Reach a distant room with a USB Wi-Fi adapter
A long-range USB Wi-Fi adapter with external antennas can hold a steadier link to a router in a basement, attic, or detached garage. Its reach depends on antenna gain, your router's Wi-Fi generation, and how well you aim the antenna. This guide covers the specs to check and three TP-Link models matched to different setups.
Key Results at a Glance
Archer TBE400U Plus (Wi-Fi 7, BE6500): up to 2,882 Mbps on 6 GHz and 5 GHz, 688 Mbps on 2.4 GHz, with one adjustable, multi-directional high-gain antenna. Best for a desktop paired with a Wi-Fi 7...
Mistral opens Large 4 weights, leads open-weight coding
Mistral has released the weights of Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk), its 1-trillion-parameter natively multimodal model, after its public preview earlier this month. It ranks as the best open-weight model for coding and among the world's most capable open models overall.
For teams that want to self-host coding agents or security tooling, this means a capable model they can inspect, customize, and run on their own infrastructure.
Key Features at a Glance
Coding efficiency: 48% on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index, effectively tied...
IBM has released Granite Switch 4.1.1, a patch release for its modular Switch architecture, alongside an updated speech recognition model and an updated Decision adapter. The notable part is how quickly the update shipped: apart from training the new components, nothing was recomputed, and the base model is untouched.
Granite Switch 4.1, released just over a week earlier, showed that the Switch architecture lets users configure a language model with specialized, cache-efficient adapters, adding new expertise on a single endpoint. Version 4.1.1 is a patch in the ordinary software sense. It...
Google has received the first AI response from a data center class TPU in orbit, a “Hello World” milestone for its Project Suncatcher prototype satellite. The satellite launched on October 1 as the first step in a long-term research moonshot to explore powering AI compute in space. Over the following weeks, the team completed its commissioning checklist, which included powering up the host and TPU trays and running early machine learning tests.
During a ground-station pass, Google uplinked a prompt asking its onboard Gemma 4 open model to write a haiku about being in space. As...
CORSAIR has announced the CORSAIR x ARC Raiders collection, a limited run of officially licensed controllers, gaming peripherals, and streaming gear from CORSAIR, SCUF Gaming, and Elgato. The collection was created in a multi-year partnership with Embark Studios and marks the first anniversary of ARC Raiders, the extraction adventure named Best Multiplayer Game at The Game Awards 2025. Every piece uses the game's four-stripe colorway, and every purchase unlocks exclusive in-game items.
ARC Raiders launched in October 2025 and has sold more than 16 million copies worldwide. The game is set...
The author built MonsterHouse as an interactive Halloween projection. He listens to trick-or-treaters, answers in the voice of a grumpy old pirate ship, and softens when visitors remember their manners. The project runs on the NVIDIA Nemotron Voice Agent with Nemotron Speech ASR, Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B 4GB, Magpie TTS Zeroshot and Audio2Face-3D, all on a single workstation.
The author wanted the kids visiting the house at Halloween to interact in a fun and unique way. The house was going to be in charge and giving out the treats, but more grumpy than scary. Somehow, the solution was to give...
Vercel's AI Gateway now offers Ling 3.1 Flash 1019 from InclusionAI at no cost until November 3, 2026. The model is built for coding, multi-step reasoning, and agents that use tools, and its 1M-token context window is meant for long documents, code, and extended task histories.
Developers can call it through the AI SDK by passing the model ID inclusionai/ling-3.1-flash-1019 to streamText, then reading the output from result.textStream. Free requests still appear in the spend dashboard with a full request trace. They just cost nothing until billing begins.
To use the model in coding agents...
Developers building agents for vehicles, robots, and production lines need models that perceive, reason, and act within tight memory, power, and latency budgets, but getting a model ready to run can involve substantial setup. This tutorial shows how to run NVIDIA Nemotron-3.5 Lightning, a text-only model, on the NVIDIA DGX Spark with NVIDIA TensorRT Edge-LLM, a lightweight C++ inference runtime designed for embedded workloads.
DGX Spark, now available in a 64GB configuration, gives embedded developers a platform to prototype, fine-tune, and test models and agents. TensorRT Edge-LLM brings...
Samsung Electronics has introduced three automotive chip solutions aimed at connected cars: the Exynos Auto T5123 for 5G connectivity, the Exynos Auto V7 for in-vehicle infotainment, and the S2VPS01 power management IC (PMIC) for the Auto V series. The announcement, dated November 29, 2021, positions Samsung to extend its mobile chip expertise into automotive. In the company's words, “With an advanced 5G modem, an AI-enhanced multi-core processor and a market-proven PMIC solution, Samsung is transfusing its expertise in mobile solutions into its automotive lineup and is positioned to...
