Talus and Samsung Electronics America launched ReadyPoint, a platform that turns Galaxy phones and tablets into mobile point-of-sale terminals. It supports NFC Tap-to-Pay, camera barcode scanning, QR and manual card entry, and PCI MPoC compliance. After a successful soft launch, ReadyPoint is now available through Talus' reseller channel.
Google has detailed Googlebook OS, an Android-based platform with a hybrid Material 3 Expressive and ChromeOS interface. It offers deep Android 17 integration and 10 years of support.
Microsoft is upgrading Weaponizable File Protection in Teams so administrators can choose which file types users may send, reducing the risk of malware spreading through the app. The feature previously only auto-scanned dangerous attachments, with rollout targeted for November 2026.
CD Projekt Red confirmed that The Witcher 3 Remastered will join Microsoft's Xbox Play Anywhere program when it launches on September 29. Players who own the game on Xbox Series X|S will be able to play it on PC for free, and the remaster itself is a free upgrade for owners of the base game.
Ciena said orders for optical systems and interconnects doubled from 2024 to 2025 and will rise at least another 50% in 2026 as AI fuels demand. The company has secured supply to support at least 30% revenue growth in 2027 and expects that pace to extend through 2029, targeting roughly $14 billion in revenue and a minimum $10 billion backlog.
Researchers from the Universities of Warsaw and Oxford propose that for observers traveling faster than light, time has three dimensions and space only one. This perspective could explain quantum mechanics mysteries such as entanglement, wave-particle duality and random probabilities.
In North Dakota's Hell Creek Formation, paleontologists documented the first continuous trackway of an adult T. rex: four three-toed prints along a 23-foot stretch. Each print is nearly 3 feet long, with a 13-foot stride and an estimated speed of 3.5–4.5 mph. Three prints will be airlifted to the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a method to convert polyethylene into gasoline- and diesel-like fuels using molten salts containing aluminum chloride. The process reaches about 60% gasoline yield below 200 °C without noble-metal catalysts, organic solvents or external hydrogen. A patent has been filed and the findings were published in JACS.
Apple released iPadOS 27 with a heavy focus on Apple Intelligence, which the budget iPad cannot run. Non-AI improvements include a Liquid Glass appearance slider, faster app launches, up to 5x faster file transfers to external drives and more reliable read-status sync for Mail and Messages.
The Apple M6 is the first Mac chip built on TSMC's 2 nm N2 process, debuting in the 2026 Mac mini. It is about 25% faster than M4 and 10% faster than M5 in single-core tests, 44% and 21% faster in multi-core, while its 12-core GPU is 30% faster than M5 graphics.
DeepL CEO Jarek Kutylowski downplayed reports of a near-term IPO, saying public markets are tricky for AI companies, especially with OpenAI and Anthropic expected to list. He said being private offers stability and "quite a lot of advantages" at the moment.
A Reddit user compared the iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max at the same location and time: the Pro Max hit 279 Mbps down and 4.11 Mbps up, while the Pro managed 140 Mbps and 2.54 Mbps. The gap stems from different modems — in the U.S., the Pro Max uses a Qualcomm chip while the Pro uses Apple's new C2 modem.
A Futurism investigation found that Space Daily, owned by Brown Brothers Media, published AI-generated content under invented expert personas. Profiles of "Dr. Katherine Chen" of NASA JPL and "Dr. James Whitfield" of ESA were fabricated, and both agencies confirmed the people do not exist. After the inquiry began, the company mass-deleted articles and fake author bios.
On September 9, Sunrun and Tesla pushed a record 580 MW from more than 140,000 home batteries onto California's grid, the largest residential distributed power plant event on record. About 110,000 of the units were Tesla Powerwalls, delivering 517 MW, while other batteries added 63 MW.
Chemists at Virginia Tech have created two new adhesives: one is four times stronger than the glue in duct tape yet degrades in minutes in mildly alkaline water, and the other is a mono-material tape whose adhesive and backing recycle together. No commercial product or launch date has been announced.
