Apple launches $299 HomeView: Can AI Siri help it beat Amazon and Google?

The Apple HomeView, an iPad-like device meant to hang on walls or perch on tabletops that will showcase its AI-upgraded Siri virtual assistant, during a launch of smart home products in New York City, US, October 13, 2026. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton (REUTERS)

Apple launched several new smart home products on Tuesday, October 13, including a new iPad-like device called HomeView. The company hopes its AI-upgraded Siri virtual assistant will help it gain a bigger share of the competitive smart home market. The Apple HomeView, an iPad-like device meant to hang on walls or perch on tabletops that … Read more

Chinese humanoid robots just beat Usain Bolt’s 100m record and the human high-jump record, are humans already losing to machines?

Chinese humanoid robots just beat Usain Bolt’s 100m record and the human high-jump record, are humans already losing to machines?

It seems technology is already outrunning humans not only in algorithms but also on the field. At a 100-meter sprint at the Beijing Robot Games, a humanoid robot is said to have beaten the human record of Jamaican athlete Usain Bolt. The robot named Lightning Bolt, achieved a result of 9.39 seconds, beating Bolt’s record … Read more

Meet Zeynep Demirbas, the New York eighth-grader who tested whether AI can recognise stress; a basic machine-learning model beat ChatGPT-4o

Meet Zeynep Demirbas, the New York eighth-grader who tested whether AI can recognise stress; a basic machine-learning model beat ChatGPT-4o

Zeynep’s work earned her a finalist place in the 2025 Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Fourteen-year-old Zeynep Demirbas has found that ChatGPT-4o is less accurate than a mental health-focused AI model and a simpler machine-learning system at detecting stress in human written text.Zeynep, an eighth-grade student at Transit Middle School in East Amherst, New … Read more

Random Musing: The UK ‘PM-in-waiting’ just beat a guy wearing a trash can – and that sums up post-Brexit politics

Random Musing: The UK 'PM-in-waiting' just beat a guy wearing a trash can – and that sums up post-Brexit politics

Candidate Count Binface poses for the media during the Clacton by-election count at the Leisure Centre in Clacton on Sea, England, Friday, Aug. 14, 2026.(AP Photo/Richard Pelham) Ever since the Brexit referendum – called by a Prime Minister who had to maintain a stiff upper lip about whether he had any coital relations with a … Read more

David Crowley family, net worth: All on Democrat who beat Francesca Hong in Wisconsin Governor primary

David Crowley beat Francesca Hong to win the Democrat  Wisconsin Governor primary. (Bloomberg)

David Crowley, the Moderate Democrat, beat democratic socialist Francesca Hong narrowly, winning the Wisconsin Governor primary. He will now go up against Republican Tom Tiffany, who has been endorsed by President Donald Trumpwhen the elections take place this November. David Crowley beat Francesca Hong to win the Democrat Wisconsin Governor primary. (Bloomberg) “Now, David is … Read more

​From cancer survivors to surfing stars: California woman and her dog beat cancer before competing together at the World Dog Surfing Championships

​From cancer survivors to surfing stars: California woman and her dog beat cancer before competing together at the World Dog Surfing Championships

A California woman and her beloved Miniature Pinscher have become an inspiration after overcoming one of life’s toughest challenges and returning to do what they love most together. Sophia Sadlowski, from Huntington Beach, California, and her dog Rusty, both survived cancer before competing side by side at the 2026 World Dog Surfing Championships held at … Read more

FBI benefits for girlfriends? Report says Kash Patel deployed SWAT to protect Alexis Wilkins

FBI benefits for girlfriends? Report says Kash Patel deployed SWAT to protect Alexis Wilkins

A new report suggests that the FBI director Kashi Patel‘s girlfriend also received many of the same benefits and privileges as his position.The FBI director assigns a full-time SWAT team to protect his girlfriend, an aspiring country music singer Alexis WilkinsThe 27-year-old used the bureau’s resources to accompany her on trips, haircuts and performances, The … Read more