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Form Energy is building iron-based batteries that can store energy for multiple days. The company is ramping up supply at its factory and signing deals for commercial projects. New solar and wind installations produce electricity more affordably than fossil fuels in most places, but their output varies based on season, time of day, and weather.…
Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days event has begun, and it lasts through 3AM ET on Thursday, October 8th. We’ve spun through the company’s huge list of deals to find products that Verge readers will like (and that we personally like, too). There are plenty of headphone deals, plus some great products in the home entertainment…
An unsettling Alexa Plus bug has seen some Amazon Echo smart home speakers reduced to saying – and sometimes singing – nothing but “lalala” on repeat for minutes at a time, often in the middle of conversations with users. When quizzed about the behavior, Alexa is apparently entirely unaware of what it’s been doing. The…
Google may be expanding its “Call for Me” AI feature beyond business calls so you can use it to send messages to friends and family. Android Authority reports finding a “Gemini Calling” introductory screen in an APK teardown with examples that include “Call Mom and tell her I will be 15 minutes late” and “Call…
There’s a growing need for long-duration storage to meet energy demand and balance out renewables on the grid. Energy Dome uses compressed carbon dioxide gas in its massive grid batteries, which can deliver power for up to 24 hours. As the world races to meet growing electricity demand, solar and onshore wind power have become…
Google has temporarily stopped accepting product vulnerability reports through its Open Source Software Vulnerability Reward Program (OSS VRP). The post Google Narrows Open Source Bug Bounty Amid Wave of Invalid Automated Reports appeared first on SecurityWeek.
ChatGPT 75% Market Share Bet Heats Up on Manifold as Traders Pile In. A Manifold contract asking whether ChatGPT will slip below 75% of the AI chatbot market in 2026 saw roughly 49% of its all-time volume trade in a single day, yet the price still sits at just 30% implied probability of YES as…
Apple has not announced a chip called the M6. Yet by October 5, 2026, “apple m6 chip” is pulling real search volume and feeding a wave of speculation that has turned into one of the most-discussed hardware stories of the week. The reason is simple: according to MacRumors and 9to5Mac, both citing Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman,…
A New York startup founded by two former Google DeepMind researchers is preparing to release the West’s answer to China’s open-source AI dominance, and the timing could not be more pointed. Axios reported on October 4, 2026 that Reflection AI, backed by Nvidia and a roster of marquee investors, is readying its first open-weight foundation…
Android has no shortage of retro emulators, but most of them ask you to pick a console, download a separate app, and repeat the process ten times over. Lemuroid takes a different approach: one app, one library, twenty supported systems. The project crossed 4,371 GitHub stars by early October 2026, its repository shows commit activity…
