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RayNeo is going both minimalist and maximalist with its latest AR smart glasses

RayNeo’s iO Smart Glasses weigh 33 grams and use a small monochrome green display plus a quad-microphone array (with bone conduction sensing) for real-time translation of 55 languages/109 accents with about 1 second of latency, while the GT and GT Max shift toward larger virtual “cinema-grade” AR viewing with up to 231-inch (GT) and 307-inch (GT Max) screen sizes and 46°/59° fields of view, respectively.

Aug 21, 2026 ·Engadget

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Developer given Mission:Impossible - fixing rubbish code that could crash a city - simply chose not to accept it

A developer who was asked to troubleshoot undocumented turbine overspeed detector software at a power station says the code was “horrible” (with random GOTOs and I/O accesses to random addresses) and he chose to back away and leave the system as-is to avoid potential shutdowns or cascading faults.

Aug 21, 2026 ·The Register

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US Dollar Price Forecast: DXY Breaks 99.38 as EUR/USD and GBP/USD Extend Gain

DXY broke below the $99.38 support zone and is trading around $98.73, with bears targeting $98.41 (and lower levels at $97.84 and $97.15).

Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance

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A date on the calendar could shape the BOJ's endgame on interest rates

The BOJ scheduled its rate review for July 21–22, 2027—before hawkish board members Naoki Tamura and Hajime Takata’s terms end on July 23—preserving the central bank’s ability to deliver a rate hike before a July 2027 board reshuffle.

Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance

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Cisco bug severity warning reads like Olympic gymnastics scores: 10, 10, 9.9, 9.6, and 7.5.

Cisco’s Secure Workload Software (formerly Tetration) has four critical/high vulnerabilities rated 10, 10, 9.9, 9.6, and 7.5, including CVE-2026-20315 and CVE-2026-20317 with improper access control, a command/OS argument injection issue in CVE-2026-20231, and memory buffer overflow and out-of-bounds writes in CVE-2026-20319.

Aug 21, 2026 ·The Register

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India's August private sector growth recovers slightly from over four-year low, PMI shows

HSBC flash India Composite PMI rose to 54.6 in August from July’s 52-month low of 54.3, showing slight recovery in private sector growth but still below the recent average of around 60.

Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance

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Alibaba Cloud plans to use fewer Western chips, to boost its already huge AI margins

Alibaba Cloud said AI servers can pay back in about 2.5 years—down from earlier plans—because cloud AI margins are rising fast enough that revenue from AI servers covers their operating costs in three years and generates free cash flow in years four and five.

Aug 21, 2026 ·The Register

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Proptech Venture Funding Stabilizes With Fewer Big Winners

Proptech venture funding totaled $4.53B across 231 rounds in H1 2026, nearly flat year-over-year (down 0.6% vs. H1 2025).

Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance

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South Korea plans chip windfall fund to back youth, AI investment

South Korea’s budget ministry plans a new “Future Response Fund” to channel tax windfalls from the semiconductor boom into youth programs and investments in AI and other strategic technologies, with the ministry saying the fund would be financed mainly by tax revenue above a decade-based benchmark.

Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance

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Deere Gets Rolling as AI Buildout Fuels Construction Sales Boom

Deere’s fiscal third-quarter revenue rose 6.2% year over year to $11 billion and income rose 7% to $1.4 billion, beating Wall Street forecasts as shares climbed 6.94%.

Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance

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The Insurance Conversations Younger Clients Need to Have

Life insurance needs to be bought based on clearly defined protection needs—using fiduciary planning and independent brokers—because “commission-based” advice can steer clients toward more expensive, complicated policies than necessary.

Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance

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If We're in an AI Bubble, History Says This Is the Best Way to Recession-Proof Your Portfolio

The State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 ETF (SPYM) holds 505 stocks, charges a 0.02% expense ratio, has delivered about 12.8% annualized returns over the past five years, and fell about -18.1% in 2022 versus the Nasdaq-100’s roughly -32.6%.

Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance

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Supermicro fired staff after probe into $2.5 billion GPUs-to-China smuggling operation

Supermicro says it dismissed employees after an investigation concluded some staff breached its code of conduct and failed to properly implement US export controls in connection with an alleged $2.5 billion servers-and-Nvidia-GPUs diversion scheme to China.

Aug 21, 2026 ·The Register

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Equinor and ORLEN Sign Three-Year Norwegian Crude Supply Deal

Equinor signed a three-year agreement to supply ORLEN with Norwegian crude from the Johan Sverdrup field starting in September, covering annual deliveries of between 5 million and more than 9 million tonnes.

Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance

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Genki’s new customizable controller has a big screen and adjustable buttons

Genki’s Manta controller features a 2.9-inch LCD screen for an on-device settings interface that lets players remap buttons, adjust thumbstick response and dead zones, tune analog face-button sensitivity, and build custom macros with recorded button press sequences.

Aug 21, 2026 ·The Verge

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Hims & Hers Health (HIMS) & Novo Nordisk A/S (NVO): Two Weight-Loss Pill Players Just Got Punished for Growing Fast

Hims & Hers shares fell more than 2% even after posting Q2 revenue of $753.2 million (+38%) and raising full-year revenue guidance to $3.1B–$3.3B, while it reported a $127.9 million net loss and said gross margins will likely stay below historical levels as branded GLP-1 and international expansion raise costs.

Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance

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Chinese humanoid robots' biggest obstacle: humans are still (mostly) better

Industry leaders at the World Humanoid Conference in Beijing said humanoid robots still struggle to match humans’ efficiency and to learn new skills quickly, creating a bottleneck for deployment in the human workforce.

Aug 21, 2026 ·CNBC

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Powerus Wins $22.3 Million Middle East Oil Infrastructure Security Deal

Powerus signed a commercial deal worth about $22.3 million to supply counter-unmanned aircraft system technology for critical oil and gas infrastructure in the Middle East, including hardware, software, site activation, installation, and 24-month integrated maintenance.

Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance

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Riot Platforms (RIOT) & CleanSpark (CLSK): Bitcoin Miners are Becoming AI Landlords. Riot Just Signed a $9 Billion Lease to Prove It

Riot Platforms signed a $9.1 billion, 20-year computing deal with Anthropic for 191 megawatts at its Rockdale, Texas campus (up to $16.1 billion if extended twice by five years).

Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance

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From euphoria to despair, Korea reckons with stock mania's emotional toll

The KOSPI benchmark has fallen 30% from its June 19 peak, following a surge in retail trading that regulators helped enable through single-stock leveraged ETFs launched on May 27.

Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance

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