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Traffic light trails along the Las Vegas Strip at night, illustrating a report on Nevada approving commercial robotaxi permits in Clark County.
Consumer Tech

Nevada Approved Thousands Of Robotaxis. Tesla's Own Engineer Says They Will Not Arrive.

The Nevada Transportation Authority granted Tesla up to 5,000 vehicles, Waymo 1,000 and Uber 1,000 across Clark County over twelve months. At the same hearing Tesla's Cybercab chief engineer said he did not think the company would be in a position to deploy 5,000 by then.

22 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
A professional video camera on a tripod facing a lit studio set, illustrating a report on a change to how a video platform counts views.
Consumer Tech

From Sunday A YouTube View Means Something Different

Views will count from the first frame instead of after about 30 seconds, and the old measure becomes Engaged Views inside analytics. Monetisation does not change. The public number does, and regional creator rates are priced on it.

20 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
An engineer working at a laptop beside electronics test rigs, illustrating a report on component costs in Xiaomi's handset margins.
Consumer Tech

The Memory Shortage Just Showed Up in Xiaomi's Phone Margin

Smartphone gross margin fell to 8.5 per cent from 11.5, with the company naming memory costs at historically high levels. Shipments fell 26 per cent while average prices rose, and the margin went down anyway.

19 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
A desk calendar standing on a pale surface, shot from a low angle. Its wire spiral binding runs along the top edge and the month name FEVEREIRO — February in Portuguese — is printed vertically down the left side in white on grey. The date grid beside it is faint and almost empty.
Consumer Tech

What Is One Month After 31 January?

28 February or 3 March — both are in daily use, and your date calculator probably will not tell you which one it picked. We checked our own, found it printing a claim its own arithmetic contradicted, and fixed eight tools.

16 Aug 2026 · 9 min read
A robotic arm on a manufacturing line, illustrating a report on Apple opening an advanced manufacturing centre in Houston.
Consumer Tech

Apple Is Building AI Servers in Texas. That Matters More Than the Mac.

Apple opened an Advanced Manufacturing Center in Houston with the Commerce Secretary in attendance. It is already shipping AI servers for its own infrastructure, and will assemble the Mac mini later this year. The upstream supply chain has not moved.

16 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
A digital blood pressure monitor, the clinical instrument the Pixel Watch 5 estimates a trend for rather than replaces.
Consumer Tech

The Pixel Watch 5 Reports Your Blood Pressure and Insulin Resistance. It Measures Neither.

Google's new watch estimates blood pressure and insulin resistance from pulse, motion and sleep, returning a monthly trend rather than a reading. Neither feature is FDA cleared, and no validation data has been published. Malaysia and Singapore are on the rollout list.

15 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
The Shanghai skyline at night, its towers lit against a dark sky above the river
Consumer Tech

Apple Built a Second AI Model to Get Into China. It Is the First Foreigner Allowed One.

The Cyberspace Administration has registered a generative AI service Apple built itself, with Alibaba alongside rather than in front. The permission was the product, and the price of it was a whole second stack.

14 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
A hand holding a smartphone displaying a voice assistant listening screen, with a coffee cup blurred in the background
Consumer Tech

Gemini Reached a Billion People. Google Did Not Say How Many Pay.

Google's assistant crossed a billion monthly actives on 11 August. The composition is more interesting than the total: about 63 per cent interact by voice, and 150 million images are generated every day.

13 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
Seen over a shoulder, two hands hold a phone with a message thread open and the on-screen keyboard raised — illustrative of the text conversations whose limits have been lifted.
Consumer Tech

ChatGPT Just Went Unlimited for Free Users. Read the Word "Text" Carefully.

The message cap is gone for typing, a better model is behind it, and file uploads, images and voice all keep their limits. The accuracy claim was measured on financial, medical and legal prompts.

11 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
A pair of unbranded dark glasses folded on a wooden surface — illustrative; camera glasses are built to be indistinguishable from ordinary eyewear.
Consumer Tech

Wetherspoon Did Not Ban Smart Glasses. It Banned Filming With Them.

More than 800 pubs, and the rule is about the recording rather than the device. That distinction is more durable than the headlines, and much harder to enforce.

11 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
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