Latest Tech News

Stay updated with the latest in technology, AI, cybersecurity, and more

Filtered by: ts Clear Filter

Lenovo leaks show concept laptop with rotating display

Lenovo is gearing up to show off its latest products at Europe’s IFA tech tradeshow next week, but leaks may have just given us a first look at what’s being announced. The most notable gadget shared by reputable leaker Evan Blass shows an image of a concept laptop design with a display that rotates between landscape and portrait orientations, which Lenovo has reportedly dubbed “Project Pivo.” Lenovo has a history of making funky laptop concepts — such as the see-through ThinkBook Transparent Di

RSS is awesome

☀️ RSS is Awesome NetNewsWire is my latest most-used iPhone app. It is a simple, free RSS reader. RSS is an old technology that it seems most people have forgotten about. Here's how it works: you enter a link to an RSS "feed", and your app pulls data from this feed every few minutes or so. When there is a new post from your feed, that post is pulled directly to your app. RSS is really simple, so it is still very well supported. Notably, all substack publications automatically have an RSS fee

Affirm's stock soars 15% on earnings, revenue beat

Max Levchin, co-founder of PayPal and chief executive officer of financial technology company Affirm, arrives at the Sun Valley Resort for the annual Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference, in Sun Valley, Idaho. Affirm shares rose 15% in extended trading on Thursday after the provider of buy now, pay later loans reported better-than-expected earnings and revenue for the fiscal fourth quarter. Here's how the company did versus LSEG consensus estimates: EPS: 20 cents vs. 11 cents estimated 20 c

RSS Is Awesome

☀️ RSS is Awesome NetNewsWire is my latest most-used iPhone app. It is a simple, free RSS reader. RSS is an old technology that it seems most people have forgotten about. Here's how it works: you enter a link to an RSS "feed", and your app pulls data from this feed every few minutes or so. When there is a new post from your feed, that post is pulled directly to your app. RSS is really simple, so it is still very well supported. Notably, all substack publications automatically have an RSS fee

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 29, #340

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition was relatively simple for what I consider to be the toughest of the New York Times' puzzles. If you're struggling but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunda

9to5Mac Daily: August 28, 2025 – AirPods Pro 3 rumors, Apple acquisition strategies

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play, or through our dedicated RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. Sponsored by BMX: Check out BMX’s SolidSafe™ power bank, built with cutting-edge solid-state battery technology that eliminates flammable liquid lithium for a safer, more durable charging experience. New episodes of 9to5Mac Daily are recorded every weekday. Subscribe

Meet Freddy Fazbear and Friends at Halloween Horror Nights’ ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s’ House

Take a look inside the Five Nights at Freddy’s house at Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights. It looks like a real Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza location right out of the mind of game creator Scott Cawthon and Emma Tammi’s cinematic adaptation. io9 was invited to a behind-the-scenes walkthrough of the Hollywood attraction based on the video game and Blumhouse film franchise, opening at HHN ahead of December’s Five Nights at Freddy’s 2. Creative director John Murdy took us through to highlight th

Video player looks like a 1-inch TV from the ’60s and is wondrous, pointless fun

If a family of anthropomorphic mice were to meet around a TV, I imagine they'd gather around something like TinyCircuits’ TinyTV 2. The gadget sits on four slender, angled legs with its dials and classic, brown shell beckoning viewers toward its warm, bright stories. The TinyTV’s screen is only 1.14 inches diagonally, but the device exudes vintage energy. TinyTV 2 Specs Display Size: 1.14-inch Resolution: 216×135 Panel Type: IPS Dimensions: 1.9×1.4×1 inches (47.6×36.6×25.9mm) Ports: 1x USB

Scientists Say Black Holes Could Form Inside Planets, Leading to Absolute Catastrophe

New fear unlocked: spontaneous black hole implosion. Fresh research predicts that planets may be able to accumulate enough dark matter to suddenly form a black hole at their core. As the intruder grows, catastrophe unfolds: it would then devour the world from the inside out, becoming a black hole with the same mass as its unfortunate meal. The findings, published as a study in the journal Physical Review D, are terrifying to contemplate. The intent, however, wasn't to haunt our dreams but to d

Threads is testing long-form posts with support for formatted text

While Threads already allows up to 500 characters per post (which is more than enough for casual users used to the microblogging format), it is now testing support for long-form posts through “text attachments”. Here’s how it works. Meta has confirmed the test, but has no ETA for the feature As spotted by app researcher Radu Oncescu (via TechCrunch), Threads is testing a new “text attachment” feature on iOS, which could replace the common practice of stringing together multiple posts that blow