A Fast Company report with Tata Consultancy Services, based on a survey of 380 C-level executives, found that just 7% of companies generate measurable value from AI. ROI was the top challenge for 39%, while 36% cited data quality and governance as the biggest barrier.
Cybernews scored 25 US consumer router brands across six privacy categories and 22 data points. No brand specified whether it logs DNS requests, 80% did not disclose DPI practices, and none explicitly ruled out tracking precise device location.
China's DapuStor has developed a dual-mode J5060 SSD that mixes QLC capacity with pseudo-SLC (pSLC) speed. In 4 KB random-write tests the pSLC region delivers average write latency below 8μs and over 7× the random-write IOPS of a QLC-only drive. The 30.72 TB drive can allocate 8–20% of its capacity to pSLC.
Researchers at Tyndall National Institute and international partners demonstrated programmable microchips for 6G, co-integrating memristor switches made of multilayer hBN with GaN circuits. Published in Nature, it is the first integration of such switches into working millimetre-wave circuits, with near-zero standby power.
Android Authority spent two hours with the five new Googlebook models, Google's first laptop line running GooglebookOS, a hybrid of ChromeOS and Android. Pre-orders opened September 21, with retail launch on October 4 in the U.S. and prices from $899 to $1,299. Android 17 pairing brings Continue On, App Cast and phone file access, while Gemini is summoned by wiggling the Magic Pointer.
Apple is testing its long-delayed smart home display, known internally as J490, in employees' homes and could launch it as early as October 2026. The roughly 7-inch square device uses front-camera facial recognition without Face ID and runs Siri AI from iOS 27, with a launch window through early 2027 and no confirmed price.
Google is bringing Rambler, the smart voice-typing feature from the Pixel 11, to every Googlebook laptop. Rambler cleans up messy dictation and turns spoken thoughts into notes and action items, with natural mid-sentence language switching. Googlebooks run Android with deep Gemini integration, Create My Widget and a Linux terminal, starting at $899 with US sales from October 4.
vivo introduced OriginOS 7 in Shanghai on September 21, 2026. The system cuts app cold start times by 10%, frees up to 25GB of extra storage on a 256GB device, and promises six years of sustained smoothness. Jovi is a personal AI agent, while iCloud, AirPods and Apple Watch integration brings vivo phones closer to Apple devices.
Nonprofit Rhizomatica has open-sourced HERMES, a digital shortwave radio set with the Mercury modem. It operates in the 3–30 MHz HF band, sends files, photos and GPS data over 400–600 km at 20 watts, and offers optional encryption.
MacStories tested the M5 Ultra Mac Studio with 256 GB of RAM, calling it a dream machine for local AI agents that run without cloud costs. It trails an RTX 5090 in memory bandwidth but wins on size, heat, and noise.
Google unveiled Googlebook, a new line of laptops running a hybrid ChromeOS-Android OS with built-in Gemini AI. Five models from Dell, Lenovo, HP, Acer and Asus launch October 4th, priced from $899 to $1,299 with Intel Panther Lake and Snapdragon X Elite chips.
The 2026 Mac Mini is the first Mac with Apple's M6 chip (12-core CPU and GPU) and adds an M5 Pro option in the same 0.82L chassis. The starting price rose from $599 on the M4 model to $899, while the tested M5 Pro configuration costs $2,899.
Apple has started shipping the Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra chips. The M5 Ultra test unit (36-core CPU, 80-core GPU, 256GB RAM, 4TB) costs $12,299 and runs about 30% faster than last year's M3 Ultra in synthetic tests.
Google has opened pre-orders for the first Googlebooks from Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP and Lenovo. All five are premium laptops with at least 16GB of RAM, 14 hours of video playback or 16 hours of web browsing, Intel Core Ultra 5 Series 3 or Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite chips, and a Glowbar light array on the lid. Prices range from $899 to $1,299.
Googlebooks starting at $899 ship with Gemini features including the Magic Pointer, the Rambler dictation tool and prompt-built desktop widgets. The reviewer argues the most compelling feature is native support for fully isolated Linux environments running on a Level 5 security-certified hypervisor with pKVM isolation.
