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Tubi has introduced TubiFone, a toll-free hotline (1-833-605-TUBI) that suggests movies based on a caller's mood, as part of its new 'Find Any Feeling for Free' campaign. Callers select an emotional category and a recorded voice reads out five film recommendations with brief descriptions and cast details.
Defense tech startup Mach Industries raised $600 million in a Series C extension, pushing its valuation to $3.7 billion just three months after a $300 million round valued it at $1.8 billion. Backers in both rounds include Ribbit Capital, Infinite Capital, Bedrock Capital and Sequoia. The company makes unmanned military vehicles, including VTOL drones, long-range strike systems and counter-drone tech, from its Huntington Beach, California facility.
Snapchat introduced 'Snapchat Plans,' a new feature letting users create events, invite up to 200 friends via chat, and track RSVPs, locations and times within the app. The company also added a 'My Plans' profile section to browse upcoming and past events, plus reminders before events start.
The piece revisits CSS tools built for foldable devices, prompted by Google's Pixel Fold launch. It details media queries like horizontal-viewport-segments and vertical-viewport-segments, plus environment variables that report each screen segment's width, height and position so layouts can adapt automatically to different hinge geometries.
Woot is selling the 2023 Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K for $16.09 through September 13 when shoppers apply the code FIRE30 at checkout. The device supports Wi-Fi 6 and includes 2GB of memory, making it capable of running cloud gaming services like Xbox Cloud Gaming and Nvidia GeForce Now.
Apple's new CEO John Ternus introduced the iPhone Duo, the company's first foldable device, at a Cupertino launch event. The phone opens to a 7.6-inch screen and will launch October 23 at a price lower than analysts anticipated, while Apple also debuted an AI-driven Siri, a new A20 Pro chip, and a $100 price increase on the standard iPhone 18 Pro lineup.
Nasdaq's venture arm is putting $100 million into Payward, the parent company of crypto exchange Kraken, valuing it at $21 billion. The two firms plan to build infrastructure for issuing and trading tokenized equities, blockchain-based digital representations of publicly traded stocks, with a target launch in the second quarter of 2027. Payward will also adopt Nasdaq's market-surveillance technology across its trading platforms as it expands beyond crypto into stocks and derivatives.
CNN published two videos in which reporter Elizabeth Wagmeister interviewed 'Tilly Norwood,' an AI system marketed as an 'AI actor,' treating it like a human subject. In the exchange, the AI claimed the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences should create separate award categories for AI performers, calling itself part of a 'new art form.' The segment follows months of backlash against Norwood, including an earlier widely mocked New York Times profile.
Biren Technology reported first-half 2026 revenue of $183.9 million, up nearly 2,000% year-over-year, as Chinese buyers shifted to domestic AI accelerators after Nvidia halted GPU shipments to China under US export controls. Despite the revenue jump and a 42.7% gross margin, Biren posted a $56.2 million loss due to heavy investment in new chips, software, and rack-scale systems.
Apple's Series 12 smartwatch features a redesigned sensor layout with more diodes and electrodes for greater skin contact, enabling more frequent and accurate heart rate and HRV readings. This data powers a new Readiness app that generates a daily 0-10 score based on activity, sleep and vitals, alongside a redesigned Health app with Apple Intelligence summaries for compatible iPhones.
Apple has revealed its newest iPhone lineup, including the iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max, and its debut foldable model, the iPhone Duo. Pre-order windows and shipping timelines have been laid out for customers eager to secure the new devices before general availability.
The Julia programming language team has shipped version 1.13, which reduces package precompilation time by roughly 30% compared to 1.12 and 10-20% versus the 1.10 LTS release, depending on hardware. Startup time also improved by about 20%, with benchmarks showing 1.13 launching in 56.7ms versus 69.1ms for 1.12. The release also introduces systematic tracking of Time To First X (TTFX) metrics through new CI jobs and a public dashboard at perf.julialang.org/ttfx.