Ollie is betting its focus on privacy can help it win the AI assistant race
The family-focused AI assistant wants access to the details of your everyday life, but says it won’t use that data to train AI models or share it with others.
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Microsoft opens up Xbox Cloud Gaming with new pay-as-you-go option
Microsoft says it will let anyone access Xbox Cloud Gaming in November, without the need to subscribe to Xbox Game Pass. The change to a pay-as-you-go model is part of some sweeping changes to Xbox Cloud Gaming today, and is designed for people who don’t use cloud access enough to warrant a monthly subscription. “Players…
Microsoft slashes Xbox Cloud Gaming to just 15 hours a month for Ultimate subscribers
Microsoft is announcing some major changes to Xbox Cloud Gaming today, less than a year after opening up cloud gaming to its Xbox Game Pass Premium and Essential tiers. While all Game Pass plans have included unlimited cloud gaming over the past year, from November this will be limited to just 15 hours on Ultimate,…
Qualcomm backs Ultrahuman in $70M round on bet to turn smart rings into computers
Ultrahuman is targeting a $200 million annual revenue run rate by January 2027 as it builds a new Qualcomm-powered smart ring.
Corporate America Is Axing the ‘Micro-Team’ Boss
At Uber and elsewhere, managers with small fiefdoms have become an especially vulnerable target in the push to purge management ranks.
Hollywood’s New Shows Take Aim at Big Tech
They are about innovators, once heralded as making the world a better place, trading their lofty virtuous ambitions for profits and power.
A connectomics milestone: Mapping the complete male fruit fly brain
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This 14-inch laptop has a screen that unrolls to 17 inches
Lenovo’s latest rollable concept, announced at IFA 2026, is the ThinkBook Project Swan: a business laptop with a screen that expands horizontally from 14 to 17 inches. Rollable screens are nothing new for Lenovo. The company has shown off several concepts and even launched a real one last year (and it was pretty great). But…
Catch emerges from stealth with $5M to build an AI executive assistant that handles admin work for you
Catch has emerged from stealth with $5 million in seed funding to build an AI executive assistant that can schedule meetings, manage email, book travel, and handle day-to-day administrative work without forcing users to create prompts or build workflows. The […] The post Catch emerges from stealth with $5M to build an AI executive assistant…
Preparing for the Post-Quantum Era: A Call to Action
CISA and the Group of Seven (G7) Cyber Security Working Group released Preparing for the Post-Quantum Era: A Call to Action highlighting the urgent need for organizations and governments to begin transitioning to post-quantum cryptography (PQC) to protect sensitive data, authentication systems, and critical assets from emerging quantum computing threats. The G7 Cyber Security…