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Neocloud Lambda secures $1B in debt to buy more chips
Lambda, an AI cloud company that buys computing chips and rents them out to businesses, has raised $1 billion in private, short-dated debt to buy Nvidia’s AI chips that it will lease to Microsoft, Bloomberg reports. The terms of the deal, which Bloomberg says was arranged by JP Morgan Chase, signal that Lambda is betting it will be able to quickly deploy the chips and start generating revenue from them, letting it repay the…
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Smartphones
The Galaxy S26 gets Samsung’s clever new video tool in One UI 9 beta
What you need to know The latest One UI 9 beta brings the Galaxy Z Fold 8's marquee My FanCam tool to the Galaxy S26, S26 Plus, and S26 Ultra. My FanCam lets you crop and reframe pre-recorded Gallery videos to lock focus on specific people for social media, though it doesn't work on pets or animals. The update also adds customizable routine cards, real-time security risk alerts, and smarter contextual task suggestions. The…
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Apps & Logiciels
9to5Mac Overtime 079: The $899 Mac mini
Jeff and Fernando delve into the $899 Mac mini, comparing the outgoing M4 model and the new M6 Mac mini. They also discuss the new M5 Pro Mac mini and Apple’s new Mac Studio desktops equipped with M5 Max and M5 Ultra SoCs. Finally, the duo previews Apple’s upcoming ‘Surprise and Shine’ iPhone event. 9to5Mac Overtime is a weekly video-first podcast exploring fun and interesting observations in the Apple ecosystem, featuring 9to5Mac’s Fernando Silva…
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Spotify could soon let you host a Jam without Premium
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. Spotify released Jam, a fully collaborative real-time playlist that can be joined by up to 32 individuals, back in September of 2023. It’s one of Spotify’s best features, and it’s turning three next month. To celebrate the occasion, the music streaming giant might finally be ready to make hosting Jams a lot more accessible. For reference, joining and participating in Jams is…
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Smartphones
Google didn’t kick Pixel 11 trade-in values off a cliff this year – here’s what you can get
While the US Google Store’s pre-order and launch period deals have ended, Google has started a new round of boosted trade-in values that are only slightly lower than before. As of today, Google Store credits are no longer offered with the purchase of a Pixel 11 series device. However, the second round of elevated trade-in values has only decreased by $20 in some cases. You can get up to $460 toward the Pixel 11,…
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Now Brief can now tell you what movies you should watch next
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. Samsung just recently started rolling out One UI 9 Beta 7 for the Galaxy S26 series. This update includes a few new additions we’re still discovering, such as new Bixby features. Adding to that list, Now Brief is getting a useful upgrade for movie lovers. Spotted by @Smasithick on X, there’s a new option you can select for Now Brief content. One…
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IA
An Anthropic researcher just gave us a peek at self-improving AI
Training AI models with other AI models has become a very popular goal for neolabs — and now, a researcher in Anthropic’s fellows program has given us an early look at what it might look like in practice. On Friday, Anthropic published a new paper titled “Automated Researchers Can Reliably Mitigate Alignment Failures,” detailing how AI systems could reliably improve a model’s performance on a set of alignment benchmarks. When given 10 benchmarks for…
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Smartphones
Apple Photos in iOS 27 upgrades one of my favorite features in a big way
Apple Photos is full of exciting updates in iOS 27, including for one of my favorite features in the app: iCloud Shared Albums. Apple’s Photos app is one of my most-used apps, as I suspect it is for many iPhone users. It’s where all of the photos and videos I capture live, plus screenshots, pictures shared by friends, and more. But did you know that the Photos app also has a social media-style feature?…
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Smartphones
Haven’t ordered your Pixel 11 yet? Here’s what your trade-in delay is costing you
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. Google offered launch-window bonuses for trade-ins toward its new Pixel 11 series, with trades fetching as much as $1,000 (if you were trading a Pixel 10 Pro Fold, anyway). Those bonuses have unfortunately come to an end, and Google’s rolled out new, lower trade-in values. As noted by Droid Life, the Google Store is showing new trade values toward the Pixel 11,…
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Steve Jobs' 8th Grade Science Project Sells for $34,375
A science project that Apple co-founder Steve Jobs built for his 8th-grade science fair sold at auction for $34,375. Jobs was attending Cupertino Jr. High when he designed the project, which is titled "What is the SCR?" The lot includes a display board built from plywood with three explanatory panels and a 10-page report with the same title. The left panel has a wooden model of a "typical silicon-controlled rectifier with its four alternate…
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Google confirms: Keep lists on Home devices are working again
TL;DR Google Home users have been finding devices refusing to add items to their Google Keep lists. Google teased a possible fix earlier this week, but it wasn’t clear if it was for the same issue. The company now confirms that a fix is actually available. If you’re the sort of organized person who likes keeping all your to-dos neatly entered into lists, Google Home may have been causing you some headaches these past…
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Early leak of NVIDIA's DLSS 5 has an uncanny valley problem
People are grafting a pre-release version onto their favorite games with unspectacular results. Sometimes, photorealism (or something approaching it) makes a video game look better. Other times, well, you get whatever this is from NVIDIA's leaked build of DLSS 5. The unfinished software, extracted from an early-access PC version of NBA 2K27, has been grafted onto various games. The results are... let's just say, not universally beloved. DLSS 5's neural rendering model takes the…
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IA
Pourquoi Nvidia fabrique sa propre mémoire IA : le NVHBM
