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Huawei Mate 90 Starts at $895 With Kirin 9030 Chip [2026]

Huawei pulled back the curtain on its autumn flagship on October 1, 2026, launching the Mate 90 series at an event in Shanghai and, once again, putting a homegrown Kirin chip at the center of the pitch. The standard Mate 90 ships with the new Kirin 9030 processor, a 6.75-inch flat OLED display and a…

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Starship Ship 40 Back in Texas After 75 Days at Sea [2026]

A 171-foot steel rocket that spent 24 days bobbing in the Indian Ocean is finally home. SpaceX’s recovered Starship, known internally as Ship 40, arrived at the Port of Brownsville on Wednesday, October 7, 2026, closing out a 75-day odyssey that started with a July 24 launch from Starbase and ended with the first intact…

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The Compute Gold Rush

Plus, wearables that track blood pressure, the co-founder combating Anthropic’s ‘woke’ reputation, when personal AI agents go off script and more.

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Why the LeapPad couldn’t survive the iPad

For multiple years, the hottest toy in the United States was a book. But not just any book: a smart book that could play sounds and respond to taps and help kids learn to read. It was the kind of gadget seemingly any parent could get behind, but it came with a high price -…

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Horror is big business

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on how pervasive horror has become, follow Andrew Webster. The Stepback, arrives in our subscribers’ inboxes on Sunday at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started Resident Evil has been around for 30…

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