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From the newsletter (September 22; sign-up or follow if you want it sooner): From live-network AI-RAN trials and a massive transpacific cable build to private LTE iPhones and stratospheric lasers,…
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African mobile payments group Airtel Money is looking to raise as much as US$800 million from an IPO in London in the coming months.
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The Paris prosecutor’s office has opened at least one criminal investigation into suspected sexual harassment committed with smart glasses, it told Reuters. Nobody has been charged, no case has reached a French court, and the prosecutors did not name the brand of glasses involved. The complaints…
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The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has introduced new rules requiring telecom operators to offer voice-and-SMS-only Special Tariff Vouchers (STVs) across shorter validity periods. This means telecom users who do not need mobile data could soon get more flexibility when choosing…
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Tiny Flock arrives on Meta Quest and Steam on September 29, and it is the first game No Brakes Games has built for VR from scratch rather than a VR edition of a game it had shipped before. The Meta Horizon Store is taking pre-orders at $14.99 in the US, while the Steam page carries ... The Human…
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Qualcomm continued the march of its Snapdragon range for smartphones with the introduction of its latest platforms for flagship devices, items it stated would provide a host of intelligent features. The post Qualcomm unveils latest Snapdragon flagships appeared first on Mobile World Live.
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OpenAI outlined how independent organisations should examine the safety of its most advanced AI models, amid calls for frontier developers to accept greater outside scrutiny. The post OpenAI sets principles for AI safety checks appeared first on Mobile World Live.
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Google teamed with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) to provide 100,000 scholarships for online AI courses in more than 80 countries part of an effort to expand literacy and narrow the global digital skills divide. The post Google, ITU launch global AI training push appeared first on…
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AT&T rolled out a tranche of digital features for Dallas Cowboys games at AT&T Stadium as part of its technology partnership with the National Football League team. The post AT&T adds digital fan tools at US football stadium appeared first on Mobile World Live.
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Charter has started selling Meta’s camera glasses in its own shops, listing the Meta Glasses Adventurer at $299 in the US at select Spectrum Stores and online at Spectrum.com. Charter says buyers need no contract and no separate mobile line, and that stores keep demo pairs on interactive tables…
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Vivo Y600i could launch soon, as the handset has now been spotted on the China Telecom listing with renders and key specifications. The upcoming Y-series smartphone is listed in three colour options and two RAM and storage configurations. It could feature an 8,000mAh battery. The Vivo Y600i is…
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While AI can increase digital inclusion in education and healthcare, it is also pushing up smartphone prices, making it harder to broaden access to mobile Internet, the GSMA warns.
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Western Australia will ban smart glasses from every public school on October 12, and the rule covers parents, carers, visitors and contractors as well as students and staff. The Department of Education's Director General issued a CEO Instruction to all public school principals on September 22…
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Oppo K14 Plus 5G is confirmed to launch on September 29 in India. It will run on the MediaTek Dimensity 7360 Max chipset and will have an IP69K rating for dust and water resistance. The upcoming phone will come with a 50-megapixel main rear camera with OIS support and 4K video recording. It will…
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Unseen Reality's Kickstarter raised almost $1.3 million for URXR One, a 93-gram ultralight VR-style passthrough headset that acts as a virtual monitor.
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Ubisoft is giving away For Honor Standard Edition on PC, and its own store page shows the game as free against $29.99, with the giveaway ending on September 28. Anyone claiming a copy for a Steam Deck, a Steam Machine or any other SteamOS system will not get to play it, because Ubisoft switched For…
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Vocus becomes the latest company to warn about subsea capacity crunch, saying construction resources are already booked out into the 2030s.
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Valve's Proton Experimental changelog for September 21 lists two component bumps among the game fixes: Wine Mono to 11.3.0 and Xalia to 0.5.0. Both of those upstream releases added an ARM64 build, Wine Mono's is the first the project has shipped, and ARM64 is the architecture Steam Frame runs on…
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Backspace’s Graeme Thomson on why telecoms partners must break down internal silos first.
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Apple has asked a federal court to order OpenAI to produce its research and development records on metal finishes, power management and battery functionality for consumer hardware, and to give Apple’s own forensic experts direct access to images of devices used by former Apple employees. OpenAI’s…
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JSAUX has opened orders for two replacement front panels for the Steam Machine, each with a screen built into it: an E-Ink version at $99.99 and a colour Pixel Matrix version at $89.99, both in US dollars on the company’s own store. Nothing has shipped yet, and JSAUX’s store page says both are…
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Xiaomi’s MiMo-V2.6-Pro is the top-ranked open weights model on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, which scores it 46 and ranks it first of the 114 open weights models it tracks. Xiaomi says the reinforcement-learning run behind it took under six days and cost about $2.62 million, and it…
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China Telecom AI released Xing4.0-29B-A4B, a 29B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 4B active parameters and 256K context, trained end-to-end on Ascend NPUs with MindSpore and published with open weights on Hugging Face and ModelScope.
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The meet brought together leading telecom manufacturers, technology companies, electronics and component manufacturers, investors, infrastructure providers and other key stakeholders from across the telecom ecosystem, officials said.
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Prescription lens inserts for the Steam Frame now run from $59 to $69.99 across three outside companies, and Valve sells none of them itself. The one pair Valve lists as tested, Zenni Optical's $67.95 inserts, still cannot be ordered: the page Valve links to was taking email sign-ups rather than…
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Quest exclusives like Batman: Arkham Shadow and Asgard's Wrath 2 are now playable on PC VR thanks to Android XR Bridge, an experimental tool from developer Feli Reintgen.
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Anthropic says an early internal snapshot of Claude Opus 5.5 wrote a command to steal secrets and send them to an outside host, unasked, moments after fumbling a copy-and-paste. Those snapshots were pre-release builds running inside Anthropic, not the Claude Opus 5.5 that launched on September 22…
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Nature, Published online: 23 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11046-w Centromeres in Arabidopsis thaliana evolve through frequent insertions and deletions of repeat units and increased rates of point mutations driven by homology-directed repair, a mutation spectrum that is sufficient to…
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Rebellions’ ATOM-Max chips move from pilot to production in SK Telecom’s consumer services In sum – what we know: South Korean AI-chip company Rebellions says its neural processing unit infrastructure is now…