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Month: September 2026

Technology

The amazing USB-C gadgets that play old Nintendo cartridges

Last week, I powered on a 26-year-old copy of Pokémon Pinball, one of the best Game Boy games ever made. My save file was no more. The Charmander I’d caught for my daughter, the high scores we’d set together… gone. Before flash memory, Nintendo cartridges used tiny watch batteries to save their games, and those…

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Technology

Elon Musk’s heterodox robotaxi philosophy gets put to the test

Believe it or not, the Tesla Cybercab is coming. Nearly two years after Elon Musk first unveiled the gold-tinted, gull-wing door sporting, steering wheel-free two-seaters as the future of Tesla’s autonomy efforts, the company is finally putting them into operation as part of its robotaxi service in Austin, Texas. Public rides are here, and as…

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Apps

Claude Fable 5’s $600M Crypto Fear, 85 Days Later [2026]

Eighty-five days ago, Anthropic pushed a button that crypto security teams had been dreading for months. On June 9, 2026, the company released Claude Fable 5, the public version of its internal Mythos model, to anyone with an API key. Within hours, crypto traders and security researchers were warning that a model this capable at…

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Apps

Build a Self-Hosted Text-to-Speech API: 12 Steps [2026]

Every hosted text-to-speech API eventually hits the same wall: per-character billing that scales with your product, not your budget. ElevenLabs, OpenAI’s TTS endpoint, and Google Cloud’s voice API all work well, but none of them let you run inference on hardware you already own or keep customer audio off a third-party server. Zyphra’s ZONOS2 changes…

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