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A recent paper argues that AI is often better at doctoring than doctors. Guess who isn't thrilled.

Apple raised the price of its streaming service for new and current subscribers on Friday, bumping it up from $12.99 per month to $14.99, Deadline and Variety are reporting. An annual subscription now costs $119, up from $99. Apple also increased the cost of its individual Apple One subscription, which includes Apple TV and Apple's […]

Confusion is a generally accepted side effect of mystery box shows. They slather on secrets with the promise of a satisfying payoff in the end, and sometimes the cast and crew even have a hard time following what's going on. But even by the standards of the genre, Dark Matter is extreme. Its multiversal premise, […]

Kasia Trapszo discusses how Netflix evolved its commerce platform from a U.S. DVD service into global infrastructure. She explains navigating international payment realities, adapting to strict regulatory mandates, decomposing monolithic architectures along domain boundaries, and re-architecting systems for massive live-event demand - proving great systems survive by continually evolving. By Kasia Trapszo

The company is testing robots that can swap cables, reset servers, and take on other tasks performed by technicians, fueling concerns among some workers that their jobs could be at risk.

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the AI Stage is back to dig into the single hottest topic in the community for the past few years, presented by Google for Startups.

Meta is updating its AI-powered smart glasses to close a loophole that allowed wearers to keep recording after covering the front-facing LED. Alex Himel, Meta's vice president of augmented reality, writes in a post on Threads that "the camera will now stop working if the light is covered during a recording." The company's line of […]

I knew I’d officially become a ‘longevity influencer’ this month when a company called Generation Lab reached out to offer me the chance to write about—and even receive—their new rejuvenation treatment, an injectable combination of two existing drugs which they call 1 Generation. This wasn’t just any antiaging treatment, either. A company fact sheet says that…

Google's AI note-taking app, Gemini Notebook, can now pull information from the books you've purchased. The new "Expert Intelligence" feature allows you to bring titles from Google Play Books directly into Gemini Notebook, which means you can ask questions about the material, as well as generate plans, infographics, AI podcasts, and more based on their […]

Google will start policing memory-hungry Android apps as a direct response to the RAM crisis. Spotted by TechCrunch, the company yesterday published a memo addressing the Play Store's role in enforcing new memory-usage restrictions. The post emphasizes the importance of meeting new memory usage limits for apps, in order "to help developers navigate industry-wide hardware […]

Originally published at parvejshah.com/blog/why-browser-agents-fail-in-production-without-semantic-layers by Parvej Shah . The Fragility of Machine Vision in Modern DOMs Maybe the next evolution of frontend engineering isn't just designing interfaces for humans. It is designing interfaces that machines can reliably understand too. Browser agents don't always fail because the AI model is bad. Often, the web page itself is fundamentally hostile to machine parsers. Modern single-page applications (SPAs) render deeply nested <div> trees with ephemeral, auto-generated class names (such as Tailwind or CSS-in-JS hashes). While this provides fluid visual rendering for human users, it strips away semantic meaning for automated agents. graph TD A[AI Browser Agent] -->|Fragile Visual OCR / Coordinate Guessing| B[Opaque Div Hierarchy] B -->|Frontend Code Deploy / CSS Hash Shift| C[Broken Automation & Flaky Selectors] A -->|Direct Deterministic Query| D[Semantic Schema & data-agent Attributes] D -->|Refactor-Proof Contract| E[Deterministic Task Execution] Moving Beyond Ephemeral Selectors We already treat accessibility (a11y) as a non-negotiable contract between the frontend and assistive technologies through ARIA attributes. Why not extend that exact engineering rigor to AI agents? Imagine components exposing explicit, stable machine intent: // The machine contract: deterministic, testable, refactor-proof < button data - agent = " checkout-submit-button " data - agent - action = " complete-transaction " className = " btn-primary " > Confirm & Pay < /button > With explicit semantic attributes: Zero Layout Guesswork: The agent does not need to guess which button to click based on pixel coordinates or fragile CSS selectors. Deterministic Interaction Paths: Continuous integration (CI) test suites can validate machine contracts alongside accessibility audits. Reduced Latency & Token Costs: Vision-language models (VLMs) introduce non-deterministic latency and high token costs when in

Originally published at parvejshah.com/blog/why-browser-agents-fail-in-production-without-semantic-layers-test by Parvej Shah . The Semantic Contract Modern web applications optimize DOM trees for human eyes with nested divs... graph TD A[Vision Model] -->|Fragile OCR| B[DOM Tree] C[Semantic Layer] -->|Deterministic Contract| B const button = document . querySelector ( " [data-agent=submit] " ); Parvej Shah is a Lead Full-Stack Web Developer & Platform Architect based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Explore full architecture case studies and production code at parvejshah.com .

Hoomanely has developed a smart bowl to measure and record dogs' feeding data, then tells owners if behaviors change.

On Nvidia's earnings call Wednesday, CEO Jensen Huang casually announced the company had "achieved AGI," one of the tech industry's ultimate goals some of its biggest players have spent years chasing. Almost immediately, Huang dismissed the coveted milestone as "senseless." He's right. For the supposed finish line of the AI race, there is no consensus […]

After unexpectedly showing up on a wall-mounting compatibility chart on Sony's site back in June, the company has announced the Sony Bravia 6 OLED TV. The TV sits below its other OLED TVs - the Bravia 8 and Bravia 8 II - as well as its Bravia 9 II and Bravia 7 II RGB LED […]

Americans have declared war on Flock cameras. They've protested them, damaged them, and destroyed them. This is only the beginning. The spontaneous and decentralized nature of the vigilante protests is also what makes them difficult to suppress. There isn't a uniform method of disruption; people have done everything from unplugging, smashing, stealing, and spray-painting the […]

The UK has legalized plug-in solar, but experts warn you shouldn't just set it up without getting your home checked first.

Hugging Face's Pollen Robotics has launched its second cute AI robot, the Microduck, a one-eyed biped standing just under 10 inches tall. It's available to preorder now for $399 in cream, graphite, lavender, and sky blue, and Pollen Robotics says it plans to start shipping the little robot "before Christmas 2026." Video demos of the […]

Plaud has introduced a new AI wearable that's designed to record, transcribe, and summarize your conversations, only this time it looks like earbuds instead of a pin. The Plaud One Explorer Edition can be worn like traditional earbuds or used through its standalone charging case, and the case includes built-in 4G to upload and process […]

Adobe is rolling out an AI-heavy update for Photoshop that includes a new "optional" interface dedicated to its AI tools. Launching in beta, the "AI Assisted Editor" view will show all of Photoshop's AI features in a single toolbar, including its prompt-based image editor, background remover, an AI image extender, and more. There are also […]