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The company's September event introduced Apple's first ever foldable iPhone, along with new iPhone 18 Pro models, updates to the Apple Watch, some AirPods, and more advances to Siri AI. The company is turning over leadership for the first time in 15 years, with former CEO Tim Cook handing off the reins last week to the new CEO, former Apple VP of hardware John Ternus. At the first Apple product soiree hosted by Ternus, the company made an even bigger change: it announced its first ever folding device, the iPhone Duo . The company also announced its new line of iPhone 18 Pro phones, some updates to its Apple Watch line, new AirPods, and new software capabilities powered by Siri AI. As expected, there were no base-model iPhone 18 announcements; those are likely coming early next year.

Kepler Computing claims a new approach to chip design--and a proprietary material--can help end the supply bottlenecks that have sent memory prices surging. An ambitious chip startup that has spent more than seven years quietly trying to redesign the architecture for computer memory has just come out of stealth mode and believes its new approach can help ease the global memory-chip shortage --provided it can produce its technology at scale. Kepler Computing, a San Jose, California-based startup founded in 2018 by a team of physicists and computer scientists, says it has developed a new architecture for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) that directly addresses some of the chip supply bottlenecks that are constraining the computing market. While chipmakers typically rely on expensive extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) to shrink the transistors on a chip, thereby packing more technology into the same amount of space, Kepler claims that its "3D stacking" approach and a proprietary new material allow it to increase density without relying on EUV at all--and it can work with existing semiconductor fabrication plants. Kepler says it has made similar gains for the high-speed cache memory typically used in CPUs, GPUs, and XPUs.

Vulcan oven mitts, spaceship baking dishes, and an out-of-this-world communicator grater--you'll need warp speed to Klingon to this limited edition kitchen kit, ideal for perfecting the broth of Khan. Logic clearly dictates that the needs of the penne outweigh the needs of the stew, or the bun. While this would have been a gloriously fan-faithful reason for Le Creuset, the French-Belgian maker of colorful cookware for more than a century, to materialize its new limited-edition Star Trek collection, the range is being launched in celebration of 60 years of the cult sci-fi show . No matter, because when you have such stellar items as Vulcan oven mitts, shuttlecraft baking dishes, and--perhaps best of all--a cheese grater in the shape of the classic Trek communicator (which has somewhat wonderfully been nicknamed the "Communi-grator" by Le Creuset's design team), there's only cause for celebration in the cosmos. Going on sale today, to coincide with the space series' 60th anniversary, the limited-edition collection has actually been in development for years after Le Creuset approached Paramount to collaborate on the kitchen kit in time for the landmark birthday.

The Watch World Went Crazy This Week. The main action took place at Geneva Watch Days, but others dialed in remotely to make sure it wasn't just a Swiss party. While Watches and Wonders every April is undoubtedly the watch world's main event of the year, Geneva Watch Days--which inauspiciously launched in 2020, the year Covid was declared a pandemic --is now establishing itself as a serious follow-up. Big brands can hold back key releases and gain valuable space to shout about new pieces away from the horological hubbub of W&W. A second bite of the marketing apple in the latter half of the year seems like a good idea, as Swiss watch exports declined again in 2025 after a drop in 2024.

The success of a program linking zoos across the US has created social media stars and generated a wave of interest in how to protect the endangered great apes in the wild. "It's a girl!" Melissa Peterson exclaims. Just outside the operating room, the hallway erupts in cheers. Joseph Dewane, an ob-gyn, has just delivered a healthy baby via C-section; Autumn Joi Goodwin-Samson, a neonatalist, tends to the newborn still slick with a waxy film. It's a successful delivery just like any other except for one, minor, difference: The patient is an orangutan .

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When the beta arrives next year--15 years after its predecessor-- will have a new momentum engine that makes combat in the game feel closer to an action RPG. Hardly a year goes by without me whistling the loading theme, rewatching clips of the original to soak up that Pre-Searing Ascalon nostalgia, or subjecting my wife to yet another Grawl impression. So you can understand my excitement when the game developer announced earlier this summer, with a beta set to launch in late 2027. I spent countless hours playing in middle school and high school, and an ungodly amount of time playing with my roommates in college. You wouldn't hear anyone talking about it in the school cafeteria like you would the other two titles (I was a Cool Kid).

Sonos is cramming AI into its software because it's "very hot these days." The new features, which include agentic automation, are opt-in. Stop me if you've heard this one before . The smart speaker company, long a darling of the audio industry, undid much of the goodwill it earned with its multiroom speakers through a bevy of software updates that broke its app in 2024. Almost all app users hated it, citing the loss of features like volume control and accessibility tools meant to help blind people use the wireless speaker system.

Mice, a Caved-In Ceiling, and Cloudy Water: The GSA's New Office Is Falling Apart "Do we need to look at the ceiling before going to the bathroom? Can we actually trust the water is safe to drink?" asks one GSA worker. About 1,600 federal employees who work at the General Services Administration have been forced to relocate from their current office on F Street in Washington DC to the Theodore Roosevelt Federal Building, roughly two blocks away. Workers say the new building, which also houses staff from the Office of Personnel Management has mice, a caved-in bathroom ceiling, and drinking water that needs to be run for 5-10 seconds before it is clear. The federal workforce has been rocked by changes made by Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) since January 2025.