September 2026
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🔬 Emerging Technology Watch
Meta used its Connect keynote to put a price and a form factor on consumer spatial computing — $1,299.99 VR glasses, camera-free audio glasses with up to 12 hours of battery, and a hardware companion…
🔬 Emerging Technology Watch
Stanford-led researchers grew human cortical organoids into mice engineered to lack a cortex, with human cells filling close to half of brain volume in the reported animals — Research (MIT Technology…
🔬 Emerging Technology Watch
Apple put its first 2-nanometer smartphone chip, the A20 Pro, into shipping hardware — the $1,999 iPhone Duo foldable and iPhone 18 Pro — with preorders open and devices due next month — Coming to…
🔬 Emerging Technology Watch
Nvidia confirmed a $12.9 billion deal to acquire Hugging Face, folding the hub hosting 3M+ open models and serving 18M+ developers into the world's largest AI chipmaker — Productionized (TechCrunch…