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Samsung’s Galaxy Z TriFold may have already disappeared from store shelves, but the tri-folding phone race is showing no signs of slowing down. Huawei has opened reservations in China for the Mate XT 2, ahead of its full launch on September 7. We still don’t know how much this thing will cost, but Huawei has now revealed its colors, memory configurations, and a major redesign that could make the phone more practical than its predecessors. While making the phone tougher was a focus, the design is absolutely stunning. Huawei is offering the Mate XT 2 in Dark Black, Pure White,…

As UAE families explore more flexible and personalised learning, Minerva Virtual Academy to bring Parents into the conversation on September 6 in Dubai Minerva Virtual Academy Day In The Life Senna Dubai, UAE – 31st August 2026: The future of education may not look like the school model generations of parents grew up with. As families become more mobile, children’s learning needs are better understood and technology opens up new ways of learning, parents are increasingly looking beyond the traditional classroom for greater flexibility, personalisation and choice. Hugh Viney, Founder and CEO of Minerva Virtual Academy. This changing education landscape will be…

AI scribes are rapidly making their way into doctors’ offices, promising to cut down on tedious paperwork and free up time for patient care. However, growing evidence suggests these tools are introducing a new set of risks for patients and clinicians alike. AI scribes are mangling diagnoses and prescriptions A new report by The Guardian highlights how automated transcription tools are routinely botching medical records in the UK. Findings from Healthwatch England, an independent consumer advocacy group for patients in the UK public health system, reveal that patients are catching severe transcription errors that jeopardize their health if left uncorrected.…

Family Care Authority and Ministry of Education Launch Life Skills Programme to Develop Children and Youth Capabilities  The program targets children and young people aged 7 to 18 and will continue until the end of the year in Abu Dhabi, Al Ain, and Al Dhafra. The programme focuses on a comprehensive set of life skills that promote communication, positive interaction and personal development Abu Dhabi, 31 August 2026: The Family Care Authority,(FCA) affiliated with the Department of Community Development – Abu Dhabi in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, has launched the Life Skills Programme to develop the personal and social skills of…

If you’re in the US and open Google Maps to go looking for Lake Ontario, something is going to look a little off. It’s now called Lake America. Google began rolling out the change after the US Geographic Names Information System formally changed the lake’s name following an executive order from President Donald Trump. Google says its longstanding policy is to reflect geographic names from official government sources. The result is a map that changes depending on where you happen to be looking at it. US Google Maps users see Lake America. Canadians still see Lake Ontario. Everyone outside those…

For years, solar-powered vehicles have largely lived in the world of prototypes, university projects and ambitious demonstrations. Now, one has completed the kind of test that matters far more than a flashy concept reveal: it drove hundreds of miles through difficult terrain while carrying medical equipment and generating enough electricity to operate independently. Called Stella Juva, the vehicle was developed by Solar Team Eindhoven, a group of 23 students from Eindhoven University of Technology and two other educational institutions. According to a CNN report, the team describes it as the world’s first solar ambulance. Unlike a conventional ambulance, however, Stella…

Anthropic has been talking about AI systems eventually helping build better versions of themselves. Its latest research shows what the early stages of that could look like. The company gave Claude Sonnet 5 an early version of the more powerful Claude Opus 4.8 and asked it to make the model behave better. Over roughly 60 hours, Sonnet tested more than 50 different ideas before creating a training method using about 2,400 examples. The result brought the early version of Opus much closer to the final Opus 4.8 model across the 10 behavior problems Anthropic was testing. So Claude can now…

If you have been paying close attention to artificial intelligence, you may have noticed your worries about job security growing instead of shrinking. According to the AI Monitor 2026 from TU Darmstadt, the more you understand AI, the more you worry it’ll take your job, not less. Based on a representative survey of over 2,000 people in Germany, the study breaks the long-held belief that fear comes from ignorance. The more you know, the more you worry Almost half of people with very strong AI knowledge, around 43%, expect AI could soon take over their work. That number drops sharply…

The Internet Archive has a habit of preserving unique things, ones that nobody else thought about, and its newest collection is the best example yet. I’d say it’s one that every AI historian should bookmark. Curated under the title “Vintage Artificial Intelligence,” the collection contains decades of software that tried to convince people that they were talking to a thinking machine (though with wildly varying success). So what exactly is in this new collection? Created by Jason Scott, the new collection gathers emulated software from the 1970s through the 1990s. All of them are playable directly in a browser. While…