A UK electric motor maker is teaming up with a California startup to build a new kind of supersonic jet engine. The hybrid-electric “Duality” engine aims for Mach 3+ flight and could fly within three years. But the path to affordable supersonic travel is littered with failures.
Anker has a clever new docking station that tries to solve the portability vs. ports dilemma. Its key feature is a small, credit-card-sized hub that ejects from the front for on-the-go use.
A consortium of ten major European banks is launching Qivalis, a new euro-denominated stablecoin. Led by ex-Coinbase Germany MD Jan-Oliver Sell, the project aims to provide a European alternative in a market they see as U.S.-dominated. They plan to apply for a Dutch EMI license and launch the coin i
The next big laptop processor battle is officially on the calendar. Asus will unveil its Panther Lake AI PCs on January 6, 2026, right after Intel’s expected chip reveal at CES. But they’ll face fierce competition from Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite.
Asus and Microsoft have teamed up for the ROG Xbox Ally X, a 2025 handheld focused on improving the software “experience.” It packs AI features and Xbox integration, but faces hurdles with its complexity and high price starting at £799.
In a break from its usual pricing strategy, Garmin is keeping its Forerunner 165 smartwatch at a discounted $200. The deal, originally for Cyber Monday, persists as Amazon works through remaining inventory. It’s a notable price cut for a feature-packed fitness watch.
A Windows Central writer accepted every default setting in a fresh Windows 11 25H2 install, including forced online accounts and extra telemetry. The experiment highlights how Microsoft is making it increasingly difficult to bypass its requirements, raising serious questions about user control and p
Mixpanel disclosed a security incident affecting customers like OpenAI in a bare-bones blog post right before the holiday weekend. The company’s CEO ignored detailed questions, leaving the scale and specifics of the breach a mystery. This incident throws a harsh light on the data analytics industry’
A flood of new data centers is overwhelming the PJM power grid, leading to billions in added costs for 67 million customers and raising the risk of blackouts. A bipartisan legislative coalition is pushing a “bring-your-own-power” plan to make tech giants responsible for their own energy needs.
Content delivery giant Akamai is acquiring Fermyon, a leader in server-side WebAssembly technology. The deal, announced December 1, follows over a year of partnership between the two companies. It marks a major vote of confidence in Wasm for distributed edge computing.
