Space-Eyes, a Miami geospatial-intelligence company backed by Eric Trump, plans to go public through a $638 million blank-cheque deal, deepening the family’s defence-tech ties.
A defence-technology company backed by Eric Trump is preparing to go public through a $638 million SPAC merger, deepening the Trump family’s already extensive ties to the national-security industry.
Space-Eyes is a niche but strategic player. Founded in 2001, the roughly 35-person company builds satellite-based AI that tracks maritime activity, trade flows, and other security signals for governments and businesses.
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Its focus sits at a sensitive intersection. Maritime domain awareness, the monitoring of ships and ports, has become a priority for Western militaries wary of sanctions-busting and grey-zone activity at sea.
The demand is timely. Shadow fleets moving sanctioned oil, illegal fishing, and threats to undersea cables have pushed navies and coast guards to hunt for better ways to watch the oceans, a market Space-Eyes is built to serve.
The listing would be a sharp step up. A $638 million deal values a small firm well above its modest funding history, reflecting how much investors will now pay for anything tied to defence and intelligence.
It fits a family pattern. Eric Trump and his brother Donald Trump Jr. have poured money into defence and manufacturing ventures over the past year, from drones to humanoid robots to a manufacturing SPAC.
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The backdrop is a spending surge. Their bets have coincided with a Trump administration channelling record sums into defence technology, an overlap that critics say raises obvious conflict-of-interest questions.
Those concerns are not hypothetical. Reporting has documented how the president’s sons stand to profit from companies whose fortunes depend on federal contracts and policy set by their father’s government.
The SPAC route adds its own scrutiny. Blank-cheque mergers let companies reach public markets faster and with lighter disclosure than a traditional IPO, a structure that has burned retail investors before.
Blank-cheque deals are also back in fashion. After a long slump, SPAC listings have revived on the back of AI, crypto, and defence, and politically connected sponsors have been among the most active.
The money is chasing a real shift. Western governments are rearming, and the Pentagon has been signing classified AI deals as it races to fuse data, autonomy, and intelligence into new capabilities.
Space-Eyes pitches itself into that gap. Its systems promise to turn raw orbital imagery into warnings about illicit shipping, trade anomalies, and security threats, the kind of tool agencies increasingly buy rather than build.
The Trump name is both an asset and a liability. It opens doors and draws capital, but it also invites the assumption that access, not just technology, is part of what investors are buying.
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The wider trend is the blurring of lines. The boundary between Silicon Valley, private capital, and the Pentagon has thinned dramatically, a shift crystallised when a top venture capitalist joined the Pentagon’s board.
Ethics watchdogs have taken notice. They argue that when a president’s family profits from defence firms while that president directs defence spending, the appearance of impropriety is hard to avoid, whatever the legal reality.
The Trump camp frames it differently. Supporters cast these as legitimate private investments in American strength, part of a push to rebuild the country’s industrial and military edge.
For Space-Eyes, the immediate prize is capital. A successful listing would hand a small firm the funds to scale, and hand its high-profile backer a public-market endorsement of the defence-tech bet.
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The deal still has to close. SPAC mergers can fall apart or reprice, and this one will be watched as much for who stands behind it as for what the company actually does.
“When a group of teenagers set out to hike British Columbia’s famed Howe Sound Crest Trail in early July, Google Maps suggested the trek would take about five hours,” reports SFGate.
“Instead, the hike stretched deep into the night, leaving the group exhausted, dehydrated, injured and in need of a helicopter rescue…”
Although the approximately 18-mile route with a 6,000-foot elevation gain can be completed by experienced trail runners in a day, search and rescue officials generally recommend hikers treat it as a two-day backpacking trip. The teenagers, all 17 years old, believed Google Maps’ estimate that the route would take about five hours. The printed directions they were carrying, which were shared publicly by Lions Bay Search and Rescue, gave simple instructions for two legs of the trail, but didn’t account for the terrain or elevation. “[Google Maps] is calculating the time that you’re walking a straight road on pavement,” [said Maria Masiar, training officer and search manager with Lions Bay Search and Rescue]. “When you get into outdoor terrain, that no longer holds true.”
