Emily Oster says AI headlines can make parenting anxious. She advises exploring tools and focusing on a stable home.
A study of more than 700 software firms finds AI coding agents raise lines of code, commits and pull requests, yet Jira-tracked feature delivery barely moves. Researchers attribute the gap to longer, heavier human code review and report no significant employment change.
TechRadar reports Amazon deals on a 32GB HP OmniBook 16 AI laptop at $1,300 and a Sihoo B100 ergonomic chair at $160, with caveats on seller pricing and untested models.
Meta launched Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, its first frontier AI models, with paid access through Muse subscriptions and API pricing as it challenges OpenAI and Anthropic.
Beats has teased a Pikachu-themed Pill speaker in a social media post, confirming a long-rumored Pokémon collaboration. No release date or pricing was announced.
TP-Link's tri-band Archer BE670 Wi-Fi 7 router with a 10Gbps port is selling on Amazon for $249.99, $50 below list, per TechRadar. It has not been independently tested by the outlet.
The U.S. Air Force will buy atmospheric data from WindBorne Systems' fleet of autonomous weather balloons under a contract worth up to $49 million, the largest the Redwood City startup has held. The Air Force has ordered $1.7 million worth so far and pays only for the data it requests.
Agent37 launched sandboxes for AI agents at under 10% of most providers' cost, with average customer spending of $0.37 per sandbox per month, according to its Hacker News post.
Tor Project keeps Mullvad technical ties but pauses co-branding after a co-founder's political donation sparked backlash.
Newegg is selling V-Color's Manta XSky 32GB DDR5-6000 CL30 memory kit for $460 with discount code GTWF84, $68 below its $527.99 list price, according to TechRadar. The kit uses an AMD EXPO profile and carries a 30-day low price badge.
Amazon is reportedly in talks to acquire AI startup Decart for up to $7 billion. Decart's DOS software optimizes AI models for specific chips, potentially aiding AWS and its Trainium push.
Akuity has added Fleet Management to Kargo Enterprise, allowing teams to ship one change across hundreds of Kubernetes clusters as a single release, with wave-based rollouts, health checks and fleet-wide rollback. The capability is in private beta.
Phasis Inc. has developed a World API and reality layers to orient AI agents before they plan or act, co-founder and CEO Brandon Farley said in a SiliconANGLE interview, describing an /orient endpoint that returns evidence-backed domain frames.
Google Maps users say incident reports are not clearing as expected, staying active for hours or days after they are filed, with the glitch appearing in specific areas including Chicago, according to Android Authority.
OnePlus launched the OnePlus 16 on Oct 12, 2026, its annual flagship with the sixth-generation Snapdragon 8 Super Ultimate chip, a world-first 185Hz display, a 200MP LUMO camera system and a 9,000mAh battery. It goes on sale Oct 13 from 5,199 yuan after a national subsidy.
The 2026 IEIC International Embodied Intelligence Skills Competition will run in Shanghai from Oct. 23 to 25, 2026, with 23 events across nine tracks that assess robots on real workplace tasks rather than staged demos, according to Leiphone.com.
Smart and Citroën unveiled small EVs at the Paris Motor Show, as Engadget reviewed Rivian's 2027 R2 electric SUV.
Huntress says attackers used public Microsoft Power BI dashboards posing as blurred documents to push ScreenConnect downloads and establish persistent remote access.
Google and Apple offer after-death account tools, but both require advance setup; without plans, accounts can be deleted and data may be inaccessible.
Blueprints AI, a Santa Monica startup founded in 2025, says its second-generation AI software can turn a sketch or PDF into code-compliant, permit-ready architectural blueprints in minutes. The company is unveiling the product at TechCrunch Disrupt's 2026 Startup Battlefield 200.
Intermarché and Cooperative U say an "unprecedented" cyber-attack forced store refrigerators to defrost, destroying fresh and frozen stock; Paris prosecutors have opened an investigation.
Google has announced the Fitbit Edge, a fitness tracker positioned between the Pixel Watch 5 and Fitbit Air. It has a 1.34-inch OLED display, week-long battery life, and more health sensors than the Air, at about half the price of the Pixel Watch 5.
According to 9to5Mac, Amazon is offering a $600 discount on the 14-inch 2TB M5 Pro MacBook Pro, bringing it to $2,399, alongside deals on AirPods Pro 3, AirPods Max 2, M6 Mac mini, and iPhone 18 Pro cases.
9to5Mac's Security Bite column featured a Mac privacy app that automatically blurs the screen when the user looks away, pitched for people who work in coffee shops, trains, or hotel lounges.