Roborock has unveiled the Qrevo 2 Pro, a robot vacuum featuring 25,000Pa of suction and a Dual Anti-Tangle System meant to stop hair from wrapping around its brushes. It also lifts its mop pads automatically before rolling onto carpet, using Carpet Boost+ and Deep Carpet Cleaning to dig dirt out of rugs, while its dock washes, dries, refills and empties the unit on its own for up to 65 days. The device launches at a promotional price of $550.
The streaming service that produced the hit drama 'Heated Rivalry' has released a new series called 'Slo Pitch,' a comedy centered on gay softball players. Unlike prior attempts to capitalize on 'Heated Rivalry's success, 'Slo Pitch' takes a distinctly different tonal approach, opting for sitcom-style humor over drama.
Modern flash storage relies on NAND memory cells that trap electrical charge, with newer 3D NAND designs stacking cells vertically and packing multiple bits per cell to boost capacity while lowering cost per gigabyte. These improvements have made flash ideal for SSDs and portable devices, since it lacks the moving parts of hard drives, giving lower latency and better durability. However, flash remains fundamentally different from RAM, serving as persistent storage rather than the fast temporary memory a system needs while running.
Engadget's Sam Rutherford reviewed Nintendo's new competitive-focused title Pokémon Champions, arguing that its PVP battles reveal strategic depth largely absent from mainline single-player games. He notes the title currently supports only about a quarter of all 1,025 Pokémon, yet already shows wide variety in team compositions, from Eeveelution-based squads to water-type strategies.
Generative AI tools from companies like OpenAI, Google and Meta have made it far easier to produce convincing fake audio, video and images of public figures, fueling a rise in political deepfakes. Doppel's Bobby Ford describes the trend as driven by three factors: greater volume, faster velocity and more vectors such as video, audio and email being exploited by bad actors. The piece cites the 2024 New Hampshire robocall incident, where an AI-generated fake of Joe Biden's voice urged voters to stay home, as an early warning sign for what could happen in the 2026 midterms.
A wave of vulnerability reports produced with AI assistance is flooding bug bounty programs, increasing supply and pushing per-report payouts lower. This shift is squeezing the economics that independent security researchers rely on for income.
The Italian volunteer-run collective Autistici/Inventati, known as A/I, has become subject to U.S. sanctions. A/I provides free, privacy-protective communication tools and hosting to activists and grassroots groups, funded solely by donations and staffed entirely by unpaid volunteers.
Netflix's unusual decision to premiere an extended Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer drew such heavy traffic that both Netflix and Twitch experienced access and bandwidth problems on Thursday. Take-Two Interactive shares climbed in premarket trading following the reaction, with analysts describing player sentiment as largely positive. The game, set for a November 19 launch on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S, has already generated an estimated $260 million in global preorders.
A writer recounts how her sister Annie and partner Jack, after moving into a California home, began feeding an American Crow with a limp they named Sal. The bird's shyer companion, dubbed Pal, soon joined in, and both crows started visiting the couple regularly in exchange for peanuts. Over months, the birds and humans developed a recognizable daily routine of greetings and visits.
A UMass Lowell Center for Public Opinion dataset, highlighted by a Reddit user following Dolly Parton's death, shows Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg holds just 8 percent favorability among Democrats and 13 percent among Republicans. That places him near Vladimir Putin in overall unpopularity, despite Zuckerberg's recent efforts to align himself politically with Donald Trump.
U.S. District Judge Rita Lin ruled that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's designation of Anthropic as a national security supply-chain risk violated the company's First and Fifth Amendment rights. The label had led federal agencies to halt work with Anthropic after the company refused to loosen safety limits on autonomous weapons and mass surveillance uses for its Claude models. Lin found the government's own contradictory actions, including pursuing new contracts and cybersecurity collaboration with Anthropic, undermined its claim that the company posed a genuine risk.
Samsung's One UI 9 Beta 7 update for the Galaxy S26 series adds two Bixby features previously seen elsewhere: a gesture wake-up option that activates the assistant when users hold the phone near their mouth, and home screen widgets in 2x1, 2x2 and 4x2 sizes for quick voice or text input. The update also includes other additions like My FanCam, Call Brief, and a split Finder-Google Search bar, though Samsung's official changelog didn't mention these Bixby changes.
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