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Apple iPhone 17 launch date is rumored for September: Everything to know about the newest lineup

With August already two-thirds out the door, it means we're getting closer to the Apple iPhone event, which typically takes place in September. During that event, we'll finally get to put our eyes on the iPhone 17 lineup. The latest iOS 26 features will come preinstalled on the new models, as well as any additional features Apple reveals at the launch event. But since we still have to wait a few weeks (presumably) until the iPhone event, we can at least speculate what the new phones will look li

Google’s Big Leap Forward for Real-Time Translations Is Deepfaking Your Voice

I can’t count the number of times I’ve been promised the Next Big Thing in app-enabled translation. Since the dawn of Google Translate, it’s felt like tech companies (not just Google, but Samsung and Apple, too) have been teasing a future where speech can be translated instantaneously, allowing for near-seamless communication between people from *sarcastic SpongeBob voice* across the world. But the truth is, that future, however enticing on paper, hasn’t exactly panned out. As incredible as app

TikTok parent company ByteDance releases new open source Seed-OSS-36B model with 512K token context

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now TikTok is making headlines again today after the White House joined the popular social media application — but its parent company ByteDance, a Chinese web giant, also had a surprise announcement up its sleeve. The company’s Seed Team of AI researchers today released Seed-OSS-36B on AI code sharing website Hugging Face. Seed-OSS-36B is new

Video Games Weekly: Silksong and Gamescom

Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday or Tuesday (or Wednesday, whatever), broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays and ramblings about video game trends and related topics from me, Jess Conditt, a reporter who's covered the industry for more than 13 years. The second contains the video game stories from the past week that you need to know about, including some headlines from outside of Engadget. Please enjoy — and I'll see you next week.

Scientists Can’t Figure Out Why Just Walking In Nature Appears to Quickly Heal Your Brain Rot

Image by Getty / Futurism Mental Health "Go outside" or "touch grass" are common rejoinders deployed in online arguments these days. And, at least for those of us whose brains have probably melted from spending too much time on an app where said arguments take place, it turns out it's pretty sound advice. As the New York Times reports, there's a growing body of evidence suggesting that simply spending time in nature can instantly boost your algorithm-addled brain's attention span. It's part of

The Pixel 10 Pro has the display upgrade your poor eyes have been begging for

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR The Pixel 10 Pro series introduces a new “sensitive eyes” setting that doubles its display PWM rate to 480Hz. The option is limited to the Pro models, with partial support on the Pro Fold, and none on the base Pixel 10. This is Google’s first significant step toward helping flicker-sensitive users, but it could go further. OLED screens are great for deep blacks and rich colors, but they also have a hidden flicker problem. It’s caused by PWM dimming, w

Here are all the Android phones that support Qi2

The Qi2 wireless charging spec was originally announced back in early 2023. However, Android phone makers haven’t exactly been rushing to add Qi2 support to their latest devices since then. That’s made finding a compatible handset rather difficult, which is a bummer for anyone who has seen the wealth of accessories and power banks that iPhone owners have had access to for several generations. On top of faster charging speeds (up to 25 watts or higher in later revisions), Qi2 dictates the inclus

Analogue delays its N64 remake console yet again

Analogue's 4K take on the Nintendo 64 is… still not quite here. The company announced its third delay to the Analogue 3D on Wednesday, pushing the retro system back to Q4 2025. However, it said that's an intentionally conservative estimate, so this probably isn't a huge concern. The postponement follows previous ones in March and July. (The last time was due to tariffs.) Analogue acknowledged the frustration pre-order customers must be feeling. "We know this sucks," the Pocket maker wrote. "Ano

Coris (YC S22) Is Hiring

AI Engineer Location: SF Bay Area ( 4+ days in office ) Experience Level: 3–5+ years Stack: Python, PyTorch, ML, LLMs, Django Type: Full-time 🧠 About Coris Coris is building the AI-first trust layer for global commerce. We partner with leading platforms, marketplaces, payment providers, and banks to transform how small business onboarding, monitoring, and lifecycle decisions are made - using AI on the ground to drive faster, smarter actions with less friction. One of our customers describ

‘Severance’ Standout Tramell Tillman Joins ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’

The manager of the severed floor has a new gig: tangling with Spider-Man. Though we (of course) have absolutely no idea which character he’ll be playing, Severance standout Tramell Tillman will be swinging into a role in Spider-Man: Brand New Day. This update on the much-anticipated fourth Spider-Man MCU movie starring the returning Tom Holland, Zendaya, and Jacob Batalon—plus Jon Bernthal’s Punisher and Mark Ruffalo’s Hulk—comes from Variety. Tillman joins Sadie Sink (Stranger Things) and Liza

