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A ranking of the builders behind these apps needs a link between a person and a product, and we do not record one yet. When we do it will come from launch posts people wrote themselves. Business profiles only, never personal accounts.
It's that time of year again, when we learn which lucky scientists are among the winners of the Ig Nobel Prizes. This year, the prizes honor research on designing the perfect splash-free urinal; using mosquito proboscises to "necroprint" tiny nozzles; studying composition rates of buried cotton underwear; and the aerodynamics of a healthy nose-blow, among other highlights. Established in 1991, the…
Persona 4 was my belated introduction to Atlus's Japanese high school RPG series, so it still has a special place in my heart. The PlayStation 2 original was, however, also usurped by the greatly expanded and far superior Persona 4 Golden , which is where I racked up my New Game+ playthroughs. Even as I have become more time-poor over the years, I would still dip into its subsequent post-Vita port…
Ultrahuman is targeting a $200 million annual revenue run rate by January 2027 as it builds a new Qualcomm-powered smart ring.
A Japanese laptop maker has come up with an innovative stand It folds out from underneath the notebook to give the device some clearance off the surface below This improves cooling the processor by up to 3C / 5.4F, the maker claims, and it could be a trick that other manufacturers adopt A PC maker in Japan has produced a laptop with a clever twist under the hood — well, under the chassis to be pre…
Microsoft warns of Teams‑based campaign where attackers impersonate IT staff Victims tricked into granting remote access, leading to malware, lateral movement, and ransomware Defenses: verify support contacts, train staff, harden Teams, and use Defender Safe Links/ZAP Microsoft is warning about an ongoing hacking campaign that starts with a Teams message and ends with a ransomware infection and da…
Every year, millions of people who qualify for food assistance never get it. The money exists and they meet the eligibility rules, but they don’t know that the program exists, or if they qualify. For others, the application is too long and complicated. Public interest technology can fill these gaps between what a policy promises and what a person experiences. Public interest technology is a combin…
A president telling a room of CEOs he is optimistic about a bill is not a legislative event. It has no docket number, no vote count, and no legal consequence. What happened on either side of that meeting does have all three. On Wednesday, August 19, President Trump hosted crypto and traditional finance executives at the White House and called on Congress to pass what he described as a fair version…
Does every existing IP need a movie adaptation? The answer is no, of course, but I'm quietly confident in the upcoming live-action version of hit Hideo Kojima franchise, Death Stranding . Why? Well, let's start with the concept. In the game, courier Sam must reconnect a broken America after an apocalyptic event merged the worlds of the living and the dead. Add in distributor A24 and the man who di…
The Circular Ring 3 series announcement comes amid a year of heightened competition in the smart ring market, following the launches of the Oura Ring 5 and RingConn Gen 3.
Every app tells a story but only if someone is listening. Firebase Analytics, Google's free mobile and web analytics solution, has become one of the most widely adopted tools for developers and product teams who want to understand exactly how people use their apps. Its value goes far beyond vanity metrics like download counts. At its core, Firebase Analytics gives teams the ability to see what's h…
Infostealer malware apparently had harvested active Claude login sessions from users' PCs. Infostealer malware apparently had harvested active Claude login sessions from users' PCs.
