Exclusive Jackery 5,040Wh power station $1,000 off + Labor Day Sale, Segway EVs 50% off, Anker eufy security cameras, more
Exclusive Jackery 5,040Wh power station $1,000 off + Labor Day Sale, Segway EVs 50% off, Anker eufy security cameras, more

Our Thursday Green Deals this week are largely stuffed with power station deals/sales, starting with the exclusive $1,000 savings our readers can get on the 5,040Wh Jackery Explorer 5000 Plus Portable Power Station at a $2,499 2026 low. Right behind th…

OpenAI’s next big AI model has ‘entered the AGI era’
OpenAI’s next big AI model has ‘entered the AGI era’

OpenAI’s next big model is here: GPT-6 Astra. The company calls it a “generational leap in capability” for areas like cybersecurity, professional work, software engineering, science, and computer use. As OpenAI announced earlier this week, it’s also the first model designated as meeting OpenAI’s “critical cybersecurity capability threshold” – but the company promises that won’t […]

Xiaomi confirms 2027 Europe EV launch with 8 German dealer groups
Xiaomi confirms 2027 Europe EV launch with 8 German dealer groups

Xiaomi Auto confirmed it will start selling electric vehicles in Europe, including Germany, in 2027, and it’s already lining up the dealers to sell them.

At IFA Berlin today, the Chinese automaker signed memoranda of understanding with eight of Germ…

Microsoft opens up Xbox Cloud Gaming with new pay-as-you-go option
Microsoft opens up Xbox Cloud Gaming with new pay-as-you-go option

Microsoft says it will let anyone access Xbox Cloud Gaming in November, without the need to subscribe to Xbox Game Pass. The change to a pay-as-you-go model is part of some sweeping changes to Xbox Cloud Gaming today, and is designed for people who don’t use cloud access enough to warrant a monthly subscription. “Players […]

Microsoft slashes Xbox Cloud Gaming to just 15 hours a month for Ultimate subscribers
Microsoft slashes Xbox Cloud Gaming to just 15 hours a month for Ultimate subscribers

Microsoft is announcing some major changes to Xbox Cloud Gaming today, less than a year after opening up cloud gaming to its Xbox Game Pass Premium and Essential tiers. While all Game Pass plans have included unlimited cloud gaming over the past year, from November this will be limited to just 15 hours on Ultimate, […]

BYD’s latest flagship SUV secured more than 12,000 orders within 24 hours
BYD’s latest flagship SUV secured more than 12,000 orders within 24 hours

BYD said its latest flagship SUV has become an instant best-seller. Within 24 hours of launching, the new Sealion 08 secured over 12,000 orders.

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A Tesla killed a motorcyclist on Autopilot/FSD, Tesla’s own data confirms
A Tesla killed a motorcyclist on Autopilot/FSD, Tesla’s own data confirms

A Tesla Model X struck and killed a motorcyclist at an intersection in Moraine last year and the crash went mostly unnoticed.

But Tesla’s own report to federal regulators says the vehicle was a Model X with its driver-assist system, Autopilot or Ful…

I held the first truly bezel-free phone
I held the first truly bezel-free phone

Cast your mind back a decade or so, and smartphone makers were obsessed with shrinking the bezel on phones. Screens got bigger, the black bars around them got smaller, and for a while it looked like truly edge-to-edge displays were imminent. Then, progress just stopped. The bezel shrunk down until it was a millimeter or […]

This 14-inch laptop has a screen that unrolls to 17 inches
This 14-inch laptop has a screen that unrolls to 17 inches

Lenovo’s latest rollable concept, announced at IFA 2026, is the ThinkBook Project Swan: a business laptop with a screen that expands horizontally from 14 to 17 inches. Rollable screens are nothing new for Lenovo. The company has shown off several concepts and even launched a real one last year (and it was pretty great). But […]

Nvidia launches free tool that links idle computers into a personal AI data center
Nvidia launches free tool that links idle computers into a personal AI data center

Nvidia is announcing its new Personal AI Router (PAIR), a free tool that syncs up your home computers for tackling local AI inference tasks with tools like Ollama and LM Studio. Let’s get the obvious thing out of the way, despite what its name might imply: PAIR is not a hardware router. It’s open-source software […]