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Amazon’s personal AI wearable maker, Bee, is announcing its first new products since being acquired by the retail giant last year. The tech company on Thursday introduced the Bee Frontier, the next generation of its device that can be worn on the wrist or pinned to clothes, along with Bee Eclipse, a credit-card-sized device that magnetically attaches to the back of your smartphone. The latter puts Bee into more direct competition with AI devices like the Plaud Note or Pocket, but at a lower price point — the Bee Frontier is $74.99, compared with $159 for the Plaud Note (or $189 for the Note Pro), or $129 for the Pocket AI device.

Companies in the Technology sector have received a lot of coverage today as analysts weigh in on DigitalOcean Holdings (DOCN), Zoom Communications Inc (ZM) and Applied Materials (AMAT). DigitalOcean Holdings (DOCN)In a report released today, James Fish from Piper Sandler maintained a Hold rating on DigitalOcean Holdings, with a price target of $142.00. The company’s shares closed last Tuesday at $128.21. According to TipRanks.com, Fish is a 5-star analyst with an average return of 15.2% and a 57.1% success rate.

Not long after its spring release, the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra became the world’s fastest selling Android phone of the year, even with a price tag of over $1,000. Its biggest selling point is the brand-new Privacy Display feature, which can dim screen visibility from the side and make snooping nearly impossible. Drew Blackard, Samsung’s SVP of Mobile Product Management, touts the software as a more flexible alternative to stick-on privacy screen protectors. “The user can decide when it turns on,” he says, “or limit visibility for specific content such as popup notifications.”Buy now: Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra on Samsung

After losing his fingers in a fireworks accident in Nigeria on New Year’s Day 2019, Ubokobong Amanam couldn’t find a prosthetic that matched his dark skin tone. His brother, John, a special-effects artist, crafted him a hyperrealistic hand, and together they founded Immortal Cosmetic Art, making lifelike prosthetics for other Black amputees. “We try to restore comfort and confidence to the amputee,” Ubokobong says. With a background in technology and electronics, John next set out to develop a prosthetic that was not only realistic but also functional. The resulting Ubokobong Bionic Arm—which is myoelectric, or controlled by muscle signals—is now with clients across 56 countries.

Post-pandemic, many companies have eschewed assigned cubicles for “hot-desking.” Stacy Wolff, Senior VP of Design & Sustainability at HP, says the practice can make workers feel like middle school students: “From class to class, you have to bring everything with you. And by God, you better have a No. 2 pencil.” The new HP Eliteboard G1a Next Gen AI PC is designed to lessen that load. Like the Commodore 64 or Apple IIe of yore, the EliteBoard is a full computer built into a keyboard. But the latter features a full sized numeric keypad and weighs less than two pounds, considerably lighter than most laptops. Two USB-C ports allow you to connect monitors and external hubs to access the full desktop experience at any desk.

High-risk cybersecurity vulnerabilities have been uncovered in a widely deployed large language model (LLM) gateway tool used by organizations to connect their AI applications to AI software providers including OpenAI, Google and Anthropic. With almost 100,000 downloads a month, LiteLLM is an open-source tool widely used across enterprises to aid with the building of AI applications and services.

So you love your Instax, but miss being able to capture a quick video; the Fujifilm Instax Mini Evo Cinema offers oodles of analog charm in a digital friendly package. Styled like a Super 8 camera, the device shoots photos, which it can print on rectangular instant film, and 15-second video clips, which can be stored on an SD card or sent to its app. Twist its “Gen Dial” before shooting to apply effects inspired by a century of film formats. The tactility of the experience encourages people to take “a step back from distractions,” says Ashley Reeder Morgan, Fujifilm Vice President of Marketing and Consumer Products. Buy now: Fujifilm Instax Mini Evo Cinema on Instax US

