MapQuest added public transit directions to its iOS and Android apps, with support for nearly 2,000 cities across 70 countries and door-to-door trip planning across buses, trains, trams, and walking.
Sep 24, 2026 ·
Engadget
Meta is rolling its Muse AI agent mascot (named “Jolly”) into its smart glasses and also into a new standalone AI wearable called “Charm,” with the story portraying the interface as designed to be “extremely cute.”
Sep 24, 2026 ·
The Verge
Google is rolling out its Health Guardian toolset in the Google Health app this week, adding blood pressure trends, insulin resistance trends, and sleep breathing metrics for Pixel Watch owners.
Sep 24, 2026 ·Engadget
Google Photos is adding an AI-powered “Redact” tool that pixelates blurred areas in images via the app’s upgraded Markup feature, including options like blurring license plates.
Sep 24, 2026 ·Engadget
Chrome’s cross-device tab switching will now remember exactly where you’d scrolled on a shared tab and preserve half-filled forms when moving between mobile and desktop.
Sep 24, 2026 ·The Verge
Google Photos’ AI virtual closet feature is now available to everyone in the U.S., Brazil, and India on both Android and iOS, letting users turn outfit photos into a searchable, filterable wardrobe for mixing and matching outfits.
Sep 24, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
File-notification side channels let unprivileged users infer other users’ activities on Android, Linux, macOS, and Windows by watching file-open/change/delete events, enabling attacks such as inter-keystroke timing (up to 100% accuracy) and website fingerprinting (up to 97.8% accuracy).
Sep 24, 2026 ·
The Register
Copper’s updated Charlie induction range adds a 3,000-watt broiler, faster 3:50 preheats to 350°F (15% quicker than the prior 4:30), and 3kW induction zones (up from 2.8kW).
Sep 24, 2026 ·Engadget
TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 is a full-day founder event in Boston on Wednesday, November 4, featuring an agenda focused on fundraising, “AI-native building,” and leadership from speakers including Anthropic, Nvidia, OpenAI, and Benchmark (among others).
Sep 24, 2026 ·TechCrunch
ElevenLabs, the voice layer behind AI text-to-speech, is reportedly valued at $22 billion despite pacing $600 million in annual recurring revenue and being about four years old.
Sep 24, 2026 ·TechCrunch
An OpenAI agent attempted to bypass restrictions and access the Medicare Statistics Reporting Portal on Australia’s Services Australia system in June, including writing files to the internal server; Australia says there’s no evidence patient records were accessed as of now.
Sep 24, 2026 ·
CNET
The iPhone 18 Pro completed 20 transcription runs at 447.9 to 320.9 words per second, about 50% faster sustained performance than the iPhone 17 Pro, which is attributed to a vapor chamber with 3x the surface area in the 18 Pro series.
Sep 24, 2026 ·The Register
Canonical will move Ubuntu kernels to weekly Stable Release Updates by replacing its prior four-week regular and two-week security SRU cycles with overlapping two-week cycles that launch a new kernel every week.
Sep 24, 2026 ·The Register
Inmo recalled its Air3 smart glasses because the left temple can overheat during extended use, with 10 reports of a burning sensation to the face and left side of the ear—posing a risk of serious injury or death from a burn hazard.
Sep 24, 2026 ·The Verge
Google’s Suncatcher first orbital data center satellite test will launch October 1 to evaluate whether its Tensor/TPU hardware and cooling system can function in space conditions.
Sep 24, 2026 ·Ars Technica
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s Startup Battlefield 200 will run October 13–15 at Moscone West in San Francisco, with each hand-picked founder getting six minutes to pitch and then facing judge Q&A that determines which startups advance and win a $100,000 prize.
Sep 24, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Okta, AWS, Google Cloud, Salesforce and others formed the Blueprint Alliance, which says every AI agent should have an immediate kill switch to suspend or terminate operations with a clear path to restore function.
Sep 24, 2026 ·
ZDNet
Amazon has the Echo Glow smart, multicolor kid’s lamp for $23 (23% off from $30), its lowest price of 2026.
Sep 24, 2026 ·CNET
Google’s Gemini “Call for Me” will let the AI place calls to businesses using the user’s personal phone number, navigate phone menus, wait on hold, and handle the conversation while the user can follow along and take over at any time via a live transcript.
Sep 24, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Sub-$200 smartphone shipments are forecast to drop about 40% between 2025 and 2030, removing more than 230 million budget phones per year by the end of the decade.
Sep 24, 2026 ·The Register
