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Samsung cuts B‑Series soundbar price to $97.99
Samsung reduced the price of its B‑Series HW‑B400F soundbar by 30%, now $97.99 down from $139.99. The compact unit adds a built‑in woofer, dialogue enhancement and surround‑sound expansion, and supports Bluetooth, HDMI ARC and remote‑control operation.
Digital wall calendars are gaining traction as family‑focused alternatives to generic smart displays, syncing directly with Google, Apple, or Microsoft calendars. The Skylight Calendar 2, priced at $279, bundles a Plus subscription that unlocks meal‑planning, photo screensavers, and an AI assistant, positioning it as the top overall pick. Apolosign’s $270 model offers comparable core functionality without any recurring fees, making it the best subscription‑free option. Reviewers highlight improved household coordination and reduced reliance on phones, though some devices still suffer from limited iOS two‑way sync and less polished interfaces.
Ericsson has signed an MoU with Germany’s Forschungszentrum Jülich to explore supercomputing‑driven research for future 6G networks. The collaboration will tap Jülich’s JUPITER supercomputer, Europe’s most powerful, to benchmark AI, neuromorphic and modular HPC solutions aimed at ultra‑low energy consumption....
Researchers at the University of Malaga unveiled REMINLASER, a drone‑mounted laser system that delivers high‑density geochemical maps of mining waste. The technology captures elemental spectra from laser pulses, enabling rapid, contact‑free identification of critical raw materials across complex terrains. Field...
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Vilnius has completed a city‑wide smart‑meter rollout, deploying 10,000 IoT data concentrators from Czech firm ACRIOS Systems to automate utility reading for roughly 500,000 residents. The deployment was finished in just five months, with each unit capable of handling up...
Asus unveiled the TUF A14 laptop, powered by the AMD Ryzen AI Max Plus 392 processor and Radeon 8060S iGPU, and configured for dual‑boot Windows 11 and Steam OS 3.9. The device can allocate 16 GB of its 32 GB unified memory to VRAM, delivering strong frame rates...
TP‑Link released firmware updates fixing multiple critical flaws in its Archer NX series, including CVE‑2025‑15517, an authentication bypass that lets unauthenticated attackers upload firmware. The patch also removes a hard‑coded cryptographic key (CVE‑2025‑15605) and resolves two admin‑level command‑injection bugs (CVE‑2025‑15518, CVE‑2025‑15519)....
Synopsys announced a deep collaboration with Arm to support the development of the new Arm AGI CPU, built on the Neoverse CSS V3 architecture. The partnership leverages Synopsys’s full‑stack design portfolio—including VCS simulation, Fusion Compiler, IC Validator, PrimeTime, RedHawk‑SC, silicon‑proven...
Most enterprise AI initiatives don’t fail because of bad models. They fail because they’re running on infrastructure that was never designed for AI. A traditional data center is not the same thing as AI infrastructure. This came up directly in my conversation with...
Polar unveiled the Street X smartwatch, a rugged G‑Shock‑inspired device with a reinforced polymer case, 1.28‑inch AMOLED screen and MIL‑STD‑810H certification. It offers 170+ sport profiles, Training Load Pro, sleep and HRV tracking, and up to ten days of battery life or...
Supply chain losses from cargo theft jumped to about $725 million in 2025, driven by organized crime targeting high‑value freight. Wiliot, an Israeli‑San Diego IoT firm, offers battery‑free, paper‑thin Bluetooth tags that give each product a digital identity and real‑time visibility...
Duos Technologies Group, through its Duos Edge AI subsidiary, announced a strategic partnership with fiber provider Seimitsu to build edge computing infrastructure across Georgia. The collaboration will embed modular Edge AI nodes onto Seimitsu’s 25‑terabit low‑latency fiber network, delivering ultra‑low...
Approaching.ai announced the appointment of Academician Wei‑Min Zheng as Chief Scientific Advisor and Professor Yongwei Wu as Chief Scientist, bolstering its technical leadership in AI inference. Both experts bring decades of high‑performance computing and distributed systems experience, reinforcing the company’s...
Grass Valley has expanded its partnership with ImSoPROD, the production arm of France’s national lottery, by supplying LDX C98 compact UHD cameras for an 80 m² studio upgrade. The new system, installed in under two months, supports up to 14 cameras,...
