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WSJ personal tech columnist Nicole Nguyen will hold a live, text-based Q&A session on Wednesday, September 16, from 1 to 2 p.m. ET. Subscribers can submit questions about upcoming Apple products and features, including a rumored dual-device iPhone concept, iOS 27, and a revamped version of Siri.
Amazon is currently selling the Razer Huntsman Mini gaming keyboard for $69, a 47% discount off its list price. The 60% compact keyboard is now cheaper than it was during Amazon's Prime Day sale event.
General Motors is rolling out a redesigned user interface for its trucks starting in 2027, developed with input from a designer who previously worked at Apple. Rather than following the industry trend of expanding touchscreen real estate, the new design restores physical controls that drivers can push, turn, and click alongside the display.
Health benefits startup Thatch has raised $108 million in new funding at a $1 billion valuation, backed by existing investors including Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, Index Ventures, and The General Partnership. The round comes just 17 months after Thatch was valued at $410 million, with CEO Chris Ellis saying annual recurring revenue grew roughly sevenfold in that span.
Jiga, a Y Combinator-backed startup from the Winter 2021 batch, announced it is hiring a Product Engineer who can work remotely within the US. The company builds software aimed at streamlining custom manufacturing workflows for hardware parts used in industries like aerospace, robotics, and data centers.
Apple's watchOS 27 introduces a Siri app with chat history, matching similar updates on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. However, unlike those versions, the Apple Watch interface doesn't offer an obvious way to continue a previous conversation from within the app.
An Entrepreneur contributor describes a COO who resolved a six-week product launch delay caused by slow procurement approval on packaging spec changes by setting a spending cap for same-day approval of urgent vendor fees. The next launch hit its date, proving the fix worked for that specific request, but the piece argues this success can mask a deeper, recurring tension between speed and financial oversight that will resurface elsewhere.
A contributor column advises business owners to list the ten recurring tasks a proposed hire would actually perform and sort them into judgment, relationship, repetition and coordination categories before approving a new position. The piece argues that hiring is often a default response to growth, even when the real bottleneck is a broken workflow rather than a lack of people. It cites Census Bureau data showing only about 17-20% of businesses use AI, with Sales, Strategy and IT as top adopting functions where automation could resolve repetitive work.
A growing share of Millennial and Gen Z singles are opting for no-cost outings like walks, museum visits or coffee at home instead of traditional paid dinners and drinks. This shift comes as nearly half of singles say the expense of a typical date no longer feels worthwhile given current financial pressures.
A developer benchmarked how Intel, AMD, Arm and Apple processors handle IEEE 754 subnormal floating-point numbers—the tiny values near zero that require special handling. Testing double-precision arithmetic on Intel Granite Rapids and Emerald Rapids Xeons, AMD Zen 5, AWS Graviton, and Apple M4 Max chips, the results showed Intel processors suffer dramatic slowdowns, sometimes 40-plus times slower, when computations involve subnormal values compared to normal ones.
An analysis traces the evolution of memory allocation from stack-based schemes to dynamic linked-list heaps, garbage collection, and jemalloc's 2006 introduction of 'arenas' for NUMA and multi-core memory management. It notes that standard malloc() implementations serialize concurrent allocation requests, causing multithreaded applications to slow down rather than scale as processor counts increase.
In a Fast Company interview, Grindr CEO and Chairman George Arison discussed how the company is investing heavily in artificial intelligence to expand beyond its core dating app business. Arison pointed to strong recent financial performance, including 38% year-over-year revenue growth in the first quarter, as evidence the strategy is gaining traction.