By his own admission, David Robinson is “something of a cliché”: an employee at a leading AI company who issues a dire warning while resigning from their job.

Bitchat has become largely unavailable in India as a result of the restrictions.

Vessev hopes its electric hydrofoil ferry will change the way people and cities think about boats.

AirPods 5 are an interesting step forward for Apple’s regular AirPods lineup. They keep the familiar open-fit design but add ANC (active noise cancellation), the H2 chip, improved audio, better water resistance, and several smarter features previously seen on the Pro range. The biggest surprise is just how effective the ANC can be without silicone ear tips sealing t...

We created a list of the most notable AI agents that can live in your text messages, from general assistants to agents designed for families, travel, and work.

Farooq Abbasi, an investor in Neko Health, talked to Equity about the hot health tech company and what's next for it.

With the first round of Brazil's presidential election taking place Sunday, Wall Street is gearing up with starkly different market predictions.

Amazon Great Indian Festival Sale 2026 and Flipkart Big Billion Days Sale 2026 are about to begin, during which you will be able to get your hands on a laptop under Rs. 90,000. The Acer Aspire 7 (2026) is one of the few gaming laptops that you can get your hands on under Rs. 90,000. Currently listed at a slightly higher price, you can grab the laptop for under Rs. 90,...

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Amazon and Flipkart are gearing up for their biggest festive sales of the year. The Great Indian Festival and Big Billion Days sales are set to begin early next month, bringing discounts across smartphones and other electronics. Flipkart’s sale event will begin on October 9, with early access for eligible customers starting October 8, while Amazon’s Great Indian F...

A new study has identified two species of Brazilian birds, the bare-throated bellbird and the red-legged seriema, as the loudest in nature.

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Looking for the best phones under Rs. 30,000? Here are five options from Realme, OnePlus, Samsung, Redmi and Motorola to consider during the Amazon and Flipkart festive sales. The sale will offer additional discounts, exchange offers, and more. The final sale prices and bank offers may vary based on the offers. Amazon has already announced its October 8 start date and...

The mid-range smartphone segment in 2026 is very different from that in 2025. To keep profit margins in check, address the memory crisis’ rising prices, and stay competitive, brands are focusing on different features to make their smartphones stand out. We take a closer look at three mid-range smartphones on sale today, each standing out for a different reason.

Smartphone displays have come a long way in a short period of time. LCD panels, which once dominated the market, have been phased out in most segments in favour of more advanced display technologies. Today, buyers can choose from AMOLED, OLED, pOLED, and other types. Meanwhile, high-end smartphones are also increasingly advertised with another term — LTPO. It is oft...

Employment in the United States grew by 29,000 jobs in September, missing analysts' expectations significantly, with the unemployment rate rising slightly to 4.2 percent, government data showed on Friday. Adding to the weak data, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) also revised down job figures for July and August by a combined 60,000 jobs, the department said in a statement. The revision to July's data showed that the world's largest economy lost jobs that month, as opposed to posting a gain of 21,000 as previously reported. The data comes ahead of key midterm elections in November where US President Donald Trump's Republican Party is facing a stern test over his handling of the economy. Analysts polled by Dow Jones Newswires and the Wall Street Journal had expected the US economy to add 84,000 jobs in September. Employment in most major sectors was largely unchanged, the BLS reported, with health care posting notable gains of 17,000. The sector has propped up the labour market in the United States in the last year, as an ageing population requires more care in hospitals and at home. Still, September's gains in the sector were slower than its average monthly gain of 33,000 over the last year. The financial sector continued its downward slide, losing 7,000 jobs in September and bringing its overall slump from a recent peak in May 2025 to 129,000. Most of the losses in that sector have been among insurance companies. Average hourly earnings for all employees were up 3.0 percent, the BLS said, with wages continuing to lag behind stubbornly high inflation -- meaning most workers are seeing real wage losses. Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren seized on the data to criticize Trump's performance since taking office last year. "Paychecks are growing at their slowest rate in nearly seven years, outside of the Covid-19 pandemic," she said in a statement. "Since the start of Trump's war, real wages have fallen 0.7 percent as his failed agenda keeps pushing prices up," she said, referring to the US war against Iran launched in late February. The conflict has plunged the Middle East into violence and sent global energy prices skyrocketing, as Tehran's retaliatory action has targeted Washington's regional allies and choked a key trading route. The data comes after the US Federal Reserve -- which has a dual mandate to maintain inflation at a long-term two-percent target while ensuring maximum employment -- raised interest rates last month to address high prices. (AFP) Edited by Robert Kemp

Meta wants Muse in your TV and your toaster, so it's giving the code away for free.

