Pebble creator Eric Migicovsky and his new company, Core Designs, have been beavering away on new e-paper smartwatches and the team has just revealed the final design of the higher-end model. The Pebble Time 2 has a 1.5-inch, 64-color e-paper screen, with a touchscreen, metal frame, heart-rate monitor and (it’s claimed) up to 30 days...
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Launch HN: Design Arena (YC S25) – Head-to-Head AI Benchmark for Aesthetics
Hi HN, I’m Grace from Design Arena (https://www.designarena.ai/) – we’re building a crowdsourced benchmark for AI-generated visuals (websites, images, video, and more). We put AI models and builder tools in head-to-head comparisons that get voted on by real users from around the world. Think “Hot or Not” for the AI era 🙂 (Btw, when we...
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Thermal Grizzly and der8auer unveil open-air test bench for hardware enthusiasts
First unveiled at Computex 2025 where it earned an international design award, the platform departs from the traditional passive frame approach by integrating an active printed circuit board. This built-in PCB consolidates connections for cooling, storage, and peripherals, streamlining hardware installation and replacement.Read Entire Article…Read whole article here
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How Yamaha’s Crossplane Tech Revolutionized High-Performance Motorcycles
Yamaha’s crossplane crankshaft, first seen on the 2009 YZF-R1, rewired how liter-class bikes felt under throttle. Traditional inline-four engines fire two pistons simultaneously at 180-degree intervals, causing torque pulses that can unsettle the chassis under aggressive inputs. Yamaha’s crossplane (not to be confused with flat-plane) configuration staggers the firing order at 90-degree intervals. That means the...
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Nintendo designed a Playdate-like crank for the Switch 2
Nintendo has eyed adding a Playdate-style crank to the Switch 2, according to a recently spotted patent from Nintendo Patents Watch. The hypothetical accessory would add tracking rotational movement to an existing bag of Joy-Con 2 controller tricks that includes motion and mouse controls. Based on the patent application, the crank accessory attaches to the...
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RayCue launches new Thunderbolt 5 docking station for Mac Studio
The new TB5 dock is made for the Apple Studio (Image source: RayCue) RayCue is offering a new docking solution specifically for Apple’s compact desktop computer. It uses Thunderbolt 5 and can be used in conjunction with up to two SSDs. It also sports DisplayPort and HDMI 2.1 connectivity. Silvio Werner (translated by Enrico Frahn),...
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Academia-industry partnership eyes talent development in AI-centric creative economy
By Tony Case • August 6, 2025 • Ivy Liu This article was first published by Digiday sibling Work Life. The creative industries are experiencing their most consequential transformation in decades, and the new Centre for Creative AI — launching this fall via a partnership between University College London, the Royal College of Art and...
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Apple Music for Android gets redesigned with lyrics and translation
Apple has released the beta version of Apple Music version 5.0 for Android, and as 9to5Google reports, it doesn’t feature a Liquid Glass redesign like its counterpart for iOS 26. Liquid Glass is what Apple calls its new visual language, so it’s not quite clear whether the Android iteration of the app will ever get...
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Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 8 just came out and you can already save $50
Brandt Ranj Brandt Ranj is a commerce reporter for The Verge writing about the best deals and gadgets. He previously wrote for Business Insider, Rolling Stone, Futurism, and Popular Science. If you’re looking to upgrade an older Android smartwatch, or want to give wearables a try for the first time, Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 8 is...
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World’s first ultra-fast PCIe 6.0 SSD arrives, but it’s not for you
Image: Micron Move over, PCI Express 5.0! Micron has shipped the first PCI Express 6.0 SSD, ramping up read and write speeds to unprecedented levels. The bad news? It’s not for PCs. This week, Micron shipped the Micron 9650 SSD, the world’s first PCIe 6.0 SSD, designed for AI training and inference workloads. Unfortunately, those...