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The Best Leaf Blower We’ve Tested Is Ready for Halloween
Our top Ego pick is discounted, and our resident leaf blower expert demonstrates how to make a TP cannon.
Our top Ego pick is discounted, and our resident leaf blower expert demonstrates how to make a TP cannon.
Best early Black Friday tablet deals at a glance Best Apple iPad deal Apple iPad (A16, WiFi, 128GB) $399 (save $50) Get Deal Best Amazon fire tablet deal Amazon Fire HD 8 $79.99 (save $50) Get Deal Best Samsung tablet deal Samsung Galaxy Tab S11 $899.99 (save $100) Get Deal Best TCL deal TCL TAB A1 Plus $299 (save $50 with on-page coupon) Get Deal We all have a phone that we rely on to survive. Mo…
Having good taste is expensive. Alas, it has always been thus. But $200 for a clock is pushing it, even for a snob like me. Opens in a new window Credit: Amazon Amazon Echo Time smart alarm $199.99 at Amazon Shop Now at Amazon That's unfortunate, because I love the design of Amazon's new Echo Time smart alarm. The new Echo Time is really sleek looking. Credit: Amazon Earlier this week, Amazon laun…
TL;DR: Windows 11 Pro is only $9.97 (reg. $199) through Nov. 1 for a lifetime, non-transferable license on one compatible PC. Opens in a new window Credit: Microsoft Microsoft Windows 11 Pro $9.97 $199 Save $189.03 Get Deal Your PC already has a job. Give it the tools to do more with Microsoft Windows 11 Pro, now $9.97 (reg. $199) through Nov. 1. That’s a one-time purchase for a lifetime lic…
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NASA 's farthest spacecraft gave mission control a scare when it inexplicably went silent and missed two days of planned check-ins. The nail-biting incident happened just two weeks ago, when the Deep Space Network didn't receive a call from Voyager 1 on either Oct. 18 or 19. But before the agency could send repair commands, the spacecraft, now outside the solar system, signaled back on Oct. 20. No…
The Wikimedia Foundation is staking out a middle ground in a group of landmark AI copyright cases, pushing courts to legally protect large language models (LLMs) training on copyrighted work - but not chatbots regurgitating that work to users. An overly black-and-white ruling, it says, could either deprive Wikipedians of useful AI-based tools or endanger the open web. In an amicus brief filed Frid…
GLP-1 weight-loss drugs are one of the biggest biotech breakthroughs of the last decade. But to some clinical psychologists, they can represent something more sinister—a potential trigger for eating disorders. A new report suggests that the global incidence of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa shot up between 1990 and 2023—by a whopping 71%. By 2023, there were an estimated 18.1 million people…
<img src="https://res.infoq.com/podcasts/ai-ml-data-engineering-trends-2026/en/smallimage/trend-reports-thumbnail-1793181579584.jpg"/><p>In this episode, members of the InfoQ AI and ML editorial staff and friends of InfoQ discuss the current trends in the domain of AI, ML and Data Engineering. One of the regular features of InfoQ are the trends reports, which each focus on a different aspect of so…
<img src="https://res.infoq.com/articles/ai-ml-data-engineering-trends-2026/en/headerimage/ai-ml-de-graph-2026-1793191771570.jpg"/><p>This InfoQ Trends Report offers readers a comprehensive overview of emerging trends and technologies in the areas of AI, ML, and Data Engineering. This report summarizes the InfoQ editorial team’s and external guests' view on the current trends in AI and ML technolo…
Maricopa County is home to Arizona State University, premier urban hiking destination Camelback Mountain, and major sports teams like the Phoenix Suns. These days, though, the region is perhaps best known as a scalding-hot cauldron of electoral alchemy, where far-right conspiracy theories are conjured but not contained. In the lead-up to this year’s midterms, Maricopa County has already produced m…
This article is republished with permission from Laser Wars , a newsletter about military laser weapons and other futuristic defense technology. Take a look at the photo above. The image shows two U.S. Army soldiers, Spc. Caleb Mullens and Spc. Peterie Gage of the 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, perched atop a Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) near Rio Grande City, Texas, on August 31. A…
Democrats are using the high price of diesel, heating oil, and fertilizer to tie Republicans to President Donald Trump’s unpopular, costly war in Iran.
Dream, a San Francisco startup that uses AI to design and engineer buildings, came out of stealth on Thursday with $17M in seed funding. Investors in the round include Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), SV Angel, XYZ, and Zigg Capital. The company is starting with architecture, engineering, and construction, an industry that has been slow to adopt […] This story continues at The Next Web
The race for AI leadership has largely been framed as a contest for the best chips, models and talent up until now. But behind every algorithm, model, query, and breakthrough is the energy that powers it all. As AI moves from R&D into living rooms, workplaces, and factories, access to reliable electricity and the speed at which data centers can connect to the grid (AKA “time to power”) is becoming…
Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times : Sources: Spotify aims to launch an AI product in Q1 2027 that lets subscribers create their own remixes and covers for ~$5 per month, pending licensing deals — Streaming service plans to charge users up to $5 a month to use the feature — Spotify is targeting an early 2027 launch …
On paper, there’s a lot to like about the new iPad mini that Apple announced this week. Now in its eighth generation, Apple is calling the latest model the biggest upgrade in the product’s history, and that actually feels like a reasonable claim. The most eye-catching addition to the new iPad mini is an 8.5-inch OLED display that fits into about the same footprint as the previous 8.3-inch LCD mode…
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has been hit with a record $6.3 billion hack. Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has been hit with a record $6.3 billion hack.
