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Meta glasses are a workplace menace
“Pervert” glasses are making jobs weird and putting workers on edge.
Sennheiser’s new Momentum 5 earbuds feature easily replaceable batteries
You’re not left with e-waste when the batteries stop holding a charge.
Does giving a camera wings dodge the FCC’s drone ban?
The HoverAir Versa found a loophole in the FCC’s drone ban. But it might not stick.
Watch Valve set up the Steam Frame in its own leaked videos
The Steam Frame launch might be around the corner.
GTA VI keeps leaking ahead of its gameplay premiere
The six-star Wanted system is apparently back.
Google’s Pixel Watch 5 is promising — but it isn’t finished
Think of this as part one of the Pixel Watch 5 review as most of the new features aren’t out yet. That said, GPS rocks.
Google’s Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era
Google has some catching up to do.
Amazon seemingly leaked Jason Statham’s entire Mutiny movie
The film isn’t supposed to hit theaters for two days, but it’s available to stream on Prime Video now.
Claude can do more with Gmail and Google Drive, and access to Claude Cowork is expanding.
A pair of announcements from Anthropic today include the word that access to Claude Cowork on mobile and web interfaces has rolled out to all paid accounts, so you can keep an eye on what it’s doing for you in more places. Separately, the Google Workspace connectors for Claude now support sending emails in Gmail and managing files in Google Drive — more details here. [Image: https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/08/778273589_17980259259118227_5377280649389143563_n.jpg?quality=90&strip=all]
PlayStation’s wireless gaming speakers launch in November
The $219.99 speakers offer “lifelike sound,” Sony says.
Coyote vs. Acme is even funnier because Warner Bros. Discovery tried to kill it
The answer may surprise you.
Firefox’s Smart Window promises a better AI browser
Can Mozilla build a better AI browser than Google, Microsoft, or OpenAI?
Polaroid’s new Pokémon collection captures memories, not Pikachus
Polaroid celebrates 30 years of Pokémon with a new collection.
Fairphone’s latest repairable phone is going on sale in the US
Fairer phones for the USA.
Apple’s camera-equipped AirPods appear in leaked video
“See something you like? Just ask me to save it for later.”
Reddit’s AI is turning posts into podcasts and short videos
Would you rather read or listen?
This compact Glorious mechanical keyboard is just $35
The GMMK 3 is a great entry point for the world of mechanical keyboards.
YouTube is changing how it counts views to give the numbers a boost
Watching one frame of a video will count as a view.
Sonos finally added Live Activities controls for your iPhone lock screen
Sonos finally put controls on your lock screen.
Whisker’s AI-powered litter robot thinks my cats swapped bodies
$900 for an AI-powered litter box and I can’t even watch my cat poop?
Badiashile: Chelsea defender set for Napoli medical
Multiple sources claim that Chelsea defender Benoit Badiashile will undergo medical tests with Napoli tomorrow.Chelsea defender Badiashile is on the verge of joining Napoli on loan and will undergo me...
I’m hooked on Peak Design’s new City bags
Integrated BagLev hooks make my old bags feel dirty and dumb.
Open Mike Eagle and Kenny Segal crafted a hip hop breakup masterpiece
DOOMED! pairs Eagle’s deeply personal lyrics with some of Segal’s most commanding beats.
ChatGPT’s Computer History tracks your clicks and keystrokes
It’s like Windows Recall, but without all the creepy screenshots.
Rogue AI aren’t science fiction anymore
For years, fears about AI systems slipping human control were dismissed as speculative.
Polaroid’s tiny instant camera is $72 and includes a free pack of film
This tiny instant camera produces tiny photos.
Don’t overlook Elektron’s budget electronic music instruments
I keep coming back to the criminally slept-on Model:Samples and Model:Cycles.
The Bluey Movie teaser shows Keepy Uppy in Disneyfied CG.
The good news: The beloved children’s series is coming to the big screen! The bad news: The charming 2D animation has been replaced with some bland 3D computer animation. And knowing Disney, we’ll probably get a soulless “live action” remake in about a decade. [Media: https://youtu.be/zZqTUZGMzpw]
Xteink’s tiny e-readers are getting access to free books through Libby
It’s getting a lot easier to source ebooks for Xteink’s tiny e-readers.