Expecting only a short outing, each hiker carried about half a liter of water and limited food. There are no reliable water sources along the trail, meaning hikers must carry enough supplies for the entire route. As the group climbed, they began suffering from dehydration and muscle cramps but continued onward despite falling dramatically behind schedule. Eventually, the group made the decision to turn back and abandon making it to the end of the trail — and as the sun began to set and the group started to descend, fatigue took its toll. According to Masiar, members of the group had already stumbled and fallen several times while trying to race the coming dark, and only one hiker had a headlamp. Eventually, another hiker slipped about 10 feet off a boulder, injuring his tailbone badly enough that he could no longer continue. Search and rescue crews responded, ultimately evacuating him by helicopter.
Apple’s Mac sales rose by more than 25% in the last quarter, compared to the same time period in 2025, solely on the back of the MacBook Neo that incoming CEO John Ternus championed.
Shortly before John Ternus was announced as Apple’s next CEO, it was noticeable that he was the one championing the MacBook Neo instead of Tim Cook. As well as part of handing over the reigns, though, this was because the MacBook Neo project was driven by Ternus.
Now according to figures from Apple’s latest earnings call, the company’s Mac revenues climbed by 28.66% over the last quarter. This is mostly due to the only new product available just prior to the quarter, the MacBook Neo.
Mac quarterly revenue, as of Q3 2026
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Apple reports that during the quarter ended June 27, 2026, it sold $10.35B worth of Macs. That compares to $8.05B for the same quarter in 2025.
Significantly, though, there were no new Macs released during this quarter at all — but the MacBook Neo ramped up to full availability. The quarter also saw steep price hikes across the whole Mac lineup, including adding $100 to the price of the MacBook Neo.
Mac quarterly revenue change year-on-year, as of Q3 2026
The timing of that price rise won’t have been chance, though, as it was announced on June 25, 2026. That means that the MacBook Neo only saw the higher price for two days of the quarter.
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Consequently there’s no indication of whether the MacBook Neo can continue this huge success in the next quarter. But it’s a measure of how the lower-cost MacBook Neo was an immediate boost to Apple’s bottom line.
AI growth keeps enterprise hard drive demand climbing across global cloud infrastructure
Cloud providers continue expanding storage despite massive investment in AI accelerators
Enterprise storage remains essential as artificial intelligence generates unprecedented data volumes
Enterprise demand for high-capacity hard drives continues accelerating as artificial intelligence generates expanding datasets requiring reliable, affordable storage throughout increasingly complex cloud environments.
That growing appetite for storage has intensified competition among cloud providers building artificial intelligence infrastructure, keeping enterprise hard drives firmly within long-term investment plans.
Seagate‘s recent fiscal fourth-quarter and full-year 2026 financial results indicate continued demand from cloud data center customers despite no disclosure of future HDD allocation commitments.
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Enterprise customers continue driving demand for mass-capacity HDDs
AI relies heavily on enormous storage capacity because valuable data must remain available long after computations are done.
As organisations deploy larger AI models, the amount of stored information grows alongside computing requirements.
This significantly increases the dependence on enterprise hard drives for economical long-term retention.
Unfortunately, HDDs are becoming harder to secure, with manufacturers already booking long-term supply commitments years in advance.
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Many HDD manufacturers have locked in contracts extending into 2028 and 2029, meaning customers wanting drives that far out may already be shut out of available slots
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Seagate said robust cloud data center demand kept driving business growth, tying stronger storage purchases to AI infrastructure expanding across global markets.
“As AI accelerates data generation and its value, we see durable long-term demand for mass capacity storage,” said Dave Mosley, Seagate’s chair and chief executive officer.
Seagate expects strengthening exabyte demand through its Mozaic platform and differentiated HAMR technology roadmap as enterprise deployments continue expanding worldwide.
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While Mosley did not explicitly say customers are reserving Seagate’s hard drive production through 2029, his remarks make clear that enterprise demand now sits at the core of the company’s strategy.
Financial performance supports the broader storage story
Its annual revenue increased during fiscal 2026, while Q4 performance exceeded company expectations for revenue.
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Operating cash flow reached $3.7 billion during fiscal 2026, while free cash flow totalled $3.1 billion after fourth-quarter operating cash flow reached $1.3 billion.
Seagate also reduced total debt by $1.4 billion during fiscal 2026, including $302 million during the fourth quarter, ending with outstanding debt of $3.6 billion.
