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Turkey
Thankful turkeys trotted through the thick, thorny thistle.
Pumpkin-pie-packing pilgrims proudly prepared perfectly puffed pastries.
Cranberry-crunching cougars chased chaotic cornstalk creatures.
Grateful guests gathered giggling, gobbling great gobbler goodies.
Feasting families flipped flaky, fluffy focaccia for festive fun.
Robot
A highly anticipated Russian humanoid robot's debut fell flat when the machine face-planted during a live presentation in Moscow this week. On Tuesday, Nov. 11, the robot, named AIDOL, made its long-awaited introduction. In a video of the event circulating online, AIDOL is seen stumbling as it walks on stage to the theme song from the "Rocky" film franchise. When the robot attempts to wave to the audience with its right arm, it appears to lose its balance before tumbling over.
Twitch
Twitch, a streaming platform popular with gamers, has been added to Australia's teen social media ban that starts next month. It joins other platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat that must ensure under-16s cannot open accounts and that existing ones are closed from 10 December. Australia's internet regulator overseeing the ban said Twitch - owned by Amazon -had been included as its main purpose was "online social interaction" where users were encouraged to chat to each other about posted content.
YouTube Music
YouTube Music appears to be quietly rolling out a long-requested feature — the ability to search within playlists. Users have been asking for this feature for years, and it now looks like Google is finally responding. A Reddit user reported seeing a new “Find in Playlist” option in the YouTube Music iOS app. According to the user, the feature is available on version 8.45.3 of the app, and they confirmed they’re based in India. They also noted that while they can search within playlists, they still can’t search through radios saved to their library.
Mars
Blue Origin, the space company owned by Jeff Bezos, has successfully launched its New Glenn rocket from Florida. The rocket was carrying two Nasa spacecraft deployed towards Mars. The Escapade satellites will take 22 months to reach Mars and will orbit the planet to measure its atmosphere and magnetic field. The reusable booster powering New Glenn also separated from the rocket's upper stage and touched down on a floating landing pad in the Atlantic Ocean, in a successful first for Blue Origin.
Light
One of those appears to be coming in the next macOS update. The dev beta of Tahoe 26.2 includes a feature that essentially lets your computer screen function as a ring light during a video call. It's called Edge Light and it illuminates a rectangular band around the edge of the screen. Apple's Neural Engine will also position the light based on where it detects your face in the video frame. There are some controls for making the light warmer or cooler, and it can be set to turn on automatically once the brightness in your environment dims.
Issey Miyake
Fashion brand Issey Miyake has teamed up with Apple to launch the iPhone Pocket, a wearable smartphone carrier that stretches, much like the fashion brand's pleated clothing, to hold any iPhone. Each sling is made of a single, continuous piece of yarn, 3D-knitted into a ribbed open structure that expands to fit the phone alongside other small everyday items. "The design of iPhone Pocket speaks to the bond between iPhone and its user, while keeping in mind that an Apple product is designed to be universal in aesthetic and versatile in use," said the brand's design director Yoshiyuki Miyamae.
iPhone
Apple will conceal the front-facing camera under the screen of its 2027 iPhone, a Chinese leaker said today, corroborating reports that Apple's 20th anniversary iPhone will have no visible cutouts in the display... Several Android phones already feature under-display selfie cameras, but image quality typically suffers due to the lens being behind display layers. Apple has likely resisted adoption for this reason, but the company has reportedly been working on its own solution for some time, and we could see it debut as soon as next year in Apple's first foldable iPhone.
Bug
A massive AWS outage Monday that brought down some of the world’s most popular apps and services all started with a glitch. The bug- which occurred when two automated systems were trying to update the same data simultaneously- snowballed into something significantly more serious that Amazon’s engineers scrambled to fix, the company said Thursday in a postmortem assessment.
Spooky
Spooky, scary skeletons, send shivers down your spine. Shrieking skulls will shock your soul seal your doom tonight Spooky, scary skeletons, speak with such a screech. You'll shake and shudder in surprise, when you hear these zombies shriek. We're sorry, skeletons, you're so misunderstood, you only want to socialize (but I don't think we should).
'Cause spooky, scary skeletons, shout startling, shrilly screams. They'll sneak from their sarcophagus and just won't leave you be. Spirits supernatural are shy, what's all the fuss? But bags of bones seem so unsafe (it's semi-serious).
Andriod Auto
Android Auto has several limitations, but many of them are intentional, as Google prioritizes safety while you drive. But that doesn't mean Android Auto is short on features: the Mountain View tech giant keeps adding new features and improvements to make Android Auto better without compromising on users' safety. Android Authority's APK teardown of the Android Auto version 5.6.154404-release.daily (beta) has revealed that Google is currently working on at least one major feature for your car's dashboard.
