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LG C6 42-inch OLED42C6. Small-screen OLED that does cinema properly
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Sennheiser CX 80U. Budget USB-C buds that make the case for cables
Wires are creeping back into people's ears, and as the 3.5mm socket keeps disappearing from phones, the comeback is mostly happening over USB-C. The Sennheiser…
Sony Bravia Theatre Trio with Rear 9 and Sub 9. The upgrade that fixes the bass
Sony's Bravia Theatre Trio already did something unusual: it split the soundbar into three separate wireless speakers. A review published by What Hi-Fi? on October…
Wharfedale Diamond 12.1i HCP. A 5.1 favourite gets quiet but smart revisions
The Wharfedale Diamond 12 range has collected awards ever since it arrived in 2020. Its 5.1 home cinema package, the Diamond 12.1 HCP, won five…
BPI Counterfeit Vinyl Warning. The dark side of the record revival
Vinyl's long comeback has attracted the wrong kind of fan. On September 18, 2026, Rehan Ahmed, 40, of Southall, west London, was jailed for three…
Mobile
vivo X Fold6. Readers want the big foldable, just not at €2,200
The vivo X Fold6 has plenty of fans, but its price is…
Apple iPhone Duo. The App Store gets ready to unfold before the phone does
A foldable phone lives or dies by its apps. A stretched, letterboxed app on a big inner screen makes a premium device look half-finished. Apple…
vivo Y32. A recycled name wrapped around an 8000 mAh battery
vivo has slipped a new budget phone onto its Bangladesh website without any launch event, and it carries a name that may cause some confusion:…
WhatsApp Restricted Chat. Locking a conversation to your main phone
WhatsApp has started testing a stricter version of one of its privacy controls. Restricted Chat, an upgraded and renamed version of Advanced Chat Privacy, reached…
OnePlus 16. A 9,000mAh battery leads the spec sheet before the China launch
Rumors had been circling it for weeks, and now OnePlus has confirmed it: the OnePlus 16 will carry a 9,000mAh battery. Company executive Li Jie…
Photo
ACC Art Books Giant Panda. China’s national treasure in more than 80 photos
Few animals are as camera-friendly as the giant panda, and few have…
Martin Parr Common Sense. Ring Flash and Xerox Prints Come Back to Bristol
Few photo projects were as loud, as saturated or as cheerfully hard to look away from as Martin Parr's Common Sense. First shown in 1999,…
Allyson Schwab Wins Dismissal. A Wrestling Photographer’s Posts Ruled Opinion
A federal judge in Iowa has thrown out a defamation lawsuit that a youth wrestling YouTuber brought against a sports photographer. The case turned on…
Annie Leibovitz Sam Altman Portrait. A Romantic wanderer for the AI age
Annie Leibovitz has never been shy about borrowing from art history, and her portrait of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman for Vanity Fair goes straight to…
Laguna Beach Proposal Shoot. A Videographer’s Camera Caught a Racist Rant
Every wedding and proposal photographer knows the drill: scout the spot, set up early, and hope nobody walks into the frame. On Friday, October 2,…
Robots
Groceryshop 2026. Retail robots stop counting cans and start acting
Shelf-scanning robots used to be the curiosity at grocery trade shows. At…
SafeWorld Robot Safety Platform. Crash-testing robots before they meet people
Before a robot shares a warehouse aisle with people, someone has to show it won't run into them. Usually the robot maker builds that proof…
AWS Physical AI Toolchain. One open-source pipeline from synthetic data to robot
Building a robot brain usually means stitching together a pile of tools: one for generating training data, another for training, a simulator for testing, and…
Teradyne Robotics vs Elite Robots. A cobot software fight ends in a truce
One of the sharpest intellectual-property fights in the collaborative robot business ended without a verdict. On October 1, 2026, Teradyne Robotics A/S, the subsidiary of…
FireDome Wildfire Defense System. A robotic launcher that fires retardant first
Wildfires rarely take homes in one dramatic wall of flame. Far more often, the damage comes from wind-borne embers that land on roofs, decks and…
Technology
Microsoft Satya Nadella. Treat every AI model like an insider who might go rogue
Microsoft's chief executive has an unusual piece of advice for anyone wiring…
Palantir ELITE. ICE Weighed Feeding Voter Rolls Into a Deportation Tool
A targeting app built to find people for deportation may also have been lined up for a second job: hunting for illegal voters. Internal emails…
BMW iX4. A coupe-roofed Neue Klasse EV built to go the distance
BMW's answer to the wave of cheap Chinese EVs is not a price war but a range war. The BMW iX4, revealed on October 7,…
Plague Scare in Siberia. Why a Lab Accident Is Unlikely to Become an Outbreak
A broken test tube, a fatal pneumonia and a quarantined hospital in Siberia set off a wave of plague headlines in early October 2026. Health…
Oregon Data Centers. A grassroots revolt against tax breaks hits the ballot box
Oregon has long been one of the quiet engine rooms of the cloud. Its cheap power, cool climate and generous tax incentives drew server farms…
Entertainment
Gary Larson The Far Side. Ten panels where the joke is the whole point
How do you rank a comic that never had a recurring hero,…
SBS On Demand. Free streams for the first Gravel Worlds held outside Europe
Gravel racing's world title fight went to the other side of the planet in 2026. The UCI Gravel World Championships were set for 10–11 October…
Phantom Blade Zero. S-Game’s playable kung fu movie shows its claws
S-Game wants Phantom Blade Zero to feel like a kung fu film you hold in your hands, and a four-hour hands-on published by Polygon on…
Muramasa Revenant Blades. Vanillaware Sharpens a Wii Classic for 4K
Few 2D action games have aged as gracefully as Muramasa: The Demon Blade, and Vanillaware and Marvelous clearly know it. The hand-painted Wii hit from…
Polygon Cyberpunk Movies Ranking. Neon, Rust and the Machines That Own Us
Cyberpunk was never really about predicting gadgets. It is about who ends up living underneath them. That is the thesis of a new Polygon list…
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