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The JetKVM is a hardware‑based KVM‑over‑IP appliance that lets IT teams control computers at the BIOS level, even when they are powered off or crashed. It streams full‑HD video at 60 fps with 30‑60 ms latency and supports virtual USB and ISO...
During a senior ML engineer interview at Meta, candidates are asked why training speed stalls after moving deep‑learning workloads to a large AWS GPU cluster. Although the expensive GPU instances launch correctly, the iteration rate does not improve. The hidden...
Walmart and its newly acquired Vizio have rolled out a joint platform that lets users log into Vizio smart TVs with a single Walmart account, delivering premium streaming content alongside shoppable product placements. The move positions Vizio TVs as a...
Arm introduced its first production‑ready AGI CPU, positioning the chip as a fresh platform for building scalable AI services. The company did not disclose performance metrics, pricing or rollout timeline, leaving CTOs to await further specifics.
U.S. regulators have announced a ban on the import of specific consumer routers, requiring manufacturers to source network hardware domestically. The move aims to tighten supply‑chain security and could ripple through the GovTech sector, affecting vendors, federal agencies and end...
Arm Holdings introduced the Arm AGI CPU, its first in‑house silicon designed for large‑scale AI workloads, claiming more than twice the performance‑per‑watt of comparable x86 racks. Meta, OpenAI, Cloudflare and other tech leaders signed on as early adopters, signaling a...
Nintendo announced a 33% cut to Switch 2 production after the console failed to meet holiday sales targets in the United States. The move highlights pricing pressures, a thin game lineup and lingering tariff costs that could reshape the handheld market.
The Federal Communications Commission placed every consumer‑grade Wi‑Fi router manufactured outside the United States on its Covered List, effectively banning the import and sale of new foreign‑made models. The move, driven by a national‑security determination, threatens the supply chain of...
Flipper Zero, a compact pen‑testing device, now pairs with V3SP3R, an Android app that leverages OpenRouter AI models to control the hardware via natural language. The app supports text, voice, and image inputs, and can even integrate with Mentra smart...
Valve’s Steam Machine re‑imagines PC gaming for the living‑room by marrying console‑style plug‑and‑play with the flexibility of a Windows‑based PC. The device uses Consumer Electronics Control (CEC) to power the TV, sound system and console together, while HDR support delivers...
Quixant unveiled two new industrial PCs, the IQON 3 and IQON Air 3, built on AMD’s Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 7 PRO R8000 embedded processors. Designed for casino, sports‑betting and arcade machines, they can drive four 4K displays and include game‑specific hardware such as battery‑free MRAM,...
Nota AI and SiMa.ai have formed a strategic partnership to accelerate physical AI at the edge, combining Nota AI's NetsPresso model‑compression SDK with SiMa.ai's high‑performance Modalix MLSoC and Palette SDK. The collaboration will jointly develop and commercialize on‑device AI solutions,...
Ubiquiti has launched the UniFi Protect G6 Edge camera line, featuring 1/1.2‑inch sensors, varifocal optics and long‑range infrared illumination for high‑resolution imaging in challenging lighting. The series adds integrated radar sensing and on‑device Edge AI that delivers semantic search, object...
CoreWeave pivoted from a crypto‑mining operation to an AI‑focused GPU provider, now valued at $43.6 billion. CEO Michael Intrator credits the company’s "nerdy" background for its deep GPU expertise that enabled a rapid shift after the 2022 ChatGPT surge. Growth is...
In this episode, Andrew Sharp and Bill Bishop dissect a federal indictment accusing Supermicro co‑founder Wally Lia of orchestrating a $2.5 billion scheme to smuggle AI servers with high‑end NVIDIA GPUs to China, exposing glaring weaknesses in U.S. export‑control enforcement. They...
Chemists at the University of Kentucky have devised a hydrothermal carbonization process that converts bourbon distillery stillage—a waste stream six to ten times larger than the final product—into hard and activated carbon powders. These carbon materials serve as electrodes for...
Royal Philips has launched IntraSight Plus, an FDA‑cleared and CE‑marked interventional cardiology platform that unifies intravascular ultrasound, iFR/FFR physiology, and angiographic imaging on a single screen. The system promises up to 47% reduction in procedure time by streamlining data entry...
Cambridge Audio has refreshed its popular CXN100 streamer with the CXN100 SE, adding an HDMI eARC port that lets users route TV audio directly through the hi‑fi system. The new model arrives in a matte‑black finish as part of the CX Black...
