Live Text on iPhones running iOS 15+ lets you point the Camera at text and instantly copy or share it, look it up, or translate it (and you can toggle it off via Settings > Camera > Show Detected Text).
Sep 27, 2026 ·
Engadget
Apple’s “iPhone Duo” name is tied to earlier Apple products including the Apple PowerBook Duo (1992–1997) and Apple’s MagSafe Duo Charger (introduced in 2020), while Microsoft’s Surface Duo line launched in 2020 but was widely criticized and later discontinued.
Sep 27, 2026 ·Engadget
The One Laptop Per Child initiative and the OLPC XO-1 were ultimately more complicated than Silicon Valley backers expected, preventing the giveaway laptop plan from working.
Sep 27, 2026 ·
The Verge
You can run Android apps on a Windows PC in two main ways: Android emulators (such as BlueStacks or MuMuPlayer) or the Google Play Games app, which translates only selected opted-in games to PC using a lightweight virtual machine.
Sep 27, 2026 ·Engadget
Weber shut down June Oven’s app and cloud services, meaning users lose remote access, software updates, and AI food recognition; June still works as an oven but has no support, parts, or recovery path after a factory reset.
Sep 27, 2026 ·The Verge
Google revealed details of its Googlebook laptops, promising 10 years of updates and launching the first five models from Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo—positioning them to pair with Android phones.
Sep 27, 2026 ·The Verge
A White House report released in July accused the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History of an “ideological capture,” leading to Trump executive orders warning that it had adopted “divisive, race-centered ideology” and prompting the Interior Department to tell other agencies they “cannot in good conscience continue to support the Smithsonian under current leadership.”
Sep 27, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Treasury yields have climbed to about 5.17% (near a 2007 high), and JPMorgan estimates $4.1 trillion in AI-related debt will be issued through 2030, raising borrowing costs for debt-reliant AI infrastructure companies.
Sep 27, 2026 ·
CNBC
A new DingusPPC-based emulator lets you boot the final Apple Copland developer build D11E4 (from June 1996) directly in your browser, but the OS is still unfinished and drops into a debugger when it hits assertions.
Sep 27, 2026 ·
The Register
Big AI companies are accused—via unsealed filings in the New York Times v. OpenAI and Microsoft fight—of ingesting paywalled content without detecting or removing paywall material, following an approach critics describe as “take it now, argue about legality later.”
Sep 27, 2026 ·The Register
PNOĒ 2.0 will launch October 1 with a self-administered breath test that measures oxygen consumption and carbon dioxide exhalation over eight minutes and turns the results into wellness guidance without providing medical recommendations.
Sep 27, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Google is testing a way for India shoppers to buy select Flipkart products directly from Gemini and Google’s AI Mode via a “Buy” button that opens a Flipkart checkout flow without leaving the AI interface.
Sep 27, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Apple’s nano-texture matte coating can make the iPhone Duo’s fold crease much less noticeable at first, but the article says it won’t be possible to confirm long-term performance until the phone has been used widely for months.
Sep 27, 2026 ·Engadget
A typical laptop power bank should be evaluated by watt-hours (Wh) for capacity and watts (W) for output—not mAh—because a 20,000 mAh bank is about 74Wh (assuming ~3.7V cells), but fast-charging losses can cut its effective capacity to about 52Wh (using ~30% overhead).
Sep 27, 2026 ·Engadget
Used GPUs with more VRAM have been fetching about 40–60% of their original value in 2026, with even some older models (like the GeForce RTX 3090) retaining strong demand for AI and gaming uses.
Sep 26, 2026 ·Engadget
iPhone and iPad can’t use standard wired USB printer drivers because iOS and iPadOS don’t provide native driver support, so plugging in via USB OTG typically won’t let the phone communicate with the printer.
Sep 26, 2026 ·Engadget
Factory resetting a Google Home Mini requires pressing and holding the reset button for about 5 seconds and then holding for another 10 seconds until a confirmation chime plays (for the 1st-gen model).
Sep 26, 2026 ·Engadget
Speakers sound less direct and less detailed when they’re mounted or placed well above seated ear height for front left/right and the center channel, so the best results come from a straight, level path from the speakers to your ears while sitting down.
Sep 26, 2026 ·Engadget
Hot shower steam can condense back into liquid and enter a phone through areas like the charging port, speakers, buttons and seals, and the added heat can gradually degrade the protections inside a “water-resistant” phone.
Sep 26, 2026 ·Engadget
Hospitals’ use of AI tools for insurance claims submissions led to an additional $942 million in healthcare spending over a two-year period, according to a Blue Cross Blue Shield Association analysis.
Sep 26, 2026 ·TechCrunch
