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Qualcomm and HUMAIN unveiled a new AI PC called Horizon Ultra at LEAP 2026, and the pitch is pretty simple: run more AI tasks directly on the machine instead of sending everything to a server online. HUMAIN and Qualcomm Technologies spent over a year building this together. The first version runs Microsoft Windows, which should make the PC familiar to most users thinking of buying one. HUMAIN also confirmed its own operating system, HUMAIN OS, is coming to this same hardware line in 2027. What’s powering Horizon Ultra? The laptop runs on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite chip, which packs an…
Sony has announced three new speakers for its ULT Power Sound lineup, ranging from a $450 portable option to a $1,500 monster built for genuinely large gatherings. All of them will be available to purchase starting this month via Sony’s official website, Amazon, and Best Buy. How do the three new speakers differ? The new ULT Tower 5 is the entry point into the lineup. Priced at $450, it’s the most compact of the three, yet somehow, Sony manages to pack in up to 300 watts of output. With a 20-hour battery life and an IPX4 splash resistance rating, you…
Anthropic has introduced two upgraded AI models for Claude that promise faster coding, better performance on complex tasks, and lower costs for developers. The company has launched Claude Fable 5.1 for general use and Claude Mythos 5.1 for trusted organizations working in areas like cybersecurity and life sciences. Alongside the model upgrades, Anthropic is cutting Fable cache read pricing by 75%, making it significantly cheaper for developers to run repeated workloads while keeping the same API pricing for standard usage. Claude Fable 5.1 is built to tackle bigger coding projects Claude Fable 5.1 focuses on improving software development and other…
If you constantly forget where you store important documents, Gemini’s latest update might actually help. Google will soon roll out a new Gemini feature that remembers item locations as described by you. It arrives alongside four other Android updates arriving this month as the September Android Drop. With the latest @Android Drop, you’ll be able to: • Keep track of items in Find Hub that don’t require tracker tags — just ask Gemini.• Help reduce motion sickness in the passenger seat with Motion Assist, a subtle bubble overlay on your screen that moves with the vehicle.… pic.twitter.com/JhATecsSQ6— Google (@Google) September…
Sports fans on YouTube TV can finally stop bouncing between apps. Starting today, ESPN Unlimited is fully built into YouTube TV, meaning you no longer need to open a separate ESPN app to catch everything it offers. This caps off a rollout that started back in August, when access first landed but still required switching over to watch. Everything ESPN Unlimited brings to YouTube TV Anyone on the main YouTube TV plan, or any plan that includes Sports, gets this automatically. That unlocks live coverage of the US Open, college football, PGA Tour golf, WWE Premium Live Events, LaLiga, and…
The Ace Combat series is riding high on the tailwind of its seventh entry’s success, and October will see Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve take off. So far, we’ve seen quite a bit about its single-player campaign, but now, the Project Aces team is unveiling its multiplayer side.For players like myself, Ace Combat has frequently been a single-player affair, centered on the campaign and missions. The options to play with friends were always there, but I rarely spent much time exploring them. Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve is trying to change that. Speaking to the developers at Gamescom…
If you’ve ever spent more time tweaking a design than creating it, Google thinks it has a better solution. The company has launched Google Pics, a new AI-powered design tool that lets you create posters, flyers, presentations, and social media graphics using simple prompts instead of traditional editing tools. Built into Google Workspace and powered by Gemini and Google’s Nano Banana image generator, Pics aims to make professional-looking visuals accessible even if you have no design experience. How Google Pics stacks up against Canva and Adobe Express Google Pics is entering a crowded space. Canva already has Magic Edit and…
The Total War series has portrayed numerous conflicts, both historical and fantastical, but with Warhammer 40,000, the series launches into a new frontier with space, bolters and psykers in tow. It means a lot of changes for what Total War is, but its sense of scale remains intact, alongside a little bit of carnage.I played a three-part hands-on demo of Total War: Warhammer 40,000 at Gamescom 2026, which stair-stepped me up through the layers of strategy. My personal experience with the Total War series has been frequent toe-dipping and experimenting, but never committing full-time. I love the chaos of a…
I never thought I’d type this sentence, but there’s a toothbrush that costs as much as a mid-range Android smartphone and has Wi-Fi connectivity and a built-in camera. Dyson just unveiled the CameraJet, a toothbrush that packs an actual camera and an AI detection system. It is built specifically to find and flush out the gaps between your teeth that regular brushes miss. So how does this camera toothbrush actually work? Like its other products, Dyson has made this one a high-tech engineering showcase. The company has devised something called Gap Optical Targeting. It uses a tiny 100,000-pixel camera paired…
Roku has launched its first-ever OLED TVs, the Roku Pro Series OLED and Roku Pro Series LX OLED, replacing its older LCD-based Pro lineup entirely. For a brand known mostly for budget friendly streaming hardware, jumping straight into OLED territory is a bold move, especially with pricing this aggressive. The Roku Pro Series OLED undercuts Samsung and LG The base model starts at just $999 for the 55-inch size, a number worth pausing on. Samsung’s entry-level S85 OLED currently lists for $1,499, while LG’s B6E OLED runs $1,299. Roku is undercutting both by a real margin. Roku Pro Series OLED…