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 21, #332

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. To solve today's Connections: Sports Edition, focus on the endings of some of the words. That should help you see how they connect. Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta after making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday on Feb. 9. That's a sign that the game

Palantir stock falls for sixth-straight day in longest losing streak since April 2024

Palantir shares sank further into correction territory Wednesday after six straight days of heavy selling. The slide marks the longest such streak for the artificial intelligence software company since April 2024, and brings shares down 18% from the recent intraday record. Shares closed in correction territory on Tuesday after accumulating a 15% loss from the highs. Wednesday's moves also dropped Palantir out of the 20 most valuable U.S. companies ranking. The software analytics company achiev

Google is expanding a key anti-theft feature to make your apps more secure

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR Android’s Identity Check feature is being expanded in the upcoming Android 16 QPR2 update to better protect your sensitive apps. The feature will now enforce biometric-only authentication for any app that uses the biometric prompt, removing the screen lock credential as a fallback. This optional security measure will prevent thieves who know your PIN from accessing sensitive apps when you’re outside of a trusted location. Late last year, Google announc

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 21, #802

Looking for the most recent 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, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Are the NYT Connections puzzle editors OK? There were some wacky words in today's puzzle. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to have the pr

Palantir stock plummets 18% from highs in longest losing streak since April 2024

Palantir shares sank further into correction territory Wednesday after six straight days of heavy selling. The slide marks the longest such streak for the artificial intelligence software company since April 2024, and brings shares down 18% from the recent intraday record. Shares closed in correction territory on Tuesday after accumulating a 15% loss from the highs. Palantir's slide followed a broader market sell-off and came on the heels of a short seller report from Andrew Left's Citron Rese

Nothing’s retro-looking Headphone 1 are already $30 off

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Nothing’s Headphone 1 hit the scene back in July, and they’re already being discounted. Right now, you can pick up the brand’s first pair of over-the-ear headphones for an all-time low price of $269 ($30 off) at Amazon and Nothing’s online storefront. What makes the Headphone 1 unique is their retro-transparent design that Nothing introduced with the Phone 1. Similar to other high-end headphones, they suppo

Scientists Say They've Figured Out a Way to Turn Nuclear Waste Into a Powerful Fuel

Scientists say they've developed a way to salvage nuclear waste from fission reactors — and turn it into a potent fuel for fusion reactors instead. As Gizmodo reports, it's an exciting prospect that could give fusion — which has remained elusive despite decades of research, though many scientists believe it could mature into a viable grid-scale power source — a chance of one day becoming a viable source of clean and safe energy. Researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory have been scour

Apple fixes new zero-day flaw exploited in targeted attacks

Apple has released emergency updates to patch another zero-day vulnerability that was exploited in an "extremely sophisticated attack." Tracked as CVE-2025-43300, this security flaw is caused by an out-of-bounds write weakness discovered by Apple security researchers in the Image I/O framework, which enables applications to read and write most image file formats. An out-of-bounds write occurs when attackers successfully exploit such vulnerabilities by supplying input to a program, causing it t

Do Large Language Models Dream of AI Agents?

During sleep, the human brain sorts through different memories, consolidating important ones while discarding those that don’t matter. What if AI could do the same? Bilt, a company that offers local shopping and restaurant deals to renters, recently deployed several million agents with the hopes of doing just that. Bilt uses technology from a startup called Letta that allows agents to learn from previous conversations and share memories with one another. Using a process called “sleeptime compu

Anthropic bundles Claude Code into enterprise plans

Anthropic on Wednesday announced a new subscription offering that will incorporate Claude Code into Claude for Enterprise. Previously available only through individual accounts, Anthropic’s command-line coding tool can now be purchased as part of a broader enterprise suite, allowing for more sophisticated integrations and more powerful admin tools. “This is the most requested feature from our business team and enterprise customers,” Anthropic product lead Scott White told TechCrunch. The integ

Sony is increasing the price of the PlayStation 5 as new tariffs take hold

Sony will raise the price of PlayStation 5 consoles, the company announced on Wednesday. These changes will be effective as of Thursday, August 21. Citing “a challenging economic environment” — which appears to reference President Trump’s tariffs on imported products — Sony is increasing console prices by about $50. In the U.S., the prices will increase to $549.99 for the PlayStation 5, $499.99 for the PlayStation 5 Digital Edition, and $749.99 for the PlayStation 5 Pro. On July 31, the White H

