ASUS Donates $96,800 for Colombia Earthquake Relief
ASUS donated $96,800 to earthquake relief in Colombia through World Vision Taiwan and Sociedad de Mejoras de Pereira, supporting emergency aid and recovery programs.
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Announcing US-listed-stock trading for EEA customers
Kraken’s European customers can now trade over 7,000 US-listed stocks and 100+ tokenized xStocks on a single regulated platform under MiFID II authorization.
Not All Ice Is Created Equal: Discover the Difference With Samsung’s Ice-Making Technology
Samsung’s Bespoke AI Refrigerators offer six ice types tailored to regional preferences and drink requirements, with select models producing clear sphere ice through controlled freezing rates.
Samsung Partners With Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna To Bring Austrian Masterpieces to Samsung Art Store
Samsung and Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum will offer 43 masterpieces in 4K resolution via Samsung Art Store on compatible TVs, expanding access to global audiences.
‘Warranty and care’ Menu Simplifies Device Care for New Foldables
Samsung’s new Warranty and care menu in One UI 9 consolidates warranty checks, diagnostics, repair bookings, and support for Galaxy devices in one Settings location.
eBay Expands Authenticity Guarantee to Collectible Coins
eBay expands its Authenticity Guarantee to collectible coins in the U.S., offering free professional authentication for eligible purchases of $500 or more starting August 18, 2026.
Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex
Asana replaced an outdated testing system using OpenAI Codex in two weeks for $12K, a task previously estimated to take five years and cost $6M.
How to inspect element: Chrome, Safari, & Firefox
A guide explains how to use the Inspect Element tool in Chrome, Firefox, and Safari to view and temporarily edit a webpage's HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for debugging, design testing, or troubleshooting without permanent...
Multi-Vector (Late Interaction) Embedding Models with Sentence Transformers
Hugging Face’s Sentence Transformers v6.0 introduces MultiVectorEncoder models for ColBERT-style late interaction retrieval, supporting PyLate, Stanford-NLP ColBERT, and ColPali checkpoints via a unified API.
How NVIDIA scales expertise with ChatGPT Work
NVIDIA integrates ChatGPT Work to automate manual tasks, connect external AI developments with internal priorities, and scale workflows globally, reducing repetitive work and accelerating project timelines.
Sign JWTs from your Functions without managing private keys
Vercel has introduced Vercel KMS, a managed service allowing JWT signing from Functions without exposing private keys, using asymmetric keys stored in Vercel’s key management system and accessible via OIDC tokens.
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4975-4981: Happy 14th Landing Anniversary
NASA’s Curiosity rover marked its 14th Earth-year anniversary on Mars with routine science operations, including arm deployment and rock analysis at a layered outcrop near the landing site.
How Databricks Feature Store serves features with sub-second freshness
Databricks Feature Store now supports sub-second feature freshness for real-time ML models, enabling millisecond-latency aggregations via Spark Real-Time Mode and Lakebase storage.
Firefly Aerospace Onboarded to NASA Spacecraft Processing Operations Contract
NASA awarded Firefly Aerospace a contract to compete for payload processing services at Vandenberg Space Force Base, enabling faster mission preparations for government and commercial launches.
Same Cluster, 33 Points More Utilization: What Changed Was the Order
Hugging Face introduced a constraint-aware GPU allocator that improved utilization by up to 33 percentage points and priority-weighted output by up to 105% compared to a FIFO scheduler, without hardware changes.
NASA Mission Studies Air Pollution Over Ethiopia
NASA’s MAIA project has documented high black carbon and PM2.5 pollution levels in Addis Ababa, providing a baseline for Ethiopia’s air-quality policies and global urban health research.
Amazon ECR now supports 25 replication rules per registry
Amazon ECR has raised the replication rule limit per registry from 10 to 25, allowing customers to distribute container images across more regions and accounts without consolidating configurations.
Amazon MSK now supports configuring custom domain names for MSK Provisioned clusters
Amazon MSK now allows configuring custom domain names for Provisioned clusters, including KRaft mode, simplifying endpoint management across migrations, failovers, and scaling without reconfiguration.
Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-Flex instances are now available in Canada West (Calgary) region
Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances, powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, are now available in AWS’s Canada West (Calgary) region, offering up to 15% better price-performance and significant performance gains...
Connect Salesforce to the Teamwork Graph to unlock customer context for your teams and agents
Atlassian has launched a Teamwork Graph connector for Salesforce, integrating customer context from Salesforce with Atlassian’s work and collaboration tools to reduce manual data stitching for teams.
10 B2B customer onboarding best practices to accelerate time-to-value
A new guide from HubSpot outlines 10 best practices for B2B customer onboarding to reduce churn and accelerate time-to-value, emphasizing structured processes and measurable outcomes.
Colorful Collage of Tarantula Nebula
NASA released a composite image of the Tarantula Nebula on August 11, 2026, combining data from Chandra, Webb, and Hubble telescopes to study its energy loss mechanisms.
How canvases make agentic workflows visible, steerable, and cost-efficient
GitHub introduces canvases in the Copilot app to make agentic workflows visible, steerable, and cost-efficient by providing durable, shared surfaces for human-agent collaboration.
Huntington’s Disease Discovery Opens Door to a New Class of Treatments
Berkeley Lab researchers identified excessive DNA damage as a key driver of Huntington’s disease and showed an antioxidant can reverse neuron damage in mice, opening a new treatment pathway.
AWS Console-to-Code adds 26 services and cross-region recording
AWS Console-to-Code now supports 26 additional services and cross-region recording, expanding coverage to 32 services for easier IaC conversion.
Create AI-generated slides in seconds
Atlassian introduces Confluence Slides, an AI-powered feature that transforms existing Confluence content into presentation-ready slides in seconds using Rovo, eliminating manual formatting and app-switching.
TCG Card Shop Simulator’s Biggest 1.0 Feature: How to Dominate Tetramon Duel Master
TCG Card Shop Simulator’s 1.0 update introduces Tetramon Duel Master, allowing players to battle using cards collected in-game. The feature launches September 15, 2026, on Xbox platforms and PC.
Spotify Gets More Personal With Playlist Notes — Spotify
Spotify introduces Playlist Notes, allowing editors and users to add contextual explanations to tracks in playlists, enhancing personalization and storytelling within the platform.
Total solar eclipse 2026 (Official ESA broadcast)
The European Space Agency (ESA) will broadcast live from Spain as a total solar eclipse crosses Europe on 12 August 2026, with the path of totality spanning Greenland, Iceland, Spain, and Portugal.
AWS CloudShell now includes a built-in visual file editor
AWS CloudShell now offers a built-in visual file editor accessible via a single 'edit' command, eliminating the need for terminal-based tools or file downloads.