2026-07-21
Volkswagen’s new e-bike has a rearview camera, radar, and fighter-pilot smart glasses
Volkswagen has put its name on an e-bike built around the kind of safety technology you would normally find in a car. The Volkswagen eBike, manufactured by n+ under licence, features a rear-mounted camera that streams a live feed to a handlebar display, radar-activated blind-spot alerts, a smart helmet with crash detection, and HUD glasses […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-21
Sony sued Udio again over 30,000 songs, and turned its rivals’ AI deals into a weapon
The other two major labels made peace with Udio months ago. Sony did the opposite. On Monday it filed a fresh lawsuit in New York, Billboard reported, covering 30,117 recordings and leaving Udio facing a far bigger bill. Turning peace into a weapon The heart of the case is fair use, the defence Udio leans […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-21
Nvidia says Vera Rubin is in full production, with OpenAI set to deploy at scale in Q3
Nvidia confirmed on Monday that its Vera Rubin platform has reached full production, with Ian Buck, the company’s vice president of accelerated computing, telling reporters at Nvidia headquarters that systems are now shipping to customers including OpenAI, CoreWeave, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Meta, and Dell. OpenAI plans to adopt Vera Rubin at scale during the […]<br /> This story c [...]
2026-07-21
Researchers escaped four top AI coding agents’ sandboxes without ever breaking them
The tools are Cursor, OpenAI’s Codex, Google’s Gemini CLI, and Antigravity. Over several months, Pillar Security found ways for each agent to cross its security boundary while staying, technically, inside the box. The escape that isn’t one The trick is neat. These sandboxes trust the agent inside the project folder and protect the host outside. […]<br /> This story continues at The N [...]
2026-07-21
Apple is launching a Klarna-backed device leasing program called Apple Upgrade on July 28
Apple is preparing to launch Apple Upgrade, a device leasing program backed by Klarna that will mark one of the biggest changes to how the company sells hardware, Bloomberg reported on Monday. The service is planned to go live on July 28 and will support most iPhone, Mac, iPad, and Apple Watch models, according to […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-21
X rebuilt its neglected Android app from scratch, and the bug reports are already rolling in
Android users have long got the rougher version of X. After nearly a year of work, the company has stopped patching the old app and rebuilt it from scratch. The new version ships as a normal update through the Play Store, X said, so there is no separate app to install. It promises faster loading, […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-21
Google ships three new Gemini Flash models but its frontier 3.5 Pro remains lost in training
Google is shipping three new Flash models in the Gemini series, including the more efficient 3.6 Flash, which uses up to 65 percent fewer tokens, and a cybersecurity model available only to governments and select partners. But the anticipated flagship, Gemini 3.5 Pro, is still missing, while OpenAI, Anthropic, and Chinese labs are already competing at the frontier level.<br /> The article Go [...]
2026-07-21
'Can't fault the HEDDphone D1 in any meaningful way': HEDD's progeny are emphatically excellent wired headphones at a not-unreasonable price
The HEDDphone D1 headphones are a stunning pair of mid-budget over-ears, with a proprietary driver design that kills audiophile-grade options three times the price [...]
