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Bill Gates used a rare primetime interview to deliver one of his bluntest AI warnings yet, telling NBC’s Meet the Press that artificial intelligence could wipe out jobs faster than new ones appear, and that the United States needs binding rules, not corporate promises, to keep the technology from spiraling into catastrophe. The Microsoft co-founder’s…
A new report from Ookla®, published October 4, 2026, is upending a core assumption of the 5G era: that newer radio technology automatically means better phone calls. Ookla’s study, titled “The 5G Voice Paradox: Why VoNR Isn’t Always Better (Yet),” found that in most markets tested, the decade-old VoLTE standard running on 4G still connects…
Cloud game streaming stopped being a novelty around the time Amazon folded a dedicated IAM role into GameLift Streams and quietly expanded GameLift’s regional footprint by five regions and eight Local Zones in September 2026. For engineering teams that have spent two years watching Xbox Cloud Gaming, GeForce NOW, and Amazon Luna prove the model…
The NexPhone, a smartphone that promises to run Android, Debian Linux, and Windows 11 on the same piece of hardware, has missed its original shipping window. The device from Nex Computer, which has also been linked in coverage to the NexDock brand, was supposed to start reaching reservation holders sometime in the July-to-September stretch of…
Claude Opus 5.5 has taken the top spot on the Epoch Capabilities Index, the composite AI benchmark run by independent research group Epoch AI, edging out OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra by less than a single point. The index, which stitches together more than 50 separate evaluations into one score, put Anthropic’s flagship model at roughly 167…
Sony has never shipped a PS5 emulator, and it probably never will. That gap is exactly why two scrappy open-source projects, SharpEmu and KyTyPS5, have spent 2026 racing each other on GitHub to see who can boot a modern PlayStation 5 game first. Neither one lets you play Marvel’s Wolverine at launch quality. Neither one…
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew told reporters on October 12, 2026, that he believes artificial intelligence could unlock major scientific breakthroughs in physics and biotechnology within the next two to three years, according to CNBC. The comments, which quickly became one of the day’s most discussed technology stories, position Chew alongside a growing list of…
Commerce City police turned to their drone fleet on October 12, 2026, after a wrong-way crash on Interstate 76 sent officers scrambling to track down a driver, according to FOX31 Denver and KDVR, which first reported the incident. The department did not immediately confirm the driver’s identity, the exact mile marker, or the full outcome…
The San Francisco company’s software makes it easier for developers to switch between different AI chips.
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a two-pronged artificial intelligence (AI)-augmented initial access campaign targeting WordPress sites, e-commerce platforms, and critical infrastructure entities in Ukraine. The activity, which brings together commodity offensive tools like Cobalt Strike with an AI orchestration layer powered by Anthropic’s Claude Code, has been attributed