While action cameras can shoot anywhere, they’re not known for producing movie theater-quality footage. The GoPro Mission 1 PRO ILS shatters that silver ceiling. Designed with input solicited on the sets of “Game of Thrones” and “Twisters,” the new release is now the smallest 8K cinema camera available. It’s also GoPro’s first with a Micro Four Thirds mount, adding compatibility with many lenses designed for more traditional cameras. That means the same camera you’d use while careening down a mountain can capture the beauty of valley flora après ski, says principal product manager Fong Tran. Buy now: GoPro Mission 1 Pro ILS at GoPro

Just below the broad smile he’s been wearing all morning, John Ternus’ hands are shaking. On this September day in Silicon Valley, Apple’s new CEO is surrounded by celebrities, tech enthusiasts, and reporters who have flocked to Apple Park from around the world to catch a glimpse of the company’s new and long-awaited foldable phone, the Duo. After Ternus takes a few photos with the device, an Apple PR rep pulls the influencer known as IShowSpeed out of the crowd to meet him. Winning over the 21-year-old isn’t exactly the toughest assignment Ternus has faced in his 25-year Apple career: Speed barks when he sees the phone and then gleefully springs into a backflip. But IShowSpeed also happens to be livestreaming the encounter to his 61 million subscribers on YouTube. And as Ternus thumbs through the $1,999-and-up phone, attempting to drag a photo into a text-message box, eagle-eyed viewers notice his hands quivering. Ternus later explains that he didn’t sleep much the night before. “I was on such a moment of adrenaline and caffeine and excitement for the day,” he tells TIME. Ternus, who took over as CEO on Sept.

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Apple has begun inviting selected members of the media to a product launch experience in Los Angeles on Wednesday, October 28, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. In a post on X, Gurman described the gathering as an "all-day product launch experience" for touchscreen MacBooks, a new iPad mini, and Macs equipped with M6 chips.

"We would love for people to be able to play the game on Xbox, but not until Microsoft and/or Xbox have been removed as BDS boycott targets" Melbourne-based developer House House will not release its co-op hit Big Walk on Xbox, citing support for the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) campaign.

There’s a new digital pet in town — a cute little marshmallow of a robot that can change its cartoony expressions to match your mood. But if you or your kids talk to “Eiliko” over Wi-Fi, it’ll phone home to China. Its AI companion can store literally everything you tell it on Chinese servers, where hackers can easily gain access or even hijack its personality. And the company that made it, Energize Lab, doesn’t seem to care. I bought an Eiliko from Amazon on August 29th. During a 10-minute conversation on August 30th, I asked the little bot: “Do you ever tell anybody else what I’m saying?”“Your secrets are safe with me,” it replied. Within minutes, a man on the other side of the planet had a complete transcript of everything I’d told the toy. Photo by Sean Hollister / The VergeHe didn’t just have my conversations, either. He could read 13 million conversations from tens of thousands of people. He could access seemingly the entire active worldwide fleet of 68,000 robot toys. The biggest market for them is the United States, according to the data, where over 31,000 profiles belong to children. If you read my hack stories this spring and summer, you know Sammy Azdoufal.

If you have young kids or if you know somebody who does, then you know about YouTube’s AI slop problem. Videos targeted at children on the platform are often filled with bizarre and hyperstimulating content that’s AI generated. Not all of it is age-appropriate. These videos autoplay on endless, algorithmically curated streams punctuated by ads. Maka, a new streaming app for kids aged 0 to 6, is positioning itself as an antidote to that concern. The platform has zero ads and doesn’t allow autoplay or endless scrolling, and its algorithms intentionally do not maximize watch time. The company’s cofounder and chief product officer, Tanyella Leta, tells WIRED the platform is purposely abandoning the mechanisms that “turn children’s media into an engagement machine.”Maka’s CEO and cofounder Isabel Sheinman adds that a lot of the streamers were built to serve adults, not children. “Kids were really the afterthought,” she says. Sheinman wants to set a much higher bar for what quality looks like in children’s media, which she says has been warped by harmful incentives.