AI resurrection can turn your grief into “spectral labor”

AI resurrection tools can make the dead “talk,” but researchers argue that comfort isn’t the point. Their “spectral labor” framework warns that voice, likeness, and emotion can be extracted and monetized without consent.
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Fire reported at California building housing Rad Power Bikes retail store warehouse
Fire reported at California building housing Rad Power Bikes retail store warehouse

In yet another unfortunate setback for Rad Power Bikes, a structure fire has been reported at the company’s Huntington Beach retail store. Rad Power Bikes once held the position as the top-selling electric bike retailer in the US, but has been struggli…

Laptops featuring Nvidia’s ARM-based chips may finally hit stores near you in Q1 2026

Supply chain sources have revealed that Nvidia could debut the first laptops featuring its ARM-based N1 and N1X chips in Q1 2026.
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Realme promises days of battery from its 10,001mAh phone
Realme promises days of battery from its 10,001mAh phone

After teasing 10,000mAh and 15,000mAh concept devices, Realme is ready to make those big batteries a reality with the P4 Power, which launches in India on January 29th with a 10,001mAh capacity. Realme says the P4 Power will last for three and a half days of light use, which I can believe – I got […]

Roland’s Go:Mixer Studio turns your phone into a mobile music studio
Roland’s Go:Mixer Studio turns your phone into a mobile music studio

Roland now offers a more capable audio mixer for phones and tablets with the launch of the Go:Mixer Studio. The Go:Mixer audio interface lineup has always been a bit limited, better suited for scrappy livestreams and capturing quick demos on their phones than professional recording. The Go:Mixer Studio is an attempt to actually reach that […]

Your Ultrahuman smart ring now knows a migraine is coming before you do

Ultrahuman has partnered with Click Therapeutics to launch the Migraine PowerPlug, a new smart ring feature that combines biometric tracking with FDA-authorised digital migraine treatment.
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Humanoid robots to build aircraft? Airbus is exploring the idea

The idea of a humanoid robot building an airplane may sound far-fetched, but a new deal between the European aviation giant Airbus and Chinese robot specialist UBTech suggests that such a scenario could be on the cards. Airbus’s deal with UBTech involv…

Wawa now has its own self-branded Tesla Superchargers
Wawa now has its own self-branded Tesla Superchargers

Wawa, the biggest Tesla Supercharger host, has joined Tesla’s Supercharger for Business program and launched its first self-branded site.

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Germany is using heated bricks to replace gas-fired industrial boilers
Germany is using heated bricks to replace gas-fired industrial boilers

Rondo Energy and Covestro broke ground on a new kind of industrial heat battery at Covestro’s Brunsbüttel chemical site in northern Germany, and it’s designed to do something industry desperately needs: make clean, reliable steam without burning fossil…

OpenAI’s 2026 ‘focus’ is ‘practical adoption’
OpenAI’s 2026 ‘focus’ is ‘practical adoption’

OpenAI plans to focus on “practical adoption” of AI in 2026, according to a blog post from CFO Sarah Friar. As the company spends a huge amount of money on infrastructure, OpenAI is working on “closing the gap” on what AI can do and how people actually use it. “The opportunity is large and immediate, […]