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Amazon-owned Zoox has extended its paid robotaxi service in Las Vegas to include Harry Reid International Airport, with rides starting Thursday. The company says its vehicles will pick up and drop off passengers near baggage claim at both terminals, unlike Uber and Lyft, whose pickup points require a longer walk to a parking garage.
RPCS3 developers publicly criticized Nvidia's unreleased DLSS 5 technology after modders leaked and tested the DLL on games and the PS3 emulator itself, calling the results 'slop' and accusing the industry of using upscaling and frame generation to mask poor optimization. Some users pushed back, arguing that DLSS and FSR frame generation can work alongside optimization efforts, with Reflex helping offset added latency. RPCS3 says it won't adopt such techniques, noting PS3-era games lack the motion-vector data needed for modern temporal upscalers.
Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face, the open-source AI model repository used by over 18 million developers hosting more than 3 million models, in a deal valued at roughly $12.93 billion. Nvidia says Hugging Face will keep operating as an independent, open platform, allowing developers to use any framework, cloud or hardware, not just Nvidia's own chips.
MIT Technology Review's latest coverage highlights two issues: digital child-safety tools that have prevented harms like suicide and predation but also caused false alarms and anxiety, with researchers proposing better alternatives. Separately, the outlet examines how agriculture's reliance on natural gas for fertilizer production has driven price volatility, worsened by the Iran conflict's impact on trade through the Strait of Hormuz.
Vivo confirmed via a Weibo post from product manager Han Boxiao that the upcoming X500 will use the same 50MP Sony LYT-828 main sensor and CIPA 5.5 stabilization found in last year's X300 Pro. The phone will also carry a 64MP Sony LYTIA-610 periscope telephoto camera shared with the X500 Pro, supporting a 200mm ZEISS teleconverter and 4K/120fps slow-motion video.
A new United Nations report concludes that global temperatures will almost certainly exceed the 1.5°C threshold set under the Paris Agreement within just a few years. Climate scientists broadly agree the milestone is now unavoidable, though some worry the report fails to offer clear guidance on next steps.
Acer has relaunched the dormant Packard Bell name after 13 years, introducing a new 'Dot' product lineup at IFA 2026 that includes the DotBook 14 laptop alongside headphones and input peripherals. The 14.5-inch notebook runs on Intel's last-generation Twin Lake N355 processor, offers up to 16GB RAM and 512GB storage, and targets budget-conscious buyers with colorful, playful designs. For now, these Packard Bell products are only confirmed for sale in the European market.
TCL unveiled its P80 lineup—Pro, Ultra, and a base model—all sporting 6.83-inch 1.5K OLED screens at 120Hz. The Pro and Ultra combine this with NXTPAPER glare-reducing tech and a Max Ink monochrome reading mode claimed to last up to seven days, while the base P80 skips NXTPAPER. The Ultra adds a 50MP main camera plus a 50MP 3x periscope lens and IP68 water resistance, whereas the Pro drops the telephoto camera.
Meta has settled a child safety lawsuit brought by more than 40 states plus DC and several territories, agreeing to pay up to $17 billion over a decade. As part of the deal it will roll out teen-specific product changes, including a default two-hour daily usage cap, overnight app blocks from midnight to 6 a.m., muted notifications during school hours, hidden likes, disabled cosmetic filters, and an option for a non-algorithmic feed.
A veteran link-building seller argues that bargain backlink deals, such as a $199 offer for 50 links from sites rated Domain Authority 60+, typically deliver fabricated authority scores rather than real traffic. These links often come from recycled private blog networks, expired domains, or hacked sites with no genuine readership, meaning the metrics are manufactured rather than earned.
Google has begun rolling out Gmail Live, Docs Live, and Keep Live, conversational AI tools that let users speak to these apps to find information, draft documents, or take notes. Users can ask Gmail Live to surface details buried in email threads, have Docs Live turn spoken descriptions into structured documents, and dictate notes naturally to Keep Live. The features, first shown at Google I/O in May, are now live globally in English on mobile, with availability varying by subscription tier and platform.
At IFA 2026, Lenovo showed off the ThinkBook Project Swan, a concept business laptop whose flexible OLED display can expand horizontally from a standard 14-inch screen to a 17-inch 16:9 panel. The device weighs 3.5 pounds and measures 0.7 inches thick, and runs on an Intel Lunar Lake chip, similar to Lenovo's other IFA reveal, the Project AeroBlade Concept.