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In the span of a few hours on Monday, the Department of Homeland Security announced that it would be implementing a fee of over $103,000 on H-1B visas, and news broke that the State Department plans on revoking the visas of up to 200,000 asylum seekers — which, according to The Associated Press , would be the largest mass visa revocation in US history.…
Garmin just took the wraps off its new line of rugged Fenix 9 smartwatches , with the base model featuring an OLED display with a brightness of up to 3,000 nits, making it twice as bright as its predecessor. Starting at $999.99 for the 43mm case option, the Fenix 9 has 50 percent more RAM and an upgraded map engine, allowing for faster panning.
CD Projekt Red is remastering The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt , the hit RPG that first launched in 2015, and the updated game will be available starting September 29th. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered will bring improvements to visuals and combat, a “reimagined” skill tree, and more, and it also includes the first two expansions, Hearts of Stone and Blood…
If you watched the Gamescom 2026 announcements, you might have caught a trailer for the bizarre, frenetic Pony Island 2: Panda Circus , a game from Daniel Mullins. In case you haven’t heard of him, get a crash course with a fantastic discount on Inscryption .
Stability AI, the startup behind AI image generation model Stable Diffusion, has raised $76 million in Series B funding. The new haul brings the company’s fundraising total to $232 million.
Dreame, the Chinese vacuum company that aspires to be a global technology giant , is reportedly shutting down its automotive project after funding from the government dried up. According to CarNewsChina , the company’s automotive division called “Project Starry Sky” once employed over 1,000 people, but now only a handful legal and HR staffers remain,…
Bose may be best known for its QuietComfort headphones , but the brand’s Bluetooth speakers have earned a great reputation for featuring great sound and build quality. The compact Bose SoundLink Micro — its most compact Bluetooth speaker — is currently discounted to $79.99 at Amazon , a pretty great discount from its usual $129 price tag.
The new Designed for Xbox 25th Anniversary collection features a handful of limited edition gadgets available for pre-order today. Paying homage to the Halo special edition of the original Xbox, almost everything in the collection is translucent “OG Green,” matching the Xbox Series X25 limited edition console it announced in June at E3 .
A change to Claude’s memory system will eliminate one of the most annoying things about using agents — the constant need to rebrief the AI on things it already knows. On Tuesday, Anthropic announced it’s merging the memory system used by chat and Claude Cowork, which means that Claude will always remember what it learned in one area, even when you’re…
Nvidia’s GeForce Now cloud gaming service will officially support Valve’s Steam Controller and Steam Machine starting later this year. With Steam Controller support, you’ll be able to play games with Valve’s great new gamepad when using the GeForce Now app on your Steam Deck or Steam Machine.
With the new design of Nothing OS 5.0 , app icons and widgets can use adaptive color to get color tints pulled from your wallpaper, which update whenever your wallpaper changes. Alongside Android’s built-in Dynamic Colors, the company says it allows you to have specific elements change to match your wallpaper “while Nothing’s predominantly monochrome…
Instagram is launching a new Reels-editing feature that automatically trims your video clips to focus on the highlights. The feature, called First Draft, is rolling out to Instagram’s iPhone app and provides a “starting point” that you can build upon with other edits, according to an announcement on Tuesday .
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Polestar said the Trump administration strung it along for months before finally rejecting its request to continue selling its electric vehicles in the US under a rule outlawing vehicles with connected software from China . In an August 18th letter sent to dealers and obtained by The Verge , Polestar said it doesn’t have a clear answer as to why its…
Apple just dropped a new polishing cloth , and unlike its refreshed Mac Mini models , it comes with a price cut, as spotted earlier by MacRumors . The polishing cloth is still “made with soft, nonabrasive material” but costs $9 instead of $19.
A technical walkthrough of how we built the Granite 4.2 reasoning model family. Authors: Granite Team, IBM TL;DR: Granite 4.2 is our first family of dense, decoder-only reasoning LLMs, released in three sizes: 3B, 8B, and 30B .
At the Hot Chips conference on Tuesday, OpenAI shared a more detailed look at Jalapeño , including the first batch of benchmark results for the new system. Tested on SemiAnalysis’ InferenceX benchmark, Jalapeño registered both more tokens per user and more throughput per kilowatt than the currently available state-of-the-art inference processors.
Presentation startup Gamma has acquired Accel-backed design startup Lica in a bid to build out its own design research lab, TechCrunch has learned exclusively. Lica’s co-founders will lead the effort.
OpenAI says its new AI chip, Jalapeño, completes tasks more efficiently and returns responses faster than other AI systems, according to a blog post published on Tuesday . During a briefing with reporters, OpenAI hardware vice president Richard Ho said Jalapeño offers the “best of both worlds” with lower latency and higher throughput, as AI systems…
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Apple has announced a new M6 chip for Macs, along with an M5 Ultra that it says is its “most powerful chip ever,” designed for tasks like 3D rendering and running frontier AI models. The M6 is Apple’s first 2nm chip, which Apple says will bring improvements in performance and power efficiency, and it also has a Dual 16-core Neural Engine for on-device AI…