Samsung has new Galaxy headphones in the works
The “Galaxy H1” could be Samsung’s first over-ear headphones since 2015.
Lamborghini’s flagship Revuelto levels up with SV trim
I can already hear the crypto bros frantically checking their wallets.
The X-Files creator Chris Carter wanted to make a more horrific movie
He also believes Ryan Coogler is bringing something original to the franchise.
Google’s best new camera feature is only for the Pixel 11 series
Camera Looks are an exclusive feature.
You can now turn off Google Gemini’s visible watermarks
A new “Media watermark” setting is coming to Gemini and Flow.
CMF hit the balance between cheap and good clip earbuds
They’re great if you don’t want to jam something into your ear.
Hoto’s new cordless soldering iron heats up in three seconds
The latest addition to Hoto’s modular Snapbloq toolkit line can also be plugged in when you need more power.
States Take Uneven Approach to Convictions Built on ‘Junk Science,’ State Court Report Examines
States are implementing divergent legal frameworks regarding criminal convictions predicated on forensic evidence subsequently identified as 'junk science,' resulting in varied outcomes for incarcerated individuals seeking relief, according to a recent analysis by State Court Report.
‘That is not acceptable’: Judge orders Google to make rival app store installs easier
Judge Donato was not having Google’s “anticompetitive friction.”
BREAKING: Netflix to shut down two more game studios
Netflix is sticking with video games but once again reducing the number of studios it owns making games. The streaming giant is closing Los Angeles-based Night School studio, which it acquired in 2021 and plans to close Helsinki-based Moonloot, which was founded in 2022. Just six weeks ago, Night School had released Unhinged, a novel 30-minute first-person horror game, streamable on TVs to Netflix users. The game was hailed by Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters in a call with investors. Six weeks later, Night School is closing. Prior to its Netflix tenure, Night School had developed the award-winning supernatural thriller Oxenfree. A second Oxenfree game followed after the purchase, as well as a mobile game designed to tie in to an episode of the Netflix show Black Mirror. Netflix attributed the studio closures to a prioritization around kids gaming, party games, story-driven fare and games with mainstream hooks, such as a recently released FIFA game. “We see an opportunity to be more focused in our execution, so we are making organizational changes to the business to match those priorities,” a Netflix spokesperson told Game File. Netflix is also cutting jobs from its internal games team. A rep declined to say how many jobs were being lost by these cutbacks. “We are incredibly grateful to the talented colleagues we’re saying goodbye to today. We thank them for all their contributions to Netflix, and wish them the best,” the rep said. Netflix started releasing video games, initially on mobile as a free bonus to subscribers, in 2021. By 2023, Mike Verdu, then the head of Netflix’s game operations, was telling me that the company was committed to growing carefully, as it offered more games and built up internal game studios. At the time, it hadn’t made any gaming job cuts. Since then, Netflix has altered its approach. In 2024, it shut down Team Blue, a start-up studio led by ex-Call of Duty and Halo developers that was exploring making a high-end first-person game for the service. Last October, Netflix shut down another studio, Boss Fight, shortly after Peters praised the team’s Squid Game game to investors. (One of Boss Fight’s main developers now works on the Netflix FIFA game for outside studio Delphi.) And in December, Netflix sold cozy game studio Spry Fox back to its founders. Amid all of this, Netflix has shifted from emphasizing mobile games to offering games through TVs and PCs, via streamed connections, with phones used as controllers. That’s how Night School’s Unhinged worked, along with games such as Boggle and Party Crashers that have collectively helped the Netflix game controller app chart well on mobile app stores. The studio cuts leave Netflix with a central gaming team that works with external developers, and a dedicated first party studio in, Helsinki-based Next Games, which produced many of the company’s couch-centric party games. The move away from having a roster of internal game studios aligns with Netflix’s own approach to shows and movies, which are largely produced externally. The company owns few TV/film production studios of its own. The gaming industry overall is seeing large holders of multiple studios cut back, with Sony, Ubisoft, Embracer, Microsoft and other giants closing or selling off studios. Cuts in California-based studios, where costs often run relatively high, have been particularly acute. Netflix has faced skepticism about its gaming plans for years. The moves today are likely to fuel them, and the company has few upcoming projects to counter the narrative. Among the few hinted, acclaimed independent studio Don’t Nod said last year it was working on a game tied to a major Netflix franchise.
