You Should Start Spring Cleaning With This Dyson Cordless Vacuum While It’s on Sale for Over $200 Off

It’s a high-end cordless vacuum on sale for a much more affordable price.

This Sony Portable Outdoor Speaker Is Almost 50% Off Just in Time for Summer

It’s a durable, portable speaker with strong bass and long battery life at a lower price.

?? Tutorial: Turn ChatGPT Into Your Brand Strategist (Build a Real Brand Plan in 45 Minutes)

PLUS: everything you need + all prompts inside…

Sock Puppet Superstar Is The Silliest VR Game I’ve Ever Seen

Sock Puppet Superstars is the silliest (and funniest) VR game I’ve ever seen.

Quest Update Fixes The Biggest Problem With Screenshots & Recording

Quest’s new Capture Markers feature shows you exactly what will be in frame before you snap a screenshot or start a screen recording.

Pie Day 2026

Ellie’s Pi Day post: https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/pi-day-2026-food-institute/ How Ellie orchestrated the baking of 30 pies: https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/behind-the-scenes-of-thirty-pies/

The Download: bad news for inner Neanderthals, and AI warfare’s human illusion

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. The problem with thinking you’re part Neanderthal There’s a theory that many of us have an “inner Neanderthal.” The idea is that Homo sapiens and a cousin species once bred, leaving…

Would Your Business Survive a Major Network Outage Today

Most enterprises assume they would “ride it out” during a major outage. In reality, a modern outage can freeze meetings, break calling, stall customer support, and interrupt revenue flows. That is why a network redundancy strategy is no longer just a network team preference. It is a business continuity decision. Strong business continuity connectivity depends […]

Xref Launches Verified Candidate Profile Platform to Tackle AI CV Overload

AI is dramatically reshaping how candidates apply for jobs, and HR and recruitment software company Xref is introducing a new platform to manage that growing pressure. “AI is making it easier than ever to generate applications, but harder than ever to verify them,” Lee-Martin Seymour, founder and CEO of Xref, said. “As this shift continues, […]

Facebook wants to scan users’ camera rolls for content

A new opt-in feature is designed to mine devices for images that can be turned into postable collages and recaps.

Threads updates reply format and web UI

The platform will now feature indented responses below posts, as well as a web version that more closely aligns with the app experience.

4v1 VR Sci-Fi Horror Game BlackGate Adds New Unlockable Alien

Dead By Daylight-inspired asymmetric VR sci-fi horror game BlackGate adds a new playable alien character, the Titan.

Can Apple Immersive Video Convey The Spirit of New York?

We were excited for the New York City episode of Apple Vision Pro’s Elevated series, but its overstimulated creative choices leave limited room to connect with the city’s spirit.

Bigscreen Reveals New Halo Strap Design for ‘Beyond 2’ PC VR Headset, Shipping Starts in June

Bigscreen has revealed a major redesign to Bigscreen Beyond 2’s long-promised halo headstrap mount, which the company says will begin shipping out starting in June. After months of waiting, Bigscreen has finally shown off the long-awaited Halo Mount for Beyond 2 and 2e, its thin and light PC VR headset which shipped in March 2025. […]

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Monkeys Navigate Virtual Worlds Using Thought Alone in New BCI Study

University researchers at KU Leuven in Belgium have shown that monkeys can navigate complex virtual environments using a brain-computer interface (BCI) setup, which remarkably involves relatively little user training. As reported in New Scientist, three rhesus macaques were implanted with Utah array BCI devices containing 96 electrodes in each of three brain regions: the primary […]

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Plants and Worms Informing Future Missions; Crew Preps for Computer Upgrades

Advanced botany and biology research to sustain crews on future missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond wrapped up the week aboard the International Space Station. The Expedition 74 crew also continued unpacking a U.S. cargo craft while keeping up the maintenance of the orbital outpost.

Everything We Know About Google’s Upcoming Smart Band

Stephen Curry has been wearing it for months, and we only just noticed.

I’m Reading a 900-Page Novel on an E-Reader the Size of My Library Card, and It’s Going Great

It’s weirdly usable for being so ridiculously small.

?? Claude Opus 4.7 Could Drop This Week – Here’s What We Know!

PLUS: Google’s Gemini App Just Landed on Mac for Free…

Making AI operational in constrained public sector environments

The AI boom has hit across industries, and public sector organizations are facing pressure to accelerate adoption. At the same time, government institutions face distinct constraints around security, governance, and operations that set them apart from their business counterparts. For this reason, purpose-built small language models (SLMs) offer a promising path to operationalize AI in…

Treating enterprise AI as an operating layer

There’s a fault line running through enterprise AI, and it’s not the one getting the most attention. The public conversation still tracks foundation models and benchmarks—GPT versus Gemini, reasoning scores, and marginal capability gains. But in practice, the more durable advantage is structural: who owns the operating layer where intelligence is applied, governed, and improved.…

Hue Secure: New firmware aims to resolve setup issues

Philips Hue continues to work on its products. While I unfortunately still have no information about what the new software version 1.145.2 entails for an increasing number of lights, the manufacturer is releasing another update for the Hue Secure cameras. Software version 1.3.1.1294140 is being rolled out starting today. The update notes state: “Fixed an…

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Snap’s 1,000-Job Cut Is Really a Story About the Future of Enterprise AR

Earlier this week, Snap announced it was cutting roughly 1,000 jobs (16% of its full-time workforce) and most coverage focused on activist pressure and a short-term stock reaction. But for enterprise XR leaders, the more useful story is operational: an AR-native company is restructuring the way it builds spatial computing products, and it’s doing it […]

AI & Productivity Show: Copilot, Agents, and What’s Actually Working

This episode focuses on what’s delivering value today, what’s still not landing, and what leaders should focus on next. Marcus is joined by Tom Arbuthnot (Founder, Empowering.Cloud & Microsoft MVP), Mark Nixon (AI Business Solutions Go-To-Market Lead, Microsoft UK & Ireland), and Andreas Welsch (Founder & Chief AI Strategist, Intelligence Briefing). The discussion covers:  What […]

Pinterest’s latest ad campaign encourages people to get off social media

“The best thing you can find online is a reason to go offline,” according to new spots that will run across multiple media channels beginning in May.