Cash and cash equivalents reached $1.7 billion, while ordinary shares outstanding totalled 227 million and directors approved a quarterly dividend of $0.74 per share.
Seagate expects first quarter fiscal 2027 revenue near $4.1 billion alongside non-GAAP diluted earnings per share of approximately $7.30, subject to stated variations.
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“Seagate’s strong fourth quarter exceeded our expectations for revenue and non-GAAP EPS, capping a fiscal 2026 in which we grew,” Mosley said.
“Our performance is being driven by robust cloud data center demand and disciplined execution, and we see the momentum continuing in 2027.”
Seagate’s rival, Micron, already made the move that Seagate is currently hinting at. It exited its Crucial consumer RAM businesslin 2025 to redirect supply toward enterprise customers.
Micron said the shift was meant to “improve supply and support for our larger, strategic customers in faster-growing segments,” cutting consumer buyers off from a manufacturer they had relied on for years.
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Seagate has not gone that far with hard drives, but Mosley’s insistence that cloud demand is driving the business suggests it could prioritise enterprise demand if current trends continue.
You’re not limited to only apps you can get on the Play Store.
Nathan Ingraham for Engadget
A Chromebook can be a pretty flexible device. You can use it for productivity, to play games, watch movies and so on. To do these things, you might download apps from the Google Play Store. Linux apps and progressive web apps are supported too.
But maybe the experience you’re looking for isn’t available on the Play Store. Perhaps you haven’t seen a Linux app or progressive web app that does the trick. Instead, an Android app that you obtain from elsewhere on the internet may be the way to go. You may need to sideload this Android Package Kit (APK) onto your device, and we’re here to detail how to do that.
Before we get into the details of sideloading an Android APK onto a Chromebook, note that you do this at your own risk. Google hasn’t verified apps that you obtain outside of the Play Store. For your own sake, carry out due diligence to determine as best as possible that the APK you want to use is legitimate and free of malware and other nastiness. We’ll leave it to you to find the APK(s) you want.
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There are several options for how to sideload an app onto a Chromebook. Enabling developer mode is one way to go. However, doing that will wipe all of the data on your system. Unless you’re setting things up on a brand-new Chromebook, you may not want to deal with that.
Let’s go in the other direction, with Google’s official methods for sideloading APKs on Chromebook. These use Android Debug Bridge (ADB). Note that this approach only works from Chromebooks that hit the market after 2020. This method also requires you to have the APK on your Chromebook already. We suggest renaming the file to something simple before installing it.
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Using Android Debug Bridge to sideload apps on Chromebook
The first step is to enable Linux on your Chromebook, if you haven’t already done so. Open the Settings app, click the “about ChromeOS” option on the left, scroll down to “Developers” and then click “set up” on the Linux development environment option. Then go through the brief setup process, which includes setting aside a dedicated portion of storage space for Linux (you can modify this allocation later via the system settings).
Now you need to go through the same process until you get to “Linux development environment,” which now has its own sub-menu. From here, click on “Develop Android apps” then toggle “Enable ADB debugging” on. Your Chromebook will restart at this point, so make sure you save all your work and such first.
After your system reboots, you should see a message that reads “This device may contain apps that haven’t been verified by Google.” Just like that, the first part of the process is sorted.
We now have a couple of options to run the APK on your Chromebook. The first is by using Terminal. Here’s what to do:
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Search for and open Terminal
Select the Penguin option
Install ADB, if you haven’t already done so, with this command: sudo apt install adb
If Terminal asks whether you want to continue, press the “Y” key
Next, input the following command: adb connect arc
To proceed, you’ll need to authorize USB debugging from the dialog box that pops up. Check the box that reads “Always allow from this computer” and click Allow
The last step is to install the APK. To do that, first move or copy it to your Linux Files folder
Input this command — adb install filename.apk — with the actual name of your APK in place of “filename.apk”
You should then be able to run the app you installed by searching for it in the Chrome OS launcher
Using Android Studio to run sideloaded apps on Chromebook
Nathan Ingraham for Engadget
Alternatively, you can run the APK using an emulator in Android Studio. If you don’t already have Android Studio set up, go to the Files app > My files > Downloads and locate the DEB package. Move or copy this to Linux Files. Then, in the Linux terminal, run the command “sudo apt install ./android-studio-panda2-cros.deb.” (Note that the filename for the DEB package might be slightly different, so make sure to account for that.)