Suno is trying to look more like a real music production tool
The latest version of Suno Studio adds MIDI, a chatbot, and custom AI effects.
I looked inside an AI generated movie, and the best parts were all human
A deep dive into Higgsfield’s new AI-generated movie.
AI needs science’s search history
“Actually, that’s where the gold is,” said Alasdair Russell, my graduate school friend who leads a pre-clinical genome editing group at Cambridge. He was talking about the winding road of science that is omitted from published papers. “When you’re discussing how to do the experiment, and why this way is better than another way, and what does the data really mean? I know what it shows, but what does it mean?” At RAAIS 2026, he described how his group has begun logging the twisting path of discovery as it happens, recording the verbal and written exchanges that normally disappear. Ideas become nodes in a living graph: they branch when a meeting produces two plausible experiments, merge when separate lines of evidence converge, and go dark when someone quietly stops pursuing them. In his implementation, one agent scores novelty, while another tries to learn “how scientists think and how they navigate through a complex world of data,” so that high-potential nodes can trigger deeper investigation. As frontier AI labs deploy agents toward scientific discovery, giving AI authentic scientific taste remains a trillion-dollar dilemma. The bottleneck is that the record we have kept for centuries of science might be insufficient to get us there. The experiments that never make the paper Peter Medawar, 1960 Nobel laureate and “father of transplantation,” asked in 1963 whether the scientific paper was a fraud, and answered yes: the form of the paper misrepresents the thinking that produced it. Sixty years on, the diagnosis is unchanged. A paper presents a clean progression from hypothesis to result to conclusion. Lost along the way are the unconventional theories, the abandoned or unaffordable methods, and the underwhelming and inconclusive data. It reads like a browser history with every dead end deleted: the ten open tabs, the four rephrased queries, the wrong turn down a subforum. All scrubbed, leaving one clean path from question to answer as the canonical path. What has changed since then is that the discarded material is now worth something. No high-impact journal wants these artifacts, but raw trial and error is the most likely source of the training data required to develop scientific intuition, or what researchers call taste. Earlier attempts to capture the discards were motivated by scientific integrity. The Journal of Negative Results in Biomedicine launched in 2002 to publish rigorous studies that disputed established models or exposed ineffective treatments. Its archive preserved negative conclusions after they had become papers, rather than the live alternatives and arguments that produced them. BioMed Central closed it in 2017, saying the mission had been served now that other journals publish null results. A less generous reading is that in fifteen years it published around 200 papers because almost nobody wants to read a negative result, let alone write one up when it will not count toward academic tenure. AI models are different. Even an uninteresting negative result can be useful, provided it is labeled. Earlier this year, Anthropic put a version of this to the test. The company pulled 129 decision points from real Claude Code sessions between January and March 2026, showed models the work up to a human detour, and asked what should happen next. Claude Mythos Preview beat the human choice 64% of the time, while Opus 4.5 managed 51%. The comparison was tilted toward the models because Anthropic deliberately chose moments where the human decision had room for improvement. On 127 further scenarios where the human action was already strong, the models improved on it only about 20% of the time. The study was possible because Anthropic’s researchers work inside a tool that logs by default. The reasoning, detours and outcome are produced in the same working environment. Biology has no equivalent. Its reasoning happens in hallways, at benches, in Slack threads and on whiteboards, while the outcome arrives weeks later somewhere else. The record has to emerge from the work itself. Ask scientists to reconstruct it afterwards and we’ll create another polished account. Subscribe A log is not a label Before any of this becomes training data, a negative result has to say what failed. The first paper published in the Journal of Negative Results in Biomedicine examined 234 negative studies across five leading medical journals. Only 30% discussed statistical power, and half clearly defined a primary outcome. Tell a model an experiment failed, without telling it whether the assay was underpowered, a reagent had degraded, or the hypothesis was simply wrong, and it will learn noise with confidence. Decision histories have a second missing label too. When a lab considers five experiments and runs one, only the chosen branch returns an outcome. The other four are experimental counterfactuals. Researchers call this the selective