A forgotten medieval fruit with a vulgar name (2021)

Medieval Europeans were fanatical about a strange fruit that could only be eaten rotten. Then it was forgotten altogether. Why did they love it so much? And why did it disappear? In 2011, archaeologists found something unusual in a Roman toilet. The team were excavating the ancient village of Tasgetium (now Eschenz, Switzerland), ruled by a Celtic king who was personally given the land by Julius Caesar. It was built on the banks of the river Rhine, along what was then an important trade route

Are you hoping for a live iPhone event on September 9? [Poll]

To say that Apple’s pre-recorded events are divisive is an understatement. What initially seemed like a pandemic-fueled stopgap has become the company’s standard way to make announcements, even though its competitors have largely moved back to live presentations. With the upcoming “Awe Dropping” event, Apple has an opportunity to take a new crack at the live event format. Do you think it’ll take it? Apple has been doubling down on pre-recorded events There is no question that Apple prefers th

Building your own CLI coding agent with Pydantic-AI

Learning by doing Ben O’Mahony is Principal AI Engineer at Thoughtworks. He is a results-driven AI/Engineering leader with a track record of building high-performing teams and shipping business-critical AI, ML and data products and platforms at scale. He has deep expertise across the full Engineering and Data lifecycle from research to production deployment. Ben is adept at defining technical strategy, driving execution and partnering cross-functionally to deliver measurable impact. Recently Be

Topics: agent code mcp run tests

US manufacturing investment stumbles as clean tech cancellations pile up

More clean tech manufacturing investments were canceled in the U.S. in the second quarter than were announced, according to a new study from the Rhodium Group and MIT. Companies canceled $5 billion worth of projects, while only $4 billion in new investments was announced. Actual clean tech manufacturing investments, not just announcements, declined by 15%, as well. The pullback comes in the wake of the GOP’s reconciliation bill, which erased key portions of the Inflation Reduction Act, a piece

Torrent app unavailable at AltStore PAL following apparent notarization revocation by Apple [Update: Apple statement]

Update, August 28, 11:19 a.m. PT: In a statement to 9to5Mac, an Apple spokesperson said: “Notarization for this app was removed in order to comply with government sanctions-related rules in various jurisdictions. We have communicated this to the developer.” When Apple was compelled to allow alternative iOS app stores in the EU, it adopted the notarization model familiar to Mac developers. This means that if Apple revokes the notarization of a certain app, its distribution and use get blocked, e

These 3 tablet charging habits are slowly killing your device - here's what to do instead

Jason Hiner/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Unplug at 100%, keep battery between 20% and 80%. Avoid draining to 0%; store unused tablets at 50%. Use certified chargers to prevent stress and overheating. As someone who uses a tablet daily, I'm constantly looking for ways to make its battery last longer. However, some habits you don't think twice about could actually be hurting your battery over time. There are ways to extend your tablet's ba

Colleges see significant drop in international students as fall semester begins

NPR > Education Classes began this week for students at the University at Buffalo, a public research university in western New York, but there were about 750 fewer international students on campus than expected. The new students who did make it gathered for a welcome from the school's dean of students. "We know you have had to overcome hurdles to be here – especially this summer, with visas," Tomás Aguirre told the assembled students, representing more than 100 countries. "And I just wanted yo

Are OpenAI and Anthropic losing money on inference?

I keep hearing what a cash incinerator AI is, especially around inference. While it seems reasonable on the surface, I've often been wary of these kind of claims, so I decided to do some digging. I haven't seen anyone really try to deconstruct the costs in running inference at scale and the economics really interest me. This is really napkin math. I don't have any experience at running frontier models at scale, but I do know a lot about the costs and economics of running very high throughput s

Proton offers a new lifeline for when the unexpected happens

TL;DR Proton has rolled out a new feature called Emergency Access. This feature allows paid users to pick five trusted contacts who can gain access to their account in case anything happens. Users can allow their trusted contacts to access their account immediately or after a custom set period of time. We all have crucial information stored in the various apps we use. For instance, you could have an important message sitting in your inbox, logins in your password manager, or financial informa

MathGPT.ai, the ‘cheat-proof’ tutor and teaching assistant, expands to over 50 institutions

As AI becomes more prevalent in the classroom — where students use it to complete assignments and teachers are uncertain about how to address it — an AI platform called MathGPT.ai launched last year with the goal of providing an “anti-cheating” tutor to college students and a teaching assistant to professors. Following a successful pilot program at 30 colleges and universities in the U.S., MathGPT.ai is preparing to nearly double its availability this fall, with hundreds of instructors planning

We just got our best look yet at the next three-panel foldable, and it launches next week

