RugOne's Xsnap 7 Pro comes with both an IP68 and IP69K rating, meaning the rugged phone can survive intense water blasts and complete submersion for up to 30 minutes. But what really sets the Xsnap 7 Pro apart from everything else on the market is that one of its three rear cameras can be removed and used as a standalone action cam. It made its debut at MWC 2026 earlier this year but is launching through Kickstarter on September 7th for €799 (around $930) in limited quantities, followed by a global release in October for $999.The Xsnap 7 Pro's detachable camera module isn't quite as a capable as the DJI Osmo Nano or the Insta360 Go Ultra t …Read the full story at The Verge.

While some people use AI to write entire documents or completely replace their work, this opens you up to problems like hallucinations and generic output. The real value of AI tools lies in using them as collaborative partners that can help you identify blind spots and speed up repetitive processes.

INGLEWOOD, CA - JULY 19: A view of Halo Board inside the Intuit Dome, the Los Angeles Clippers new arena, during a press preview on July 19, 2024 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Jevone Moore/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) | Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Last September, Steve Ballmer insisted in an ESPN interview that the Clippers weren't involved in a shady-looking $28 million endorsement deal for his star player, Kawhi Leonard, that involved no actual endorsing. Now, the former Microsoft CEO has been suspended by the NBA for a year, while the league says his team will forfeit five future draft picks and pay a $30 million fine, among other penalties. A year later, an NBA-commissioned 35-page report by Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz is basically calling him a liar, saying those claims were "inaccurate (at best) with respect to Mr. Ballmer" and "clearly false" when it came to Clippers presi …Read the full story at The Verge.

Let's face it, my home network has been embarrassing for a while. There's a Synology DS1621xs+ in the rack with a 10 GbE port that came out of the box, and until last month it had spent its entire life plugged into a switch that topped out at 2.5 GbE, which is its own kind of bottleneck nobody warns you about when you upgrade a NAS to 10 Gigabit. My desktop wasn't any better: the MSI MPG X870E Carbon WiFi has a 5 GbE port onboard that has never once negotiated 5 GbE, because nothing else in the house speaks it. I'd built a lab full of multi-gig hardware and connected it with what amounts to a slightly faster Gigabit.

Does your power bank have "CryoPulse technology" or a "Cyber Window"? If you disappointingly answered "no" to both, you might want to consider upgrading to Ugreen's new MagFlow Pro Magnetic Power Bank. It's available starting today for $149.99, which puts it on the really expensive end of power banks with only a 10,000mAh battery, but those fancy-sounding features are part of what Ugreen is claiming to be the world's first liquid-cooling system on a power bank with wireless charging.Inside the MagFlow Pro is a micro-pump that's used to circulate coolant and draw heat away from components including the power bank's Qi2.2-compatible wireless …Read the full story at The Verge.

UGREEN is moving well beyond chargers, docks, and network-attached storage. At its Smart Living Launch Event at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, which I attended on Sept. 1, the company introduced HomeAgent, a new smart home platform built around local storage and AI processing. This marks UGREEN’s first serious foray into AIoT, and the scope is broader than I expected. The lineup ranges from compact HomeAgent hubs to security cameras, a smart speaker, smart displays, and a much more powerful Nvidia Jetson-based system.

For all the things it does right, Windows 11 also has a pesky habit of making decisions for you that you don't necessarily remember agreeing to. Some are harmless enough, while others quietly change how your PC behaves in the background. Somewhere in the middle of these two areas falls Delivery Optimization. Microsoft designed it to make Windows updates faster and more efficient by allowing your PC to get update files from other computers instead of relying entirely on Microsoft's servers.

After showing off several smart home firsts at CES, Aqara has returned to IFA with a major lineup of smart lighting compatible with both Zigbee and Thread. One of these new devices is the Floor Lamp T1, which trades the look of a typical lamp for an LED-equipped pole attached to a base. The lamp stands 4.6 feet tall, offering RGBIC lighting and 18 individually addressable zones. Similar to the floor lamp from Govee, Aqara's new device emits light in the area surrounding it, creating a splash of color on your wall.Aqara is getting into smart lighting for the outside of your home as well. In addition to new permanent outdoor smart lights w …Read the full story at The Verge.

The Verbatim Store 'n' Stay Nano USB Flash Drive is a compact storage solution that's perfect for travel. It comes in a variety of sizes, but the 32GB model is on sale from Amazon right now. For a limited time, you can save 33% off the usual retail price of $17, with the price falling to just $11.

Building a simple webpage with AI isn’t hard anymore, but making it look polished and intentional is a different story. It’s easy for a model to generate working code; it’s much harder for it to balance margins, pick the right contrast, and keep every visual element aligned.

Today has been a wild day for AI news. Earlier today, we saw Nvidia announce that it's acquiring Hugging Face for a cool $12.93 billion, promising to keep the open-source nature of the platform alive. Now, OpenAI has revealed GPT-6 Astra, the model the company hopes will deliver AGI to everyone

Consumer hardware is getting more expensive by the day due to rising AI demand and the enormous amount of compute it requires. Resources such as RAM are becoming increasingly scarce for consumers, so we have to make the most of the hardware we already have.