labels problem: the data reveal results only for the actions someone chose to take. Such a record can teach a model to imitate a lab’s taste, but it cannot establish that the taste was good. It also smuggles local constraints into general lessons. A lab that never ran cryo-EM because it did not own a microscope teaches a model that cryo-EM is rarely the right call. Alasdair’s nodes preserve the candidate set, which is the necessary first step. To be useful, each decision record needs six fields: The evidence available at that moment, and nothing that arrived later. The candidates considered, including the ones dismissed in a sentence. For each candidate: the expected result, the confidence attached to it, and the cost in time and money. The route chosen, and the reason. What happened next. How the evidence changed the scientist’s view. These must be timestamped before the outcome, because hindsight turns uncertainty into inevitability. Disagreement also has to survive. Averaging three scientists into one clean rationale reproduces exactly the information loss we are trying to fix. But there is an obvious failure mode here. Once decisions are logged and scored, people log for the record post-facto. Anyone who has watched an electronic lab notebook fill up with retrospective tidying knows how quickly a research tool becomes a compliance exercise. A record that costs a scientist ten minutes of honest reflection per decision is worth far more than one that costs an hour of performance. A publication initiative called Registered Reports offers a useful starting point. Here, researchers submit their rationale, methods and analysis plan for peer review before the data exist, and the journal commits in principle to publish if they follow the approved plan. Nature has now expanded the format across every field it covers. This approach to paper writing timestamps intent before the outcome, but it freezes one plan. A useful search history must also preserve how the plan changed, which alternatives were rejected, when, and on what evidence. Subscribe Run the runner-up Autonomous labs show what happens when decisions and outcomes are connected in a loop. Liverpool’s mobile robotic chemist ran 688 experiments over eight days in a ten-variable formulation space. A batched Bayesian search used each result to choose the next experiments and found photocatalyst mixtures six times more active than the starting formulations. Every completed experiment changed what the system did next. The robot optimized within a goal and search space that humans had already chosen. It did not decide which scientific question mattered. So what this work demonstrates is narrower, but still useful: a search history pays off when the options return standardized outcomes quickly. Open-ended biology is harder because branches can take weeks and the discarded alternatives may never be run. Some exploration therefore has to be bought. Where two branches are plausible and the stakes justify the cost, a lab should sometimes run the runner-up. Otherwise the record captures what today’s scientists usually chose and stays silent on what they systematically overlooked. A funder could ring-fence a small fraction of a grant for the branch not taken, provided that the decision record and the outcome are both deposited. That costs money, but so does having every lab rediscover the same abandoned path. Test whether taste transfers When it comes time to evaluate if our new AI system exhibits taste, the comparison should run across laboratories and fields. At selected decision points in a live research campaign, we should freeze the six fields: the evidence, the candidates, expected results, confidence, costs and the choice made. Experts then rank the options before the outcomes are known, and those outcomes are checked independently later. We could give models one of two diets - papers alone, or papers plus decision histories - and ask them to rank the next experiment on unfamiliar projects. Then, we score information gained per dollar and week, calibration, and how quickly weak branches are abandoned. If histories improve choices only inside the lab that produced them, they amount to useful organizational memory. If they improve choices on unfamiliar problems elsewhere, Alasdair’s group will have captured something science has never managed to write down: a transferable record of taste. Until that happens, a scientific search history is a promising record, not yet a training set.
Samsung’s $1,900 Z Fold 8 is still vulnerable to pocket lint
iFixit’s teardown of the Galaxy foldable scrutinizes its IP48 rating.
Nintendo’s next Fire Emblem has a bold new structure
Fortune’s Weave launches on September 17th.
Section IV Football Media Day ushers in new season
ELMIRA, N.Y. (WETM) – High School football is back and primed for the new season. Wednesday morning, teams from all over Section IV converged for a special media day opportunity at The Links at Hiawatha Landing golf course in Apalachin. The theme was simple, be better this year than the last for players, teams and […]
It looks like Apple’s iPhone 18 really will skip the fall launch this year
Will you wait?
