Half of all US consumers use AI services — but only a small fraction pay for them. Google is trying to shift the balance by giving users of its Gemini AI services reasons to become paying customers. Users are certainly reluctant to dip into their pockets. A quarter of USContinue Reading
I use GNOME as my primary desktop environment on my Linux PC at home. GNOME gives me an easy-to-use graphical desktop that provides the flexibility I need yet doesn’t get in my way when I focus on my work. GNOME recently released GNOME 44 with a bunch of new features.Continue Reading
Battery materials company Nanoramic has released a product catalog of eight NXSP electrode materials: four grades for lithium-ion cathodes and four for silicon anodes. The NXSP products are designed as drop-in materials for mass production. The cathode series uses an ultra-high solid content slurry and is designed to increase energyContinue Reading
The Irizar Group presented a new 15-metre version of its electric Class II Irizar i3 Normal Floor at the recent FIAA International Bus and Coach Trade Fair in Madrid. The new 15-metre version of the Irizar i3 model has a range of boasts a range of 500 km. It’s designedContinue Reading
Ascend AI chips surpass Nvidia in China as Huawei weans off American tech According to Huawei’s own estimate, its Ascend AI chips now outsell Nvidia’s in China. The company has released the transcript of its meeting with reporters around the Huawei Connect conference held earlier, and the claim was issued by rotating chairman Eric Xu.Continue Reading
Varda hd a $250M Series D raise, bringing the total amount of capital raised to $598 million with a $1.6Billion valuation. Varda is a microgravity-enabled life sciences company that processes materials in orbit and returns them to Earth. This funding will help them build more vehicles, grow pharmaceutical partnerships, and advance toward the first medicineContinue Reading
Published Oct 8, 2026, 6:00 PM EDT Derek Malcolm has been covering the worlds of tech and entertainment for more than two decades. Before coming to How-To Geek in 2025, Derek was a contributing editor and writer for the A/V and Home Theater section at Digital Trends , where he wrangled and wrote everything from whatContinue Reading
Teenage figure skaters as young as 13 are being increasingly targeted by abusive comments on social media, Olympic gold medalist Evan Bates has warned. In a sport which has seen revived popularity since the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, Bates said some users were creating “toxic environments” around livestreamed eventsContinue Reading
A U.S. charity in Gaza is worried that teachers at its schools might stray from a curriculum it says promotes peace and tolerance, so it plans to record classroom conversations and use artificial intelligence to flag speech deemed “hateful” or “inciting.” The plans laid out by the founder of theContinue Reading
There’s a certain segment of the American population that likes to really bang on about the importance of the First Amendment to our rights to free speech and the freedom of religion… right up until that includes speech and religion they don’t like. This same segment also tends to makeContinue Reading
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Ubuntu’s websites are experiencing a “sustained distributed denial of service attack” today (8 October 2026). Update: Incident was resolved, with websites offline for 4 hours and 12 minutes. Canonical says some of its online sites will be ‘intermittently unavailable’ as its teams work to resolve the incident. There’s no ETAContinue Reading
Google seems to be making a strategic play to control the AI infrastructure layer, not just roll out another shiny new agent. At its Gemini at Work 2026 event this week, the tech giant unveiled what it calls a “single, universal agent” and API in Gemini that can be kickedContinue Reading
KDE Frameworks 6.28.0 Released with Android Calendar Plugin, New Barcode Support, and KIO Improvements. KDE has released Frameworks 6.28.0, the latest monthly update to its set of over 80 libraries that form the foundation of Plasma and most KDE applications. This release brings several useful new features along with theContinue Reading