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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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