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Several digital wall calendar devices are discounted for Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days 2026, including Everblog's HomeCal, a 21.5-inch display normally priced around $400 that's currently listed near $280. A reviewer who tested the devices describes them as family hubs that sync digital calendars and handle chores and meal planning beyond simple scheduling.
Google introduced EmbeddingGemma 2, a 740M-parameter embedding model that maps text, code, images, video, and audio into a single unified embedding space. It supports flexible output dimensions from 768 to 128 via Matryoshka Representation Learning, offers an 8K context window—four times larger than the text-only EmbeddingGemma—and is released under the Apache 2.0 license.
Apple announced it will release its fiscal fourth-quarter 2026 results, with a conference call following at 2 p.m. PT featuring new CEO John Ternus alongside CFO Kevan Parekh. Last year's Q4 saw $102.47 billion in revenue and $27.47 billion in profit, and Apple has guided for 9-11% year-over-year revenue growth this quarter despite currency headwinds and supply constraints.
Google has issued its October 2026 Pixel update, with separate builds for the Pixel 6 and 7 series plus Fold and Tablet, the new Pixel 11 line, and Pixel 8-10 devices. The update fixes audio distortion during VoIP calls on Pixel 8-10, a virtual keyboard bug on Pixel 8-11, and incorrect photo/video orientation on Pixel 11. No fixes were specifically listed for Pixel 6 or 7 hardware.
As Amazon runs its October Prime Day sale, other retailers including Best Buy are matching some of its discounts on popular tech products, according to WIRED. One highlighted example is the AirPods Pro 3, discounted to $179, a price also available at Best Buy rather than only on Amazon.
Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days event is offering $200 off the latest MacBook Air (M5), bringing the 512GB/16GB configuration to $1,099, the lowest price since June. The discount applies to all MacBook Air configurations sold on Amazon, including the 15-inch model. Microsoft's 2026 Surface Laptop 13.8-inch is also discounted 25%, to $1,280 from $1,700, its best price since launch.
Amazon has discounted the Samsung Galaxy Book 6 16-inch Touchscreen Laptop 2026 from its $2,699.99 list price to $1,399.99, a 48% reduction. The model runs Windows 11 Pro with Copilot+ PC branding and features a 120Hz WUXGA touchscreen, Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors, 16GB RAM, and a 512GB SSD.
Items from Stanley Kubrick's film archive are heading to auction, including the axe Jack Nicholson wielded in 'The Shining' and the star-child prop from '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The collection will be exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, Paris, and London ahead of sale.
A specification has been published for OSC 7501, dubbed the Program Status Protocol, a terminal escape sequence that lets programs report states such as idle, working, waiting on user input, finished, or failed, along with a reason. The author gives an example of Terraform using the sequence to signal it is blocked awaiting a permission confirmation, with terminals free to display that status as a notification, icon, or inbox entry. The spec grew out of the author's work on Superlogical and Ghostty but is presented as a generic, product-agnostic standard any terminal could adopt.
Amazon has quietly removed the ability to use Alexa voice commands to play or pause audio coming through the 3.5mm aux input on some older Echo speakers. A Reddit user reported receiving a message from Amazon about the change, and an unnamed spokesperson reportedly confirmed it to Ars Technica, but Amazon gave The Verge no on-record explanation. Control of the aux port through the Alexa app's settings menu reportedly still works.
OpenAI has released a public beta of a new Decisions API that evaluates text and images and returns typed answers—probabilities, choices, or scores—about 10x faster than its Responses API. The endpoint, POST /v1/decisions, currently supports only the gpt-6-luna model, and requests combine a model, shared input evidence, and a set of named questions. OpenAI says general availability is expected in the coming weeks.
Scientists report a rise in cases of Cladophialophora bantiana, a rare mold that unlike most fungal pathogens tends to invade the brain rather than skin or lungs. Researchers say they do not yet understand why infections are becoming more frequent.