Fitbit Edge is Google’s middle ground between Fitbit Air and Pixel Watch
Google’s newest wearable costs $179.99 and has a sleek feel like the Fitbit Air but with an OLED display.
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Smart ring maker Ultrahuman to roll out biological-age model across UAE
Ultrahuman and Abu Dhabi will spend the next two years working on research and clinical validation of the model.
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 starts tomorrow: Your final chance to secure up to $100 ticket savings
Tomorrow at 8 a.m. PT, it all begins z— 10,000+ founders, investors, and tech operators will gather at San Francisco’s Moscone West for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 for three days of ideas, connections, and startups shaping what comes next. This is your last 24 hours to secure ticket savings of up to $100, and get 50% off…
The Yandex outage probably didn’t blitz Russian bots
Multiple Ukrainian drone strikes over the last week have taken Russian data centers offline and reportedly caused online bot traffic to plummet – but in reality it’s probably not the kind of bot activity most people associate with Russia. A chart citing Cloudflare data has been circulating around social media platforms, showing a sharp decline…
HelixSR mod brings NVIDIA's DLSS 3.7 to AMD-based gaming handhelds
HelixSR is a new mod that gets NVIDIA DLSS 3.7 working on AMD hardware by presenting it through FSR 3.1 compatibility. Early testing on handhelds such as the ROG Ally X suggests promising performance, including lower upscaling times compared with FSR 4 in one test.
Gears of War: E-Day is playable on PS5, thanks to a homebrew xCloud app
A new homebrew app called PSBox Cloud Gaming allows jailbroken PlayStation 5 consoles to access Xbox Cloud Gaming, giving PS5 owners another way to play Xbox titles, including exclusives such as Gears of War: E-Day.
I tested ASUS' Googlebook 14: So, how does it feel to a lifelong Windows user?
Windows Central’s Senior Editor Ben Wilson goes hands-on with the ASUS Googlebook 14 and shares his first 24 hours with Google’s own operating system.
Bill Gates Warns AI Will Erase Jobs, Urges US-Led Rules [2026]
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…
4G Beats 5G for Calls: Seoul Hits 1.06s Setup [2026]
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…
Build a Game Streaming Service: AWS Setup in 13 Steps [2026]
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…