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Tesla teases Cybercab with a built-in Starlink V5 antenna
Tesla has revealed that its upcoming Cybercab robotaxi will feature a built-in SpaceX Starlink V5 satellite dish, showcased via a cutaway image posted on X alongside GPS and 5G LTE connectivity. The move is another example of cross-pollination between Elon Musk’s companies, positioning the vehicle to draw on space-based internet for autonomous driving support, though…
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Nintendo’s single-player Splatoon spin-off feels flat despite fun weapon tinkering
Splatoon Raiders, Nintendo’s first single-player-focused spinoff from its inventive multiplayer shooter series, has launched on Switch 2 to a disappointingly ordinary reception, according to the Guardian’s review. While the game can be completed solo, it is designed around cooperative play with up to three others, sending players out from a hideout ship on repeatable missions…
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Intel fortifies Foundry with an actual customer: Fortinet
Fortinet has announced it will use Intel Foundry to manufacture its sixth-generation Security Processor (SP6), marking a notable customer win for Intel’s struggling foundry business. The chip will feature dedicated accelerators for security and cryptographic operations used in Fortinet’s hardware firewalls, which the company builds around custom ASICs rather than commodity x86 or Arm processors,…
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Headaches for Silicon Valley as China chips away at the US’s lead in the AI race
Google is falling behind schedule on its next flagship AI model, Gemini 3.5, as it races to improve coding performance to match Anthropic’s Claude, sending its shares lower on investor concern. At the same time, Chinese startup Moonshot released Kimi K3, a free, open-weight model with unexpectedly strong coding abilities that has generated huge demand,…
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Samsung establishes a robotics division
Samsung has set up a new division called RX (Robotics eXperience) to consolidate all its robotics work, reflecting a wider push across the tech industry to develop “physical AI”. The division will be led strategically by Dongkun Lee, a recent hire from Hyundai who previously oversaw that company’s robotics work, including its involvement with Boston…
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8 Best Smartwatches (2026): Apple, Google, and Hybrid Watches
This WIRED buying guide rounds up the best smartwatches available in 2026, covering options for iPhone and Android users as well as budget and hybrid picks. It matters for shoppers because smartwatch prices have risen due to component costs and supply chain pressures, making informed choices more valuable, and the guide narrows a crowded market…
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Another former Xbox studio is “independently owned, again” after Microsoft shut it down in 2024
Alpha Dog Games, the developer of Mighty Doom, has reportedly re-emerged as an independent studio after Microsoft closed it in 2024. The move is significant because it adds to a growing group of former Xbox studios that have regained independence amid Microsoft’s restructuring and repeated job cuts. The evidence comes from founder Shawn Woods’ LinkedIn…
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No PS5 Version of Heavy Rain Dev’s PS2 Classic Indigo Prophecy, as Sony Mucks Up Again
Sony has clarified that a planned re-release of Quantic Dream’s PS2 crime thriller Indigo Prophecy (known as Fahrenheit in Europe) will not, in fact, arrive on PS5 as originally suggested. Despite earlier PlayStation Blog wording implying the game would be rebuilt using Sony’s new emulator with native PS5 support, the version going live is actually…
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From youth mobility to food exports: the outstanding EU dilemmas facing Burnham
Andy Burnham, Britain’s new prime minister, is set to face the same unresolved dilemmas in the UK-EU relationship that confronted his predecessors, with an EU-UK summit scheduled for the autumn expected to bring these tensions into focus. Although European leaders including Ursula von der Leyen and Friedrich Merz have offered warm congratulations and invitations, analysts…