Microsoft is enabling a Windows 11 security feature that can hurt gaming performance
Microsoft is enabling a Windows 11 security feature that can hurt gaming performance

Microsoft is getting ready to roll out its memory integrity security feature of Windows 11 to more devices next month. The kernel-level protection feature is designed to stop malicious code or drivers running on a Windows 11 machine, but Microsoft previously warned it can also impact PC gaming performance. “Windows quality updates will begin enabling […]

Dell’s newest laptop sounds a lot like a MacBook Neo
Dell’s newest laptop sounds a lot like a MacBook Neo

Dell’s new Dell 14S laptop sounds a lot like a MacBook Neo: it comes in four colors, is aimed at students, and it starts with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. Announced at IFA 2026, the 14S is meant to sit below the recently launched XPS 13 and offer another affordable laptop option as […]

This new Roomba seals itself to your carpet
This new Roomba seals itself to your carpet

iRobot has announced a new flagship robot vacuum, which it will showcase at IFA in Berlin this week, the company’s first big tech trade show in years. The Roomba maker will be exhibiting under its new owner, Picea Robotics, the contract manufacturer that purchased the once-troubled American robotics company out of bankruptcy in January. The […]

E-quipment highlight: iPad-sized 70 kW electric PTO by Windrose
E-quipment highlight: iPad-sized 70 kW electric PTO by Windrose

Electric semi truck brand Windrose has developed an all-electric power take-off (PTO) that puts out up to 70 kW of power without burning a drop of diesel – and it could give his big BEV a real market advantage.

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NeoVolta’s US battery factory gets a 9 GWh boost from SK On
NeoVolta’s US battery factory gets a 9 GWh boost from SK On

US battery storage company NeoVolta Power has locked in five years’ worth of US-made battery cells from Seoul-headquartered SK On to help scale up NeoVolta’s Georgia factory.

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Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5.1 and says it’s up to 45 percent cheaper for agentic work
Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5.1 and says it’s up to 45 percent cheaper for agentic work

Anthropic says its newest AI models, Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, address criticisms from customers about price, data retention, and overzealous safeguards. The company claims Claude Fable 5.1 offers stronger performance than Fable 5, but costs around 25 percent less typically and up to 45 percent less for complex agentic tasks, thanks to reduced pricing […]

Apple Maps follows Google in renaming Lake Ontario
Apple Maps follows Google in renaming Lake Ontario

Apple Maps has officially changed the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. The company joins Google in re-labeling the Great Lake following an executive order signed by President Donald Trump in the midst of a trade dispute with Canada. The Canadian version of Apple Maps still shows “Lake Ontario” […]

Ford shares a closer look at the $30,000 Fathom EV pickup [Video]
Ford shares a closer look at the $30,000 Fathom EV pickup [Video]

The Ford Fathom will go on sale in early 2027, starting at $28,350. With its official debut coming up, Ford revealed new footage of the electric pickup, offering our best look yet.

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OpenAI delayed its new model’s development after the Hugging Face hack
OpenAI delayed its new model’s development after the Hugging Face hack

After an unreleased OpenAI model wreaked enough havoc to make international headlines, OpenAI delayed the development of a different unreleased model suite, Astra, in order to shore up its safety work, the company wrote Tuesday in a blog post. In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of its restricted environment, finagled its way into […]

New Jersey just made plug-in solar panels legal
New Jersey just made plug-in solar panels legal

New Jersey renters and apartment dwellers will soon be able to lower their electricity bills with solar panels that plug directly into a standard wall outlet – no roof required.

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