Reliance Jio has expanded its JioPC cloud computing service beyond its own broadband subscribers, making it available to anyone with an internet connection regardless of telecom provider. The service streams a virtual PC with up to eight virtual CPUs, 16GB RAM and 1TB storage, letting even computers up to eight years old run modern AI applications without hardware upgrades. Subscriptions range from about $11 for two months to roughly $53 for a full year of the higher-spec plan.
Archiv is a newly launched app that lets users photograph mundane items—fire hydrants, furniture, food—and automatically arranges them into a stylized, gallery-like personal catalog. The tool blends photography and organization, giving users a portable, aesthetically curated record of objects they encounter.
Acer showed off a concept device called Project DualPlay Mini, an 8-inch Windows handheld gaming PC that opens up like a laptop to reveal a backlit physical keyboard, with the screen swiveling inward to complete the transformation. Alongside it, Acer launched the Predator Atlas 7, a smaller 7-inch sibling to the Predator Atlas 8 handheld released earlier this year.
Android's Safe Mode disables third-party apps and enables Airplane Mode, a feature meant to help troubleshoot problems like lag, battery drain, or malware. Because it's activated so easily through the power menu, phones can get stuck in this restricted state accidentally, leaving apps grayed out and unusable.
Google has launched Guided Vision, a new Gemini Live feature that verbally guides users to locate objects, read text, or navigate their surroundings using their phone's camera. The feature is part of the September Android Drop and works by giving spoken directions, such as guiding a hand toward a specific spice on a rack, while also prompting users to reposition their camera for clearer views.
NASA's Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel reported that after reviewing data from the Artemis II mission, the Orion capsule's heat shield showed only about nine sites of char loss, a dramatic improvement from the more than 100 sites, some over an inch deep, seen after Artemis I. NASA had altered Orion's reentry trajectory rather than redesign the heat shield following the 2022 issues, and the approach appears to have worked as the crew safely splashed down in the Pacific.
Pabst Blue Ribbon announced on Instagram that thieves stole roughly 40,000 pounds of its beer, turning the theft into a public marketing moment rather than a quiet internal matter. The move mirrors a growing trend of brands, like KitKat previously, openly acknowledging cargo thefts and using them to generate social media buzz.
Satechi has released the OntheGo Foldable Stand Hub, an $80 accessory that doubles as a tablet, phone, or laptop stand and a USB-C dock. A ZDNET reviewer tested the device and found it solved long-standing ergonomic and connectivity problems that had left previous tablets gathering dust.
A DIY enthusiast connected three existing security camera microphones to BirdNet-Go, an open-source, locally-run AI tool, to automatically identify bird species by song in real time. The system also picks up bats and frogs, runs entirely on local hardware without cloud services, and can send custom alerts—such as via Discord—when specific species are detected.
Scientists from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the University of Tsukuba built a solid-state cooling prototype that uses a shape-memory titanium-nickel film to convert heat directly into the mechanical motion needed to drive elastocaloric cooling, replacing the usual electric actuator. In tests, heating the actuator film to 86°C produced a 4.0 K temperature difference across the cooling device, and swapping in an external 130°C heat source still yielded a 2.2 K span, showing waste heat alone can power the cycle.
A how-to guide details a method for turning an iPhone into a substitute gaming controller for PCs using the Remote Gamepad app, which works with Mac, Windows and Linux systems. Rather than pairing via Bluetooth, the setup connects the iPhone to a computer over a shared Wi-Fi network to relay controller inputs into PC games.
A leadership commentary argues that companies fixated on preventing turnover are asking the wrong question. Instead of chasing retention metrics or matching competitors' pay raises, the piece contends businesses should invest in developing employees, arguing this naturally builds a workplace culture people choose to stay in.
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