Tinder now offers group hangouts as an alternative to one-on-one dates
Tinder is expanding its dating features with “group hangouts,” where users can form groups around activities and start group chats after matching.
Sep 30, 2026 ·
Engadget
Tinder is expanding its dating features with “group hangouts,” where users can form groups around activities and start group chats after matching.
Sep 30, 2026 ·Engadget
Xbox’s disc-to-digital feature is now available to all players and lets you create a digital license for supported Xbox Series X and Xbox One physical games just by inserting the disc while signed into your Xbox account.
Sep 30, 2026 ·Engadget
Google’s “AI contribution” pilot is paying publishers small, hard-to-interpret amounts, with publishers saying they can’t reliably track month-to-month performance in Search Console or plan earnings because it’s unclear what counts as a meaningful AI answer contribution.
Sep 30, 2026 ·Ars Technica
MeetTwins is an AI assistant in beta that joins Google Meet calls on the operator’s behalf, answers only pre-approved questions, can relay requested information, and sends the operator an email summary plus open items after the call.
Sep 30, 2026 ·
The Register
Destro emerged from stealth with an $8 million seed round, saying its AI “intelligence layer” aligns human workers and robots by directing the full logistics workflow rather than focusing on building robot hardware or a single model.
Sep 30, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Halide Mark III added variable-aperture support for the iPhone 18 Pro’s main camera, letting you choose any f-stop from f/1.48 to f/4.0 (instead of iOS’s four preset aperture adjustments).
Sep 30, 2026 ·
The Verge
Freckle is launching a $199 kid-focused smartphone for ages 7–13 that runs on ClayOS without an app store, open web access, addictive streaming video apps, or social media, and includes AI object description, a mini-map, walkie-talkie, and parental “Quests.”
Sep 30, 2026 ·Engadget
Instinct launched “Instinct Selections,” an AI feature that pushes product suggestions in categories like dining, travel, and shopping, and some users say they received unsolicited recommendations (including carry-on luggage, sunglasses, and a brim hat) that felt off-putting.
Sep 30, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Google’s DeepMind developed “protein watermarking,” a SynthIDBio-based method that embeds a detectable watermark across AI-designed protein sequences while keeping the proteins functional—so DNA synthesizers can tell whether an unfamiliar protein came from a trusted source.
Sep 30, 2026 ·Ars Technica
AI industry must generate $6 trillion in annual revenue by 2031 (from Bain & Company) to justify AI infrastructure spending needed to meet anticipated demand, assuming capital expenditure equals about 25% of industry revenue.
Sep 30, 2026 ·The Register
Apple’s Impersonation Risk Detection (in iOS 27 and iPadOS 27) warns you in supported apps before certain sensitive actions that could be part of a social-engineering scam, using three risk levels: Unknown, Medium, and High.
Sep 30, 2026 ·
ZDNet
If you can’t buy DJI’s Osmo Pocket 4 in the US, the best alternative is Insta360’s Luna Pro, which matches the Pocket 4’s 1-inch sensor and 20mm lens and offers 8K 30 fps, smooth stabilization, and up to 4 hours of battery life for $600.
Sep 30, 2026 ·Engadget
FedEx is ordering 2,000 electric medium-duty commercial truck chassis from Harbinger in a $300M deal, with all deliveries planned by the end of next year.
Sep 30, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Nintendo’s Mario Kart Tour mobile game will end service on Sept. 29 at 11:00 p.m. PT / Sept. 30 at 8:00 a.m. CEST, with the app only opening to show player stats after shutdown.
Sep 30, 2026 ·Engadget
A new PS5 exploit is now firmware-compatible with essentially all consoles except the most recently updated versions, greatly expanding the availability of exploitable hardware.
Sep 30, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Liverpool Crown Court ordered former NCA officer Paul Chowles to repay £1,810,678.93 after stealing 50 of 97 Bitcoin recovered from Silk Road 2.0 administrator Thomas White.
Sep 30, 2026 ·The Register
The article says regulated-industry AI stalls less on the model and more on two “boundaries” around data—jurisdiction (what data can leave a country and under whose rules) and building/ownership (what can leave an organization’s estate and who can sign when it does).
Sep 30, 2026 ·The Register
DoorDash Air drone delivery will initially launch in northern California with Chipotle and Popeyes, targeting restaurant orders that are small and light enough for drones and delivering from restaurant to door in under five minutes on average.
Sep 30, 2026 ·Engadget
OpenAI added Baseten to its marketplace for access to open models and, at launch, offered a list of 32 partners as a way to steer customers’ next software purchases away from AWS-style distribution control.
Sep 30, 2026 ·The Register
A photo President Trump shared of the “Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities” pledge misspelled “United States” as “Unites States.”
Sep 30, 2026 ·TechCrunch
