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A gear guide covering Kindle accessories has been refreshed for August 2026, adding a section on compatible wall and portable chargers alongside updated pricing. The guide, written by a reviewer who owns every current Kindle model, covers cases, straps, stickers, charms, book holders and page-turning remotes meant to make reading more comfortable or personalized.
Asus has launched the ZenScreen OLED MQ16FC, a 16.1-inch portable monitor with a 1920x1200 resolution OLED panel, an aluminum body weighing 1.5 pounds, and a built-in kickstand that also supports portrait orientation. The device includes dual USB-C ports, a micro-HDMI port, a headphone jack, and a tripod mount, and is priced under $300.
Chuwi has released the Unibook, a budget laptop built around Intel's new Core Series 3 'Wildcat Lake' processor, priced at $449 with 8GB of RAM. The launch comes as rivals like Dell and Acer struggle to match or undercut Apple's MacBook Neo, which itself saw a $100 price hike just three months after debuting amid a wider memory-chip price surge.
IBM unveiled a new mainframe processor at Hot Chips that will power future IBM Z and LinuxONE systems, marking the first chip whose cores can execute both IBM's proprietary instruction set and Arm's, switching between them in nanoseconds. Each of the chip's 11 cores is built to be dual-architecture rather than pairing separate Arm and Z cores side by side, letting Arm-native Linux and AI software run alongside traditional z/OS transaction workloads on the same silicon.
A report indicates that intervention tied to the Trump administration influenced the Justice Department's approach to its antitrust scrutiny of Live Nation, softening the pressure the company faced. The same roundup notes escalating trade tensions between the U.S. and Canada, alongside a $400 million settlement TikTok reached over a lawsuit concerning children's privacy.
The Trump administration's Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent moved to boost bond purchases last week, hoping to push yields down and ease the government's debt-servicing burden. Yields dipped briefly but climbed back to pre-intervention levels by Friday, with the 30-year bond trading near multi-decade highs. Trump has responded by attacking the Federal Reserve and even threatening Switzerland over its lower rates.
Raspberry Pi has released an official tutorial for building a cyberdeck, a compact portable computer often housed in repurposed containers like cases, purses, or jewelry boxes. The guide uses a Raspberry Pi 5 board, a Raspberry Pi flash drive, and a LiPo battery tucked beneath a Bluetooth keyboard, all fitted into a simple Pelican-style case.
Vivo product manager Han Boxiao revealed on Weibo that the upcoming X500 Pro will use a custom 'Ultra Dynamic Camera' sensor, co-developed with ZEISS and Sony, offering 17 stops of dynamic range. The phone is also claimed to be the first to record slow-motion video at 4K resolution and 240 frames per second, ahead of an expected September launch.
Google has fully retired Manifest V2 extension support in Chrome, closing the workarounds that let power-user ad blockers like uBlock Origin keep functioning. Google frames the move as a security and maintenance improvement, though critics see it as tightening control over what extensions can do. Users left without full ad-blocking now have a handful of options, including uBlock Lite, other Manifest V3-compliant extensions, switching browsers, or running external tools like AdGuard.
Ben Blumenrose, co-founder of venture firm Designer Fund and a two-decade design veteran, says AI-generated website design has improved roughly fivefold in the past year. He still notices telltale AI patterns like pill-shaped buttons, floating dashboards and heavy gradients, but expects those distinctions to nearly vanish within six months to a year. Designer Fund has backed Framer, a no-code website design platform, as part of its bet on this shift.
A reviewer tested Xreal smart glasses that tether to a laptop via USB-C and project a virtual screen equivalent to a 170-inch TV directly into the wearer's field of view. Unlike Meta's Ray-Ban glasses, these devices from makers like Xreal, Viture and Rokid contain no cameras or recording features, instead mirroring displays from laptops, phones, tablets or handheld consoles for a personal, portable viewing experience.
A leaked internal One UI 9 build on the Galaxy S25 Ultra shows Samsung testing Virtual Reflector, a software tool that brightens backlit subjects without overexposing the background. The feature originally launched on the Galaxy S26 Ultra and is being tested through Samsung's Expert RAW app, letting users adjust reflector color, reflectance, and light direction. Samsung has not confirmed a One UI 9 beta rollout for the S25 series, so the feature's inclusion remains unconfirmed.