YouTube
YouTube has announced several new features that aim to improve the viewing experience on TV screens, including an instant shopping tool and visual upgrades for low-resolution videos. Specifically, YouTube says it will start automatically upscaling videos uploaded below 1080p, using AI to bump them to HD resolution, and plans to support upscaling to 4K “in the near future”- but both creators and viewers will be able to opt out.
Mushrooms
Scientists have found that mushrooms can act as organic memory devices, mimicking neural activity while consuming minimal power. The Ohio State team grew and trained shiitake fungi to perform like computer chips, capable of switching between electrical states thousands of times per second. These fungal circuits are biodegradable and low-cost, opening the door to sustainable, brain-like computing.
Robot Farming
Mikesell said the machine, which is at least nine months away from being revealed, will leverage the same AI system used in Carbon’s other equipment but perform tasks beyond weeding. Founded in 2018, Carbon Robotics made its name across ag-tech with the LaserWeeder, a machine which can be pulled behind a tractor and uses its tech to detect plants in fields and then target and eliminate weeds with lasers. The latest iteration, the LaserWeeder G2, was released in February.
GrubHub
Grubhub is expanding its partnership with self-driving technology startup Avride to pilot robot food deliveries in Jersey City, New Jersey, the companies said on Thursday. Users in the city can place orders through the Grubhub app, operated by Wonder Group, and choose Avride robot delivery if within range. Customers can order from Wonder's Jersey City location, which houses more than 20 different restaurant concepts and allows users to combine dishes from multiple restaurants into a single order.
Open AI
The US artificial intelligence company OpenAI said on Tuesday that it is launching its own web browser, Atlas, to rival Google's popular Chrome browser. Atlas will be powered by OpenAI's popular chatbot ChatGPT, as the California-based firm looks to revolutionize how people use the internet. "Tabs were great, but we haven't seen a lot of browser innovation since then," said OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in a video presentation broadcast on Tuesday, speaking off a "rare, once-a-decade opportunity to rethink what a browser can be about and how to use one."
Liquid Air
An overlooked technology for nearly 50 years, the first liquid air energy storage facility is finally set to power up in 2026... As the world's use of renewable electricity soars, surpassing coal for the first time, the need to store that energy when the Sun isn't shining and the wind isn't blowing is growing in step. While some turn to grid-scale lithium batteries and others to pumped hydro, a small but growing industry is convinced there's a better solution still: batteries that rely on air.
Fold iPhone
The investment banking and securities firm suggested that a potential postponement could be due to Apple taking longer to decide on key design elements such as the hinge. The device is expected to feature a 7.58-inch inner display and a 5.38-inch outer display. The report added that expected production of display panels for the foldable iPhone have now decreased from 13 million to nine million units.
Robot
The California Institute of Technology, also known as Caltech, has introduced the ‘world’s first’ multi-robot system that combines a humanoid robot and a transforming drone to walk, fly, and drive in synchronization. The X1 System integrates multiple locomotion modes like walking, flying, and driving into one coordinated robotic system that can seamlessly adapt to complex terrains and tasks.
AI
Amid the avalanche of new hardware on display at Amazon’s New York City reveal this week is a cool new AI software feature for Ring camera owners: Search Party for dogs. It works like this: When the dog sneaks out- which folks probably will learn from their Ring app in the first place- owners can send up a digital flare asking neighbors to add their outside Ring cameras to the Fido-finding effort. Neighbors can opt into the search or not.
AI
Truth Terminal is an artificial intelligence (AI) bot created by Ayrey, a performance artist and independent researcher from Wellington, New Zealand, in 2024. It may be the most vivid example of a chatbot set loose to interact with society. Truth Terminal mingles with the public through social media, where it shares fart jokes, manifestos, albums and artwork... The goal is to develop a safe and responsible framework to ensure its autonomy, he says, until governments give AIs legal rights.
Win10
Hundreds of millions of people are at risk of falling victim to cyber attacks if they do not update their computers within the next week, Microsoft has warned. A decade after releasing Windows 10, Microsoft will end support for the operating system on 14 October, meaning it will no longer receive protection from online threats. “Microsoft will no longer provide security and feature updates and technical support for Windows 10 PC's...”
Sound
As a PhD student in biomedical engineering at the University of Michigan in the US during the early 2000s, Xu was trying to find a way for doctors to destroy and remove diseased tissue without the need for invasive surgery. She'd landed on the idea of using high-frequency sound waves – ultrasound – to mechanically break up tissue and was testing her theory on pig hearts.