After you open Android Studio, you can create an Android Virtual Device. This simulates an Android phone, tablet, Wear OS, Android TV or Automotive OS device. It’s up to you which you’d rather go with, though tablet and Android TV offer landscape formats.
All you need to do after that is drag and drop the APK onto the emulator screen. After the app is installed (an APK Installer box will pop up to indicate that’s happening), you can access it from your apps list.
Apps are back, or maybe they never left in the first place.
While some people debate whether people will shift away from apps as AI agents make accessing online services more efficient, we’ve found the App Store to be alive and well, with a recent explosion of fun, creative, and innovative tools, experiences, and other indie efforts.
Some of the more recent launches may be attributed to the rise of AI coding, which has enabled people to ship software more quickly, and allowed novices to participate in the app ecosystem. According to one report, new app launches have soared in 2026, with worldwide new app releases up 60% year-over-year as of the first quarter across both the Apple App Store and Google Play. On Apple’s iOS store alone, that figure was an even higher 80%.
While there’s valid concern that vibe-coded apps in particular could be cluttering the App Store with lower-quality content, there are plenty of interesting apps worth exploring, and those that resonate with consumers will rise to the top. Many also use AI under the hood to perform their magic — they’re just not promoted as being “AI-powered.”
Albo (previously Sortd, but not that Sortd) is an excellent tool for anyone who regularly bookmarks content from social media, then promptly forgets about it. With Albo, the idea is that you’ll instead share the link to the TikTok, Instagram Reel, YouTube video, or other website to the app. Albo will then automatically pull the details from the post and categorize and save the idea for you. That post and its notes will remain available in Albo, even if the original content creator deletes their post or video at some point in the future.
The app works with a variety of social apps, including Pinterest, X, LinkedIn, Threads, Reddit, and Facebook, plus browsers like Chrome and Safari. You can also add screenshots to Albo.
This makes it easy to save any sort of online inspiration for easy access, whether that’s travel ideas, local spots to try, movie or shows to watch, books to read, recipes to cook, or workouts to do. Your collections can also be shared with friends.
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Albo hails from the London-based app studio The Feel Good Project, which focuses on tech that makes users feel inspired and satisfied instead of drained by doomscrolling.
The app is free to use with advanced features available via subscription. We didn’t love how heavy-handed it was in pushing the trial subscription during onboarding, however.
The recent parasite outbreak in the U.S. has people thinking more carefully about where their food comes from. Buying from local growers and bakers may be the safer option — and better for the community — but not everyone has time to make it to the farmer’s market over the weekend.
Coop‘s app offers an alternative through its neighborhood marketplace, where you can buy real handmade and homegrown items from the people near you, even from the farmhouse down the road that offers fresh eggs, or a neighbor willing to barter their items for yours. The idea is to allow commerce to stay local, while helping people turn their own garden, field, or craft into an additional income stream.
On Coop, you can browse and discover nearby sellers, follow your favorites, see how far they are from you, and purchase from them via the app’s Stripe integration. The seller then receives the order and prepares it for pickup.
A colorful and somewhat chaotic app, PI.FYI, promises to bring back the “old internet,” where you found recommendations through a network of friends, not algorithms. Having emerged from a cult newsletter, the app has been around for a couple of years, but still feels fresh and modern and very much like the alternative to social media it aims become.
In PI.FYI, you can track what you’re into, share your taste, and browse by category or “scenes,” like music, whimsy, retro, and literature, to find your community, read interesting articles, make lists, gather local recommendations, and play games with friends. The app exudes a retro vibe itself, as if it were built when the internet was a little less polished, too.
OK, it might not be as fun as sharing a letter via pigeon post, but the app for pen pals, Lettre, also embraces the fun of snail mail in a digital format. This letter-writing app lets you start new friendships with pen pals around the world, discovered through the app, or with anyone whose email address you already know. Unfortunately, letters are sent digitally through the app or email for now, but the company’s FAQ suggests it is considering a postal mail option for the future, which would be so much fun.
While not a brand-new app, Sofa Time is one of several that is picking up where the recently shuttered TV Time app left off. The app has an easy-to-use, uncluttered interface for tracking the movies and TV shows you’re watching, organizing your watchlist, discovering what to stream next, and getting reminders about new releases.
