Gadgets

Amazon’s Ring wants its security cameras to come to you. The company announced a new line called Ring Robotics on Tuesday, November 10, with two machines that move on their own: the Ring Drone Cam, a flying indoor camera for homes at $249.99, and the Ring Rover Cam, a wheeled patrol robot for businesses at $999.99. Both run on a navigation system Ring calls AI Pilot, which maps a home or office, picks out spots worth checking, and steers around furniture and shelving. ...

Apple will replace iPhone Duo handsets with inner display problems, days after its first foldable phone went on sale. The company confirmed the iPhone Duo screen replacement offer on Monday, October 26, telling affected owners to contact AppleCare for a replacement unit. Apple described the issue as one affecting a small number of units, and it did not say how many phones are involved or what causes the damage. That timeline matters because the phone only reached stores on October 23, priced from $1,999, with initial online orders selling out in minutes. Owners started posting photos over the weekend of cracks and bright lines across the 7.6-inch inner display, mostly where the phone folds. ...

Apple is the most valuable company in the world again. For a few hours, anyway. Shares traded above $351 on Friday morning, an intraday record, pushing Apple’s market capitalization to roughly $5.12 trillion and nudging past Nvidia’s $5.06 trillion, according to figures reported by 9to5Mac and Seeking Alpha. By the afternoon, Nvidia had slipped back in front. The two are the only companies on the planet worth more than $5 trillion, and on Friday they were separated by less than one percent. ...

MSI wants to sell you an AI workstation that fits in a backpack. The company opened pre-orders on October 7 for the Prestige N16 Flip AI+, a 16-inch 2-in-1 laptop built around Nvidia’s RTX Spark N1X superchip, and priced it to undercut Microsoft: $3,299 for the base configuration, a full $400 less than a comparably equipped Surface Laptop Ultra. That number is the story. Everything else — the petaflop of AI performance, the 128GB of unified memory, the Tandem OLED screen — is Nvidia’s RTX Spark platform doing what Nvidia said it would do when Microsoft and its partners unveiled it at the October 7 Windows AI and Surface event in San Francisco. But MSI is the first OEM to put the chip in a convertible chassis and price it like it means to compete. ...

Apple finally put a date on its smart home plans. The company announced Thursday that it will hold a “Welcome Home” product launch on Tuesday, October 13, 2026. Greg Joswiak, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing, posted a 17-second teaser on X showing hands stitching the company’s retro rainbow logo into fabric before the tagline appears: “Welcome home. October 13.” Media invitations went out at the same time, pointing to an “Apple Experience” in Tribeca, New York, at 9:00 a.m. ET. ...

Satya Nadella and Jensen Huang just bet the farm on your laptop doing AI’s heavy lifting instead of Microsoft’s cloud. The two CEOs took the stage in San Francisco on October 7 to unveil the Surface Laptop Ultra, a Windows machine built around Nvidia’s RTX Spark chip with up to 128GB of unified memory and 1 petaflop of local AI compute. That’s enough horsepower, Nvidia says, to run 120-billion-parameter AI models entirely on-device, no cloud subscription in sight. Pre-orders opened October 7, with hardware shipping in mid-October pending final regulatory approvals, according to reports. ...

Nvidia is cutting the price of local AI by selling you less of it. The company announced a new 64GB version of its DGX Spark desktop AI computer, priced from $4,999 and shipping October 23 through six hardware partners. That’s $1,000 more than the 128GB model’s original $3,999 launch price, for half the memory. Welcome to 2026, where memory costs have stopped being a footnote and started setting the price of everything. ...

A federal jury in San Diego ordered Apple to pay $5,721,961,750 to Taction Technology on Friday, ruling that the Taptic Engine in iPhones and Apple Watches infringes two of the small company’s haptic patents. Reuters describes it as the country’s largest such verdict to date. Seven jurors heard the case after a trial that opened September 14. They deliberated two days and returned the verdict Friday afternoon. The Apple $5.7 billion patent verdict lands as one of the biggest patent damage awards in American legal history, period. ...

Apple is breaking up with Qualcomm’s modem chips. It is not breaking up with Qualcomm. Qualcomm announced Thursday that the two companies renewed their global patent licensing agreement, with the new deal taking effect April 1, 2027. That’s the day after the current agreement, signed as part of the landmark 2019 settlement, expires. The announcement was almost comically short. One sentence to state the renewal. One quote to celebrate it. No details on how long the new deal runs or what Apple pays. ...

Meta’s big hardware pitch this year is a VR headset that looks like sunglasses. And in a surprise, the company also launched its first smart glasses with no camera at all. Both devices were unveiled at the Meta Connect conference in September 2026, where CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth sat down with The Sun’s tech editor to explain the thinking behind them. Meta VR Glasses: sunglasses, not a helmet The new Meta VR Glasses drop the bulky ski-goggle look that has defined VR headsets for a decade. Instead, they look like oversized sunglasses — Meta’s wager that comfort and style matter as much as specs if VR is ever going to reach normal people. ...