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Roland’s new digital piano has built-in Wi-Fi that integrates with a teaching app
Roland has launched the FP-40, a digital piano with built-in Wi-Fi, a feature that is highly unusual for this type of instrument. While Bluetooth connectivity is fairly common in digital pianos for linking to teaching apps, Roland says Wi-Fi offers a faster, more seamless connection, and it enables the piano and its companion software to…
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If hardware price squeezes make you sad, VMware says it will all end in tiers
VMware is expanding its memory tiering technology to help customers cope with soaring memory and hardware prices, betting that businesses will want to delay server purchases rather than pay inflated costs. The tool, built into VMware’s ESX hypervisor and part of Cloud Foundation, shifts “cold” data out of expensive DRAM onto fast NVMe storage, freeing…
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Nvidia is building an IP licensing empire on the back of NVLink
Nvidia is turning its NVLink interconnect technology into a licensing business, allowing rival chipmakers to build custom AI processors that still plug into Nvidia’s ecosystem. On Monday, MediaTek became the latest company to adopt NVLink Fusion for its datacentre XPU chips, joining Amazon, Fujitsu, Qualcomm, Arm and Marvell, in a move that shows Nvidia remains…
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The Best Labor Day Mattress Deals On Beds We’ve Tried In Our Homes
WIRED has rounded up its recommended Labor Day mattress and bedding deals for 2026, drawing on beds and accessories the outlet’s reviewers have tested in their own homes. The roundup highlights discounted hybrid, memory foam and firm mattresses aimed at different sleep needs, from hot sleepers to those with back pain, alongside deals on sheets,…
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Godzilla Director’s ‘80s Action Reboot Officially Gets Update After 5 Year Delay
Director Adam Wingard has confirmed his long-delayed live-action ThunderCats film is still moving forward, five years after it was first announced. In a new interview promoting his upcoming film Onslaught, Wingard revealed the project remains active despite the lack of public updates, addressing fan concerns that the adaptation of the beloved 1980s animated series had…
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I went to the loneliest baseball game on Apple Vision Pro
A Verge writer tested Apple and Major League Baseball’s new immersive broadcast feature on the Apple Vision Pro headset, watching a Boston Red Sox versus New York Yankees game as the first of four planned matches streamed this way. While the technology offered striking, intimate close-ups of players during pre-game moments, the writer found the…
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‘Half-Life 3’ and ‘Portal’ Officially Get Huge Updates Following Valve Breach
A massive 12-terabyte cache of apparent internal Valve data began circulating online on 29 August, containing builds and assets from titles including Portal 2, Left 4 Dead and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, as well as material from the cancelled Portal follow-up F-Stop and files potentially linked to the long-abandoned Half-Life 2: Episode 3. The leak matters…
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Fortnite Releases New Official Roadmap Ahead of Season’s First Major Update
Epic Games has published its roadmap for the second week of Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 4, ahead of the season’s first major update, due on Thursday 3 September. The update follows the Fortnite Override content drop that launched on 20 August, giving players a chance to settle into the new Battle Pass cosmetics, landmarks and…
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Harvard Law dropout raises $6M for Blue Voice to build a “Harvey for police officers”
David Lawrence, who dropped out of Harvard Law after an on-campus shooting involving a police officer, has raised $6 million to launch Blue Voice out of stealth, a Boston-based AI startup that gives police officers real-time guidance on department policy and law while in the field. The tool aims to address the fact that officers…
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Netflix Officially Addresses the Future of ‘Doctor Who’
Netflix has ruled out taking over “Doctor Who” production, with the streamer’s UK content chief saying she believes the long-running sci-fi series belongs with the BBC. The comments come as the show’s future remains uncertain following the end of its Disney+ partnership, the cancellation of a planned 2026 Christmas special, and the BBC putting the…