At the end of August, Rockstar Games treated us to our first official look at Grand Theft Auto VI gameplay . The only problem? It was captured on PlayStation 5, leaving Xbox owners hanging. That's not a huge deal in a vacuum, as every video game trailer has to be captured on something , and the game isn't coming to PC at launch. It's an issue because there are plenty of folks out there who own the…
TCL has revealed its new P80 series of phones at the 2026 edition of IFA Berlin, and luckily, I’ve been able to try them for myself already. The TCL P80 Ultra, P80 Pro, and P80 were all on display, and I was genuinely impressed by all three devices. But it was the first two models that really caught my attention. And that’s because the P80 Ultra and P80 Pro combine a vivid, eye-catching AMOLED dis…
US Senator Ron Wyden has asked the NSA to update its guidance on commercial VPNs Standard single-hop VPNs remain vulnerable to foreign bulk data traffic analysis, even with strong encryption Multi-server tools like Tor, Nym, and Apple iCloud Private Relay are highlighted as more effective alternatives When it comes to basic digital hygiene, firing up the best VPN is widely considered the gold stan…
When most people picture someone readying for a date, the routine will most likely involve a rigorous hygiene regimen and picking a nice outfit before stepping out of the house. But for a select few of men in the manosphere, a date-ready look is skipping a few steps, betting on natural body odor as a seductive device. The bizarre trend shared on social media is dubbed “Pheromone-maxxing,” a sort o…
Every large financial institution I've worked with sits on an ocean of financial data. Payments, transfers, settlements, reconciliations. Millions of events a day, all logged, all structured, all technically "available." And yet most of that data never reaches the people who make the decisions that matter. It gets stuck in dashboards nobody opens, reports nobody reads past the first page, or syste…
Audacity, a beloved open-source audio editing software tool, has just received a massive makeover. For those unfamiliar with Audacity, it’s a 26-year-old piece of FOSS software that provides incredibly robust audio editing capabilities for the perfect price – $0 – making it ideal for independent musicians, garage bands, vinyl rippers, and college students who want to make a slowly, deliberately sp…
When was the last time you saw a truly unforgettable Apple ad? Steve Jobs built Apple into an empire by making advertising history, turning laptops and MP3 players into status symbols. But on the eve of another iPhone launch , it’s been a decade since Apple made a classic commercial . In fact, the biggest ad of the Tim Cook era was 2024’s tone-deaf 'Crush' ad , which people hated. So,…
It's official: Nvidia has acquired the open-source AI platform Hugging Face for $13 billion. Or, according to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, the acquisition was for $12,930,300,000, to be exact. In a post on Nvidia's website on Thursday, Huang confirmed that the chipmaker turned AI industry giant has officially purchased Hugging Face after reports said an acquisition was in the making last week. Hugging…
The trailer for Apple TV 's Being Heumann is here, and the new movie has the potential to follow in CODA' s footsteps when it streams on November 13. Despite being one of the best streaming services , Apple TV is more well known for its original series like Severance , Pluribus and Widow's Bay , but historically it has been lacking when it comes to its movies. All except for CODA , which won Best…
Forget about Grand Theft Auto VI for a second because there's a big update coming to the multiplayer portion of GTA V . Rockstar Games announced on its website that a big GTA role-playing update called nopixel V is starting a closed beta on Sept. 8. It's primarily meant for the GTA roleplaying community, who use GTA Online as a platform to tell their own stories, and anyone who gets invited to the…
The world is producing data faster than it can afford to keep it. Most of that data is cold. It is rarely touched, but it cannot be deleted, so it sits on tape and disk that wear out, draw power, and have to be copied to new hardware every few years. The recurring costs are exponential. DNA has always been the obvious answer. It is denser than anything silicon can offer, and it lasts for centuries…
The latest crystal-covered Razr phone is here. The latest crystal-covered Razr phone is here.
The family-focused AI assistant wants access to the details of your everyday life, but says it won’t use that data to train AI models or share it with others.
You do not need a desk full of expensive hardware to keep AI agents running. You need a virtual machine that stays up, and you should not have to buy the box yourself. That is what Kumo trykumo.xyz sells. Instead of purchasing Mac minis, towers, or a closet GPU, you open a virtual machine in the browser. Before it boots, Kumo scores live electricity and live GPU prices across public clouds and GPU…
The Titan dune field where NASA's Dragonfly rotorcraft will land in 2034 has a name: Ahmakiq Undae. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) approved the name, and NASA announced it in an update as the spacecraft's 2028 launch edges closer. It is scheduled to arrive at Saturn's moon Titan in late 2034. Dragonfly's fabrication began in late 2024 and was completed about a year later. Most recently…
The interactive slasher Until Dawn 2 takes place on a tropical island and stars 'Stranger Things' actor Dacre Montgomery. The interactive slasher Until Dawn 2 takes place on a tropical island and stars 'Stranger Things' actor Dacre Montgomery.
