Luffu Link is a $250 LTE-enabled health and safety band (expected retail price $300) that will ship in early 2027 and lets wearers send help requests to trusted contacts with location plus health data, even when no phone is nearby.
Aug 25, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
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
S&P 500 companies’ Q2 earnings are on pace to rise 50% year over year, the highest growth rate since 2021, with artificial intelligence cited as the growth engine.
Aug 25, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Constellation Wealth Capital (CWC) agreed to take a minority stake in Confluence Financial Partners, providing capital and support for Confluence’s future expansion while control stays with its management team.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
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
The Vanguard Morningstar Mega Cap Growth ETF (NYSEMKT: MGK) has outperformed the S&P 500 every year, on average, since its 2007 launch by tracking the Morningstar U.S. Mega Cap Growth index of 56 U.S.-listed mega-cap growth companies.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A Quantization-Aware Healing (QAH) method re-quantizes a structurally compressed GPT-OSS 120B (compressed to 60B and recovered in bfloat16) into a 4-bit MXFP4 model that beats its own 60B bfloat16 checkpoint on 7 of 9 benchmarks, including +7.4 on AA-LCR long-context reasoning and +5.6 on AIME 2025 math.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Hugging Face
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
Microsoft says that after installing its August 2026 .NET Framework cumulative update (Aug 11), some WPF applications can fail with a System.IO.FileFormatException when printing or generating PDF/XPS content that uses certain fonts, including Calibri.
Aug 25, 2026 ·
The Register
About 300 of the S&P 500’s stocks are down at least 10% from their 52-week highs, meaning nearly two-thirds of the index has already sold off meaningfully.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Coffee futures’ December contract (KCZ26) opened the week up nearly 6% as its backwardation/inverse forward curve strengthened, signaling continued bullish supply-and-demand conditions.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Selling cash-secured put options on Nvidia (NVDA) before its Friday earnings aims to collect elevated implied-volatility premiums and potentially profit if NVDA stays above the put strike by expiration, with breakeven improved by the premium received.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Microsoft has effectively retreated from China, closing at least 15 China offices and joint ventures in the past five years as part of a “strategy of retreat,” and cutting Chinese retail stores to third-party/online partners.
Aug 25, 2026 ·
Computerworld
Greenworks’ MaximusZ electric riding mower uses three blade motors plus two wheel-drive motors, cuts a 54-inch-wide swath in one pass, and claims 4 acres on a charge (about 1 hour to mow a full property, using ~75% of the battery capacity each time).
Aug 25, 2026 ·
The Verge
The 30-year Treasury yield rose above 5.3% for the first time since 2007 amid roughly $40 trillion of U.S. debt and rising AI-driven capital demand, with long-end yield suppression efforts proving limited.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
RUM Group signed a six-year GPU services contract worth about $13.7bn with an unidentified US-based cloud provider, with payment split into three phases and the final tranche tied to approval of the proposed delivery schedule.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
U.S. national debt has crossed the $40 trillion threshold, and Robert Kiyosaki warns that people who rely on cash or “fake assets” will get poorer.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Avantus secured a $300m tax equity commitment from Truist Bank for the Aratina 2 solar-plus-battery storage project in Kern County, California.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
