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Tesla has expanded its driverless robotaxi service beyond the Model Y to include the Cybercab, a two-seat vehicle featuring butterfly doors, touchscreens, and no steering wheel. A promotional video for the new vehicle went viral, but drew backlash from disability advocates who say its design overlooks accessibility needs.
Code found in Google's Cross-Device Services app reveals an in-development 'Cast trackpad' tool that would let Android phones act as a remote touchpad for other devices. Given the timing, this feature appears aimed at Google's forthcoming Googlebook laptops, an Android-based alternative to Chromebooks. The tool reportedly supports gesture-based inputs similar to a standard trackpad.
A maker who previously used the Cuttle parametric CAD service to design laser-cut keyboard holders has since switched to OpenSCAD, an open-source CAD tool, citing concerns over design ownership and portability. Using OpenSCAD, they built a cable-management box for a partner, complete with finger joints and a decorative cat-silhouette cutout pattern on its front and back panels.
Tesla opened its Cybercab robotaxi service to paying customers in Austin via its Robotaxi app, with 45 vehicles now running commercially. Shortly after, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened an investigation into the vehicle, which lacks a steering wheel, pedals and mirrors, since Tesla self-certified the design.
Withings unveiled StethO Sense at IFA 2026, a subscription service for Withings+ users launching October 1 that applies third-party AI to analyze recordings from its BeamO device. The service uses eMurmur Heart AI to flag abnormal heart murmurs and StethoMe to assess breathing sounds through a Breathing Index score.
Apple's upcoming watchOS 27 update, expected later this month, removes the Walkie-Talkie app entirely and eliminates the double-click Digital Crown gesture that previously let users jump between two apps. It also changes single-click behavior on the Digital Crown, now always opening a dynamic app grid instead of the traditional static launcher.
Eric Selin, founder of Statichost.eu based in Stockholm, has launched a static website hosting service built entirely on European infrastructure. The platform avoids American providers like AWS and Cloudflare at every layer, from git-based deployment to content delivery.
A batch of epinephrine allergy injections has been recalled after being found to contain particulate matter, including glass fragments. The recall notice warns that this contamination can cause blockage and clotting in blood vessels if injected.
Target is again drawing criticism over a Halloween costume in its seasonal lineup, just under two weeks after apologizing for a separate children's costume that critics compared to blackface caricatures. This time, the retailer is not the only company implicated in the controversy, as other sellers are reportedly facing similar accusations.
A South Carolina coroner's office confirmed that a six-week-old infant's death was caused by measles, after HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had disputed the CDC's inclusion of measles deaths in its official count. Kennedy directed new CDC director Erica Schwartz to remove the deaths from the agency's public data, and while she complied, internal records reportedly still list them.
While formalizing Dummit and Foote's algebra textbook in the Rocq proof assistant, a Recurse Center participant found that the book's first proof exercise—claiming a function is injective if and only if it has a left inverse—fails when the domain is empty and the codomain is not. In that case the empty function is vacuously injective but has no left inverse, since no function can map from a nonempty codomain to an empty domain. The author later confirmed the issue is already listed in the book's published errata.
A technical guide walks through configuring a Tor exit node on an Ubuntu 14.04 system, the type of relay that connects anonymous Tor traffic to the regular internet. It outlines the legal and reputational risks operators face, including potential harassment from ISPs and authorities, plus practical hurdles like sites blocking exit node traffic or forcing CAPTCHAs.