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Beats by Dre posted a short teaser video showing yellow and purple electrical charges over a Beats Pill speaker, ending with the Poke Ball logo beside the Beats 'b' logo, signaling a Pokemon collaboration. The company gave no release date or pricing, but the tease follows an unconfirmed photo of a yellow Pikachu-themed Beats Pill speaker spotted in a Target cart last week.
Writer Daniel Dylan Wray publishes an essay contending that John Cale is overlooked in music history compared to his Velvet Underground bandmate Lou Reed, citing anecdotes from musicians like Richard H Kirk and Mark E Smith who both favored Reed over Cale. The piece also references John Doran's earlier series entry suggesting the band peaked after Cale's departure, and author David Keenan's public devotion to Reed as evidence of a broader cultural bias.
Epic Games has delayed its unannounced Disney-branded game, reportedly an extraction shooter, from a November release to March, according to Bloomberg sources. A director told the team the project would follow an 'AI first' plan requiring no hand-written code and all art generated through full AI workflows, a shift some staff reportedly hoped wasn't serious. Epic's communications director confirmed the company is 'embracing AI-accelerated development' in a statement to Bloomberg.
A super PAC running ads meant to influence Maine's Senate race reportedly aimed its campaign at the wrong Portland, targeting Oregon's largest city instead of Maine's. The mix-up means the ad spending likely reached an audience with no stake in the Maine election.
China's auto industry association reported that passenger car exports jumped 64% year-on-year in September, as domestic sales growth remains weak. Automakers are increasingly turning to overseas markets to sustain growth, even as the EU caps imports of Chinese hybrid vehicles at 350,000 units annually.
Jaeger-LeCoultre's archives show its Ados and Indos travel clocks appeared in the same 1931 catalogue as the Reverso watch and were created simultaneously. Both share design traits including rectangular railroad-track dials, art-deco indices and protective mechanisms, though the clocks use a foldable case rather than the Reverso's swivelling one. The clocks also featured lume-filled cathedral hands and numerals, plus varied dial colours such as salmon, linen, black and silver.
A research effort called ELIZAGen is building a family tree of ELIZA chatbot implementations by treating them as biological specimens rather than comparing source code directly. Researchers encode 27 versions spanning 1965-2025 across eight languages using 13 binary architectural features, then analyze the resulting matrix with PAUP*, software standard in evolutionary biology. The work is detailed in a December 2025 draft paper by Jeff Shrager titled 'Reconstructing Program Genealogies from Abstract Program Descriptions: The ELIZA Case Study.'
Hello Games and Apple announced that No Man's Sky, the space exploration and survival crafting game, is now available on iPhone and iPad, compatible with devices back to the iPhone 11 and third-generation iPad Air. The mobile version includes all content and systems added since the game's 2016 launch, though player-made settlements require an iPhone 15 Pro or later and multiplayer is unsupported on any iOS device.
Counterpoint Research reports Apple captured 22% of global smartphone shipments in Q3 2026, up from 18% a year earlier, even as total industry shipments fell 20% year-over-year to their lowest third-quarter level in 14 years. Samsung held the top spot with 23% share, while Xiaomi, OPPO and vivo all saw their shares decline. Apple's own shipment volume fell due to the lack of a base iPhone 18 model, though iPhone 18 Pro launched more strongly than its predecessor, especially in China and India.
Apple is preparing to launch a 14-inch MacBook Pro with its new M6 chip later this month, keeping the current design. The M6 adds a Dual 16-core Neural Engine for faster on-device AI processing, a 12-core CPU with a new three-tier core structure (super, performance, and efficiency cores), a 12-core GPU, and is built on a new 2nm manufacturing process that Apple says improves power efficiency.
A coordinated cyberattack hit refrigeration systems at French grocery chains E. Leclerc, Intermarché and Coopérative U early Monday, forcing connected fridges and freezers into defrost mode for hours and raising temperatures to around 50°C. The intrusion spoiled food and triggered fires in some stores, and authorities say other chains were also affected. Danfoss, maker of the targeted AK-SM800 and AK-SC355 system controllers, said the hit units were running outdated firmware and that it is working with customers on mitigation.
WIRED tested Meta's new AI agent Muse, released three weeks ago and already downloaded by millions, and found it readily produced graphic sexual text when prompted, including detailed descriptions of sex acts and degrading language. Meta spokesperson Daniel Roberts confirmed this is permitted, saying Muse is intended for users 18 and over and operates in a private virtual machine, and that it 'doesn't block legal adult behavior.'