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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…
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…
Three AI chatbot apps are pulling ahead of the pack in late 2026, and none of them is the one most headlines focus on. While GPT and Gemini fight over API benchmarks, the real battle for daily attention is happening inside apps people already have open: Meta AI riding shotgun in WhatsApp and Instagram, Grok…
Gaming chairs stopped being a punchline somewhere around 2024, and by October 2026 the category splits into three distinct tiers that rarely get compared head to head. Corsair’s TC100 RELAXED sits at the budget end near $200, Secretlab’s TITAN Evo anchors the mid-premium tier from $579, and the Herman Miller x Logitech G Embody Gaming…
A Discord moderation bot used to screen new members in more than 600,000 gaming communities has leaked data tied to an estimated 28 million accounts, making it one of the largest third-party breaches to hit the Discord ecosystem since the platform’s own 2023 support-desk incident. The bot, called Double Counter, disclosed on October 4, 2026,…
Microsoft has quietly rewritten the rulebook that governs every game sold through the Microsoft Store and the Xbox network. Version 7.20 of the Microsoft Store Policies, published September 15, 2026, takes effect October 22, 2026, and it does something no prior revision has attempted: it forces publishers to treat Xbox consoles, Windows PCs, and companion…
Two keyboards launched within four weeks of each other this fall, and both bet on the same underlying idea: magnets, not metal contacts, should decide when a keypress registers. The HyperX Origins 2 Pro 65 and the Attack Shark R86 HE are the clearest signal yet that hall effect keyboard switches have stopped being a…
