonal Predictive Factorization splits a JEPA target into orthogonal factors and improves matched dynamics tasks, while planning gains remain environment-dependent.
Samsung has refreshed its SmartThings app with Now Brief-style cards, a new summarization feature called SmartThings Now, offline local controls and support for Matter 1.6, according to Android Authority.
Google Play services v26.39 adds NFC support to Find Hub trackers and simplifies setup, Android Authority reports.