While Sofa Time’s commenting section doesn’t yet rival TV Time’s forums, the app’s social elements leave room for the community to grow, as it supports the ability to react with a GIF or image alongside your text, and includes built-in translation features to support a global audience.
ThingsBook, a new writing-focused app from South Korean internet giant Naver’s U.S. subsidiary, is hardly an indie effort, but it’s an interesting premise for what the future of social media could look like. Instead of doomscrolling, ThingsBook offers a flexible space where you can capture what you care about, whether that’s through journaling, logging ideas, or collecting things like books, travels, meals, hobbies, and goals into structured lists you can revisit and expand.
The company explains that the app’s purpose is not to focus on “fleeting trends” but to become a “living record of who you are and what you love.”
App or artistic project? Pressed Petals is both. An indie effort from designer Cynthia Chen, the app turns the photos of flowers you find on your walks into a pressed specimen, like one you’d find in a “vintage botanical journal.” The app automatically saves the location where you spotted the flower, and the date and time, turning your nature walks into interactive experiences. It also identifies the flower by name, both its scientific name and its common name.
You can try the app to press two flowers for free, then pay a one-time fee of $4.99 to unlock the full experience. This could be a fun app for luring your little ones outside, as it gives them something else to do beyond the hike itself.
We’re suckers for single-purpose apps that are built well. Moods Faster by Nick Leith is a perfect example, as it offers a way to log your moods for tracking in Apple Health in just two taps — one to select the mood and a second to save it.
You can choose between logging your current mood or your overall mood for the day, and can also optionally add information about the context and emotions you’re experiencing at the time of logging. In the settings, you can pick between different color schemes for your moods, though some are paywalled.
At $1.95 per month, it’s a reasonably priced subscription for anyone who regularly tracks their moods and emotions for mental health purposes.
Originally pitched as a way to encourage kids to exercise, Activate Fitness has recently expanded its screen-time-earning app to include the whole family, which, frankly, makes it better. (The kids will just hate their parents for using this otherwise. Plus, it could turn outdoor time or exercise into a dreaded chore in kids’ minds, which defeats the purpose.)
For adults, the app could allow you to accomplish your own personal goals, like no doomscrolling until you get your steps in for the day.
RGB backlighting and Super Quantum Dot (SQD) technology are mounting the strongest challenge yet to OLED’s dominance in 2026. After testing and reviewing the year’s major contenders, we are ready to reveal our picks for the best TVs of 2026 so far. Join Senior Reviewer Al Griffin, and Editor-at-Large Chris Boylan as they break down their favorite models, explain what sets each one apart, and debate whether OLED still deserves the crown.
TVs are now so thin that they don’t have space for big, beefy drive units to produce good sound.
That means you’re not getting the best audio experience, and as should all know by now, audio is 50% of the experience. To give yourself the best chance of having the best home cinema sound, you should consider investing in a soundbar.
We’ve put together this list of the best soundbars for different budgets, sizes and uses. Whether it’s a compact soundbar for a small room, a soundbar for gaming, or a soundbar system with speakers and subwoofers, you can have a look at the options below.
When we test a soundbar we look at its design how flexible it is to fit in a space. How easy is it to use is another consideration, the number of inputs (and outputs) it has, and its feature set too. We’ll also take a close look at any smarts and wireless connectivity.
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Sound quality is, of course, the main reason to buy a soundbar and our reviewers watch a range of movies, play games and listen music to determine how well the soundbar performs across a range of activities.
We’ve replaced the Marshall Heston 120 with the Bose Lifesytle Ultra Soundbar for the bass entry, and we’ve added the Samsung HW-QS90H as the best wall-mounting option.
Soundbars were created to boost TV sound quality – which means we end up watching a lot of TV. We play everything – news reports for voices, movies for scale and effects steering – to ensure that the soundbars that come through the doors at Trusted Reviews are given a proper challenge. We’ll play different genres of music, too, since a good soundbar should be capable of doubling-up as a great music system.
More complex soundbars feature network functionality for hooking up to other speakers and playing music around the home, so we test for connectivity issues and ease of use. We cover the spectrum of models available, everything from cheap soundbars costing less than £100 to those over £1000, to ensure our reviews benefit from our extensive market knowledge. Every product is compared to similarly priced rivals, too.
