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Amazon's fall 2026 Prime Day sale includes discounts on official Apple accessories such as AirPods Pro 3 for $179 (down from $249), AirPods Max 2 for $429, and the first-ever discount on the new 2026 Apple Magic Keyboard. Other deals include iPhone 18 Pro cases, Magic Mouse, AirTag 2 starting at $22.50, and MagSafe battery packs, alongside third-party charging gear from Anker, Belkin, Satechi, and Logitech.
Walmart's in-house onn brand is selling microSD Express cards compatible with the Nintendo Switch 2 at $49.50 for 256GB and $84.77 for 512GB, the lowest prices currently available for this storage type. Both cards offer read speeds up to 800 MB/s and write speeds up to 600 MB/s, and carry a one-year limited warranty.
The Olight imini 2, a compact rechargeable keychain flashlight, is currently discounted 40% to $11.99 from its usual $19.99 price on Amazon. The device measures about 2.17 x 0.59 inches, weighs 0.69 ounces, has an aluminum alloy body rated IPX6 for water resistance, and can survive drops from five feet. It outputs 50 lumens and 115 candela across an 80-degree beam angle reaching roughly 23 yards, and recharges via a built-in USB-A connector.
Google has released an update for its Pixel Buds 2A and Pro 2 earbuds, adding features first teased in August. Paired with a Pixel Watch, the buds can now detect when a wearer falls asleep and respond by pausing music, muting notifications and disabling touch controls, alongside new tap-to-mute, one-tap live translation, and Gemini voice commands for ANC, EQ and touch settings. The Pro 2 also gains an exclusive Dynamic ANC feature that adjusts audio based on earbud fit.
Google unveiled EmbeddingGemma 2, a multimodal on-device AI model that can process text, images, video frames and audio locally. Alongside it, the company released AI Edge Foresight, a macOS app that expands shorthand bullet points into polished meeting notes and answers questions live during meetings, all without sending data off the device.
Amazon is selling the REDTIGER ZP1 Telephoto and Wide Dash Cam for $165.98, down from its $239.99 list price, a discount of $74 that matches its lowest recorded price. The deal requires an active Amazon Prime membership, which shoppers can obtain through a free 30-day trial.
Researchers released OpenWAM, an open framework that lets developers compare and combine different 'world-action' approaches for robots—systems that predict future video, generate actions, or do both together. The team pretrained a shared video-action model, adapted from Wan2.2-5B, on roughly 3.34 million robot and human interaction trajectories totaling 14.64k hours of video, training it for 14 days on 32 NVIDIA B200 GPUs using video data alone before adding action learning.
Code strings found in the latest Pixel Watch app update (version 5.1.0.990450614) indicate Google is deprecating Safety Signal, a Health Premium feature that provides cellular connectivity to the Pixel Watch 2 and Pixel Watch 3 LTE when paired phones are out of range or the watch lacks its own carrier plan. The service currently supports emergency contact calls, Safety Check, Emergency Sharing, Emergency SOS and Fall Detection in the US, Canada, the UK and Germany. Google has not announced a shutdown date or a replacement.
A research paper describes a human lung organoid system developed to study tissue-resident memory T cells (TRM) and their antiviral responses in the respiratory tract. The work draws on prior findings about TRM cells' role in protecting against influenza, SARS-CoV-2, and other pulmonary infections, aiming to recreate these dynamics outside the human body for closer study.
Nintendo released the WaveBird controller for the GameCube in 2002, using 2.4GHz radio frequency technology to offer wireless play with a range of about 20 feet. It lacked rumble support to conserve battery life but ran for up to 100 hours on two AA batteries, and required a receiver plugged into the console paired via matching channel sliders.
Google has released a Pixel Buds software update, version 6.144, bringing the previously announced Dynamic Active Noise Cancellation feature to the Pixel Buds Pro 2, which adjusts audio and ANC settings based on earbud fit in real time. The update also adds improvements to Live Translate, voice control, and sleep detection across the Pixel Buds Pro, Pro 2, and Buds 2a models, letting users start translation sessions with a touch gesture without taking out their phone.
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.