#Hardware
Curated coverage on «Hardware»: releases, research, benchmarks, open-source.
Apple to release OLED iPad mini in late October with a $200 price hike
Bloomberg reports Apple will unveil a new iPad mini in late October 2026: OLED instead of IPS, a redesigned body and a $200 price increase over the current model.
Nothing's CMF Launches Its First Speakers, and The Verge Compares Them to Milk Cartons
Nothing's budget sub-brand has entered the speaker market. The Verge saw milk cartons in the design, while price, sound and battery life remain the main open…
Google launches Fitbit Edge at $179.99 with a bigger screen and AI coach
Google has launched the Fitbit Edge, a fitness tracker with the largest screen in the lineup (46% more display area), a 7-day battery, and a built-in AI coach. It…
30 Years of the Internet: From a 56 kbit/s Modem to a Satellite Terminal in Your Backpack
K2 Cloud Product Manager Warns: A Cheap GPU Hour Can Blow Up Your AI Project Budget
Honor Magic9 Tops Android Flagship Sales in China, Some Versions Sold Out
QualCom grew revenue 5.4% to 891 million rubles, but lost 16% of profit
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B hits 109 tok/s on an RTX 5080 with an RTX 3060 on PCIe Gen2 x4
An enthusiast ran a 35B model on an RTX 5080 and an RTX 3060 in a PCIe Gen2 x4 slot (about 2 GB/s) and got 109 tokens/s. Here's why the narrow link wasn't a…
Wearable Stereo Camera Estimates Food Volume With 9.1% Error, No Reference Object Needed
A pipeline of FoundationStereo, SAM 2 and TSDF builds a 3D model of a meal from a single stereo clip from a wearable. Mean volume error across five dishes: 9.1%.
CXMT claims breakthrough in 4F² memory cell architecture, prepares server DRAM for late 2026
Tim Cook Visits China for the Third Time This Year as iPhone 18 Pro and Foldable iPhone Duo Face Their Test
The Verge Launches a Local AI Diary: Hermes, Qwen and a Mac Studio
Servers 2027: Rubin Ultra, MI500, and Open Interconnects Break the Monopolies
Oracle trucks natural gas to data centers as New Mexico pipeline runs late
Oracle is weighing truck deliveries of gas to a New Mexico build site where a pipeline is lagging. By our estimate, one LNG tanker covers about an hour of 100 MW.
IEEE Launches Five-Course AI Processor Architecture Program Taught by Avatars
IEEE Educational Activities and the Computer Society released five AI chip design courses, from the memory wall to edge, cloud and quantum systems. Avatars replace…