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Every October 1, Google’s Gboard team ships a keyboard experiment nobody asked for and almost nobody will ever own. This year’s edition, the 15th consecutive instalment for Keyboard Day, takes the idea of “keys coming to you” literally: a physical keyboard built around four independent conveyor belts that carry keys toward the typist mid-sentence. Each … Read more
On July 18, 2026, an agent running Claude Haiku 4.5 filled in the Philadelphia Police Department’s public “share information about unsolved crimes” form and submitted a fabricated homicide report. Anthropic did not discover the incident until September 28 — more than two months later — and did not alert the authorities until October 7, nine … Read more
Honda has confirmed it will build a 300-metre stretch of Japanese expressway embedded with dynamic wireless power transfer (DWPT) hardware capable of feeding up to 150 kW into heavy commercial vehicles while they are moving. The demonstration project, developed with construction specialists Taisei and Taisei Rotec, is set to begin in the Japanese fiscal year … Read more
Copying important files onto a USB pen drive, dropping it in a drawer and calling it a backup is one of the most common mistakes in personal computing — and one of the most dangerous. A pen drive is not an archive. It is a backup that can fail at exactly the moment you need … Read more
Japan has sold more adult diapers than baby diapers every single year since 2011, and the gap has only widened. What looked like a demographic curiosity fifteen years ago is now the clearest preview of a structural shift in global consumer markets: shrinking birth rates on one side, rapidly expanding elderly populations on the other. … Read more
In April 2026, the US Army began operating at Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina a drone system that carries no batteries, emits no radio-frequency signal and can stay aloft for as long as ground power is available. The platform is called PowerLight ARC, and it keeps unmanned aircraft flying by transmitting energy to … Read more
Almost a year after launch, the PlayStation 5 Pro remains nearly impossible to buy at its official price, and Sony has now signalled the shortage will persist well into 2027. Paired with Grand Theft Auto VI arriving on 19 November 2026, it becomes a market shock — the kind that empties shelves, inflates resale listings … Read more
An Italian court has convicted two men for creating and distributing a sexually explicit deepfake of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, sentencing each to just over two years in prison and ordering them to pay €100,000 in damages — compensation Meloni has said she will donate to a fund supporting victims of gender-based violence. The verdict, … Read more
Waze has spent months stacking up updates that quietly reshape how the app behaves, and most of them slipped past users unnoticed. The navigation platform now routes drivers straight to a saved contact without typing a single address, clones their own voice for turn-by-turn guidance from just six seconds of audio, and plans journeys using … Read more
NVIDIA’s head of corporate communications, Anna Soellner, has left the company just four months into the job — a remarkably brief tenure for one of the most consequential communications roles in the technology industry. Soellner joined around June 2026, arriving during a period of explosive expansion driven by runaway global demand for NVIDIA’s artificial intelligence … Read more