TL;DR HUAWEI has unveiled the Mate XTs, with pre-orders now open in China ahead of a September 4 launch. Leaker Digital Chat Station claims it will be available in four colors, with 16GB RAM and up to 1TB storage. HUAWEI remains the only company to have shipped a tri-fold, though the Mate XTs may be available only in China. We know that the term “tri-fold” might not make much sense, but it’s the name the industry appears to have settled on in the fledgling years of these three-panel foldables

Apple teases new Powerbeats Fit earbuds launching soon

Apple is working on a new flavor of its popular Powerbeats earbuds, dubbed the Powerbeats Fit. Apple teased the new earbuds in a video on YouTube today, referring to them as “fit for every move.” Apple says the Powerbeats Fit are “coming fall 2025.” There’s no word on what’s new with the Powerbeats Fit. They appear to be the follow-up to the Beats Fit Pro, which debuted in 2021. Beats Fit Pro offer a compact in-ear design with an added hook to further secure the fit. They offer features like A

Fubo Sports will make a play for football fans' dollars on September 2

Fubo is making a move to attract new subscribers ahead of the NFL season. The company's new Fubo Sports bundle includes content from ESPN, Fox and local affiliates. The football-friendly package costs $56 monthly. Fubo Sports includes over 20 sports and broadcast networks. You get all of ESPN's live channels (including ESPN+). As for Fox, it has FS1, FS2 and the curious inclusion (for a sports package) of Fox News. The bundle also has the ACC Network, Big 10 Network, CBS Sports Network, Fubo Sp

Fubo Sports is a $55.99 / month streaming bundle made for watching football

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Fubo is launching a new Sports plan on September 2nd that costs $55.99 per month and comes with over 20 live sports and news-focused channels, including the ESPN and Fox Sports channels, as well as local stations owned by ABC, CBS, and Fox. Where available, this

AI hires or human hustle? Inside the next frontier of startup operations at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

What happens when your first 10 hires aren’t people at all? At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27–29 at San Francisco’s Moscone West, we’re digging into the new wave of startups replacing or augmenting early employees with AI agents. Think outbound sales, billing, and customer support — automated from day one. This panel, hosted on the Builders Stage, features a mix of technical founders and seasoned operators who are actually doing it, debating where the line between human and machi

Topics: 2025 agents ai build ceo

MathGPT.AI, the ‘cheat-proof’ tutor and teaching assistant, expands to over 50 institutions

As AI becomes more prevalent in the classroom—where students use it to complete assignments and teachers are uncertain about how to address it—an AI platform called MathGPT.AI launched last year with the goal of providing an “anti-cheating” tutor to college students and a teaching assistant to professors. Following a successful pilot program at 30 colleges and universities in the U.S., MathGPT.AI is preparing to nearly double its availability this fall, with hundreds of instructors planning to

Miss your landline? Verizon's new Family Line lets 5 phones share one number

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Verizon's new Family Line gives you a single shared mobile number. You can share the number across as many as five smartphones. Verizon Family Plus with Family Line will cost you an extra $10 a month. My wife and I got rid of our landline years ago, relying solely on our individual mobile phones to make and receive calls. One feature I miss about our home phone was the way we could shar

How AI agents can eliminate waste in your business - and why that's smarter than cutting costs

Hazal Ak / iStock via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways AI agents help identify and remove waste in business. All waste is costly, but not all costs are wasteful. CEOs pursue cost efficiency with AI to protect performance. In an AI-powered economy, business leaders are focused on enhancing the productivity and efficiency of their workforce and operations. To accelerate value creation, while focusing on cost reductions and efficiencie

Jackie Chan’s Stunt Team Joins ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’

The new Deathstalker gets a trailer, Bugonia gets a poster, and Lady Gaga joins Wednesday season two—just as another $100 million dollar musical gets an “R” rating. After Folie a Deux, is Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride a Xanadu or a Xanadon’t? Transformers Speaking with The Direct, Josh Duhamel revealed he has “not heard” about Michael Bay reportedly returning to direct another installment in the Transformers franchise, but, Duhamel said, he would “love to do it.” I have not heard that. But ye

Fubo Is Launching a Skinny Bundle for Sports Fans. Here Are the Details

Cord-free streaming skinny bundles keep on coming and Fubo is the latest to join the party with the addition of its Fubo Sports package. On Thursday, the live TV streaming service announced that the new offering will launch Sept. 2, which is days before the 2025-26 NFL season kicks off. The package will also come with access to the new ESPN flagship streaming service at no extra charge. A Fubo Sports subscription, discounted to $46 for the first month only, will cost $56 per month after the int