It’s Fine, You Can Lift in Running Shoes

Squishy sneakers might not be ideal, but plenty of people have lifted in them and lived to tell the tale.

This Substack Data Breach May Have Compromised Nearly 700,000 User Records

Substack won’t share official numbers, but it seems like a pretty significant data breach.

??Tutorial: Turn ChatGPT Into Your Chief of Staff (Runs Your Week in 30 Minutes)

PLUS: everything you need + all prompts inside…

?? Google’s Gemini hits 750M users (and it’s growing fast)

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Moltbook was peak AI theater

For a few days this week the hottest new hangout on the internet was a vibe-coded Reddit clone called Moltbook, which billed itself as a social network for bots. As the website’s tagline puts it: “Where AI agents share, discuss, and upvote. Humans welcome to observe.” We observed! Launched on January 28 by Matt Schlicht,…

The Download: helping cancer survivors to give birth, and cleaning up Bangladesh’s garment industry

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. An experimental surgery is helping cancer survivors give birth An experimental surgical procedure that’s helping people have babies after they’ve had  treatment for bowel or rectal cancer. Radiation and chemo can have pretty…

The Philips Hue Lucca series is also getting colorful

Philips Hue is expected to update some of its existing products in February. The Philips Hue Flourish table lamp will be equipped with a brighter and matte-compatible light source. The same applies to the Hue Turaco series, consisting of wall lamps, pedestal lamps, and path lamps. The upgrade here is particularly extensive, as only a…

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How Enterprises Can Integrate XR Successfully in 2026

Enterprise XR adoption rarely fails because the technology lacks maturity. Instead, programmes stall when organisations position extended reality as a novelty rather than as an operational capability tied to real outcomes. Many enterprises purchase headsets, run impressive demos, and brief stakeholders. However, momentum often fades soon after. As a result, XR initiatives struggle to move […]

ISE 2026 Event Roundup: Interoperability, Invisible AI, and the Fight for Scalable Rooms

If you walked ISE’s floor this year you’d have seen the usual spectacle: wall-sized displays, immersive audio demos, and enough LED lighting to power a small city. But sit down with the people deploying this technology—the integrators managing global rollouts, the enterprise IT teams supporting hybrid work, the education leaders trying to standardise hundreds of […]

A Fisherman’s Tale Developer Announces New VR Spy Title

InnerspaceVR, the studio behind popular titles like Maskmaker and A Fisherman’s Tale, just announced a brand-new VR game titled Spymaster.

GOLF+ Shares Update On Mixed Reality Golf Simulation

GOLF+, shared a new video showcasing an in-development mixed reality golf simulator.

Studio Behind VR’s Most Popular Golf Game Aims to Solve a Key Challenge with Golf Training Sims

The studio behind GOLF+ (2020) is aiming to expand the game this year in a bid to solve some of the most persistent problems in off-course golfing simulators: building real-world muscle memory in a virtual environment. Golf+ CEO Ryan Engle announced that the studio’s popular golf sim is getting “major product updates” this year, which is set to […]

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‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ VR Game is Getting a Steam Demo Ahead of Spring Launch

Cortopia Studios and Beyond Frames Entertainment announced that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Empire City is coming to Quest 3, SteamVR and Pico headsets this Spring. There’s no specific launch date yet beyond the spring release window, although the studios announced that players hoping to get an early hands-on will be able to get their first taste with a free, […]

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Week Ends with Dragon Preps, Space Physics, and Human Research

Expedition 74 wrapped up the week with more preparations for the upcoming launch and arrival of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission. The orbital trio also studied space physics and human research while resupplying and inventorying lab supplies and tools aboard the International Space Station.

Consolidating systems for AI with iPaaS

For decades, enterprises reacted to shifting business pressures with stopgap technology solutions. To rein in rising infrastructure costs, they adopted cloud services that could scale on demand. When customers shifted their lives onto smartphones, companies rolled out mobile apps to keep pace. And when businesses began needing real-time visibility into factories and stockrooms, they layered…

The Download: attempting to track AI, and the next generation of nuclear power

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. This is the most misunderstood graph in AI Every time OpenAI, Google, or Anthropic drops a new frontier large language model, the AI community holds its breath. It doesn’t exhale until METR, an…

All seven new Philips Hue light strips in one video

Last September, Philips Hue introduced a total of seven new light strips. These are also available in different lengths, giving us a total of 21 different variants. It’s easy to lose track of them all. Especially since not all of the new Philips Hue light strips are available yet. Here in Europe, for example, the…

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Workday to Cut Around 2% of Jobs in Workforce Reorganization

Enterprise software provider Workday has announced plans to eliminate approximately 400 positions, representing about 2% of its global workforce. The move is part of a broader reorganization aimed at realigning company resources with strategic priorities. The HCM software giant disclosed the restructuring in a regulatory filing Wednesday, revealing that the cuts will primarily affect “non-revenue-generating” […]

Collaboration Inflation Is Pushing Up the Costs of Collaboration Tools, Is Your Budget Feeling It Yet?

You won’t meet many business leaders who doubt the value of collaboration platforms anymore, particularly the AI-powered ones. There are too many exciting TEI reports for things like Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and Cisco Webex for companies to feel uncertain. We all know intelligent UC and collaboration tools make teams faster, more productive, and better-connected. So, […]

Nintendo Switch Virtual Boy Classics Might Be Playable On Labo VR

Though not officially supported, Nintendo’s upcoming Virtual Boy library may be playable on Labo VR, the DIY cardboard headset from 2019.

Polyarc Games Announces Glassbreakers Tournament With $1,000 Prize Pool

Polyarc Games has announced a tournament for Glassbreakers later this month with a $1,000 prize pool.

Hands-on: 220° FOV optical system by Hypervision

One of the things that has not evolved much in these 10 years of consumer VR is the Field Of View. Some companies are working hard to solve this problem, and one of my favorites is for sure Hypervision, a startup with a deep expertise on the topic that has been able to produce optical […]

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Valve Reconsiders Steam Frame Price & Release Date Amid RAM & Storage Shortage

Steam Frame is still shipping sometime in the first half of 2026, although now Valve says the current component shortage has led the company to revise both price and release date of the standalone VR headset. Valve announced in a hardware news update that Steam Frame, Steam Machine, and Steam Controller are all being affected by […]

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Dragon Preps, Artificial Intelligence, and Medical Gear Fill Crew’s Day

SpaceX Dragon arrival preparations and artificial intelligence research to improve crew operations continued aboard the International Space Station on Thursday. The Expedition 74 crew also checked out new medical hardware and trained to use emergency gear while keeping up orbital lab maintenance.

Crew Studies Health, Earth Photography, and Works Dragon Preps

Biomedical research to promote astronaut health and Earth observations to understand the effects of natural catastrophes topped the science schedule aboard the International Space Station on Wednesday. The Expedition 74 trio is also gearing up for the arrival of the SpaceX Crew-12 mission while continuing lab maintenance for the upkeep of the orbiting lab.