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Amazon’s AGI department finds humans are optional
Amazon has cut an undisclosed number of jobs within its Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) division, the unit responsible for building its large AI models, even as the company insists AI remains one of its top priorities. The move highlights a broader contradiction at play across the tech industry, where firms are simultaneously pouring huge sums…
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My Week of Transparent Living With Apple’s ‘More Clear’ Liquid Glass Setting
A Wired writer trialled a new “more clear” slider in Apple’s iOS 27 public beta, which allows users to make the Liquid Glass interface even more transparent than its default setting. Liquid Glass, Apple’s translucent design overhaul, proved divisive when it launched in 2025, with critics citing poor text legibility, prompting Apple to make the…
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Framework’s premium laptop is shipping with less RAM
Framework has announced a “major and unfortunate” pricing update for its upcoming Laptop 13 Pro, affecting even customers who have already preordered the device. The company says the memory supplier it relies on has more than doubled its costs, forcing changes to RAM configurations and prices shortly before the laptop begins shipping. It is the…
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‘Shook me up’ – Reverend & The Makers frontman Jon McClure issues Tramlines update after accident
Jon McClure, frontman of Sheffield band Reverend and The Makers, said their Tramlines performance would still go ahead after he was injured in a scooter accident. The update reassured festival-goers that the band intended to fulfil its local festival commitments despite the injury scare. McClure said the accident happened while doing something “daft” on a…
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‘He’d lie down in front of the moving ship’: a fresh look at Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance expedition
A new book, The Endurance Photographs, presents high-definition scans of original glass-plate negatives taken by photographer Frank Hurley during Sir Ernest Shackleton’s 1914-17 Trans-Antarctic expedition, widely regarded as one of the greatest survival stories in exploration history. Published by Riverside Press with the Royal Geographical Society, the collection revives images from a voyage that ended…
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Remember Jibo? Its Successor Is a Wearable That Turns Your Life Into AI Slop
Lingverse, formerly known as Ling AI, has unveiled the iKairos, a wearable AI device it describes as a spiritual successor to Jibo, the endearing but short-lived social robot launched in 2014. Rather than reviving Jibo’s charm as a stationary companion robot, the iKairos is pitched as a camera-equipped gadget that observes its wearer and surroundings…
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Fatboy Slim invests in ‘The National Trust for Music Venues’ purchasing “lifeblood” space The Pipeline in Brighton: “Rooms like this are where dreams come true”
Fatboy Slim (real name Norman Cook) has helped fund the purchase of The Pipeline, a DIY punk venue in Brighton, through Music Venue Properties (MVP), a scheme dubbed the “National Trust for Music Venues.” The venue, where Cook performed in June, becomes the tenth to be brought under community ownership by the campaign, which buys…
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Xbox version of Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game delayed by over a month, less than 24 hours before launch
The Xbox release of Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game has been delayed by more than a month, with developer PM Studios making the announcement less than 24 hours before the game’s scheduled launch. The publisher cited “unforeseen circumstances on a backend feature” as the reason, pushing the Xbox version back to 3rd September. The late…
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Daniel Wu on ‘Cold War 1994,’ ‘Twilight of the Warriors’ and Coming Home to Hong Kong: ‘The Craft Still Challenges Me’
Daniel Wu received the Best from the East Award at the New York Asian Film Festival, marking a resurgence in his Hong Kong career via two major projects: “Cold War 1994” and the “Twilight of the Warriors” series. He told Variety he never deliberately left Hong Kong cinema, but a pandemic-thinned schedule and the pull…
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is expected to crash into the moon this August
A spent Falcon 9 rocket upper stage is expected to crash into the Moon on 5 August at around 2:35am ET, near the Einstein Crater, in an event astronomers on Earth should be able to observe with ground-based telescopes. The impact was first predicted by Bill Gray, creator of the Project Pluto planetarium software, who…