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Today's best smartwatches are ultra-capable, feature-packed powerhouses. But is it just me, or are they all starting to feel kinda samey? Casio recently made headlines with its delightfully retro F-B100W , which takes your classic, rubbery, blocky Casio watch and adds in step-counting features. That sent me off on a hunt for other smartwatches and fitness trackers that do something a bit different, and I was not disappointed with the results. I've rounded up my favorites below. There's the new-out Huawei Watch D3 , which looks like your standard, modern smartwatch, but has a secret, in-built blood pressure cuff. For those who prefer a traditional watch aesthetic, there are the Garmin Instinct Crossover and Withings Scanwatch 2 , both of which have smartwatch features but also mechanical hands. Neither is especially new, but both have maintained popularity by their seamless blending ...

Snap is taking its AR glasses directly into the enterprise market Nvidia, Salesforce, and AWS are joining Snap's push into workplace computing Snap wants Specs to become a computer rather than another camera accessory Snap is taking its augmented reality glasses into the enterprise market through partnerships with Nvidia, Salesforce and Amazon Web Services. The company is looking beyond its established consumer business for workplace applications that could generate demand for its new hardware. Snap’s CEO Evan Spiegel wants businesses to view Specs as a computing platform rather than another pair of glasses designed primarily for taking pictures. Snap looks beyond its consumer business Snap's Specs glasses cost $2,195, putting the device into a category where business customers will need clear reasons to purchase it. The company says the glasses can support field technicians by displaying...

Rune wants unused solar electricity powering GPUs instead of going to waste RELIC connects computing equipment directly to functioning solar generation sites The system operates without grid connections or conventional data center construction A San Francisco company named Rune has introduced a modular compute unit built to operate directly on unused solar power. Called RELIC, the equipment attaches to functioning solar installations without needing any connection to the electrical grid or new construction work. The launch came alongside a $40 million Series A financing round for Rune, lifting the firm's overall capital raised to $53.5 million total. Skipping the grid bottleneck Solar facilities routinely waste as much as 20% of the electricity they generate, adding up to more than 50 TWh yearly nationwide. RELIC pulls that idle current straight from the source, avoiding metering charges, uti...

UFC 331: Saturday, September 19 Main Card time: 9pm ET / 6pm ET / 2am BST (Sun) / 11am AEST (Sun) Watch on Paramount Plus for $8.99 or for $1 with Walmart+ 30-day trial (US only) Overseas? Use Surfshark to watch your US services from anywhere Tonight's UFC 331 headline bout is a classic case of revenge or repeat as Joshua Van puts the UFC flyweight title he won against Alexandre Pantoja on the line at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. The Fearless won the belt in controversial fashion in December 2025 and the Cannibal is determined to right the wrong he has felt ever since. Van's victory at UFC 323 came after Pantjoa suffered a dislocated elbow 26 seconds into the original fight when the former fell and landed on the latter. The Brazilian has felt ignored by Dana White ever since, despite having championship victories against Brandon Moreno, Brandon Royval, Steve Erceg, Kai Asakura, ...

Satellite imagery shows China building a roughly ~200m ship in Shanghai that analysts say is a mothership for submarine-sized drones It pairs a bottom-opening well-deck and 12-arm cradle with an internal hangar that experts estimate holds four 115- to 148ft XXLUUVs While the ship itself is shorter than an Essex-class carrier, its dock clocks in at about 1,115ft China appears to be building a type of ship no navy is publicly known to operate: a large surface vessel designed to carry, launch, and recover uncrewed submarines the size of conventional crewed boats The hull was first posted on September 13 2026 by Japanese open-source analyst KAROTASU and assessed two days later by H I Sutton at Naval News . It currently sits at a dock at the Hudong-Zhonghua shipyard in Shanghai, and Beijing has yet to formally acknowledge its existence, so it has no name, list of capabilities, or the military branch ...

Zimperium zLabs discovered RedHat , a Chinese‑origin Android banking trojan with AI assistant AI interprets screen layouts in real‑time, enabling credential theft and bypassing app redesigns Distributed via third‑party stores, social media, malvertising, and SMS; persistence blocks uninstall attempts There is an Android malware out there that comes with an AI assistant that tells it what to do. The assistant seems to be independent of the malware’s operator, allowing the tool to work without requiring the operators to be present in real-time. The malware in question is called RedHat. It was discovered by security researchers Zimperium zLabs, who believe it is of Chinese origin. It is currently being distributed via third-party app stores, social media, malvertising, and SMS spam, and requires Android’s Accessibility permissions to work. The malware itself is a typical banking trojan - it creates...

Seagate study finds 99% of firms expect AI to increase their storage requirements within three years Only 38% of organizations consider themselves fully prepared for future demands Storage infrastructure ranks among the biggest obstacles facing AI deployment New data from Seagate has claimed AI is increasing the business importance of stored information while exposing weaknesses in infrastructure readiness. The company's research found 99% of respondents expect AI workloads to increase their storage requirements in the next three years. Yet only 38% describe their organizations as completely prepared, while 43% identify storage infrastructure among the leading obstacles to wider AI deployment. AI is raising the stakes for storage planning The survey gathered responses from more than 2,700 technology decision-makers and found that 86% reported moderate or significant returns from AI investmen...