The OnePlus 16 Looks Like a Huge Upgrade, But You Can’t Buy It

From PC Mag: OnePlus isn’t making a comeback in the US, which may be disappointing if you like its latest smartphone. The OnePlus 16 is official in China, and it looks like one of the most exciting Android phones right now.

The OnePlus 16 comes with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6...

Meta releases its first frontier model, Muse Wonder

From TechCrunch: Meta’s Superintelligence Lab released a pair of new state-of-the-art models on Monday, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, representing the company’s first attempt at a frontier model.

Where Muse Spark aimed to be a lightweight model that could perform at low latency, the Wonder...

Microsoft’s new AI chip makes it less reliant on Nvidia’s GPUs

From The Verge: Microsoft is announcing its third-generation Maia in-house AI chip today, designed to be the “primary AI inference system” for Microsoft’s products and services. Maia 300 not only improves the cost and efficiency of running AI workloads in the cloud, it’s also more capable of...

Fitbit Fans, Rejoice! The Fitbit Edge Is Here, and It Has a Screen

From PC Mag: Fitbit is finally debuting a true successor to the Editors’ Choice-winning Charge 6. Called the Fitbit Edge, the company’s latest fitness tracker has a touch screen as well as a physical button for controls. It tracks activity, exercise, sleep, stress, and individual health metrics...

Apple To Unveil HomeView Smart Home Hub This Week

From PC Mag: Apple is reportedly set to debut a new smart home device, dubbed HomeView, this week at its “Welcome Home” smart home event on Tuesday.

The new device will act as a “Siri command center” for an Apple-powered smart home, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. HomeView will reportedly...

Console market craters as Xbox sales crash 33%, PS5 sales drop 25%

From Tom's Hardware: Video game console sales in the U.S. have cratered, with both the PS5 and Xbox seeing a massive drop in YTD sales through the end of August compared with last year. Mat Piscatella, the video game industry advisor at research firm Circana, shared the numbers on his Bluesky...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Calls for an AI 'Emergency Brake'

From PC Mag: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has been quieter than his counterparts in recent weeks as the heads of Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and others discuss the risks of artificial intelligence. Now, he's calling for change across the industry.

On X, Nadella argued that it’s time to introduce what...

PC prices to remain elevated until end of 2027

From ComputerWorld: IDC has bad news for enterprises upgrading PCs: don’t expect prices to come down any time soon.

PC prices are already high due to constrained supplies and surging memory and component costs. Geopolitical tensions and an uncertain global economy won’t make the situation any...

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