Uber beat out Waymo in launching a commercial robotaxi service in London, the city's first. The vehicles use autonomous driving tech developed by Wayve, a UK-based startup, and will initially feature safety drivers behind the wheel. The launch is a milestone for Uber, which has been plotting a UK launch with Wayve for several years. In beating Waymo to the punch, it allows Uber to set the standard for the robotaxi experience for thousands of Londoners. It's also an early test of whether there's appetite for driverless ridehailing beyond the US and China, where most of the world's robotaxis are currently clustered. (There's a smattering in …Read the full story at The Verge.

I've been using Steam for nearly two decades now. I've watched it evolve from a fairly straightforward PC game store into something that sits at the center of almost everything I do with my gaming PC. It's one of the rare few apps on my PC that have earned startup privileges, and rightly so.

Google pixels have often seen a long-standing critique as they offer incredible computational photography and clean software but are paired with a mediocre screen on time and heavy idle drain. Users routinely blame the Tensor SoC or the cellular modem for warm pockets and battery drain while missing the massive software overhead running 24/7 in user space.

This Verbatim Pocket SSD is a great choice if you want compact, durable solid-state storage. The $180 retail price tag for this portable SSD has become the new normal in 2026, but we think that this 22% discount from Amazon that drops it down to $140 makes it worth taking a look at.

I have a bad habit of bookmarking every interesting website I come across. Over time, my bookmarks folder has amassed hundreds of links, some of which are from websites that don't even exist anymore. However, as a digital hoarder, deleting these en masse is something I'm just not comfortable with.

After introducing a consumer-friendly UV printer last year capable of printing designs directly on materials like wood, metal, glass, and acrylic, Anker's eufyMake brand is introducing a new machine that can print directly on fabrics. With an expected launch sometime in the spring of 2027, Anker hasn't yet revealed an official name for the new machine, but its "personal fabric printer" will offer multiple ways to put photos or custom designs onto T-shirts, jeans, bags, and hats.The machine will be capable of both direct-to-garment printing where images are applied directly to soft, breathable fabrics, and direct-to-film printing where desi …Read the full story at The Verge.

The Anker MindBase offers a local solution for advanced AI processing of camera footage and is a smart home hub that supports Matter. | Image: Anker Anker is launching the Eufy MindBase, a local AI hub for its security cameras that runs an on-device, Anker-developed LLM, which the company says can process your footage without it ever leaving your home. It's also announcing a handful of other smart home security products at the IFA tech show in Berlin this week, including the TrackLight Cam S1, the S4 video doorbell, and a window camera.Pitched as the "central brain for the home," the MindBase is not just for Eufy security cameras; Anker is positioning it as a whole-home connectivity solution with on-device compute and local storage. Security is the first use case, but the company plans …Read the full story at The Verge.

Every generation of Wi-Fi has made significant jumps in terms of maximum throughput, with Wi-Fi 7 bringing us to 46 Gbps (Wi-Fi 6/6E topped out at 9.6 Gbps). This upgrade in speed makes every successive Wi-Fi standard theoretically superior to the previous one, but the average user isn't seeing the benefit on the ground. Most people in the US are still using 300 Mbps connections, not multi-gig plans that can benefit from Wi-Fi 7.

I've been running self-hosted apps for years, and like most setups, mine didn't stay the same. Some services were installed because they looked interesting, while others simply stuck around because they worked well enough. Eventually, I started noticing that a few of them felt outdated compared with newer options available today.

Google launched Gemini 3.8 Flash, arriving just a few weeks after its predecessor. The company claims the new model "works harder" than Gemini 3.7 Flash by performing more reasoning steps on complex tasks and "calling tools iteratively." It has the same introductory pricing as 3.7 Flash, $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens, but could still end up costing users more. Google warns that "the model might use more tokens to maximize performance, especially at higher effort levels." Developers can keep using Gemini 3.7 Flash if they want to minimize token usage. Gemini 3.8 Flash's launch was followed by some early …Read the full story at The Verge.

Receiving new security measures on Windows is usually good, but those new measures usually need to take up some resources to actually work. If you're someone who pushes their PC to its utmost to get the best framerates, these additions may end up harming your performance a little bit. Next month, Windows is receiving a security update that may harm your in-game framerates, but you can turn it off before it even arrives on your PC.

My RTX 4070 Ti Super was just as transformative for my gaming experience as it was for local AI inference on my old gaming PC. This rig was built many years ago around an RTX 2070 Super, a Ryzen 5 3600 with 32GB of DDR4, and until this upgrade, served to store the family's documents and whatever local models could fit inside 8GB of VRAM, which is a shorter list than it sounds.