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Intel's 18A-P node hits a milestone, with Apple and Google reportedly circling
The advanced process enters risk production, and a tie-up with Taiwan's UMC takes aim at TSMC's foundry lead.
GadgetsLogitech's Mobi Fold is the travel mouse a trackpad never quite replaced
A genuinely pocketable mouse that folds flat, pairs with three devices, and works with almost everything.
HardwareMicrosoft's 2026 Surface line is its best in years, and its most expensive
OLED screens, new haptics and a two-stage chip rollout. The catch is a price hike that pushes Surface above equivalent Macs.
HardwareNvidia just walked into the PC chip market, and Intel should be worried
The RTX Spark Superchip puts a 20-core CPU and a Blackwell GPU on one piece of silicon. It lands in laptops this autumn.
GadgetsQualcomm bets beyond mobile with a $10bn AI chip deal and new AR silicon
Talks to buy Tenstorrent, custom data-centre chips, and a Snapdragon Reality Elite platform for smart glasses.
GadgetsThe Redmi Turbo 5 is a battery monster that costs less than you'd think
A 7,560 mAh cell, 100W charging and a Dimensity 8500 Ultra chip aimed at people who hate charging their phone.
ReviewsSennheiser's Momentum 5 quietly outclasses headphones costing twice as much
57 hours of battery with ANC on, Dolby Atmos, and a price that undercuts Sony's new flagship by a wide margin.
ReviewsSoundcore's Liberty 5 Pro Max puts a dedicated AI chip in your ears
A separate AI processor drives Adaptive ANC 4.0 and real-time audio tuning, for a fraction of flagship earbud money.
HardwareOpenAI built its own chip to stop paying Nvidia so much
OpenAI revealed Jalapeno, its first custom inference processor built with Broadcom, as it signs giant compute deals and tries to cut the cost of running its models.
AIGoogle's Gemini 3.5 Pro can now read 2 million tokens at once
Gemini 3.5 Pro is reaching general availability with a 2-million-token context window and a Deep Think reasoning mode, the largest context window in any production model.
SecurityPolice just seized 106 servers from a botnet that ran for a decade
Law enforcement disrupted SocGholish, an access broker tied to Evil Corp, seizing 106 servers and cleaning 15,000 hijacked WordPress sites pushing fake update malware.
PolicySpaceX just paid $60 billion for Cursor, the coding tool your developers cannot quit
SpaceX is buying Anysphere, maker of AI coding tool Cursor, for $60 billion in stock. The biggest startup acquisition on record, four days after the biggest IPO ever.
AIThe man who helped invent every AI chatbot just joined OpenAI
Noam Shazeer co-invented the Transformer, built the architecture tricks that make AI cheap to run, and just left Google for OpenAI. Here is why it matters.
Self-drivingWaymo just recalled nearly 4,000 robotaxis after some drove into freeway construction zones
Waymo is recalling about 3,900 robotaxis with a software fix after 13 incidents where cars drove into freeway construction zones in Phoenix and San Francisco.
ToolsTypeahead adds AI autocomplete to every app on your Mac for a one-time fee
Typeahead is a $79 one-time purchase that puts AI autocomplete at your cursor in any Mac app. Local processing, no subscription, works offline. Here is who it suits.
SpaceChina's Tianwen-2 has arrived at the asteroid that might be a piece of our Moon
China's Tianwen-2 probe reached quasi-moon asteroid Kamoʻoalewa on June 7, 2026. It's now mapping the surface before attempting the first-ever sample return from an Earth quasi-satellite.
ReviewsSoundcore's new earbuds put an AI note-taker in the charging case
The Soundcore Liberty 5 Pro Max costs $229.99 and its case has a 1.78-inch AMOLED screen plus an AI Note-Taker that records and summarises meetings.
GadgetsSony's Xperia 1 VIII is here, and it just outran the Pixel in benchmarks
Sony's Xperia 1 VIII launched in Europe on 19 June 2026 with Android 16 and the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, beating the Pixel 10 Pro XL in benchmarks.
SpaceNASA's Roman Space Telescope launches August 30, eight months ahead of schedule
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is confirmed for August 30, 2026, on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy. With 100 times Hubble's field of view, it will survey a billion galaxies and transform our understanding of dark energy.
SecurityOpenAI just gave its security AI a significant upgrade
GPT-5.5-Cyber now scores 85.6% on CyberGym, up from 81.8%. OpenAI updated its Daybreak cybersecurity platform today. Here is what changed and what it means for enterprise security.
ToolsNotebookLM turns your own documents into a research assistant you can actually trust
NotebookLM is Google's free AI tool that answers questions using only the documents you upload, with citations, plus an audio overview feature.
AIThe man who helped invent every AI chatbot just joined OpenAI
Noam Shazeer co-invented the Transformer, built the architecture tricks that make AI cheap to run, and just left Google for OpenAI. Here is why it matters.
SpaceA Pacific Ocean rock just confirmed an ancient neutron star collision from 100 million years ago
Plutonium-244 found in a ferromanganese rock from the Pacific Ocean floor traces to a kilonova that happened roughly 100 million years ago. Published in Nature Astronomy, it's one of the clearest geological records of a nearby neutron star merger ever found.
PolicyThe bosses of Anthropic and Google DeepMind pitched G7 leaders on a shared AI rulebook
At the G7 summit in France, Anthropic's Dario Amodei and DeepMind's Demis Hassabis pitched a US-led coalition to coordinate AI safety standards and testing.
HardwareChina is spending $295 billion on AI infrastructure. Here is what that actually means.
China's National Development and Reform Commission is finalising a five-year, $295 billion plan to build a nationwide AI data centre network. Nvidia and AMD are excluded. Here is what it means.