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Meta reportedly built a 48 kg humanoid robot prototype called Max in just three months in partnership with Chinese robotics startup Fourier, with a second version already in development and no plans to sell the units.

An open-source USB-C LTE modem board that gives a computer its own phone line — LTE data, SMS, and voice calls with call audio over USB — designed by Koppar from a one-page spec and fully documented with KiCad files, gerbers, and assembly instructions.

Google's first data center satellite, equipped with four Tensor Processing Units generating up to 1 kW, is now online in orbit to test large inference workloads in space, though TPU power limits restrict it to running a single chip for about 20 minutes at a time.

Gergely Orosz criticizes Sam Altman for complaining that individuals buying RAM for local AI inference on their PCs is competing with OpenAI's need to buy more hardware to sell inference at high margins, calling the take 'barking up the wrong tree'.

Best Buy is offering a $100 gift card automatically added to preorders of Apple's new touchscreen MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR display, available in 14- and 16-inch configurations including M6 chip models.

A user shares their custom MoE-centric AI workstation build featuring an AMD EPYC 7452, 256GB DDR4, and a Radeon AI PRO R9700 32GB GPU, costing roughly half as much as an NVIDIA DGX Spark and ready for experimenting with Qwen4.

Google DeepMind let AI agents design, simulate, and build a physical dancing jack-o-lantern robot with 12 degrees of freedom directly from a plain-English prompt, with no manual CAD required. The playful demo showcases AI-driven end-to-end design-to-robotics capabilities.

Bose QuietComfort Headphones (2nd Gen) hit their lowest price ever at over 40% off ahead of Black Friday, alongside discounts on other Bose headphones, earbuds, speakers, and soundbars.

OSnews discusses Raymond Chen's blog post about how long a PC power button must be held to force a shutdown, questioning why Microsoft's 8-second kernel dump timing seems inconsistent with the typical 4-5 second ATX force-off behavior.

A speculative analysis predicting that Qwen4's hybrid-context (HC) architecture will widen the quality gap between Q4 and Q6 quantization, requiring HC-aware quantization strategies and favoring llama.cpp over NVFP4-focused tools on non-Blackwell hardware.

Google Pixel Watch 5 dropped to its lowest price yet at $300 (25% off) in an early Black Friday sale across Amazon, Best Buy, and the Google Store, highlighting its Snapdragon W5 Gen 2 chip, improved fitness tracking, and Gemini AI integration.

据报导，AMD 计划在 11 月再次上调 Radeon GPU 价格，这可能进一步影响显卡市场的定价动态。

The Verge shares exclusive details about Akai's upcoming MPC Sample Key, a 37-key instrument focused on pitched sample playback with chord, arpeggiator, looper features and open-source software for the modding community.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said it's "quite terrible" for consumers to have RAM sitting idle in home PCs, arguing data centers offer better memory utilization — a claim that drew widespread backlash from hardware enthusiasts and forum commenters.

Fujifilm will invest about 10 billion yen ($63 million) to expand LTO tape production capacity fivefold by fiscal 2028, driven by surging enterprise data archiving needs from generative AI growth.

The Vergecast hosts discuss Apple's renewed period of gadget experimentation — including a touchscreen MacBook Pro, multi-screen iPhone, and HomeView — along with Instagram's long-form video push, Adam Mosseri's stance on AI content, and Anthropic's IPO.

Subvocal 宣布获得 YC 与 Afore Capital 130 万美元融资，其智能眼镜通过非接触式传感器追踪内部言语肌肉，将无声的默读解码为文本，速度超过每分钟 200 词，并开启预售。

AGILINK's OmniHand 3 Ultra learns delicate Suzhou embroidery techniques in collaboration with the Suzhou Silk Museum and embroidery inheritor Fu Xianghong, showcasing how close robot hands are getting to skilled, human-scale craftsmanship.

Wired profiles Apple's new CEO John Ternus after a 30-minute interview, highlighting his product-focused leadership style and role in launching the new touchscreen MacBook Pro as he emphasizes continuity with Apple's legacy under Tim Cook and Steve Jobs.

Arrowmax's Arrowspace S1 electric screwdriver uses a built-in camera and AI to identify screw type and size, recommend the right bit, and auto-select a safe torque setting, launching via Kickstarter ahead of an April 2027 ship date.