Minecraft
How long would it take you to reach the edge of the world in Minecraft? For YouTube and Twitch streamer Kurt 'Kurtjmac' Mac, it's been a whopping 14 and a half years. Back on March 28, 2011, the exploration enthusiast kicked off a journey he dubbed 'Far Lands or Bust,' in which he planned to travel to the eponymous region, which marks the point so far from the center of the map that Minecraft's terrain generation stops working correctly. On October 4, his long walk finally came to its completion.
Ring
At an event on Tuesday, Amazon unveiled a range of new AI-powered features for its latest Ring cameras and doorbells. The features will enable Ring users to recognize visitors’ faces and find lost pets by connecting with other Ring users in the same neighborhood. Amazon also launched an Alexa+ feature that functions as a smart doorbell assistant, providing details about visitors before users answer the door.
G
Google is making the gradient “G” its new company-wide logo, according to an announcement on Monday. The new logo first began to surface across the Google app on Android and iOS in May, but soon, the design will begin to appear across all of the company’s platforms, marking Google’s first big logo change in 10 years... The new logo blends everything together and makes the four colors brighter, bringing the design in line with its gradient Gemini logo. Google says the change reflects its “evolution in the AI era.
Robot
Google DeepMind has unveiled artificial intelligence models that further advance reasoning capabilities in robotics, enabling them to solve harder problems and complete more complicated real world tasks like sorting laundry and recycling rubbish. The company’s new robotics models, called Gemini Robotics 1.5 and Gemini Robotics-ER 1.5, are designed to help robots complete multi-step tasks by “thinking” before they act, as part of the tech industry’s push to make the general-purpose machines more useful in the everyday world.
Batteries
Battery materials startup Sila is starting operations today at its automotive-scale manufacturing facility, located in Moses Lake, Wash. The plant is producing a silicon-carbon anode material that replaces graphite in lithium-ion batteries like those used to power electric vehicles, smartphones and other consumer devices. Batteries using Sila’s Titan Silicon can hold 20% more energy than traditional batteries.
Keyboard
Logitech left solar-powered keyboards in the dark for over a decade, but it’s launching a new one today. Just like the K760 before it, its new $99.99 Signature Slim Solar Plus K980 can only be powered with light. There’s no USB port or swappable batteries. Instead, it features a cell that can convert solar or artificial light- 200 lux at minimum- into power to charge its battery, which the company says will last for up to 10 years.
OpenAI
OpenAI is now reportedly considering making ChatGPT glasses, despite CEO Sam Altman's public rejection of the form factor. Outside the Sun Valley Conference, back in July, Altman took questions from the press while wearing a pair of white sunglasses with strangely thick temples. When asked "are you wearing smart glasses? are these smart glasses?", he replied "no, absolutely not, I don't like smart glasses".
Penske Media Corporation, the publisher of Rolling Stone and The Hollywood Reporter, has become the first major American media company to sue Google over its AI summaries. The company claims that the AI Overviews that often appear at the top of search results leave users with little reason to click through to the source, hurting traffic and illegally benefitting from the work of its reporters. While Penske Media is the biggest name to take on Google over its AI Overviews, it’s not the first.
YouTube
YouTube’s big Made On event for the “next 20” years of its streaming platform includes new features that will change the way creators make money off of the videos you watch. They include new links directing viewers on where to find products online and the ability to switch up the sponsored ads you see featured by creators. Support for dynamically inserting brand segments that can be swapped in and out, allowing creators to resell slots to another brand in future instead of having a permanent product ad in long-form videos. YouTube says it will start testing early next year before rolling it out later in 2026.
Sun
The Parker Solar Probe zoomed by the sun on Tuesday during a record-breaking flyby, coming within 3.8 million miles of the solar surface during humanity’s closest approach to a star... The mission has been building up to this historic milestone since it launched on August 12, 2018- an event attended by the probe’s namesake, Dr. Eugene Parker, an astrophysicist who pioneered the solar research field of heliophysics.
Apple Watch
Apple’s new hypertension notifications- announced Tuesday alongside the new Apple Watch SE3, Series 11, and Ultra 3- use data from the watches’ existing optical heart sensor to “analyze how a user’s blood vessels respond to the beats of the heart.” An algorithm will review this data over a 30 day period and notify users if it detects signs of high blood pressure.
AirPods
We first spotted that AirPods Live translation was coming a month before the announcement. Initial language support is listed as English, French, German, Portuguese (Brazil), and Spanish – with four more languages coming later this year. But while European languages are supported, you won’t necessarily be able to take advantage of that if you are within one of the countries in which they’re spoken …
Internet
Internet connectivity in multiple countries including India and Pakistan has been affected due to subsea cable outages in the Red Sea, internet monitoring group Netblocks said. Similar internet disruptions were also observed on Etilasat and Du networks in the United Arab Emirates, Netblocks said. It was not immediately clear who was responsible for the damage but Netblocks identified failures affecting cable systems near Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
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