Poolside, the San Francisco AI lab that has spent most of its three-year existence quietly selling coding models to governments and defense agencies, released its most capable model to date on Tuesday — and made an unusually aggressive bet that radical transparency, not raw scale, is how a smaller lab competes at the frontier. The […]

Apple’s iOS 27 recovery screen offers iPhone and iPad users a better first step when a device won’t start, especially without a computer nearby. Here’s how to open it, which repair option to try first, and when computer-based recovery is still safer. A failed startup is one of those iPhone problems that immediately feels worse […]

The Aqara W200 smart thermostat is the first to take advantage of Apple’s Adaptive Temperature technology for Apple Home, and that’s a big deal for users. At least in the U.S., two or three big players largely have a stranglehold on the premium smart thermostat market. If you want a nice-looking smart thermostat, you’re likely […]

Apple’s requests to overturn a $634 million patent verdict and secure a new trial in its long-running legal battle with Masimo were denied. Here are the details. A bit of background In early 2020, medical technology company Masimo sued Apple, accusing it of stealing trade secrets and infringing patents related to pulse oximetry and other […]

If you’re in the market for an office chair, the SIHOO Doro C300 Pro V2 comes packed with personalization and comfort-focused features that deserve your attention. It’s hard to overstate the importance of finding the right office chair. When you’re going to spend 8 hours per day, 40 hours per week, and 2,000+ per year […]

My wallet flinched the second I saw the words “TSMC” and “price increase” in the same headline, and honestly, yours should too. Turns out the company behind the silicon powering basically every flagship device out there, including Apple’s A-series and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processors, is reportedly about to make all of it a little pricier. Apple […]

The Masimo trial ultimately failed to get a permanent ban on Apple Watch sales or use of the blood oxygen sensor, but the final verdict will have Apple pay $634M to Masimo’s new owner Danaher after the appeal was rejected. Apple Watch users have been able to take advantage of the blood oxygen sensor in […]

Google DeepMind today released three new proprietary AI models it says are among its most token-efficient yet: Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber. The models aim to make AI agents faster, smarter, and cheaper at scale. Google is pricing Gemini 3.6 Flash at $1.50 per one million input tokens and […]

DSMTphoto/Shutterstock The modern automobile has evolved substantially over time, especially the transmission and the humble gear shifter. But whether we’re talking about column shifters, which some car makers are trying to bring back, paddle shifters, push-button gear selectors, floor-mounted sticks, or rotary dial doodads, they all have to […]

“The new PRD are the evals,” Xavi Amatriain, Expedia Group’s first chief AI and data officer, told the VB Transform 2026 audience last week in Menlo Park. “So basically, you encode what you want the product to do through your evals, which might include red teaming evals and all kinds of other things, which already […]