After Federal Reserve chairman Kevin Warsh's speech in Jackson Hole , the markets penciled in an interest rate hike for the central bank's mid-September meeting. Comments from two influential officials now throw those expectations into question. The big picture: With August jobs and inflation data due out before a policy meeting in two weeks, the decision of whether to tighten policy appears to be…
The Disaster Scenario Location: 100-room hotel, Albania Problem: Unstable WiFi + IPTV not working in any room Root cause: The WiFi contractor had installed 100 TP-Link wall APs (TL-WXAP1502GI-PoE) in standalone FAT mode — no Omada controller, no VLANs, no plan. Deadline: 12 hours to fix it, or the hotel would open to guests with no WiFi and no TV. Mission Timeline 08:00 — Initial Diagnosis Arrived…
Yet another Windows alternative to the MacBook Neo lands this fall. Announced today at IFA, an annual tech trade show in Berlin, Lenovo's IdeaPad Vibe is a new premium-built budget laptop with a full rainbow of colorways and a plethora of configuration and customization options. The new laptop also comes in two screen sizes, multiple processor flavors, and has upgradable RAM and storage. Its revea…
Lenovo showed off its first two Windows laptops powered by Nvidia's RTX Spark platform today at IFA, Berlin's annual tech expo, but their pricing and release details are still a mystery. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang previously described the RTX Spark as a "superchip" designed to power "personal AI computers" capable of running AI agents and models on-device. The chip provides up to 1 petaflop of comput…
Welcome to AI Decoded , Fast Company ‘s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. I’m Mark Sullivan, a senior writer at Fast Company , covering emerging tech, AI, and tech policy. Sign up to receive this newsletter every week via email here . And if you have comments on this issue and/or ideas for future ones, drop me a line at sullivan@fastcompany.com , and fo…
At IFA 2026 , the huge tech show in Berlin, Germany, Nvidia announced that laptops running on its ARM-based RTX Spark chip will be available to buy from October. The biggest names in the laptop industry, including Microsoft, Lenovo, HP, and Dell, will all have RTX Spark devices, and I got to spend a bit more time with some of them at Nvidia’s launch event. Having already seen a lot of RTX Spark la…
Lenovo announced the ThinkCentre X Ultra at IFA 2026, a 1.6-liter desktop with its max configuration offering up to AMD's top-of-the-line Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 APUs It launches in November 2026, starts at $3,699, and comes with up to 128GB of unified memory under the hood Users can configure four of these together to leverage as much as 512GB of unified memory for local needs Lenovo announced the…
Lenovo announced the ThinkBook 14x Gen 2 at IFA 2026: a 990g notebook with up to a 14-inch 2.8K 120Hz OLED option, Intel Core 7 Series 3 silicon, and a starting price of $999.99 in Q1 2027 It is the only computing product in an AI-branded launch with no TOPS figure and no Copilot+ claims as part of its published spec sheet The laptop does make compromises, skipping Thunderbolt and USB4 connectivit…
Lenovo announced the 11th-generation 15" Yoga Pro 9n and 16" Yoga 9n 2-in-1 at IFA 2026, both running NVIDIA's RTX Spark with a 20-core Grace Arm CPU and a 6,144-core Blackwell GPU The understated highlight for business users and professionals is the 128GB of unified memory that the Pro 9n offers, essentially allowing for large LLMs to be run on-device This is essential for companies that are requ…
Lenovo showed Project AeroBlade at IFA 2026, a fanless 14-inch concept under 10mm thick and under 830g, cooled by a solid-state Active Flow system built with Frore Systems Lenovo dubs this a 'quieter, cleaner computing experience' sans the performance tradeoffs that many similar designs have to make Published AirJet specifications and Intel's own 11.3mm reference design put sustained cooling near…
Using Frore’s air-cooling technology, Lenovo’s Project AeroBlade Concept is an ultralightweight laptop with efficient heat management.
Users can search for emails or draft documents using the new conversational feature.
Uber users in London could find their next ride is autonomous Safety drivers will be deployed during the initial pilot phase Just 15 Wayve Ford Mustang Mach-E models will be on duty Almost a month after Transport for London (TfL) awarded a private hire license to Wayve’s fully autonomous taxis, Uber has announced that the service is now live, with users of its ride-hailing app able to bag a ride i…