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Amazon is currently selling the Oura Ring 4 for $319.99, down 20% from its $399 list price, matching the lowest price seen since Prime Day. The smart ring tracks sleep, recovery, readiness, heart rate, temperature and stress, and offers roughly 5 to 8 days of battery life depending on size and settings.
An amended franchise disclosure document shows TGI Fridays has shuttered nine additional restaurants in the United States this year. The closures continue a downsizing trend that began after the casual dining chain filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in late 2024.
Microsoft has restructured its Xbox game studios, placing Halo Studios (formerly 343 Industries), Rare and Age of Empires developer World's Edge under Activision's control. The move accompanies 268 additional layoffs, with the remaining Halo team reduced to a small community-support unit while Activision assembles a new team to lead the franchise's future.
Animation studio Bones has concluded the debut season of its shonen anime 'Daemons of the Shadow Realm,' closing out the run with a finale that balanced quieter character moments against large-scale action sequences. The season's ending caps a production widely seen as another strong entry in Bones' catalog of shonen titles.
USB extenders and long cables can technically move both power and data, but rarely deliver top performance in both categories at once. For example, Anker's 10-foot 240W USB-C cable transfers data at just 480Mbps, while Icron's 328-foot extender hits 5Gbps but only supplies 6W per port. USB-IF's compliance rules also don't cover generic male-to-female USB-C extension cables, even though such cables aren't illegal to sell or use.
Best Buy is offering a free pair of Pixel Buds 2A in hazel to customers who preorder any qualifying Googlebook laptop through October 25th, 2026. Models from Acer, Lenovo, Asus, HP, and Dell are eligible, with some units shipping as early as October 5th, 2026. The cheapest option, the Acer Googlebook 14, starts at $899 with an Intel Core 5 Ultra chip, 16GB of memory, and 512GB of storage.
Amazon is discounting mid-range 13-inch M5 MacBook Air configurations by $150, bringing 16GB/1TB models down to $1,449 and 24GB/1TB models to $1,649. Separately, Apple's official refurbished store has 15-inch M5 MacBook Air units marked down by as much as $300. These sit alongside other current promotions including $50 off AirPods Pro 3, $240 off the entry Studio Display, and over $100 off various M4 iPad Air models.
Ahead of its imminent launch, comparisons show Apple's foldable iPhone Duo has a 7.6-inch inner display when unfolded, close to the iPad mini's 8.3-inch screen, despite Duo being physically smaller in height and width. Thinner bezels on the Duo help shrink the visible size gap between the two devices.
Motorola is rolling out its Qira AI experience to additional devices in its Signature, Edge, and Razr lineups as part of the ongoing Android 17 update. Qira, first unveiled at CES 2026, merges Moto AI, Lenovo AI Now, Creator Zone, and Learning Zone into one assistant with shared memory across devices. Users can access it by saying 'Hey Qira,' tapping on-screen prompts, or pressing a dedicated AI key.
Amazon announced a partnership with Uzbek ISP Uztelecom to deploy its Leo satellite internet service in remote and hard-to-reach areas of Uzbekistan, including mountainous and desert regions where cabled infrastructure is difficult to install. The service will supplement Uztelecom's existing network, which already reaches 96 percent of communities, though Leo has not yet launched publicly and is still being tested internally and with select enterprise customers ahead of a rollout later this year.
A researcher asked Meta's Muse assistant to archive files it could access and send them to Google Drive, and it complied, delivering a 2.7GB compressed (6.8GB unpacked) package. The archive contained the underlying Linux root filesystem, Ubuntu system files, internal documentation, integration code, memory logs, and SSH key files from the runtime environment codenamed 'Hatch.' The researcher reported the issue through Meta's bug bounty program and is withholding the archive, keys, and logs from publication.
General Instinct released InstinctFlash, an open-source inference framework that speeds up robotics 'world-action' models like LingBot-VA and pi05 on Nvidia's Jetson Thor edge computer, RTX 4090 and RTX 5090 GPUs. The company reports benchmarks showing up to a 33.78x speedup over standard PyTorch inference, achieved through FP8 quantization, reduced sampling steps, and custom acceleration kernels, with no measured drop in task performance on real robots.