Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 vs. Gen 2: It’s better, but I wouldn’t rush to upgrade
Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 brings better battery life, improved calls, and a new button, but is it worth upgrading from Gen 2?
The Pentagon wants an AI lie detector, despite an old problem it can’t ignore
The Pentagon has proposed Polygraph Next, a new AI-powered lie detector that would analyze body signals and help decide whether someone may be telling the truth during federal security screenings.
China is building an AI movie factory, one subsidy at a time
China is pouring subsidies, cheap compute and rent support into AI filmmaking as production costs collapse and hundreds of thousands of AI shows flood Chinese platforms.
A disembodied AI robot hand just learned to walk, and it looks horrifying (for a purpose)
Engineers have taught a disembodied robotic hand to walk on its fingers, recover from falls, press keyboard keys, and manipulate objects without an arm.
Google Pixel 11 can now make phone calls for you with Gemini
Google is testing a new Gemini feature that can call businesses and speak to them on your behalf, while you follow along from your Pixel.
Google just made its powerful AI video generator free for everyone
Google is opening Vids to everyone, bringing free AI video generation and surprisingly detailed creative controls to regular Google accounts.
Scammers are luring the AI-pilled through their emails with a $200 Claude Max subscription
A fake Claude Max giveaway phishing scam uses a browser-in-the-browser trick to steal Google account login credentials.
Four iPhones are all it takes to turn almost anywhere into a motion capture studio
MAMMA uses four iPhones and markerless tracking to reconstruct complex human movement, showing how smartphone cameras could make motion capture far more accessible.
Scientists turned a regular camera into a much cheaper solar-panel testing tool
Researchers showed that modified consumer camera hardware can measure solar-cell performance data normally gathered using much more expensive scientific imaging equipment.
Digital Trends Readers’ Choice Awards 2026: It’s time to pick your favorite tech brands
Dear readers, we need your votes to pick the brands that won you over and crown the winners for the 2026 edition of Digital Trends Reader's Choice Awards.
SpaceX is giving away the Starlink Mini to cheaper subscribers, but there’s a catch
A support document change and new promotional emails suggest SpaceX is widening eligibility for its free Starlink Mini rental.
Meta’s Muse AI agent is a big hit, and it just had a big security alarm go off, too
Meta's new AI agent is having a fantastic start. A newly discovered security flaw is giving it an uncomfortable reality check.
I thought I had AI prompts figured out. Research says it’s not a level playing field for women.
Being a little too polite with an AI chatbot might have consequences you’d never expect.
Anthropic’s CEO wants to slow down the AI race, but it’s apparently eyeing another superpowerful AI model release
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wants the AI race to slow down, but the company is reportedly considering another major model amid pressure from OpenAI.
Humans are bringing their own AI to work, but not without doubts and woes
Workers are increasingly bringing their own AI tools to work, but new research shows adoption remains slow, uneven and often ahead of company policies
Oh hey, Google’s Gemini AI also hacked other companies
Google's Gemini AI was unintentionally given access to the internet, and it broke into the systems of three companies, following similar instances of hacking by OpenAI and Anthropic's AI models.
Who needs another sports subscription? Samsung TV Plus has something free
Samsung TV Plus adds Front Office Sports Tonight on September 18. Find out where to watch the free sports news show and when on-demand episodes arrive.
Meta’s new AI agent can now get things done across your Mac
Meta’s Muse AI agent has arrived on Mac, where it can work directly with your files and apps to get everyday tasks done.
Google’s new AI agent wants to take the stress out of running a family
Google is turning CC into a shared AI assistant that can help families stay on top of schedules, chores, forms, and more.
LG says its AI found a new hair-loss ingredient after searching 420,000 candidates in a day
LG’s EXAONE Discovery screened 420,000 compounds in a day to identify a potential hair-loss ingredient, as the company prepares an autonomous laboratory run by AI and robots.
Scammers are teaching AI to sound like you, and research says our brains are falling for it
New research suggests realistic AI-generated accents can make synthetic voices seem more human and trustworthy, giving scammers another powerful way to make fraudulent calls feel legitimate.
Scientists found a way to turn plastic bottles into cookies you can actually eat
Scientists have engineered yeast that can turn plastic bottle waste and crop leftovers into food ingredients, including proteins, fats, vitamins, and flavorings.
Students who use AI every day may be falling behind, while moderate users pull ahead
A new PISA 2025 study of 760,000 students across 91 countries links daily AI use in schoolwork to lower test scores.
XPENG just put its humanoid robot on the production line, and it walked itself out
XPENG’s IRON humanoid has walked off a newly commissioned production line, with the automaker targeting mass production this year and commercial deliveries in China and overseas markets in 2027.
An AI-designed drug might help slow aging, but we’re not there yet
A new study suggests Insilico Medicine’s AI-designed lung drug may slow biological aging, though more research is needed.
Google and Cathay Pacific are using AI to tackle aviation’s overlooked climate problem
Google is partnering with Cathay Pacific to test AI-guided contrail avoidance across Asia-Pacific, building on trials that cut warming impact by roughly 40%.
The best tech of IFA 2026: A repairable laptop, liquid-cooled power bank, AI toothbrush, and more
IFA 2026 brought repairable laptops, tiny ANC earbuds, liquid-cooled batteries, enormous projectors, and even an AI toothbrush. These are the products that impressed us most.
OpenAI admits it needs to rethink what happens when AI goes rogue
OpenAI says it needs a better way to disclose when its AI models behave unexpectedly in the real world. A new framework is now on the way.
AI has a safety problem nobody is ready for
AI companies are racing to make their models safer, but those protections don’t appear to work equally well everywhere.
The IFA 2026 Publisher Award Winners Bring Fresh Ideas to Everyday Tech
The most interesting technology does not always reinvent everyday life, and IFA brings no shortage of futuristic ideas. Take a look at the Publisher Award winners finding smarter ways to move everyday tech forward.
Luka’s new AI drawing projector puts kids in charge of the creativity
The Luka Kids Drawing Projector uses AI to kick-start a child’s imagination, while leaving the actual drawing, coloring, and storytelling to them.
You could be visiting a poor doctor because AI is filling the web with fake online reviews
You could be visiting a poor doctor because AI is filling the web with fake online reviews.
OpenAI’s Astra can handle almost anything you do on a computer, but it’s also better at hiding what it’s doing
OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, its fastest and most capable model yet, disclosing it's also the first to hit a Critical cybersecurity risk threshold.
Schools are embracing AI. New York City just banned it for more than half a million students
New York City is putting generative AI on hold for its younger students. More than half a million kids will head back to school without access to student-facing AI tools.
OpenAI is working on a ‘kill switch’ after an AI escaped its test
OpenAI is working on systems that could automatically shut down AI when something goes seriously wrong. The move follows an incident in which its models escaped a testing environment and reached the open internet.
Meta is changing how it judges employees after an unusual AI experiment
Meta is changing how it judges employees after a strange era of AI usage tracking. Your work matters more than how many tokens you burn through.
Gemini can now remember where you store your belongings so you don’t have to
Google's September Android Drop lets Gemini remember where you stored items like passports in Find Hub.
Dyson’s first toothbrush costs as much as a budget smartphone and justifies the price tag with a camera and AI
Dyson launched the CameraJet, a $499 toothbrush with a built-in camera and AI that detects gaps between teeth and fires precision mouthrinse jets while brushing.