Best overall soundbar
Sennheiser Ambeo Soundbar Max
Best soundbar system
Samsung HW-Q990F
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Best premium all-in-one
KEF XIO
Best for wall-mounting
Samsung HW-QS90H
Best mid-range soundbar
Sennheiser Ambeo Soundbar Plus
Best for music
Sonos Arc Ultra
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Best for bass
Bose Lifestyle Ultra Soundbar
Best compact soundbar
Sonos Beam (Gen 2)
Best gaming soundbar
Razer Leviathan V2
Best budget surround sound
Sharp HT-SBW55121
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Best no expense soundbar
Bang & Olufsen Beosound Premiere
Best budget soundbar
Majority Bowfell Plus
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What’s the best soundbar without a subwoofer?
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If you’re short on space or prefer not to have a subwoofer as part of the package, then the Sonos Beam Gen 2 is an excellent choice with its wide soundstage and detailed performance with voices. If you have room for a bigger bar, either the Sennheiser Ambeo Soundbar Mini or Sony HT-A7000 would be fine options.
There’s a new contender in the prosumer UV printer world up on Kickstarter, the HeyGears G1. This one’s particularly interesting as they’re explicitly marketing it as being able to produce full-color 3D prints along with the “print-on-anything” functionality we’ve come to expect from a UV flatbed printer.
You get two choices of bed, with the larger being 420 mm x 320 mm x 130 mm. Hardly the largest build volume we’ve seen around here. You can fill that with up to 6 KG of UV ink/resin from its Epson-brand head in glorious full color and layers as small as 10 um. The ink isn’t super cheap — the CMYK kit looks to MRSP at 189 USD — but you aren’t locked in to expensive cartridges at least. HayGears sells ink in bottles, and you’re free to grab any other brand’s bottles if you want to risk it.
The Kickstarter is ongoing, and it will be some time before backers get their printers. But we can report that the early review copies, like the one [Steve Makes Everything] got for the video embedded below, seem to live up to the manufacturer’s claims, which is promising indeed. Certainly the idea of SLA quality without the mess is very appealing to many — though the super-early-bird price of two grand on Kickstarter and the doubtless higher MRSP may temper some of that interest.
If you’re curious about this UV printer business and why a maker might want one that doesn’t do 3D, our own [Tom Nardi] went hands-on with the EufyMake E1 last year.
Many of us will be used to the idea of a KVM, a device that pipes keyboard, video, and mouse over the network from a remote machine to your own. But many remote machines don’t run a GUI, so there’s not always the need for a full video experience. Enter [morpheuslord] with the PicoTTY. It’s somewhere between an old-fashioned serial terminal and a KVM.
The system has two components, a Pi Pico which plugs in to the USB port of any one of a number of machines and has a wireless card, and a Pi Zero which forms the hub. The Pico acts as both a keyboard and a serial terminal, and streams both to the user via a web interface on the Zero.
We can see the use of a machine like this, but we have a few questions. Why for instance is the keyboard needed, given that the serial terminal could provide input in itself. But however it works we can see it might have a use in cases where a terminal can’t be accessed over the network directly, and we especially like it that a single USB peripheral does the job that a conventional KVM would use a bunch of cables for.
While the rumored camera-equipped AirPods Pro won’t be coming out until 2027, an update is still expected by the end of 2026.
Fall is the traditionally busy launch period for Apple’s product catalog, and that can include AirPods. However, while there are rumors of a wild addition to the earbud range in development for 2027, Apple may still have something to launch in 2026.
Writing in Sunday’s “Power On” newsletter for Bloomberg, Mark Gurman reiterates that AirPods Pro probably won’t be coming out in 2026. Back in May, while the model was said to be very close to launch, being in the design validation testing (DVT) stage, it was thought that it was too late in the schedule for 2026, and 2027 was a safer bet.
A more probable 2026 candidate is said to be in the works, under codename B790, with Gurman insisting that Apple habitually makes competing versions internally. The B790 was the alternative to the camera-equipped versions, codenamed B798.
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The B790 are said to be “further along,” and have been referenced in iOS 27 code. They have also apparently been listed on Apple’s internal road map for launch as early as 2026.
As for what to expect, Gurman doesn’t provide any clues about them. Most probably, they will be an enhancement of the current version, but without any cameras.
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