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Warby Parker seemingly spilled the beans on Google's Android XR smart glasses launch

According to Warby Parker's third quarter earnings release , the brand's Intelligent Eyewear collection will open for orders on November 12. "One week from today, on November 12, we'll begin accepting pre-orders for our…

The FAA is finally phasing out floppy disks from air traffic control

The flight agency announced today that it is modernizing some air traffic control systems that have to date been running on floppy disks. You read that right: floppy disks. For those of you too young to remember, floppy…

Meta warns that election backlash against data centers could make AI expansion harder

“The visible sort of manifestation of AI is a data center, and it’s something that people can say, ‘I don’t want this in my community,’” she explained. “I think there’s an underlying bigger issue, which is how people…

OpenAI released a new cybersecurity model. Is that enough?

Justicz, who has a hobbyist’s interest in cybersecurity and previously found a vulnerability in the same codebase, told TechCrunch that he found this issue using GPT 5.6 Sol, released in July, through the AI maker’s…

Apple set to slash employee AI token spending as new CEO John Ternus looks to cut costs

The Cupertino giant had already reportedly cut budgets from $300 per engineer per day to $200 in October 2026, but further reductions are said to be planned as this figure could be on track to drop to $100. Non-engineers…

Google’s first Wyoming data centre will run on gas with carbon capture

Most of its power will come from natural gas, including a 702 MW fuel cell plant from AEP and Bloom Energy, with carbon capture meant to store most emissions underground. Google will build its first data centre in…

Tomb in Siberia reveals humans were using cannabis 2800 years ago

But the history of such use is likely to go back much further. Genomic studies suggest that the domestication of cannabis plants ( Cannabis sativa ) was happening in China about 12,000 years ago , with people potentially…

Stellar Blade for Nintendo Switch 2 review: more solid than stellar

However, frame rates don’t feel smooth enough for handheld play — especially for a game that lives by perfect parries and rapid dodges. There are also some smaller issues, including pop-in and a slightly muddy visual…

The economic benefits of the covid vaccines may be double what we thought

Previously, researchers calculated that the $79.4 billion invested in developing covid-19 vaccines saw a return of between $4.8 trillion and $37.9 trillion globally in the first 12 months after their rollout. But now, a…

This includes stuff like sending videos through autoplay and giving children under 16 personalized recommendations. The three social media giants say this is in violation of the First Amendment and Section 230 of the…