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Flox Intelligence, a Swedish spin-off from Stockholm’s KTH Royal Institute of Technology, is opening a $10 million Series A — roughly €8.7 million — to scale the edge-AI hardware it uses to keep wildlife away from runways, railway lines and highways. The round is not closed yet, but around 150 devices are already installed across … Read more
MIT engineers have developed a breathable hydrogel that embeds tiny air channels inside its polymer network, increasing oxygen permeability by roughly ten times while preserving the material’s softness. The advance, published in Nature in July 2026, could extend the wear time of medical patches, sensors and bandages that currently suffocate the skin after a few … Read more
Meta has started rolling out Your Algorithm on Facebook, a feature that lets users describe in their own words what they want to see more or less of across the Feed and Reels. Announced on 13 October 2026, the tool marks the first time the platform’s core ranking system accepts written, natural-language instructions instead of … Read more
Since October 13, 2026, Google has moved against the prevailing narrative around AI-built software. Instead of tightening the screws, it has carved out a private lane inside Google Play for apps generated with artificial intelligence. Users in selected markets, including the United States, can now describe an Android app in Google AI Studio, generate it … Read more
Samsung’s Galaxy S23 family is one software generation away from retirement, while the Galaxy Watch 5 faces an even tighter horizon. Based on the timelines that follow from Samsung’s own published policy, the phone should receive One UI 9 on top of Android 17 as its final major platform upgrade, with security patches stretching into … Read more
Apple has finally entered the smart-display arena with HomeView, a seven-inch touchscreen priced at $299 (roughly €260) that goes on sale on November 13. The most revealing detail, however, is not the hardware — it is the map. The device will not be sold in the European Union, because its core intelligence, Siri AI, remains … Read more
Character.AI, the roleplay chatbot platform that spent five years turning conversational AI into mass entertainment, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States. Its operating company, Character Technologies, Inc., lodged a voluntary petition with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware on 12 October 2026, reporting between $50 million and … Read more
Anthropic has published version 2.2 of its Responsible Scaling Policy (RSP), the framework that decides when the company may — and may not — train and release more capable models. Announced on 13 October 2026 on its official blog, the update brings three structural changes: finer-grained thresholds for biosecurity and cybersecurity capabilities, an independent external … Read more
Mozilla began shipping Firefox 141 on 13 October 2026 for every platform via mozilla.org, and the release centres on the most substantial rework of the browser’s privacy stack in two years. The headline change is a deep revision of Total Cookie Protection (TCP), which now stretches cookie isolation beyond classic third-party requests into service workers, … Read more
NASA has released the first full global inventory from its Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite, and the numbers are stark: 47% of the planet’s continental freshwater basins have lost significant volume compared with a 2015 baseline. The mission, developed with France’s CNES, covers rivers wider than 100 meters, lakes and reservoirs across all … Read more