The proposed legislation would extend to all automotica license plate readers.

US markets closed higher on Friday after weak US jobs data lowered the odds of Federal Reserve rate hikes. Major US indices spent most of the day solidly in positive territory following the lacklustre hiring data for September. Equities were also supported by a pullback in oil prices after G7 countries agreed to an emergency release of fuel reserves in light of the US-Iran war. Data showed that employment in the United States grew by 29,000 jobs in September, missing analysts' expectations of around 90,000, with the unemployment rate rising slightly to 4.2 percent. The jobs report "is lousy for the economy, but could keep the Fed from making trouble, and so the market was pretty good with it," said Chris Low of FHN Financial. "Today's report may revive the 'bad news is good news' narrative, but hoping for a weaker labor market just to secure easier financial conditions is a poor tradeoff," said eToro analyst Bret Kenwell. Following a positive day on European bourses, the S&P 500 finished up 0.7 percent, with 10 of 11 sectors in positive territory. The S&P 500 gained 56.27 points, or 0.7 percent, to 7,722.72, the Nasdaq Composite gained 319.27 points, or 1.2 percent, to 27,190.86, and the Dow rose 250.4 points, or half a percent to 51,176.96. Oil prices, meanwhile, retreated as G7 leaders held a video conference chaired by French President Emmanuel Macron, while the United States stepped up pressure on Europe to release strategic reserves and threatened a diesel export ban. The seven countries agreed to a coordinated release through the International Energy Agency of 100 million barrels "to begin immediately over four months, including a front-loaded substantial diesel release within the first 20 days," the leaders said in a statement released by Macron's office. They also said there would be no ban on diesel exports between them. US oil prices dropped sharply -- as much as five percent at one point, before recovering somewhat. The US benchmark finished down around two percent at US$91.11 per barrel. International benchmark Brent crude edged down just 0.1 percent to US$102.25 a barrel, with traders still focused on the prolonged US-Iran conflict. "Diesel is now a macro problem as much as an energy one, feeding directly into freight, food, industry, inflation and ultimately bond yields," noted Stephen Innes of SPI Asset Management. "Strategic stock releases can cool the immediate price shock, but drawing down insurance ahead of winter is hardly a comfortable signal," he added. Elsewhere, Eurozone inflation surged to 3.8 percent in September, the highest level in three years, as the war in the Middle East fuelled a jump in energy costs, official data showed on Friday. Among individual companies, Nike dropped 3.6 percent as it projected a decline in full-year sales and announced plans to cut an undetermined number of jobs while attempting to accelerate a turnaround. (AFP) Edited by Robert Kemp

Sean Parker, who once taught the music industry what asking for forgiveness looks like, is now back with the labels' blessing and money.

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Banks are fueling a hiring surge for AI engineers who are good at "agent orchestration" — the ability to coordinate teams of specialized agents.

Apple says it will add new controls around macOS’s Full Disk Access permission, warning that increasingly capable AI agents make broad access to users’ files, messages, mail, and browsing history riskier.

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This week, the White House got nearly every major tech CEO in one room — Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei among them — to sign an AI safety pledge that President Donald Trump called “morally binding.” Trump also signed an executive order officially rebranding AI as “super intelligence,” and meanwhile, Meta and OpenAI are putting friendlier faces on their AI products, even as the biggest money […]

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With all the talk about how AI might one day kill us all, it's easy to forget that AI has already harmed some people psychologically. Circuit Breaker Labs has created "crash-test dummies" to solve that.

Economists had taken a recent drop in Black unemployment as a hopeful sign that job gains were lifting a broad share of workers.