Month: August 2026
iPod nostalgia is at an all-time high, so meet two new cheap, adorable tiny hi-res music players that invoke the best of the music-player era (bring your own white wired earbuds)
Shanling Q2 unveiled as an iPod nano-alike upgrade for high-res music Fiio recently launched the Echo Nano, an original iPod shuffle-like player with a screen iPods are so nostalgic, they’re still being actively advertised by resellers Remember the iPod? Of course you do: nostalgia is so high that you still…
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Quote of the day by PsiQuantum CEO Jeremy O’Brien: ‘If you think the goal is to get to the top of the Empire State Building, you build longer ladders’ — a challenge to incremental hardware progress in quantum computing
One of the most exciting areas in technology is quantum computing, but it’s also one of the areas that’s been among the least accessible, difficult to relate to the real world, and still largely buried away in the lab. To reach the point at which quantum computers become useful, there’s…
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Panic is refunding tariff fees paid by Playdate owners
The console was subject to added fees under the Trump administration's original tariff regime. Source
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OpenAI details the failures that led to Hugging Face breach in official report
Transparency from the company is good, but real trust in its people would be better. Source
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Nvidia is about to be a hundred-billion-dollar-a-quarter company
Nvidia’s predicting it will pull in $108 billion in revenue within just a few months. It wouldn’t be the first company to rake in over $100 billion in quarterly revenue — Amazon, Apple, and Alphabet have repeatedly reached the milestone. Nvidia said in its latest earnings report that it brought…
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Ukraine flags that Russia could have a secret fleet of autonomous military vessels stalking the seas
Ukraine claims Russia’s newest drones can carry a full metric ton offshore Some unmanned vessels reach speeds of fifty-five knots at sea The BEK-1000 travels over five hundred kilometers before refuelling again Ukraine’s military intelligence agency has claimed Russia may now operate a wide range of unmanned vessels patrolling open…
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