Indeed, rapid integration of AI into the toy industry is transforming traditional play into a new interactive experience, but new research suggests these smart companions may carry hidden psychological and developmental risks. While a teddy bear that remembers a child’s name or a doll that answers complex questions may seem like innocent party

To borrow and tweak a line from The Outer Limits, there is nothing wrong with your monitor, do not attempt to adjust the picture. You also haven’t stepped into a time warp. I checked the calendar and it is indeed 2026, though that wasn’t immediately clear when I saw that Creative had launched a new Audigy sound card, the Audigy FX Pro.

It’s

In a quiet suburb of Tennessee, the AI and physical world collided with devastating consequences for a grandmother whose only crime was existing in a database. Law enforcement’s increasing reliance on facial recognition technology has shifted from a futuristic tool for catching fugitives into a bureaucratic nightmare that treats algorithmic

Astronomers have just discovered TOI-1080 b, a rocky super-Earth located approximately 83 light-years away. Spearheaded by a team from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, follow-up monitoring could reveal even more planets around TOI-1080, the inactive M-dwarf star.

The planet was initially flagged by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet

Gigabyte is expanding its lineup of Brix mini PCs with a new model built around Intel’s Panther Lake platform. We’ll likely see multiple configurations over time, but the one that’s been added to Gigabyte’s website is Brix model GB-BRU9-386H. If the model name isn’t a big enough clue, the specifications sheet reveals the Panther Lake model