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Greenworks has launched the MaximusZ, an electric riding mower that uses five separate motors: two to drive the wheels and three to spin a trio of blades cutting a 54-inch swath in one pass. Powered by an 80-volt battery system combining four 6.0Ah packs and two 16Ah packs for 56Ah total capacity, the mower is rated for up to four acres per charge and recharges in about 3.5 hours using a proprietary charger.
Quantinuum has introduced Helios, a 98-qubit trapped-ion quantum computer that uses a four-way junction to shuttle ions between memory and processing zones, alongside new control software called Helios runtime that schedules ion movement and laser operations. It surpasses the company's earlier machines, which had 32 qubits in 2023 and 56 qubits in 2025, making it the largest trapped-ion system built so far.
Police from 22 countries collaborated to identify 263 suspects and arrest 58 people connected to West African cybercrime syndicates, including the Black Axe organization known for romance scams, crypto fraud and business email compromise schemes. Argentina, South Africa, Romania and Italy each contributed arrests and seizures, including $2.67 million confiscated from a group targeting retirees, while investigators also uncovered a Crime-as-a-Service network supplying domains and money-laundering support to organized crime groups.
King Slide Works, a company that manufactures furniture components such as drawer slides, has propelled its founder to become Taiwan's richest person amid the AI boom. Unlike chipmakers directly tied to AI infrastructure, King Slide's rise stems from its role supplying precision slide-rail systems used in data-center server racks, an unexpected byproduct of surging AI hardware demand.
Spotify suffered an outage that stopped many users from playing or downloading audiobooks across phones, desktops, and the web, with symptoms ranging from stalled loading to chapters skipping without playing. Spotify acknowledged the problem on its Community forum and has since marked the incident as fixed, though some users still report ongoing playback issues.
AYN announced via Discord that it will increase prices across all three configurations of its Odin 3 Android gaming handheld beginning September 1. The base 8GB/128GB model rises from $349 to $369, the 12GB/256GB Pro goes from $449 to $469, and the 16GB/512GB Max climbs from $499 to $529. This marks the third price increase for the device in 2025, following hikes in March and June.
In a podcast interview with David Senra, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman conceded that he and other industry leaders were overly optimistic about how quickly society would embrace AI tools. He pointed to the inertia of existing habits and business relationships as the main reason adoption has been slower than predicted, despite growing chatbot usage among US adults.
Omega has updated its 38-mm Speedmaster collection with seven new references, replacing the oval subdials with rounder Moonwatch-style versions and giving the bezels a thicker, more authentic Dot-Over-Ninety design. Six of the watches run on the Caliber 3330 with date functions, including an $11,700 cappuccino-style model with a Sedna gold bezel, while a no-date Black Dial version priced at $6,500 uses the Caliber 3332.
Google has started rolling out Motion Assist, a new Android 17 feature that displays motion cues on screen to help reduce motion sickness while using a phone in a moving vehicle. The feature, previously tested internally as Motion Cues, is appearing gradually on Pixel devices, with some units already showing it while others on the same Android version do not yet have it.
The Australian Recording Industry Association has updated its chart rules to require that eligible songs be substantially human made, meaning artists must write the lyrics and perform lead vocals and primary instruments themselves. The move follows backlash over DJ Josh Fawaz's AI-assisted cover of Madonna's 'Like A Prayer,' which reached number 2 on the national chart before he disclosed generative AI involvement. AI tools remain permitted for mastering, drum machines and auto-tune under the new code.
Google is rolling out a new Android feature called Motion Assist that displays moving dots around a phone's screen edges to counter motion sickness while riding in a vehicle. The feature, similar to Apple's Motion Cues introduced in 2024, uses the accelerometer and gyroscope to sync the dots' movement with the car's turns, braking, and acceleration. It's arriving in phases starting with some Pixel devices, and can be found under Settings, Your Profile, and All Services.
Ambient Context is a macOS menu bar utility that periodically reads the text of your active window through the accessibility API and appends it to a local, per-day markdown file. It's designed so tools like Claude Code or other agents can read that folder later to answer questions about your work history or draft summaries such as standups.