Sony’s Xperia 10 VIII is a midrange upgrade with largely unchanged specs from the Xperia 10 VII but a 15% higher price, now costing £549 in the UK (around $750) and launching in September.
Aug 25, 2026 ·
Engadget
Apple’s “new” polishing cloth costs $9 instead of $19 while keeping the same “soft, nonabrasive material” description.
Aug 25, 2026 ·
The Verge
Pebble Time 2 review score was 8.9/10, featuring more than a week of battery life and “snappy performance” as key strengths while noting an app UI that “could be a lot better.”
Aug 25, 2026 ·Engadget
Royal A-ware agreed to acquire Dutch butter producer LaBan Foods, adding LaBan’s herb-flavoured butter specialities— including spiced pastes and garlic butters— to its in-house range.
Aug 25, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Gamescom Opening Night Live is set to kick off with a two-hour stream at 2PM ET, featuring previews for Gears of War: E-Day, Silent Hill: Townfall, and Final Fantasy 7 Revelation, plus a first look at The Witcher 3: Songs of the Past expansion.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Engadget
Apple’s refreshed Mac mini and Mac Studio desktop lineup is positioned for local AI development, using Apple’s N1 chip and offering enough compute and memory configurations to run open-weight models like Qwen and DeepSeek locally without paying steep cloud token costs.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Uber launched a live video streaming feature for teen accounts that lets linked parents or guardians watch a teen’s trip in real time using the driver’s phone selfie camera.
Aug 25, 2026 ·
CNET
Uber is rolling out a live video streaming feature for teen accounts that lets linked parents/guardians view the driver’s selfie-camera feed during rides across the U.S. in the coming weeks.
Aug 25, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Uber will let linked parents and guardians view a live selfie-camera feed inside the vehicle during teen rider trips, with the stream ending when the trip ends.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Engadget
GuliKit’s Switch 2 TV dock costs $29.99 and includes a built-in stand for the console while playing on hotel TVs, but its USB-C port cover can be dislodged by weak magnets and its adjustable USB-C connector extension only changes the angle by a few degrees.
Aug 25, 2026 ·The Verge
WhatsApp is rolling out stronger two-step verification by letting users replace the old six-digit PIN with a longer alphanumeric password including special characters.
Aug 25, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Wyze’s Indoor Cam Pan includes a retracting lens that tilts down until it fully disappears inside the camera body for privacy.
Aug 25, 2026 ·The Verge
ASUS’ ROG Xbox Ally X20 update adds a 7.4-inch Nebula HDR OLED display with 600-nit brightness (up to 1,400 nits peaks) versus the prior 7-inch IPS panel’s 500-nit nominal brightness.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Engadget
Asus Xbox Ally X20 will start at $1,300 for a standalone pre-order, with shipping set for October 15.
Aug 25, 2026 ·The Verge
TCL’s Note A1 Nxtpaper tablet is a $499, full-color 120Hz LCD Android tablet with a pressure-sensitive stylus and 8,000mAh battery, aiming to make note-taking feel closer to writing on paper—but it’s not as precise or customizable as purpose-built devices like Remarkable.
Aug 25, 2026 ·The Verge
CNET’s survey of 2,605 US adults found 75% aren’t interested in buying a foldable Apple device like the rumored iPhone Ultra.
Aug 25, 2026 ·CNET
Floccus is a completely free bookmark-syncing tool that syncs one set of bookmarks across Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and also Opera, Vivaldi, Brave, and Kiwi, using your own storage (e.g., Google Drive/Dropbox, self-hosted Nextcloud/Linkwarden, or WebDAV on a NAS).
Aug 25, 2026 ·
ZDNet
Corded Dolphin Nautilus CC Plus was the most efficient overall (58 items picked up per hour), while the AI-equipped cordless Aiper Scuba V3 was the most efficient cordless model (44.64 items picked up per hour) in CNET Lab tests using a 14,000-gallon pool with 100 pebbles and 30 leaves.
Aug 25, 2026 ·CNET
CNET’s lab tests found suction power matters less than overall cleaning efficiency, with the corded Dolphin Nautilus CC Plus scoring 58 items picked up per hour and the cordless Aiper Scuba V3 scoring 44.64 items picked up per hour while using AI-based debris detection to clean faster and with less leftover debris.
Aug 25, 2026 ·CNET
CNET’s lab tests found efficiency—how many debris items a robot picks up per hour—matters more than suction power, with the corded Dolphin Nautilus CC Plus leading (58 items picked up per hour) and the cordless Aiper Scuba V3 leading (44.64 items picked up per hour).
Aug 25, 2026 ·CNET
