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NBA commissioner Adam Silver said on October 11, 2026 that the league could begin using a Bluetooth-chipped “smart ball” for officiating as soon as 2027, a disclosure first reported by CNBC and quickly picked up by outlets including RiverBender, Simply Wall Street, and The News International. The chip, built into a Wilson-developed basketball, weighs roughly…
A Lehigh Valley township is reconsidering how much say a developer should get in writing the very zoning rules meant to regulate it. After receiving a second data center proposal this year, the township’s board is weighing a memorandum of understanding with the developer, Slate Belt Holdings, that would let the company help shape a…
OpenAI shipped GPT Image 2.5 on September 8, 2026, splitting its image model into two distinct variants, Flare and Sunburst, each tuned for a different job. If you’ve been calling the old gpt-image-2 endpoint and wondering why your editing requests feel sluggish or your output quality has plateaued, this tutorial walks through the full setup:…
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…
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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