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Astronomer watches Starlink satellites sinking to build a ‘planetary barometer’

Phillips runs spaceweather.com, which tracks solar flares, the solar wind, shifts in Earth’s geomagnetic field, and other phenomena. On Tuesday, he published an article that opens “Starlink has many downsides.” “The…

Microsoft expands Middle East cloud and AI footprint with $10bn commitment

Announced on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, the initiative was presented by Microsoft vice-chair and president Brad Smith and Microsoft Middle East and Africa president Naim Yazbeck…

Android 17 QPR2 Beta 6 fixes some annoying bugs while taking a few features away

This one addresses a few annoying bugs, including an unexpected device reboot problem on the Pixel 9 Pro Fold when using a third-party camera app. Google's release notes for Android 17 QPR2 Beta 6 mention the following…

How to watch Slo Pitch online – stream the softball comedy from anywhere

The comparisons with Heated Rivalry are obvious, all the moreso because Emily Hampshire and Nadine Bhabha are in both shows. Slo Pitch , however, predates the smash-hit hockey series. It started out as a cult web series…

2026 just became the year of FreeBSD on the (Amazonian cloud) desktop

“Most people think of FreeBSD as being a server OS which is used only via the command line, but as anyone who has attended a BSD conference can attest, it works just fine with a GUI too,” he wrote. He’s not wrong about…

What's new at Lego for October? New sets to get stuck into — including a Holiday countdown kit

So what does Lego have new in for October? It's not quite as extensive a lineup as I've seen in previous months — and there's a disappointing lack of Spooky Season sets — but there are still some gems worth checking out.…

This Blink video doorbell has dropped to an astonishing AU$27.99 in this early Prime Day deal

But if you still find those options a bit pricey, the Blink Video Doorbell System discounted to just AU$27.99 ahead of Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days sale next week, should certainly make for a no-brainer addition to your…

Stuart Fails to Save the Universe episode 10 felt 'surreal' for cast thanks to Big Bang Theory twist

We've finally arrived at the end of Stuart Fails to Save the Universe ( SFtStU) and episode 10 certainly didn't let us down. In fact, it's the closest to The Big Bang Theory ( TBBT ) that we've been since 2019. Although…

Thunderobot just launched a laptop that uses a special RAM-like SSD to boost AI performance — AI Master M7000 packs Ryzen AI Max+ 395 with 64GB RAM, runs 120B MoE models

The M7000 comes with 64GB of LPDDR5X-8000 memory and Radeon 8060S integrated graphics for demanding workloads. Its 768GB drive incorporates an 85GB caching layer designed to help AI workloads handle models exceeding…

China publishes 'landmark paper' on AI-to-AI technique that kicks human 'bottleneck' out of the loop and replaces us with an AI 'modem' — C2C brainwave direct connection achieves 150% boost in inference speed

The method, called Cache-to-Cache (C2C), has already been accepted at ICLR 2026 and ships with open-source code available to developers. It targets a specific inefficiency present whenever multiple language models work…