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Updated: Oct 14, 2026 9:17pm UTCThe iPhone Duo, Apple's first foldable, is already an incredibly expensive phone, rolling in at $1,999 to start. While the buy-in price is high, it's also going to be extremely expensive if it breaks. Ahead of the iPhone Duo's release next week, the foldable's repair costs were found by 9to5Mac, and they're staggering if you don't have AppleCare+. They range from damage on the glass back of the phone costing you $199 to inner screen damage costing $999 to repair. Apple will apparently also charge up to $1,499 to fix "other damage," though it's not clear what exactly that means. All of these prices will be drastically lowered by having AppleCare+. Because the iPhone Duo is such an expensive and complicated device, anyone dropping the cash to buy one should seriously consider bundling AppleCare with it. I'd even go further and suggest picking up an iPhone Duo case on top of that. As scary as these high repair prices look, Apple basically skipped the era of fragile foldables.

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The Defense Department is giving AI company Anthropic an ultimatum to agree to its terms for the use of AI technology in the military by a Friday deadline or the Pentagon will force it to comply, according to a Pentagon official and a source familiar with the matter. The Pentagon has been using Anthropic's technology as part of a $200 million pilot program in the Department of Defense. But during a Tuesday meeting with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei walked through Anthropic's red lines, which include autonomous weapons -- where AI, not humans, makes final targeting decisions -- and mass domestic surveillance of American citizens, the source said. The Pentagon official says the dispute with Anthropic has nothing to do with mass surveillance and autonomous weapons being used, adding that the Pentagon has always followed the law. "Legality is the Pentagon's responsibility as the end user," the official said. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei delivers a speech during the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, Feb. 19, 2026.

“This is great news for us. We’re staffing up. We’re accelerating.” A test unit for DAVINCI's entry probe is moved into a furnace at Rex Heat Treat in Bedford, Pennsylvania, for thermal testing.

Keeping Quesnel’s beloved Billy Barker Days tradition alive will take more than a summer crowd, it will take people willing to step up. The annual festival could be in jeopardy next year as the Billy Barker Days Society searches for people to fill three key positions.

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Google's latest wearable seems like a Fitbit Air with a screen, but the two actually have less in common than you might think. Google cares about fitness trackers again. The company has continually iterated on the Pixel Watch since it launched in 2022 and even released the kid-focused Fitbit Ace LTE in 2024, but you wouldn't be wrong to think the company had all but given up on releasing an affordable wearable under the Fitbit name. That changed in May with the release of the $99 Fitbit Air, an affordable Whoop competitor without a screen. It changed again in October with the introduction of the $179 Fitbit Edge, a new half-step between the company's most affordable tracker and the Pixel Watch 5. Both devices offer AI-powered features not available on Fitbit's older wearables, and more importantly, do so without costing an arm and a leg or locking you into the Android ecosystem.

Employers around the globe are grappling with the fallout from rushing to adopt fast-changing artificial intelligence tools. Meta has scaled back plans to axe staff and use more AI agents after the company found employees were spending more and more time cleaning up technical and security errors, Reuters reported. And after thinning its workforce, especially middle managers, in a 2023 efficiency push, the company is expanding its managerial ranks again, LinkedIn posts from workers show. At Microsoft, which rolled out AI widely internally, executive vice-president Ryan Roslansky recently publicly lamented the prevalence of AI slop in his day-to-day work. After receiving “what was clearly an AI-generated doc” from a co-worker, he used his AI to summarize it and came away with no new thinking about the idea, he said. He warned his followers against falling into this potential “doom loop”, where AI does the reading and writing and leaves behind an “ocean of sameness”. Meanwhile, Walmart store and warehouse employees are being plagued by unreasonable expectations, errors and false alerts from AI tools that assign tasks, schedules and monitor performance, Business Insider reported.

Fine particulate matter consists of tiny particles with diameters in the nanometer range. They are produced, for example, by fuel combustion, remain suspended in the air and can penetrate deep into the respiratory tract. There, they can trigger oxidative stress, a process that promotes inflammation and, over the long term, can lead to serious health problems such as respiratory or cardiovascular diseases. Scientists call this harmful property the particles' oxidative potential. However, fine particles usually remain in the atmosphere for hours or even several days before people inhale them. Little is known about how these particles' harmful properties change over time. A research team led by Professor Markus Kalberer therefore investigated how the oxidative potential, and thus the toxicity, of fine particles emitted by a small aircraft jet engine and a marine diesel engine develops over time.

Google’s new Fitbit Edge tracker launches later this month and, as we get our review together, here’s a quick hands-on look at the new middle child of Google’s wearable lineup. The Fitbit Edge sits in between the screen-less Fitbit Air and the pricey & premium Pixel Watch 5. It’s the same slot that Google last addressed with the Fitbit Charge 6 back in 2023, but it does bring some changes this time around that make it even more of a “Pixel Watch Lite” than the Charge 6 already was.