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Super Early Bird pricing for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ends February 27 at 11:59 p.m. PT. That gives you one week to secure the biggest savings of the year — up to $680 off individual passes and up to 30% off community passes. Register now to lock in at the lowest rate. From October 13-15 at Moscone West in San Francisco, Disrupt will bring together 10,000 founders, investors, and operators for three days engineered for results. What you gain at Disrupt Access to active investors and high-growth founders High-impact networking built to drive deals Tactical insights you can implement immediately Visibility into emerging trends before they scale…

SonyI didn’t expect AI to start influencing gaming so soon, but here we are. As AI companies pour money into massive data centers, the ripple effects are reaching consumer hardware—and speculation around the PlayStation 6 release date.According to reporting from Bloomberg, Sony is considering pushing its next PlayStation launch to 2028 or even 2029 due to tightening memory supply. That would break with Sony’s long-standing console cycle, which has typically delivered new hardware every six to seven years since the original PlayStation. The culprit isn’t competition or design ambition — it’s AI’s growing appetite for the same high-bandwidth memory modern…

Internal research at Samsung revealed that the majority of users, nearly 8 in 10, regularly use more than two AI agents. The company is working on improving Galaxy AI for the AI future. By adding multi-agent support, Samsung will make the experience of juggling several AIs much smoother. The revamped Galaxy AI will have integration for AI agents at the OS level. This will help Samsung stay on top of the quickly evolving AI field with seamless integration of new AI agents in a way that is consistent with the familiar Galaxy experience. Since the integration is at the system…

Wikipedia editors have decided to remove all links to Archive.today, a web archiving service that they said has been linked to more than 695,000 times across the online encyclopedia. Archive.today — which also operates under several other domain names, including archive.is and archive.ph — is perhaps most widely used to access content that’s otherwise inaccessible behind paywalls. That also makes it useful as a source for Wikipedia citations. However, according to the Wikipedia discussion page about this topic, “There is consensus to immediately deprecate archive.today, and, as soon as practicable, add it to the spam blacklist […] and to forthwith remove…

Huawei WATCH ULTIMATE DESIGN Royal Gold Edition HomeBeautiful WatchesHuawei WATCH ULTIMATE DESIGN Royal Gold Edition Gadget Flow EditorsHuawei WATCH ULTIMATE DESIGN Royal Gold EditionThe Huawei WATCH ULTIMATE DESIGN Royal Gold Edition mixes jewelry-grade finishes with tools built for serious outdoor and diving use, plus reliable everyday wear.Premium build: Purple zirconium-based liquid metal front and a nanocrystal ceramic rear pair with a titanium strap to give a jewelry-like look while resisting wear.Deep dive rating: 20 ATM plus IP68 and IP69 with a 150 m diving rating keep the watch working under heavy pressure for serious underwater use.Bright, efficient display: 1.5-inch LTPO 2.0…

Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked, even for the Galaxy S26 family, is right around the corner, officially scheduled for February 25. If you’ve been following the news cycle even loosely, this is hardly news. In fact, there are very few aspects of the upcoming Samsung flagships that have not yet leaked in some fashion. You can go here to see a rather full specs sheet for all three models. If you are looking to pick up a shiny new Galaxy S26 Ultra, you will likely get a choice between four colors: Black, Cobalt Violet, Sky Blue, and White. And just like every…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman addressed concerns about AI’s environmental impact this week while speaking at an event hosted by The Indian Express. For one thing, Altman — who was in India for a major AI summit — said concerns about AI’s water usage are “totally fake,” though he acknowledged it was a real issue when “we used to do evaporative cooling in data centers.” “Now that we don’t do that, you see these things on the internet where, ‘Don’t use ChatGPT, it’s 17 gallons of water for each query’ or whatever,” Altman said. “This is completely untrue, totally insane, no…

Mission Workshop Rhake LS has modular add-ons HomeBags and BackpacksBackpacksMission Workshop Rhake LS Everyday Carry Backpack Gadget Flow EditorsMission Workshop Rhake LS Everyday Carry BackpackMission Workshop Rhake LS is an everyday carry backpack built for work, travel, and short overnights. It blends smart organization with a modular system that adapts fast.LandSpeeder modular system: A low-profile attachment setup lets you add up to two side modules, so the bag scales with your daily load.22L expandable roll-top: The roll-top main compartment expands when you need extra space for clothing or shoes, while staying compact for commuting.Device-ready storage: A padded 16.5″ x 11″…

Google’s newly launched Pixel 10a is now available for pre-order. Alongside, the Google Pixel 10, several Xiaomi smartphones, and Samsung’s latest Galaxy tablets are available with a discount. The Pixel 10a is not a huge upgrade over the 9a, but it’s a good deal at £499 for the 128GB variant. It comes with a 6.3-inch OLED display that’s now slightly brighter than last year’s model and has slimmer bezels. It features a dual-rear camera setup, and continues to use the Tensor G4 SoC from last year. The phone gets a 5,100mAh battery and runs Android 16 out-of-the-box. …

The generative AI boom minted a startup a minute. But as the dust starts to settle, two once-hot business models are looking more like cautionary tales: LLM wrappers and AI aggregators.  Darren Mowry, who leads Google’s global startup organization across Cloud, DeepMind, and Alphabet, says startups with these hooks have their “check engine light” on. LLM wrappers are essentially startups that wrap existing large language models, like Claude, GPT, or Gemini, with a product or UX layer to solve a specific problem. An example would be a startup that uses AI to helps students study. “If you’re really just counting…