Google is gradually enabling a new Motion Assist feature on Android phones, starting with some Pixel 10 and Pixel 11 devices, ahead of the official September Pixel Drop. The feature displays moving shapes on screen that shift in sync with a vehicle's movement, using the phone's accelerometer and gyroscope, mirroring a similar tool Apple already offers on iPhone. Users can check for it under Settings > profile picture > All services > Personal & device safety.
Garmin has unveiled its Fenix 9 and Fenix 9 Pro smartwatches, featuring refreshed hardware and a new capability called Garmin Epic. This feature links together separate workouts or outdoor activities to give users a combined, more complete view of their overall physical exertion over a day or trip.
A Stanford study finds that AI's disruption of the job market falls hardest on entry-level workers whose roles depend on formal, documented, codifiable skills. In contrast, experienced employees whose jobs rely on tacit, practice-based expertise have actually seen employment gains, according to the report cited by Ars Technica.
An Entrepreneur opinion piece argues that business owners commonly misunderstand valuation, believing EBITDA multiplied by a market multiple fully determines their company's worth. In reality, the multiple itself is derived from buyers' judgments about risk, management quality, customer diversification and the durability of future cash flows, not a fixed industry number. Two companies with identical EBITDA can receive very different offers depending on how confident buyers are that those earnings will continue after a sale.
Kelly Shen, an MIT graduate from the class of 2017, works in Sotheby's art intelligence division, where she designs algorithms that forecast auction prices based on buyer trends and artist popularity. Her work also includes cataloguing art pieces and building real-time systems capable of handling thousands of simultaneous bidders on the auction house's website.
Garmin unveiled its fēnix 9 series, including a base model and a Pro variant, each available in three case sizes with new ComfortFit bands. The watches gain a brighter AMOLED display, 50% more RAM, a faster map engine, and features like Perspective view and Garmin Epic for grouping activities. The base fēnix 9 starts at $999.99, while the titanium fēnix 9 Pro, which adds 3,000 nits of brightness and a green light mode, starts at $1,099.99.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art disclosed that hackers accessed its network for four days before detection on July 11, 2025, compromising sensitive data belonging to customers and employees. Exposed information includes Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers, partial financial and payment card details, and health-related records such as diagnoses and treatment history. The museum only completed its investigation and began notifying affected individuals in late February 2026, more than a year after the intrusion was found.
Spectrum is now offering a complimentary Amazon Prime subscription, normally priced at $14.99 monthly, to customers enrolled in its Internet Assist program for low-income households and seniors. Eligibility includes recipients of SSI, SNAP, Medicaid or the National School Lunch Program, and both new and existing Spectrum internet customers can claim it regardless of which internet tier they use. The perk arrives shortly after Spectrum reported losing 172,000 internet subscribers in its latest quarterly earnings.
Mozilla announced it will turn on JPEG XL decoding by default across all Firefox platforms starting with version 157, using its Rust-based jxl-rs decoder. The feature has been available as an opt-in Labs setting since Firefox 152 and behind a hidden preference since earlier releases, and now gains multithreaded decoding to match performance with Safari's implementation.
A developer created a workaround that adds rollback functionality to Flyway's free Community Edition, which normally reserves database migration undo capability for paying Teams subscribers. The trick treats every rollback as a forward migration: instead of reversing an applied migration, the tool writes a new, higher-numbered migration containing the reverse SQL, then cleans up Flyway's schema history table so the recorded state matches the database and files on disk. The implementation relies entirely on standard Flyway commands rather than direct SQL execution against the database.
Anthropic announced it is merging the memory systems behind Claude's chat interface and its Cowork agent product, so information learned in one context carries over to the other. Users can now view, edit, or delete stored memories, and Claude will log details continuously during conversations rather than only summarizing at the end.
Leaked images and reporting from Smartlights.de suggest Philips Hue is developing a wall light adapter that lets users control Nanoleaf's Shapes panels—including Hexagons, Triangles, and Mini Triangles—directly through the Hue app, supporting up to 100 connected panels per adapter. The module is said to launch in early September for around €40, though it remains unclear whether Nanoleaf's signature lighting effects and animations will carry over into the Hue ecosystem.
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