Smart glasses have spent years as a category full of promises and short on actual products you could buy. That changed fast in 2026. Meta’s Ray-Ban Display glasses are shipping. Snap just showed off its long-awaited Specs at Augmented World Expo. Google and Samsung are readying their first Gemini-powered glasses for autumn. And budget options…
Qualcomm is reportedly in advanced talks to acquire Tenstorrent, an AI chip startup led by veteran silicon architect Jim Keller, in a deal valued between $8 billion and $10 billion. The news broke Monday via The Information, sending Qualcomm’s stock up more than 4% the next day. Neither company has confirmed the talks publicly, and the price…
Marketing agencies start around $3,000 a month, too steep for most small DTC brands. A new kind of AI tool is filling that gap. The 2026 picture.
Founders are not buying software anymore. They are hiring it. Inside the shift from tools you operate to AI that does the work and reports back.
If you’re heading to a major sporting event, concert, or festival this year, there’s a good chance facial recognition technology is part of the security setup. The 2026 FIFA World Cup is the clearest example yet — stadiums across the US, including Gillette in Boston, Hard Rock in Miami, and Mercedes-Benz in Atlanta, are using…
Jeff Bezos just stepped out of stealth mode with one of the most ambitious AI bets of the year. Prometheus, the startup he co-founded with former Google executive Vik Bajaj, raised $12 billion this week at a $41 billion valuation. Backers include JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, and Bezos himself. This is the company’s second raise. It launched quietly…
AI regulation has moved off the whiteboard and into the halls of Congress. And OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is making sure his company shapes whatever comes next. In early June, Altman made the rounds on Capitol Hill, meeting with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Speaker Mike Johnson, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, and Senator…
African startups funding in 2026 has hit a remarkable milestone. As of June 3, the continent’s tech ecosystem had raised $1.3 billion — a figure that took nearly all of last year’s first half to achieve. The acceleration has been swift, unexpected, and driven in no small part by one electric mobility company landing one…
2026 has been a brutal year for cybersecurity. Wars are being fought on digital fronts as well as physical ones. Ransomware gangs are holding critical institutions hostage. Nation-state hackers are targeting power grids, water systems, data breaches, and government networks. And the attacks are getting bolder, more destructive, and harder to contain. We are only…
Red light therapy has gone from a niche wellness trend to a mainstream consumer product category in under five years. LED face masks are now sold at Sephora, Target, and Amazon. Dermatologists recommend them. Beauty influencers swear by them. But strip away the marketing and the before-and-after photos, and a fair question remains: what does…
ServiceNow — the enterprise software platform used by thousands of organisations worldwide for IT management, HR workflows, and customer service operations — has disclosed a security incident. Attackers exploited an unauthenticated access flaw in a vulnerable API endpoint to query data from customer instances. The breach is significant not because of its scale — ServiceNow…
Microsoft released its June 2026 Patch Tuesday yesterday — and it broke records. 200 vulnerabilities patched. 33 rated critical. 6 zero-days fixed. It is the largest single security update Microsoft has ever shipped. Then, hours later, a security researcher dropped a brand new exploit — affecting fully patched Windows 10 and Windows 11 machines. The update that…
Every week brings a new gadget or app claiming to change your life. Here’s a simple framework for cutting through the hype and deciding what tech product is actually worth your money.