From laptops to robots, from repositories to models. Specs and prices, always with a source.
Smartphone
iPhone Duo Folds Late, Costs More
Apple unveiled its first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo, at its September 9 …
Home Appliance
Roborock Pulls Harder, Ecovacs Rinses Cleaner
Roborock’s Saros 20 lineup and Ecovacs’ Deebot X12S OmniCyclone both …
SBC
Jetson Orin Nano 2: the 2x that isn't
NVIDIA’s next entry-level Jetson compared against the current Orin Nano …
Deep Dive · Smartphone · Global
Motorola announced the Signature 27 on November 5. Here is how its chip, display, battery, cameras and US price compare with the OnePlus 16, which uses the same chip, and what is actually confirmed about GrapheneOS.
Dev Picks · Hugging Face
From this week’s Hugging Face trending list: Liquid AI’s LFM3-Omni-2B, a 2.2B model that listens, sees and speaks, and Baidu’s Unlimited-OCR-2, a 3.34B OCR model that parses hundreds of pages in one pass. Licenses, benchmarks, run commands and whether they fit on edge hardware.
Deep Dive · Smartphone · Global
OnePlus unveiled the OnePlus 16 in China on October 12. Here is how its battery, chip, cameras and per-configuration prices compare with the OnePlus 15, and what we know about availability.
Deep Dive · SBC · Global
Display maker VIEWE is selling a 4.3-inch touch dev board built on Espressif’s new ESP32-S31 for $38.99. We look at what changed from the ESP32-S3 and what matters when you wire it into equipment: power input, RS485 and CAN.
Dev Picks · GitHub
Three repositories from this week’s GitHub trending list: HyperFrames renders HTML to MP4, text-to-cad lets coding agents build 3D CAD models, and Epic Games’ RAD Debugger. Licenses, install commands and current limits.
Deep Dive · Laptop · Global
Microsoft opened preorders for the Surface Laptop Ultra, among the first laptops built on Nvidia’s RTX Spark (N1X). Here are the two chip tiers, prices, ship date and what is still undisclosed.
Dev Picks · Hugging Face
Two 9B models from this week’s Hugging Face trending list, both built on Qwen3.5-9B: Apple’s LensVLM-9B, which reads long documents as compressed images, and Xiaomi’s MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9B, tuned for coding and agents. Licenses, numbers and how to run them.
Deep Dive · Robot · Global
Epson’s first collaborative robot, the AX6, pairs a 6 kg payload and 900 mm reach with a 17 kg arm and 48 V DC input. We compare it with the UR5e and list what you still need to know before putting it on a battery-powered AMR.
Deep Dive · AI Device · Robot
EdgeCortix unveiled RAIDEN, a chiplet platform for robotics and physical AI. We compare its FP4 compute and memory bandwidth against NVIDIA’s Jetson AGX Thor, and flag the power figure that’s still missing.
Deep Dive · Home Appliance · Global
SwitchBot launched the ultra-compact K11+ Pro robot vacuum at $399.99. Its body is almost the exact same size as the K10+ Pro from two generations back, but suction jumped from 3,000Pa to 12,000Pa.