A smart scale with a screen on its handle? Wyze might be onto something

For about $30 more than the original, Wyze’s Plus model adds a handle screen and phone-free readouts.

Emerging Tech     Shikhar Mehrotra     October 19

Think parental controls keep kids away from nudify apps? This report says otherwise

Removing nudify apps from stores didn’t disable them on test phones, so parents may need to check devices themselves.

Emerging Tech     Shikhar Mehrotra     October 19

E Ink’s new color screen could make PDFs and digital notebooks easier on the eyes

E Ink says its new color e-paper platform improves color range, whites, and contrast, but lists no price or date.

Emerging Tech     Shikhar Mehrotra     October 16

Xreal’s latest AR glasses fix the brightness problem, but leave the rest largely untouched

Xreal's refreshed AR glasses jump to 1,200 nits of brightness and smoother 3D conversion without raising the One Pro’s price.

Emerging Tech     Shikhar Mehrotra     October 15

A $75 gadget that remembers my conversations? Bee has my attention and my reservations

Bee’s new wrist-or-clip Frontier and phone-mounted Eclipse summarize your conversations, but more features need a subscription.

Emerging Tech     Shikhar Mehrotra     October 15

Anthropic warns of imminent self-replicating AI that might even work off an oven or TV

Anthropic claims that these self-replicating AI swarms will need something with as little computing power as an average Internet-connected device, like a smart oven or an Android TV box.

Emerging Tech     Nadeem Sarwar     October 13

Tiny robots could shrink weeks of heart infection treatment into a single day

Johns Hopkins engineers built rice-sized magnetic robots that deliver antibiotics straight to infected heart tissue, potentially replacing weeks of IV drugs or risky open-heart surgery.

Emerging Tech     Rachit Agarwal     October 12

Meta goes toe-to-toe with the big boys as it launches Muse Wonder AI models

Meta has just launched its latest frontier AI models in the Muse Wonder series, rubbing shoulders against the likes of Claude Opus 5.5, Google Gemini 4 Argon, and OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra.

Emerging Tech     Nadeem Sarwar     October 12

AI can’t tell if you’re gay or straight, but it thinks it knows what both look like

Researchers tested OpenAI's and Google's image-generation models and discovered a surprising inconsistency. While the models refused to make sensitive judgments about people's appearances, they were far more willing to create images based on those very same assumptions.

Emerging Tech     Shimul Sood     October 9

A clinical study with Google’s special chatbot shows a strong future for AI in healthcare

A new clinical study suggests Google’s AMIE chatbot could support doctors by gathering patient histories and surfacing possible diagnoses before an appointment.

Emerging Tech     S. Kumar Manglam     October 9

Relaxation music had one job in this pain study, and favorite songs did it better

Patients who picked their own music reported less pain after an IV insertion in a 204-person study. The tested relaxation music didn’t help, while Mozart’s benefits were limited to patients with preexisting pain.

Emerging Tech     Paulo Vargas     October 9

A tiny humanoid robot uses an Android phone as its brain, and it costs just $400

Researchers have developed an affordable humanoid robot that can walk, follow people, and get back on its feet, all with a little help from an ordinary smartphone.

Emerging Tech     Shimul Sood     October 9

Intelligent UI turns ChatGPT answers into interactive tools while GPT-6 rolls out to a broader audience 

ChatGPT can now build interactive answers like maps and bill splitters, and OpenAI says GPT-6 will provide instant replies to searches sooner.

Emerging Tech     Shikhar Mehrotra     October 7

Checking body medication levels may now be as easy as sucking on a peach-flavoured lollipop

Researchers have developed Lollylab, a candy-coated lollipop with a graphene sensor that can detect acetaminophen in saliva in less than two minutes.

Emerging Tech     Moinak Pal     October 6

A US state just approved an AI doctor. For now, it’ll only prescribe acne cures.

At $4.99 per month, the Nolla Derm app will take care of your acne after making you go through a set of questions and a face scan to identify the skin condition.

Emerging Tech     Nadeem Sarwar     October 5

AI’s massive appetite could make cheap smartphones much harder to find

The booming demand for AI infrastructure is putting pressure on the same memory supply used by smartphones, and budget devices are feeling the squeeze first.

Emerging Tech     Shimul Sood     October 5

ChatGPT is taking ads into image generation, and your conversations could decide what you see

ChatGPT image generation is getting ads, placed by guardrails that first judge whether a conversation feels emotionally vulnerable.

Emerging Tech     Shikhar Mehrotra     October 5

OpenAI CEO says AI will cause some bad things, but the benefits are worth it

Sam Altman says the world should accept some bad things happening because of AI, arguing that its benefits outweigh certain risks while rejecting catastrophic outcomes.

Emerging Tech     Varun Mirchandani     October 4

A new sunlight-powered trick could make smelly trash bins a thing of the past

Researchers have built a lithium-boosted catalyst that uses sunlight to break down the sour smell of rotting food waste, and it was put to the test in real trash bins for 1,000 hours.

Emerging Tech     Rachit Agarwal     October 3

Researchers built a robot that turns a fall from the sky into a sailing trip

Researchers in Singapore built a robot that drops from the sky, spins down like a maple seed, and then sails across remote waters using nothing but wind.

Emerging Tech     Rachit Agarwal     October 3

Microsoft is teasing the next chapter of AI PCs: Here’s what could be coming

Microsoft has another vision for the AI PC, and this one could be far more ambitious.

Emerging Tech     Shimul Sood     October 2

Boston Dynamics’ Atlas is done doing backflips and is finally ready to clock in

Boston Dynamics and Hyundai are preparing to bring Atlas humanoid robots to factories, with plans to produce 30,000 robots annually and deploy 25,000 Atlas units for industrial work.

Emerging Tech     Rachit Agarwal     October 1

Guided Vision brings Gemini real-time visual assistance for accessibility, one year after Apple

Guided Vision turns your Android camera into a conversational narrator, built with the blind and low-vision community in mind.

Emerging Tech     Shikhar Mehrotra     October 1

OpenAI’s Dots are always-on agents that can investigate, build, and act across 4,000 apps

OpenAI's new Dots are always-on AI agents powered by GPT-6 Astra, launched at DevDay to directly rival Meta's Muse.

Emerging Tech     Shikhar Mehrotra     September 29

As Muse privacy issues raise alarm, Meta is giving it to businesses you probably visit each day

Meta's Muse AI agent now serves small businesses with Shopify, Slack, and QuickBooks integrations, despite ongoing privacy and security concerns.

Emerging Tech     Shikhar Mehrotra     September 29

ChatGPT’s $200 Pro plan is returning with a change you’ll want to know about

OpenAI is bringing back its $200 Pro subscription, but the way your usage is calculated is changing.

Emerging Tech     Shimul Sood     September 29

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