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Restyle puts Pinterest's saved chairs on the walls you live with
Pinterest is testing Restyle, which composites furniture and lighting into a photo of your own room so a saved Pin can be judged against the walls you actually have.
The Ultra 4 barely changes shape. The battery lasts 74 hours
Apple's rugged watch is not a redesign. PCMag says a 74-hour battery, a faster S11 chip, and more precise health tracking are the reasons to pay for it if you already wanted the outdoor model.
Mustafa Suleyman wants Microsoft to own the AI safety fight
The Microsoft AI chief sat for an interview on how models should be built and regulated, argued today's systems are not conscious, and sketched a stance rather than a new testing bill.
Claude 'leads' 26% of Anthropic's research. Humans still watch
CEO Dario Amodei said Claude can finish most of an internal R&D task from a high-level prompt while a person supervises, a metric published with three yardsticks for how fast labs are moving.
Lightroom Classic is still the catalog working photographers keep
Adobe's desktop app remains the gold standard for ingesting, sorting, editing, and printing large RAW jobs, even as the company keeps steering subscribers toward a cloud edition.
Waymo's Singapore robotaxis will not take paid riders until 2028
Alphabet's robotaxi unit will land cars in Singapore in the coming months, spend 2027 mapping and testing with safety drivers, and wait until 2028 to charge for a trip.
Laser hits on aircraft fell 24%. 4,470 reports is still a lot
Pilots logged 4,470 laser strikes from January through July, down 24 percent from 2025. The FAA still calls that too high, and California led the raw count.
Tovala's oven only works if you also want the meal kits
The Chicago company sells a connected countertop oven and QR-coded meals as one product. Scan the box in the app and the appliance runs the cooking program without a timer.
AirPods 5 pick up Pro tricks and cost less than they look
Apple's fifth-generation buds add Live Translation, stronger noise cancellation, and Siri AI, and PCMag says they cost less than that mix would suggest if you already carry an iPhone.
DeepMind's new AGI institute will air fights, not settle them
Google DeepMind opened a forum to put AGI disagreements among Google, the lab, and outside researchers on the record, without promising anyone will walk away with a verdict.
Fairphone says memory now eats most of the materials bill
Fairphone said RAM now accounts for 60 percent of its materials cost as the AI-driven memory shortage forces smaller phone and laptop makers to redesign boards and test for fakes.
Micron's 512GB DDR5 finally answers Samsung, at 16 watts
Micron announced 512GB DDR5 modules rated up to 9,200 MT/s and 16 watts, claiming 60 percent less energy than four 128GB sticks, with supply tied to demand.
Unsanctioned AI agents are already on the networks Cisco sees
Cisco's vice president of product for identity says shadow agents show up in almost every environment the company inspects, and Duo Agentic Identity is the product attached to that warning.
Denuvo takes a nameless cracker to court over 26 bypasses
Denuvo sued the anonymous handle voices38 over alleged Anti-Tamper circumvention in 26 games, leaning on the DMCA's anti-bypass rules instead of a standard copying claim.
Valve's Steam Frame is two headsets and an Arm-shaped OS
Valve engineers Pierre-Loup Griffais and Jeff Leinbaugh said Steam Frame is built for streaming and standalone play, with SteamOS moving onto Arm and memory costs likely to sting.
iPhone 18 Pro Max hides the leap in battery and camera
Aside from new colors, the outside looks like last year's phone. PCMag says record battery life, A20 Pro speed, and professional-grade camera upgrades make it the best Apple phone this year.