Abstract: Video traffic continues to surge, pushing codecs toward higher efficiency at the cost of sharply increased complexity. The H.266/Versatile Video Coding (VVC) standard roughly halves bitrate ...

Tools, tool storage and diagnostic repair solutions maker Snap-on announced June 9 that it acquired Diesel Laptops LLC for approximately $100 million in cash. The transaction closed June 8. Irmo, ...

Between the megabill’s July 2025 enactment and March 2026 (the last month with data on all states): These participation declines began before some of the major changes from H.R. 1 were fully in effect ...

The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems has reached a new efficiency milestone. Its III-V germanium solar module achieved 34.4%, a step forward for a technology that could eventually squeeze ...

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It's been almost five years since Snap began experimenting with standalone augmented reality glasses. Now, the company is finally ready to start selling them to the public, though they won't be cheap.

They're fully standalone augmented reality and far more expensive than other smart glasses (but cheaper than Apple Vision Pro). I haven't tried them out yet, but did talk to Snap CEO Evan Spiegel. I ...

Snap is launching Specs, the company's first AR glasses geared toward the broader public instead of developers. The glasses cost $2,195 with a $200 refundable deposit, and are expected to ship later ...

OpenAI announced on June 11, 2026 that it will acquire Ona, officially Gitpod GmbH, a German startup whose platform runs AI agents in cloud-based sandboxes, SiliconANGLE reported. Terms were not ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Andrej Karpathy, who coined "vibe coding," now deems it obsolete, advocating for "agentic ...

OpenAI announced it will acquire Ona, a startup that provides cloud environments for AI agents. Ona's technology will allow OpenAI's coding assistant, Codex, to take on longer-running tasks, OpenAI ...