ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot, currently serving as a flight engineer on the International Space Station during her Epsilon mission, wore a Delta insignia badge modeled on the one worn by actor Anson Mount as Captain Pike in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. She recorded a video tribute marking 60 years since Star Trek's debut, linking the franchise's themes of exploration and cooperation to real-world space science, and both ESA and Paramount shared the clip on Instagram.
Meta unveiled Muse, an AI assistant app built on its Muse Spark models, that can handle tasks such as booking appointments, filling out forms and watching home security feeds. The app, internally codenamed Hatch, offers a free tier alongside $20 and $100 monthly subscription options depending on usage, according to AI chief Alexandr Wang.
A code discovery by developer Aaron Perris references an unreleased Apple TV model tagged 'AppleTV18,1,' suggesting it will use the A19 or A19 Pro chip rather than the previously rumored A17 Pro. This naming pattern mirrors identifiers used for last year's iPhone 17 lineup, where the A19 Pro powered the higher-end models.
An explainer breaks down what Visa and Mastercard actually do, noting they are card networks rather than banks, card issuers, payment processors, or merchant acquirers. The piece maps out the two-sided market linking cardholders and issuers on one side with merchants and acquirers on the other, with the network connecting both.
Intel shares surged 9% Tuesday, pushing above the $95 level from its recent equity offering, after reports that the company plans to raise CPU prices in October and news that its foundry business is advancing High NA EUV lithography with over 1 million wafers processed. CNBC's Jim Cramer included Intel among his six top stock picks, while comments from President Trump over the weekend eased worries that the government might soon sell its 10% stake in the company.
An Entrepreneur contributor argues that many business owners chase revenue increases without checking whether that growth actually boosts their personal earnings. The piece cites survey data showing most small-business owners expect revenue gains while over half cite inflation as their top concern, highlighting a gap between top-line growth and true profitability.
OpenAI has released ChatGPT Images 2.5, which includes a new Sketch feature allowing users to draw a rough doodle inside ChatGPT and have it converted into a polished image based on typed instructions. Users can invoke the tool by typing @Sketch, then annotate specific parts of the generated image with comments to request targeted edits, such as changing eye color. OpenAI says the update also improves lighting and texture quality, strengthens multi-turn editing consistency, and cuts image generation latency by up to 50% compared to the previous version.
DigiTimes cites supply chain sources claiming Intel will raise CPU prices by another 10%, following earlier increases in Q1 2026 and July, likely hitting server and mobile chips first. The same report says Intel plans a major product launch in March 2027, with AMD responding with its own releases between June and July that year.
A technical blog post offers a hands-on, browser-based walkthrough of the spanning tree protocol (STP), the networking standard that keeps Ethernet switches from forming loops that cause broadcast storms. Using a playful office scenario with redundant cables and an accident-prone coworker, it demonstrates how STP blocks extra links to form a loop-free tree and automatically rebuilds it when a connection fails.
Streaming and video-call services have modest bandwidth needs on their own—Netflix 4K needs just 15 Mbps and Zoom calls need under 5 Mbps—but households with multiple devices running simultaneously need far more headroom. Experts recommend at least 100 Mbps for one or two people, 300 Mbps for larger or work-from-home households, and 500 Mbps or more for heavy users, while noting the FCC's official broadband baseline is now 100 Mbps down and 20 Mbps up.
An Amazon Prime Air Boeing 767-300 overran the runway at Miami International Airport on Sunday, tearing through a chain-link fence and striking a ground crew and an SUV before stopping just feet from a lot of parked Tesla Cybercabs. Five people were killed in the crash. Elon Musk's only public response so far has been a one-word tweet, 'Weird.'
Lenovo has redesigned its flagship ThinkPad X1 Carbon with an all-new metal 'Space Frame' case that trims weight to 2.2 pounds while keeping the carbon fiber top's soft-touch feel. A smaller, double-sided system board freed up room for a fan 70% larger than before, enabling support for more powerful 30-watt CPUs alongside a 14-inch 2.8K OLED display at 120Hz.
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