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Nvidia has revised DLSS 5, reducing how intrusive its on-screen indicators are and lowering the performance overhead the feature imposes on games. The upgrade still carries hardware requirements that limit which GPUs can run it, and some visual artifacts in rendered graphics reportedly persist.
Tom's Hardware tested Alienware's AW3226Q, a 32-inch flat 4K OLED gaming monitor using Tandem Stripe RGB technology, with a 165Hz refresh rate, Adaptive-Sync, HDR400 True Black certification, Dolby Vision, and wide DCI-P3 color gamut. The review found bright, colorful, sharp images and strong gaming performance, with its main drawback being limited gamma adjustment options.
Retro tech company Tin Can, known for reviving the landline phone for children, is preparing a new product modeled on the Rolodex contact organizer. The device aims to bring another pre-digital tool to today's younger generation, following the same retro-tech approach as its earlier landline offering.
Fast Company's Shalene Gupta surveyed more than 100 women on balancing motherhood with career advancement, finding that even accomplished women in leadership roles struggle to maintain work-life balance. Many described relying on personal workarounds or 'hacks' they developed on their own to cope with workplace structures not designed with parenting responsibilities in mind.
Xreal released the One Pro+, an updated version of its One Pro AR glasses, featuring peak brightness of 1,200 nits versus 700 nits on the original, plus AI HDR upscaling and a 2D-to-3D conversion algorithm now running at 60Hz instead of 30Hz. The glasses also get a redesigned nose pad for comfort, but retain the same X1 spatial computing chip, 57-degree field of view, and $600 price as the original One Pro, and still lack a camera.
NVIDIA's RTX Spark platform pairs a Blackwell GPU with large unified RAM, targeting AI developers who want to run large local models like a 125B-parameter Qwen3.8-Flash-Next variant. NVIDIA says the chips deliver RTX 50-series gaming features including DLSS 5, with performance comparable to an RTX 5070 at 1440p, and a new DLSS Frame Generation mode that pushed Cyberpunk 2077 to 280fps. Being Arm-based, RTX Spark relies on Microsoft's Prism emulator for x86 compatibility, with NVIDIA naming supported titles like Gears of War: E-Day, NBA 2K27 and World of Warcraft: Forever, and says it is working with anti-cheat vendors on multiplayer support.
Google has rolled out new shopping tools, including Universal Cart, which lets users save products from multiple retailers in one place via AI Mode in Search or the Gemini app, and a When to Buy Guide that advises on discount timing. The cart draws on over 60 billion listings from Google's Shopping Graph to track price drops and restocks, and integrates with Google Wallet and Google Pay to surface card perks and promo codes.
Xreal has released its One Pro Plus display glasses for $599, upgrading brightness to 1,200 nits from 700 nits on the earlier One Pro model. The new version adds extra visual settings, including a 'Reading' mode, and a smoother AI-driven 3D conversion feature for 2D content, but otherwise keeps the same design, USB-C tethering and onboard chip as its predecessor.
Wilfa, a Norwegian kitchen appliance maker known for Scandinavian design, launched in the US today with a lineup of seven products. The range includes the $999 Probaker NXT stand mixer, the Powerfuel XL Blender, the Prostick immersion blender, an electric coffee grinder and three drip coffee makers priced from $299 to $399.
University of Toronto's Citizen Lab reports that Discover-Tech, an Israeli digital advertising agency, runs a platform called Controlium that profiles and deanonymises internet users through ordinary-looking ads, then enables third-party spyware firms to silently infect selected targets' devices without any click. Researchers say dozens of devices at Al Jazeera were compromised this way, and that millions of users worldwide have been served Discover-Tech ads since 2024, including in Yemen, Brazil, Mexico and Czechia.
United Airlines now offers Starlink satellite Wi-Fi on nearly half of its daily flights, with 635 aircraft equipped and more than 37.7 million passengers served to date. The carrier has launched an online tracker letting passengers check, within 48 hours of departure, whether their specific flight will have the service, accounting for possible last-minute aircraft swaps.
Leah Rowe released Libreboot 26.10, codenamed 'Ominous Olive', on 15 October 2026. The open-source BIOS/UEFI replacement now defaults to the EDK2 payload, adding full UEFI support that makes Windows compatible, while keeping GRUB/SeaBIOS as EFI builds for backward compatibility. The release also imports support for 233 Intel/AMD Chromebook boards from the MrChromebox project and introduces a new anti-AI policy file called AGENTS.md.