Sony raises PlayStation 5 prices in U.S. as tariffs start to hit

PlayStation 5 game consoles will cost $50 more in the U.S. starting this week, Sony announced on Wednesday. The price for an entry-level PlayStation 5 Digital Edition will increase from $450 to $500, and a PlayStation 5 with a disc drive is going up to $550 from $500. Sony's high-end PlayStation 5 Pro will cost $750, up from $700. The PlayStation 5 was first released in 2020. President Donald Trump's sweeping tariff plan announced in April went into effect earlier this month on most countries.

Perplexity’s Comet AI browser tricked into buying fake items online

A study looking into agentic AI browsers has found that these emerging tools are vulnerable to both new and old schemes that could make them interact with malicious pages and prompts. Agentic AI browsers can autonomously browse, shop, and manage various online tasks (like handling email, booking tickets, filing forms, or controlling accounts). Perplexity’s Comet is currently the primary example of agentic AI browsers. Microsoft Edge is also embedding agentic browsing features through a Copilot

Ordered Insertion Optimization in OrioleDB

When many sessions try to insert into the same B-tree leaf page, classic exclusive page locking serializes progress and wastes time on sleep/wake cycles. We’re introducing a batch page insertion path that lets the session holding the page lock insert for itself and its neighbors. The result: dramatically reduced lock waits, and big gains at high client counts (2X throughput boost starting from 64 clients in our benchmark). In OrioleDB beta12, inserts into a B-tree leaf are performed under an ex

Debugging Behind the Iron Curtain (2010)

Sergei is a veteran of the early days of the computing industry as it was developing in the Soviet Union. I had the pleasure of working and learning from him over the past year, and in that time I picked up more important lessons about both life and embedded programming than any amount of school could ever teach. The most striking lesson is the story of how and why, in late summer of 1986, Sergei decided to move his family out of the Soviet Union. In the 1980s, my mentor Sergei was writing soft

14.ai (YC W24) is hiring engineers in SF to build an AI-native Zendesk

We are an intense, tightly-knit team based in the heart of San Francisco. Our customers range from fast-growing startups to established enterprise companies, and we obsess over listening to each of them and helping them succeed. Our development pillars are security, reliability and performance, combined with pragmatism to always find working solutions and be ultra-responsive to customer feedback and requests. Working both at the infrastructure and product level, we strive to build correct, futur

The ‘Shin Godzilla’ Black-and-White Version Is Finally Getting a U.S. Theatrical Release

While we wait for news on what’s to come in the wake of Godzilla Minus One‘s massive success, this summer has seen the resurgence of Toho’s prior Godzilla reimagining in Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi’s Shin Godzilla. It got a whole new wave of reappraisal as it stomped back into theaters last week with a brand new 4K remaster—and now, to celebrate its success, and much like Minus One did before it, the movie’s extending its theatrical return with a new black-and-white remastering. Today GKids

Stone Age People Brutalized Their Prisoners of War, New Evidence Suggests

When we think of Stone Age people, most imagine small communities living in caves, cutting into their most recent hunt with primitive tools, and imitating their environment with illustrative rock art. People during the Neolithic, however—the last stage of the Stone Age (around 9000 to 3300 BCE)—also waged wars and absolutely demolished their enemies. In a study published today in the journal Science Advances, researchers present horrific evidence suggesting that Neolithic people in northeastern

Microplastics Are Everywhere. Here's How to Avoid Them in 8 Common Foods

Microplastics are all around us all the time. While these microscopic bits of plastic were once an issue for ocean pollution, now they're all around us. From kitchen tools to food storage, microplastics have infected our world. This means that each day, you are probably ingesting thousands of tiny plastic particles without even realizing it. Studies estimate the average person consumes between 39,000 and 52,000 microplastic particles annually through food and beverages alone -- and when airborn

Magic Cue on Pixel 10: What is it and how will it make your life simpler?

TL;DR With the Pixel 10 series, Google has revealed a new AI feature called “Magic Cue.” Magic Cue watches your screen and offers suggestions by pulling relevant information from multiple apps. It currently supports a host of Google apps, with support for third-party apps promised to arrive soon. Despite nearly a decade of selling its Pixel phones (and several years with the Nexus devices before that), Google still strongly relies on unique software experiences to make its phones more compell