CES 2026: Shokz' new earbuds effectively reduce noise while keeping your ears open

Shokz may have made its name with bone-conduction headsets, but the company has also built open-style earbuds in recent years. At CES 2026, the company is debuting its most recent model, the OpenFit P [...]

Visa, Mastercard and 140 firms launch Open USD, a stablecoin built to undercut Circle

Aconsortium of more than 140 financial and technology companies, among them Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and Coinbase, launched a new dollar-pegged stablecoin on Tuesday called Open USD. The venture, run [...]

We called them 'the best-sounding open-ear buds yet' — and now the Bose Ultra Open Earbuds are down to a record-low price

The Bose Ultra Open Earbuds drop to a new low price of $199 at Amazon, so here's why now's the time to snap up some of the best open-ear buds you can buy. [...]

How attackers hit 700 organizations through CX platforms your SOC already approved

CX platforms process billions of unstructured interactions a year: Survey forms, review sites, social feeds, call center transcripts, all flowing into AI engines that trigger automated workflows touch [...]

Gong launches ‘Mission Andromeda’ with AI sales coaching, chatbot and open MCP connections to rivals

Gong, the revenue intelligence company that has spent a decade turning recorded sales calls into data, today launched what it calls Mission Andromeda — its most ambitious platform release to date, b [...]

Samsung Galaxy Buds 4 and 4 Pro review: Impressive audio, imperfect ANC

Samsung caught flak for the Galaxy Buds 3. The company’s mimicry of Apple’s AirPods was all too obvious last year when it opted for a stem or “blade” design after several generations of puttin [...]

A Minecraft theme park will open in London in 2027

The best-selling game of all time is moving from the virtual to the physical. Minecraft World, a permanent Greater London theme park based on the game, is scheduled to open in 2027. The announcement c [...]

Anthropic CEO says AI centralizes by nature and open models just shift power to whoever owns the chips

An open fight over AI regulation has broken out on X. Investor Gavin Baker, former White House adviser David Sacks, and Meta researcher Yann LeCun accuse Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei of using fear rheto [...]

Ideogram 4.0 drops as an open-weight model with native 2K resolution and improved text rendering

Ideogram releases version 4.0 of its text-to-image model as an open-weight model with native 2K resolution, bounding box control, and improved text rendering. On the DesignArena leaderboard, it ranks [...]