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The humanoid robot race just got a very deliberate geographic statement. Agility Robotics is opening a 60,000-square-foot facility in Fremont, California — just a short drive up the highway from the factory where Tesla is expected to begin manufacturing its Optimus robots later this year. It’s a bold move, and it’s intentional. Two Robots, Very Different Timelines Tesla has placed an enormous bet on Optimus. Elon Musk has described it as potentially “the biggest product ever” once it becomes useful outside Tesla’s own factories — though that commercial availability is still projected to be at least a year away. Agility’s…

Google has just made its AI Mode significantly more useful. The company announced on Thursday that users can now link their everyday apps directly inside AI Mode — Google’s conversational search experience — and use them to complete real tasks without leaving the chat. At launch, three apps are supported: Instacart, Canva, and YouTube. From Answering Questions to Getting Things Done Until now, AI Mode functioned primarily as a smarter search experience — ask a question, get a synthesised answer. This update pushes it into genuinely new territory: acting on your behalf across the apps you actually use day-to-day. The…

That tagline appears prominently on Stardust’s website. New research from Mozilla suggests some users may have good reason to question it. Mozilla’s latest privacy investigation into period-tracking apps has found that Stardust — one of the most downloaded cycle-tracking apps in the United States — has been sharing sensitive user health data with a third-party analytics company called RudderStack. The data being transmitted included users’ birthdates, birth control types, reproductive goals, and specific health symptoms, all tied to a unique identifier designed to stand in for the user’s actual name. The Federal Trade Commission has previously warned that this practice…

Here’s something the productivity app industry doesn’t want you to realise: most people would be significantly more productive with four apps they actually use than with twenty apps they keep meaning to set up properly. Research published by Harvard Business Review found that digital workers lose almost four hours a week reorienting after switching between applications, toggling between tools nearly 1,200 times per day. Research from UC Irvine puts the average cost of a single interruption at 23 minutes to fully refocus. The productivity apps that genuinely help aren’t the ones with the most features. They’re the ones that create…

Every year produces hundreds of “emerging technology” lists. Most of them recycle the same ideas dressed up with new statistics. This one is different because it draws directly from the two most credible annual assessments of what’s genuinely moving from research into reality: MIT Technology Review’s 10 Breakthrough Technologies for 2026 and the World Economic Forum’s Top 10 Emerging Technologies, published at its Summer Davos event in June 2026. These aren’t predictions from tech bloggers — they’re selections made by editors, scientists, and researchers who have spent months debating what deserves attention and why. Here are the eight breakthroughs they…

Self-driving cars generate more headlines than almost any other technology, but the coverage tends to cluster around dramatic crashes or ambitious predictions rather than the underlying mechanics. If you’ve ever wanted a clear, jargon-free explanation of how these vehicles actually work — what the sensors do, what the levels mean, and where the technology genuinely stands in 2026 — this is it. Why This Technology Exists at All Let’s start with the reason. NHTSA, the US road safety agency, estimates that 94% of serious car crashes involve human error — distraction, fatigue, impairment, misjudgement. Forty thousand people die on American…

Something shifted in the past eighteen months. AI stopped being something companies were experimenting with and started being something they were running their operations on. McKinsey’s latest survey found that 78% of organisations now use AI in at least one business function — up from 55% just a year earlier. The global AI market reached $390.9 billion in 2025. The share of US firms using AI to produce goods and services jumped from 3.7% in late 2023 to 10% by September 2025. This is no longer about future disruption. The transformation is already operational. Here’s how it’s playing out across…

The smart home market has matured past the gimmick phase. The global market is valued at $169.9 billion in 2026, nearly 900 million smart devices shipped worldwide in 2024, and by 2029, close to two billion people are expected to be using smart home technology regularly. That’s not niche adoption. That’s mainstream infrastructure. What’s also changed is the compatibility headache. The Matter standard — backed by Apple, Google, Amazon, and Samsung — has genuinely simplified the “will this work with that” problem that used to make smart homes frustrating. If you’re buying new devices in 2026, prioritise Matter-certified products. They…

The conversation about AI and jobs has quietly changed shape. For a couple of years, the dominant question was binary: will AI take our jobs or not? In 2026, the people actually studying this for a living — the World Economic Forum, BCG, PwC, Deloitte — have largely moved past that question, because the honest answer was never going to be yes or no. The real question is how jobs are changing, how fast, and who’s prepared for it. Here’s what the most current research actually says, including a genuinely useful framework for thinking about where this goes from here.…

This question makes people nervous for a reason that goes beyond technology. A 2024 UC San Diego study found that more than 60% of Americans would probably or definitely avoid riding in a driverless car — and the researchers discovered something interesting: the hesitation isn’t mainly about safety. About 85% of respondents said widespread autonomous vehicles would cause job losses for ride-hailing, rideshare, and delivery drivers. Nearly half believed the technology would widen the income gap between higher and lower earners. So let’s separate the two real questions buried inside this one. Can the technology drive without a human? Increasingly,…