DFRobot has launched the RainbowLink‑V2 USB‑to‑serial converter, offering four independent channels—isolated RS‑485, isolated RS‑232, and two TTL ports—in a compact 77 × 57 × 21 mm case. The device also provides on‑board power outputs of 12 V/800 mA, 5 V/2 A and 3.3 V/200 mA, eliminating the need for external adapters....
IoT has shifted from experimental pilots to essential infrastructure across logistics, energy and smart‑city services, yet most firms still rely on legacy SIMs designed for occasional handset use. This mismatch creates hidden costs and operational rigidity as device fleets scale...
Nokia has achieved the world’s first live 5G call on a 1900 MHz (n101) rail network, conducting the test on Deutsche Bahn’s outdoor test track in Germany. The demonstration used Nokia’s AirScale 5G radio equipment and a standalone 5G core, confirming...
Community opposition is emerging as the primary barrier to electric‑vehicle charger rollout, with residents in New York, Bengaluru, Kuala Lumpur and other locales citing fire fears, unsightly designs, and loss of parking. Authorities in the U.S. and South Korea are even banning underground...
Lenovo’s new ThinkEdge SE100 is an ultra‑compact edge server—about 85% smaller than a standard 1U rack—designed for AI inferencing at the network edge. It ships with 16‑core Intel Core Ultra 7 255H or Ultra 5 225H CPUs, integrated Intel Arc GPU, AI Boost NPU,...
Taiwan’s Startup Island SV Hub led a delegation of 16 AI startups to NVIDIA’s GTC 2026, highlighting the island’s shift from pure hardware manufacturing to full‑stack AI innovation. Two firms, MetAI and Spingence, earned spots in NVIDIA’s Inception showcase, while...
Ciena used its WaveLogic 6 Extreme optics to set a new subsea record, transmitting 800 Gbps on a single wavelength across the 16,608‑km Bifrost cable and delivering 18 Tbps of total capacity with a 50% reduction in watts‑per‑bit. The trial, conducted with Meta, demonstrates...
Thermal management has become a top‑level constraint for 3D multi‑die packages as power densities exceed 1 kW. Engineers are adopting AI‑driven adaptive meshing and real‑world test wafers to bridge simulation and measurement, while system‑level technology co‑optimization (STCO) strategies have cut GPU...
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Rafay announced the addition of a reservation‑based billing model to its GPU‑cloud platform, complementing existing on‑demand and monthly recurring charge options. The new feature guarantees customers access to a specified number of GPUs—such as 16 NVIDIA H200 units—for a fixed...
At KubeCon Europe 2026 NVIDIA donated its Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) driver, saw the KAI scheduler graduate to a CNCF Sandbox project, and added GPU support to Kata Containers. These moves turn GPUs into first‑class, community‑owned resources in Kubernetes, enabling...
The open_slate is a modular 12‑inch Android tablet designed for longevity, featuring replaceable batteries, an M.2 slot for up to 1 TB SSD, and optional 5G or AI accelerator cards. It runs Google‑free Android builds and full Linux distributions, and includes...
Australian specialist 3ME Technology has secured IECEx hazardous‑area certification for its BladeVOLT battery system, a milestone after eight years of engineering and testing. The certification, based on IEC 60079 standards, validates the system’s ability to operate safely in explosive underground...
Cricketer Riyan Parag has invested roughly ₹2 crore (about $240,000) in industrial‑tech startup Proxgy, joining backers Ajinkya Rahane, Nikhil Kamath, Peyush Bansal and Suhail Sameer. Proxgy, founded in 2020, creates IoT‑enabled hardware and AI‑driven software to boost safety and efficiency for blue‑collar workers. The fresh capital...
3DMakerpro introduced Raven, an entry‑level LiDAR scanner that dramatically reduces cost and complexity compared with traditional metrology systems. The handheld device delivers up to 2 cm accuracy at 10 m, a 50 m detection range, and captures roughly 150 000 points per second. Weighing...
Renishaw has launched a new multi-degree-of-freedom optical encoder system that delivers true‑absolute position measurement across up to six axes. The solution pairs RXMA30 1.5D scales with RESOLUTE™ absolute readheads, providing direct X and Y measurement without homing and enabling real‑time...
DJI has slashed prices on its Osmo Mobile gimbal lineup, offering the Osmo Mobile 8 for $126 (down from $149), the 7P for $99 (down from $129) and the 7 for $59 (down from $75). All three models provide 3‑axis...
