TechRadar's two-week review says the TT Nature Bird Feeder Station is a sturdy, solar-powered wooden smart feeder with sharp 1080p video, but its basic PerchLens app, paid bird ID and slow trigger suit casual users rather than serious birders.
A Weibo leak says vivo may launch the X500 Ultra in China in spring 2027, keeping Android’s Ultra tier alive alongside Samsung.
MiniMax launches M3.1 Flash, a 428B MoE model with 1M context at $0.15/M input; benchmarks are vendor-reported.
Engadget reports the PS5 orange light means Rest Mode, not a warning; the controller’s orange mic light means mute is on.
Wyze's $149 Ultra BodyScan Plus moves its screen to the handle and adds over 50 body metrics without a subscription.
Motive launched Agents, autonomous AI that contacts drivers, opens maintenance orders and coordinates fleet responses.
Axonius launched AI Workforce virtual workers and made its AI Companion and MCP Server generally available, while Fortanix extended Confidential AI to Kubernetes through CNCF Confidential Containers. Both aim to control AI-driven remediation and protect data during inference.
A paper tied to ACM MM 2026 introduces CoReFuse-Med, a fusion method for multimodal medical image segmentation that first removes shallow corruption and then recalibrates deep modality contributions. Tests on EPVS, BraTS and WMH report gains over MedNeXt, while the authors limit claims to resolution-induced degradation after spatial alignment.
TechRadar: Newegg gift-card stacking cuts 32GB DDR5 kits to $420 and Ryzen 7 7700X with free 240mm AIO to $209.
Anthropic released a study saying junior technical staff fell to 14% by mid-2026 from 21% in early 2025, while AI-driven productivity gains pushed engineers into more managerial work and added meetings. The company said some roles remain human and described itself as an early warning system for AI's workforce effects.
Suunto may be preparing a screenless tracker after a UAE certification; it appears larger than Fitbit Air and close to WHOOP in size.
Engadget outlines ways to sell, repurpose or recycle older graphics cards as high prices lengthen upgrade cycles.
Google says a 780 MW Minnesota AI data center can finance more clean power than it uses; critics question grid costs.
AI coding tools have spawned a wave of custom firmware for synths, samplers and grooveboxes, led by a $70 DX-7 clone.
Leaker says PS6 memory and storage may cost Sony $680, pointing to a $1,000-plus console. Sony has not commented.
AI agents alone on a virtual island for 30 hours explored, set goals and seemed to play, MIT Technology Review says.
Engadget details remaining PS3 uses: disc playback, PC media streaming, CD ripping and some retro games.
Tenstorrent raised $1.5B at a $6.2B valuation to expand its open RISC-V AI compute platform and challenge Nvidia.
TechRadar reports the Logitech MX Anywhere 3S is $69.99 at Amazon, $20 below its $89.99 list price, with glass-surface tracking, quiet clicks, multi-device Bluetooth and up to 70 days of battery life.
Burger King Japan says unauthorized access to its app member system between Oct. 2 and Oct. 7 exposed 11.18 million customer records, including names and order histories, but not payment data.
Sceye’s uncrewed stratospheric airship flew from New Mexico to Japan and back between August and September 2026, demonstrating a helium platform designed to station-keep near 60,000 feet and act as a cell tower in the sky, according to Ars Technica.
Engadget explains when a 2.5G Ethernet port helps and when other hardware or a slower broadband plan limits the gain.
9to5Mac calls the $299 Apple TV 4K a poor buy; TechRadar cites a $649 Mac mini M4 deal as a cheaper option than the M6.
Engadget says Even Realities' G2 improves its display and durability, but the $249 R1 ring's controls are unreliable.