Tesla demonstrates much-rumored cold-gas thruster technology New Roadster can "jump" and flip in the air Fan system creates downforce that will "crush every track record" Following a typically awkward and slightly slapdash presentation at SpaceX’s Rocket Test and Development Center in McGregor, Texas, Tesla finally unveiled its new Roadster after nearly a decade of delays. The event, which felt a…
Gmail's search can be frustrating and basic, but Google is finally smartening it up for AI plan subscribers. Gmail's search can be frustrating and basic, but Google is finally smartening it up for AI plan subscribers.
Afra Wang / New York Magazine : A look at China's AI learning frenzy, as economic anxiety and fear of being left behind fuel a booming market for courses promising prosperity through AI — In May, I sat in a living room on the fringes of Hangzhou, one of the most technologically advanced cities in China and home to Alibaba, Unitree, and DeepSeek.
Rakuten priced ¥400B ($2.5B) of yen bonds on Friday, its largest yen bond sale, with ¥360B going to retail investors. The 5.5-year debt carries a 4.37% coupon. Japanese companies have sold about ¥3.2T of retail bonds this year, already above 2025’s record. Rakuten Group has priced ¥400B (about $2.5B) of yen bonds, its largest yen […] This story continues at The Next Web
Matters, a Stockholm startup building an AI-powered consumer bank, has raised $5m in pre-seed funding as it comes out of stealth. Swedish angel investor Jakob Johansson led the round. Per Österström founded the company in April. He founded Sambla, a Nordic consumer loan broker, in 2014 and sold it to Nordic Capital in 2021. Matters plans […] This story continues at The Next Web
Try asking an AI assistant what a mid-range hotel in Lisbon costs for next weekend. You’ll get a number, usually stated with complete confidence. And if you then ask where it came from, the explanation gets vague fast. Sometimes the agent really did check a booking site a few seconds earlier. And sometimes it checked […] This story continues at The Next Web
The difference between Prime Day and Black Friday — their roots, anyway — probably isn't a mystery to anyone who has dabbled in online shopping before. Most of us know that Black Friday is the big sale frenzy that happens around Thanksgiving as a precursor to the holidays, and that almost every store you can think of participates. Alternatively, the name "Prime Day" suggests that the e…
Tesla revealed its second-generation Roadster on 15 October at a SpaceX site in McGregor, Texas. The car uses cold-gas thrusters built with SpaceX to jump, flip, and land. Reservations cost $50,000 or $250,000 depending on the version, and Musk says production starts in 2028. Tesla unveiled its second-generation Roadster on Thursday at a SpaceX test […] This story continues at The Next Web
Social media bans are stacking up. In July, France joined Australia in restricting minors from accessing social media—barring children under 15 from major platforms, before the ban was blocked by the country’s top court on human rights grounds. The UK aims to forbid kids under 16 from accessing Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms in early 2027, and the EU has announced its own plan to prohibit s…
Both Nvidia and Apple have each contributed $25 million to the new White House ballroom being set up by President Donald Trump, the largest amount any donor has given. The numbers are from a donor list obtained confidentially by The Washington Post, which published the list on Thursday. It is an internal spreadsheet used for […] This story continues at The Next Web
Swedish television channel TV4 has refuted reports that an AI agent deleted an entire season of a television show mere weeks before it was scheduled to air. Instead, the problem was allegedly caused by human error. SEE ALSO: JPMorgan Chase blocks outside AI agents, limiting what Muse can do for users As initially reported by Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet (translated via Google Translate), sources…
New York, United States / New York, October 15th, 2026, TechnologyWire Anchor, the browser infrastructure company for AI agents, today launched Action Index, a shared memory of web workflows that agents have already completed successfully. Instead of reasoning through every click from scratch, agents on Anchor replay a proven path as deterministic code, and the […] This story continues at T…
Tesla 's Roadster may be a few years late, but at least it launched with a bang. The new Roadster , unveiled late on Thursday in McGregor, Texas, is an electric supercar boasting numbers that seem impossible. Far more fascinating than the numbers was a demo in which the car was driven upside down on a ramp and then, using boosters on the bottom and the sides, flips itself over mid-air and gently l…
Dark Matter Season 2 is refusing to neglect the multiple versions of its characters. We already had a very strong standalone episode that tracked the lives of several of the Jasons (Joel Edgerton) who leave their family behind at the end of Season 1, and episode 8 has just delivered more of the same. This time, we have the backstory to new character Laurel (Margo Martindale), who we met back in ep…
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Sylvester Stallone has unfinished business in Tulsa King season 4 as the hit Taylor Sheridan series returns to the small screen for more chaos on the streets. You can watch Tulsa King season 4 online from anywhere with a VPN . Premier: Friday, October 16 Stream: Paramount+ (US, CA, AU) Use NordVPN to watch any stream After an explosive season 3 finale, Tulsa King will have to go even bigger this t…
Reuters : Chinese state media: during an interview, Tim Cook says China has approved Apple Intelligence, and a test version will arrive in late October without Siri AI — Apple's (AAPL.O) chairman Tim Cook said Apple Intelligence has been approved in China and a test version is due later in October …
<img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/10/azure-maia-300/en/headerimage/generatedHeaderImage-1791943943820.jpg"/><p>Microsoft will scale its Maia accelerator family to multi-gigawatt deployments from 2027, making it the primary inference system for its own products. Maia 300 collapses scale-up and scale-out onto one Ethernet fabric and moves KV state between prefill and decode workers without l…
An estimated 1 out of every 8 UK small and medium businesses are paying for AI tools Over 28% of SMEs are using two or more AI platforms Publishing is the main UK sector adopting AI British SMEs are moving toward AI solutions, with adoption increasing from 1.1% in 2023 to 12.8% in 2026, new research has claimed. The study , by small business credit card providers Capital on Tap, also shows that wh…
Today's Connections: Sports Edition will be easier for those who've been to an NFL game. As we've shared in previous hints stories, this is a version of the popular New York Times word game that seeks to test the knowledge of sports fans. Like the original Connections , the game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle , Connections resets after midnight, and e…
Welcome to your guide to Pips, the latest game in the New York Times catalog. Released in August 2025, Pips puts a unique spin on dominoes, creating a fun single-player experience that could become your next daily gaming habit. Currently, if you're stuck, the game only offers to reveal the entire puzzle, forcing you to move on to the next difficulty level and start over. However, we have you cover…
Benchmark says the Valley’s rule against backing rivals is getting harder to keep.
Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, recently joined the chorus of Silicon Valley Cassandras calling on AI companies to deliberately slow the pace of product development. In a widely discussed letter, he predicted a nightmare scenario in which a swarm of AI agents takes over the internet and causes hundreds of billions of dollars in damage—something he thinks could happen within the next six to 12…
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Bloomberg : Taiwan plans US industrial parks costing $2B to $4B each, starting with a Texas complex costing up to $4B, to build a supply chain for Nvidia, TSMC, and Foxconn — Taiwan plans to raise billions of dollars to develop industrial parks in the US that would build a base for a comprehensive supply chain …
Pre-orders for the much-anticipated iPhone Duo are set to start later tonight (11pm AEDT, October 16), but with the base 256GB model costing an eye-watering AU$3,499, it’s a big ask even for the most loyal of Apple fans. Given the fact the iPhone Duo can feasibly be compared to an iPad when unfolded, in my mind, the better value alternative is to get an actual iPad and pair it with your current iP…
If you like playing daily word games like Wordle , then Hurdle is a great game to add to your routine. There are five rounds to the game. The first round sees you trying to guess the word, with correct, misplaced, and incorrect letters shown in each guess. If you guess the correct answer, it'll take you to the next hurdle, providing the answer to the last hurdle as your first guess. This can give…
Watch Samoa vs France FREE on 7Plus (AUS) Stream on Premier Sports (US/CAN/UK) Unlock your stream with NordVPN (save up to 75%) Kick-off: Fri, Oct 16, 2.45am ET / 7.45am BST / 5.45pm AEDT Watch Samoa vs France in the 2026 Rugby League World Cup as both sides kick off their campaigns, at the Western Sydney Stadium. And, for Toa Samoa, it's their big chance to prove that their runners-up performance…
Chris Metinko / Axios : Austin-based RapidCanvas, which uses agents to help businesses build custom AI tools, raised a ∼$29M Series B led by Vertex Ventures and Hitachi Ventures — RapidCanvas, which uses agents to help businesses build and deploy custom AI applications, has raised nearly $29 million in Series B funding, CEO Rahul Pangam tells Axios Pro.
Mova V70 Ultra Complete: Two-minute review If you've never heard of Mova as a brand, you're not alone as it was initially only available in select European and South-East Asian countries. The brand, which is owned by Dreame Technology, is now expanding and is supposed to be value-focused side of the company — although you'd be hard pressed to believe that when its latest flagship robot vacuum cost…
The Federal Aviation Administration will likely have thoughts about the Tesla Roadster 2’s ability to leave the ground.
Bloomberg : Sources detail Nscale's setbacks ahead of an IPO at up to a $35B valuation, including a six-month delay in Norway and penalties owed to Microsoft and ByteDance — One flagship AI data center in Norway is six months behind schedule, with workers set to be housed in a floating hotel to get it over the finish line.
I love a good coffee machine, and appreciate the benefits of fully automatic and manual styles. I use the former type at home myself since it makes the morning orders for my partner and me as easy as possible. If I really had my way though, I’d choose manual, as it opens the door to a lot more experimentation, and the KitchenAid Semi Automatic Espresso Machine would be right at the top of my wishl…
Tesla's Roadster event was pretty exciting, to say the least. Tesla's Roadster event was pretty exciting, to say the least.
Microsoft AI : Microsoft unveils MAI-Base-2, a MoE model with 2.8T total and 80B active parameters, claiming 4x-12x more pretraining FLOPs-efficiency than DeepSeek-V4-Pro-Base — In June, we announced MAI-Thinking-1, a general-purpose foundation model post-trained on top of MAI-Base-1 with strong reasoning performance.
Today's Wordle answer should be easy to solve if you're always up to no good. If you just want to be told today's word, you can jump to the bottom of this article for today's Wordle solution revealed. But if you'd rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you. SEE ALSO: Mahjong, Sudoku, free crossword, and more: Play games on Mashable SEE ALSO: NYT Conne…