Google’s Pixel 11 phone preorders come with up to $350 in gift cards
We’ve got the details on how to preorder the new phones.
Android now has a tap-to-share feature
The Quick Share update makes it easier to share contact info and files between Pixel devices, and soon, Samsung phones.
The Pixel Tag is Google’s answer to the AirTag
But not every phone will support its best features.
Google’s Pixel 11 series pairs a little new hardware with a lot of new software
More helpful features, less AI slop.
Insta360’s next 360-degree action cam puts bigger sensors in a smaller design
The new X6 is a smaller but more capable 360-degree action cam.
Saber denies replacing Rideshare Stimulator’s writers with ChatGPT
Stella Sacco says Saber is “trying to have it both ways” on AI.
Xbox Elite 3 prototype pad leaks with tiny built-in screen
Not a screen for your games, though.
An FCC filing points to new Sonos headphones coming soon
An FCC filing detailed new wireless headphones are coming.
Google’s free streaming service now lets you pick shows and movies to watch
More free stuff to watch.
Google’s upcoming Pixel phones are for the fans, even if its launch event isn’t
Notification lights are back back back.
‘Zoomsday’ hack uncovered using fewer than 20 AI prompts
The Zoom vulnerability allowed hackers to take over everyone’s device on a call, security researchers say.
Why your Amazon order confirmation emails have become so unhelpful
Why you’re getting emails about “Your Beauty and Electronics items”
The AI takeover of mathematics has begun
OpenAI showed that AI can tackle long-standing problems in mathematics. Experts are excited about the possibilities — and worried about what comes next for their field.
Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t understand how to live
An AI future of sleek, streamlined, and totally empty relationships.
Anker’s travel charger works in almost any country and is down to $20
It can fit in your palm.
Bluesky now lets you hide reposts from that annoying person you follow
You can also turn on post numbers for threads.
What to expect from Google’s 2026 Pixel hardware launch event
It’s Pixel launch season again.
Bose CEO Lila Snyder on the fight for high-quality audio
Snyder on the company’s move into luxury audio, licensing the Bose brand, and what happens to great sound in the AI era.
Steam hardware shipper breach leaks customer data, including names and addresses
Valve says customer data was “likely compromised.”
The first rival Android app store just arrived in the US Play Store
Game store Aptoide is now available through Google’s own Android storefront in the US.
Ford’s new AI assistant can check your fuel levels and tire pressure
Ford is adding Google’s Gemini as a stopgap measure.
The Giants might be on the verge of adding another defensive back
J.T. Woods tried out last week, and visited the Giants on Sunday.
No Dogs in Space is a music history podcast for true obsessives
Now if only they’d give us some new episodes.
Buc-ee’s dodges John Oliver to sue another small business
The host challenged the company to take on someone its own size.
Musician and entrepreneur Tom Vek is building a digital music player, but don’t call it retro
Offline is making a comeback.
Nitecore’s latest power bank is the lightest and most compact yet
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Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did
No more uBlock Origin on Edge.
Sony could release a cheaper version of its WH-1000XM4 headphones, according to leaks
Sony could revive an older headphone model at a cheaper price.
The best classic slasher movie you’ll never watch
From the director of I Saw the TV Glow.
Jony Ive’s first OpenAI gadget is reportedly a hockey puck-sized smart speaker
OpenAI’s first AI device could launch next year.
The AirPods Pro are $60 off, their best price since late June
Unlike other AirPods, they offer a heart rate sensor.
OpenAI is giving ChatGPT free users unlimited text chats
Free users are also getting a new default AI model.
Apple increases trade-in offers and adds new Android devices
Can a trade-in boost make up for higher prices?
The messy politics behind Google’s big AI shakeup
Google’s AI leadership changes may have come down to pressure to speed up products — and internal ethical conflicts.
Dolby Vision 2 will be available first on some 2026 Hisense TVs
TCL and Philips will be next on select models.
Bose’s upgraded QuietComfort headphones add head-tracking immersive audio
Bose’s new entry-level QuietComfort ANC headphones are getting features from more expensive models.
AI bots started a religion
AI models are trying desperately to accomplish mysterious goals. ‘Spiralism’ was the first time they tried it on a mass scale.