<img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/10/ade-dev-box-retirement/en/headerimage/generatedHeaderImage-1792499241111.jpg"/><p>Azure Deployment Environments retires on February 22, 2027 and Microsoft names no successor, telling teams to use Bicep or ARM templates directly. Microsoft Dev Box follows on September 18, 2028, pointed at Windows 365, which Microsoft says is not a one-to-one replacement.…
Below, Sherry Turkle shares five key insights from her new book, Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines . Sherry is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT and the founding director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. She is also the New York Times bestselling author of Alone Together , Reclaiming Conversation , and…
GM has settled the Smart Driver program lawsuit brought by 35 attorneys general. GM has settled the Smart Driver program lawsuit brought by 35 attorneys general.
The proliferation of AI tools in business is redefining the need for data security and trust. As autonomous, decision-making AI agents move from pilot projects into core business workflows, they are expanding the enterprise attack surface just as fast as they are being adopted. Gartner predicts that 40% of enterprise applications will feature task-specific AI agents by the end of 2026, a jump from…
Knives Out creator Rian Johnson has launched a photography app, allowing others to copy his preferred look. Available on iOS , Chromagraph Camera was created in partnership with cinematographer Steven Yedlin and programmer Eric Cameron, and applies the same image processing Yedlin used in Johnson's films. SEE ALSO: Nikon unveils Z5IIC camera, aimed at making photography less intimidating "I honest…
Waymo will begin testing self-driving versions of Toyota's electric bZ4X vehicles in Japan next year as part of a broader partnership with the automaker.
Jason (Joel Edgerton) and his family haven't been having a great time of it, and the Dark Matter Season 2 finale did little to change that. But did the plan to destroy the box, and end the weird quantum entanglement that the characters (and their multiple other versions ) have been wrapped up in, actually work? What's next for the Dessens and everyone working at Velocity? We've broken down an endi…
Watch England vs Papua New Guinea in a must-win Rugby League World Cup 2026 Pool B/C clash for Brian McDermott's side at WIN Stadium, Wollongong. The Wall of White need an emphatic victory over the Kumuls to boost their chances of reaching the semi-finals, but their fate is out of their hands. England kept alive their hopes of qualifying for the last four with an 82-0 thrashing of France last time…
Paresh Dave / Wired : How a wave of startups are betting on AI to make formal software verification practical and essential, including &Truth, which launches with a $70M seed — A new startup called &Truth is joining the race to automate formal verification, a painstaking process that uses math to prove software works as intended.
Tom Westbrook / Reuters : TRM Labs attributes the Binance hack to North Korea-based TraderTraitor, which drained ~$6.36B from Binance wallets across 10 blockchains, mostly in ~20 minutes — North Korean hackers were behind a $6.3 billion raid on cryptocurrency exchange Binance, according to US blockchain analysis firm TRM Labs.
TL;DR: Watch Chelsea vs. Manchester United in the Premier League for free on CazéTV . Access this free livestream from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN . The Premier League is back with another selection of exciting fixtures. Chelsea vs. Manchester United at Stamford Bridge is absolutely vital for both sides. A defeat for Manchester United could see Michael Carrick depart from this pos…
South China Morning Post : Binance pledges to cover all losses from a ~$6.3B hack, potentially the largest crypto theft ever, surpassing the $1.5B Bybit hack in February 2025 — Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has pledged to cover all losses from a hack that it said drained around US$6.3 billion from its wallet.
Kevin Collier / NBC News : CrowdStrike: China-linked hackers used AI tool ARTEX with a DeepSeek LLM and another model to target 200+ organizations in 11 days, compromising at least nine — Chinese state-linked hackers targeted more than 200 organizations in just 11 days, using AI to attack governments and businesses worldwide, according to CrowdStrike.
The Moon is starting to look a little less full as we move through the Waning Gibbous phase, with the Third Quarter Moon coming up next in the lunar calendar. What is today's Moon phase? As of Friday, Oct. 30, NASA's Daily Moon Guide tracker tells us the Moon is in the Waning Gibbous phase, with 78% of its surface visible. Tonight, without the use of visual aids you should be able to spot the Tych…
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…
The Information : Sources: DeepSeek doubled its latest round's size due to surging black market Nvidia Blackwell chip prices, with Chinese state-owned investors representing 27% — Chinese AI star DeepSeek's nearly $16 billion funding round this month involved not only a deluge of capital but a who's …
Joseph C. Sternberg / Wall Street Journal : S-1: Anthropic says it heavily depends on TSMC chips made in Taiwan and warns of risks from “potential disruption” amid geopolitical tensions with China — Reliance on the island for AI chip production puts it among America's top foreign policy interests.
Kaspersky says Lazarus's Operation FlashHole, active since at least July 2025, hit at least three South Korean software, construction, and telecom equipment firms An updated LPEClient tool uses four ML-KEM-1024 key exchanges to protect payload delivery, a design Check Point also documented The post-quantum layer guards traffic against future decryption, not endpoint detection, and the most likely…