At its Dyson Unveiled event in Berlin, Dyson introduced ten new products, including its first-ever dedicated dryer brush called the Airsmooth and an upgraded straightener, the Corrale CoolShine. The Airsmooth uses flexible and collapsible bristles plus rapid heat sensing to reduce pulling and frizz, while the Corrale CoolShine adds a cooling attachment with water-filled pipes to draw heat away from hair as it straightens.
Michele Spagnuolo, the Google engineer charged with commodities fraud, wire fraud and money laundering over Polymarket bets made using the alias 'AlphaRaccoon,' has filed a motion to dismiss. His lawyers argue the wagers, which reportedly netted him over $1.2 million including a correct bet on singer D4vd, are informal gambling rather than regulated financial swaps, and that U.S. authorities lack jurisdiction since he is a non-U.S. citizen.
Two web tools, the LLM cliché highlighter and Slop Tells, scan text for stock phrases and stylistic quirks associated with AI-generated writing, such as certain idioms and sentence patterns that large language models tend to overuse. The tools aim to help writers identify and remove language that might make their work seem machine-generated, even when it isn't.
Robert Rivani, who never finished high school, has built a real estate business in Miami that has generated more than $1 billion in property acquisitions and sales entirely with his own capital, without outside investors or partners. He got his start reselling sneakers before moving into real estate, where he specializes in buying undervalued properties and redeveloping them, including his newer Class X office concept that centers hospitality and wellness.
Dyson used its Dyson Unveiled event near IFA 2026 in Berlin to launch 11 new products, headlined by the HushJet Big+Quiet Cool Pure+, a large air purifier with a directional nozzle designed to project purified air across multiple rooms. The company also introduced a new Nurovi robovac lineup, including the R3 Nurovi Spot+Scrub UV, which uses UV and AI sensors to detect stains and launches September 15 at $1,199.
Google DeepMind and Google Research launched WeatherNext 3, a deep-learning forecasting model that outperformed rival AI systems from Microsoft, Nvidia and ECMWF, as well as traditional forecasts from the US National Weather Service and ECMWF, on the Operational WeatherBench benchmark. Google says the model will soon power weather data shown in Search, Maps and Gemini, and will also be offered to researchers and developers through its cloud platform.
Users across web, mobile and desktop platforms reported widespread disruptions to ChatGPT, Claude and Grok around the same time. xAI confirmed Grok was experiencing a service issue, while OpenAI and Anthropic had not yet detailed the cause of their outages.
Verisign asked ICANN to eliminate all third-level '.name' domains to cut administrative complexity, and ICANN approved the request on 28 July 2026. Long-time users like Neil Fraser, who registered his personal domain nearly 25 years ago, learned of the change only recently via registrar notices, and will lose their websites, email addresses, and connected IoT services starting in February.
John Perkins was removed from the Independence City Council after 68.05% of voters backed his recall in a special election tied to his support for roughly $6 billion in tax incentives for a Nebius data center. He is the third official connected to the March council vote to lose his seat, following losses by a fellow councilman and a mayoral candidate. Only about 11.5% of Jackson County's registered voters cast ballots in the recall.
The latest episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, titled 'Like Chronitons Through the Hourglass,' places the Enterprise crew amid medical crises and paternity drama. The episode leans heavily into soap opera-style storytelling conventions rather than the show's usual sci-fi adventure format.
TCL unveiled its P80 Ultra and P80 Pro phones at IFA Berlin, both featuring a new AMOLED version of its Nxtpaper screen technology that combines vivid color with a matte, glare-reducing finish. The Ultra model includes a 6.83-inch display, dual 50-megapixel cameras, a MediaTek Dimensity 7400 Elite chip, and up to 512GB storage, priced at roughly $649, while the Pro offers similar screen tech with lesser specs for about $581.
Chinese company Niutech has signed a contract with an unnamed global energy major to construct an industrial-scale pyrolysis facility that converts waste plastic into sustainable aviation fuel. The plant is designed to produce between 10,000 and 50,000 tons of SAF annually by heating plastic waste at high temperatures in an oxygen-free chamber.
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