I’ve worn the all-new Shokz open earbuds for 4 days and the ‘noise reduction’ is so good, I forget they’re open-ear

Head-tracked spatial audio and ANC in open earbuds? Yes, you can, with the latest flagship offering from Shokz [...]

Kimi-K2 is the next open-weight AI milestone from China after Deepseek

Moonshot AI from China has launched Kimi-K2, a new open-weight large language model designed to rival top proprietary models like Claude Sonnet 4 and GPT-4.1, without a dedicated reasoning module—ma [...]

Everything announced at Samsung Unpacked: The Galaxy S26 Ultra, Galaxy Buds 4 and more

Mobile World Congress is right around the corner, but Samsung got out ahead of many rivals that will be showing off new handsets at that event by running the latest edition of Unpacked on Wednesday. A [...]

OpenAI delays release of open-weight model indefinitely over safety concerns

OpenAI will reportedly soon release a new language model with open weights, alongside its own AI-powered web browser.<br /> The article OpenAI delays release of open-weight model indefinitely ov [...]

How to check if your VPN is working

One of the disconcerting things about using a virtual private network (VPN) is that it can be hard to tell when it's doing its job. The best VPNs all work in the background to keep your IP addres [...]

Google introduces open protocol for AI agent payments

Google has introduced the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), a new open standard aimed at enabling AI agents to carry out secure payments across different platforms.<br /> The article Google introdu [...]

Databricks says it solved the decades-old data pipeline problem that's been slowing AI agents

For decades, data professionals have struggled with the challenge of managing both operational and analytical databases in a unified approach that doesn't introduce latency and performance degrad [...]

Xiaomi's open-weight MiMo-V2.5-Pro takes aim at Claude Opus with hours-long autonomous coding

Xiaomi's new MiMo-V2.5-Pro nearly matches Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 on coding benchmarks while burning 40 to 60 percent fewer tokens, according to the company. The release pushes Xiaomi de [...]

Xiaomi is teasing clip-style open earbuds, and having tested its previous open buds there's one one small feature that could make them must-buys

Xiaomi is teasing its first clip-style earbuds. If the company uses its sound leaking tech from its past open-ears, these could be gems. [...]