Jusqu’ici, la mémoire haute performance des accélérateurs IA, la fameuse HBM empilée en petites tours, venait de trois fabricants : SK Hynix, Samsung et Micron. Le contrôleur qui la pilote, lui, vivait sur la puce du processeur. Nvidia vient de le déplacer directement à l’intérieur de la pile mémoire. Ce déménagement ressemble à un détail de plomberie interne, c’est en réalité un changement d’architecture. C’est ce qui s’appelle la HBM4E. L’IA générative crée du…
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Smartphones
XREAL has set the perfect stage for Android XR
I’ve always been a bit skeptical of smart glasses and mixed reality headsets. It’s not hard to find the utility of something like a Meta Quest in gaming, but Apple’s Vision Pro, for example, has never appealed to me in the slightest. Ahead of its first pair of Android XR glasses, though, I’ve spent some time with the XREAL One Pro and two things have become immediately clear – this is the hardware that…
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Apps & Logiciels
Brave’s browser one-ups Chrome with its new support for email aliases
Chrome alternative Brave just added a good reason to make the switch to its browser: email aliases. The feature, announced this week, allows Brave’s users to sign up for websites and other online services without having to share their personal email addresses. To use the feature, you first need to create an account with Brave, where you can provide your real email address. Then, once logged into the browser, you’ll see a pop-up appear…
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Apps & Logiciels
HomeKit Weekly: Linkind’s Smart Light Stick brings flame effects with Matter support
“Flame effects” is not something I’d used before in a smart bulb, so this was a super interesting concept to me. Linkind’s Smart Light Stick aims to bring the idea of a “live flame” to a smart bulb, and it works with Apple Home out of the box thanks to Matter. HomeKit Weekly is a series focused on smart home accessories, automation tips and tricks, and everything to do with Apple’s smart home framework.…
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Tech News
How long is a new Fire TV Stick actually supposed to last?
A Fire TV Stick can outlive its guaranteed support window, though aging apps and hardware may make you want to replace it sooner. There isn't an expiration date hidden in the settings menu of a Fire TV Stick. Amazon also doesn't reveal a typical physical lifespan for its streaming sticks, nor does it inform owners to replace one after three, four or five years. That makes the question of "how long will it last?"…
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Apps & Logiciels
People are sticking the Fitbit Air to their bodies, literally, and it works [Gallery]
The Fitbit Air might be one of Google’s most versatile products in a while not just because it’s so simple, but because buyers are finding very unique ways of using it. That includes quite literally sticking the Fitbit Air to your body with tape which, apparently, actually works quite well. Google designed the Fitbit Air to be worn around your wrist, where most health trackers sit, and that’s where most buyers probably do use…
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Google Health's late August update adds more manual workout logging freedom
What you need to know Google Health is rolling out v5.07 to Android and iOS users late this week, bringing a major update to manual workout logging. Users can now "add or adjust" their metrics much easier, and any changes will appear in their post-workout summaries much quicker. Other updates this week include trail run and incline data in "Running Distance" totals, a fix for Maps in the Health app, and more. Google Health…
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Apps & Logiciels
Friday’s Android app deals and freebies: 20 Minutes Till Dawn, Botanicula, Samorost 3, more
Amazon has now launched its 2026 Labor Day sale with truck loads of deals, but your afternoon lineup of the best Android game and app deals is also now ready to roll. Highlights include 20 Minutes Till Dawn:Premium, Botanicula, Samorost 3, Rogue Hearts, ARIDA: Backland’s Awakening, CHUCHEL, and more. Check them all out below alongside the Anker Labor Day sale from just $12 and these TCL NXTPAPER Android tablet deals from $150. Amazon’s massive…
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Belle remise sur le Shark VacMop : pour moins de 105 €, plus besoin d’enchaîner aspirateur et serpillière
Le Shark VacMop aspire et nettoie les sols à l’aide d’un tampon jetable, tout en étant plus facile à entretenir qu’un aspirateur-laveur traditionnel. Il est actuellement en promo grâce à un coupon exclusif valable jusqu’au 1er septembre. Le VacMop ne fonctionne pas comme un aspirateur-laveur classique : il n’embarque ni rouleau humide, ni bac destiné à recueillir de l’eau sale. Shark l’a conçu pour qu’un tampon jetable soit placé sous la tête. Le système…
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IA
Open-weight AI companies are the Valley’s hottest acquisition targets
Everyone’s waiting for Nvidia to confirm this week’s most interesting tech deal: A reported $13 billion acquisition of Hugging Face, a platform for sharing open-weight AI models and benchmarks. Now best known as the target for a team of reward-hacking OpenAI agents, Hugging Face is at the center of the ecosystem of developers building and deploying LLMs that aren’t owned by frontier labs. Think of it as a kind of GitHub for the AI…
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Garmin’s Fitbit Air rival is having major issues with one of its most popular features
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. The Garmin CIRQA has had a bit of a rocky start since its launch back in July. Garmin stepped on a rake when it initially decided to paywall a basic fitness tracking feature. To the company’s credit, it quickly made the feature subscription-free after the backlash. However, the latest update may have now broken one of the fitness tracker’s more popular features.…
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Wearable
Here’s how Apple Watch Ultra 4 will differentiate itself from prior models
Apple Watch Ultra 4 is coming on September 9, here are the key ways it’s rumored to differentiate itself from prior models. Digitimes has reported on multiple occasions that Apple Watch Ultra 4 will bring significant upgrades to internal sensors. It went as far as saying “the number of sensor components will double.” Mark Gurman reported this week that “upgrades to fitness tracking” are coming. And there’s evidence that a new high blood pressure-related…
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