Mount Thor, a Bay Area startup, announced a $45 million raise across Seed and Series A rounds to build data centers running macOS on Apple silicon as rentable cloud instances. CRV and Conviction co-led the Series A, with Chad Byers and Offline Ventures co-leading the Seed, alongside participation from CSC Leasing, Enea Capital, Long Journey Ventures, Upper90, and angel investors from OpenAI, Meta, Cognition, Together AI, and Vercel. The company also secured separate non-dilutive financing for hardware.
9to5mac.com
· 2026-11-12
A new front-end called Boxshelf debuted on GitHub, originally built for Windows and Steam Deck, with an Android version added in its latest update. Designed primarily for the dual-screen AYN Thor handheld, it also runs on other Android devices, rendering each ROM as a 3D box with downloadable cover art and a 'museum' shelf view for browsing the whole collection. Users can still access standard apps like Chrome and the Play Store through a separate apps page.
androidauthority.com
· 2026-11-06
Meta has developed a prototype humanoid robot called Max intended to assist with household chores, according to The Information, built in about three months with help from Chinese robotics firm Fourier. The robot reportedly weighs about 106 pounds, stands roughly five feet tall, has a facial-expression display, a speaker, hands for grasping small objects, and runs on NVIDIA's Jetson Thor chips. A second prototype, Max 2, has reportedly been in development since September with design updates to the torso, hands, a projector, and added sensors for navigating stairs.
engadget.com
· 2026-11-01
Cocoon, a launcher frontend built for Android gaming handhelds, has released a 3.1 beta update centered on an 'Enhanced Device Access' mode that lets users suspend, resume, and switch between games from the home screen grid. The update also adds performance tweaks for lower-spec devices, a resizable grid editor, precise battery percentage readouts, and dual-screen output swapping. The beta is available via sideload on GitHub and includes an auto-updater.
androidauthority.com
· 2026-10-27
Spanish developer Endika has built Blip, an Android launcher designed specifically for dual-screen handhelds, splitting gameplay across both displays or showing art and manuals on the lower screen for single-screen games. The launcher includes nine free themes in light and dark variants, support for nine languages, and optional paid features including RetroAchievements and RomM integration. A cloud save-sync feature called Blip Cloud is currently in private beta, offering 100MB of free storage once released.
androidauthority.com
· 2026-10-23
A leak suggests ANBERNIC's upcoming RG DDS, a handheld styled after the Nintendo 3DS, could carry a price tag higher than many expected. The device is positioned to compete with other dual-screen emulation handhelds such as the AYN Thor.
androidauthority.com
· 2026-10-15
Tom Hiddleston says he never anticipated still playing Loki fifteen years after his debut in 'Thor.' He is set to return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe as the character in the upcoming film 'Avengers: Doomsday,' due in December.
gizmodo.com
· 2026-09-24
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.
github.com
· 2026-09-22
Ugreen unveiled a lineup of smart home hubs built around on-device AI processing, topped by the MasterAgent MA100, which runs on Nvidia's Jetson Thor platform with 128GB of unified memory and delivers up to 2,070 TOPS of performance. The flagship carries a $20,000 list price, though early buyers can get it at half off, while the entire hub lineup supports ONVIF and Matter devices with Zigbee and Thread support planned, and includes NAS-style storage bays requiring user-supplied SATA drives.
engadget.com
· 2026-09-03
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