ADR, an Australian robotics company, is using Intel Xeon processors, Intel Core Ultra and Intel OpenVINO on its Explora system to analyze 3D LiDAR data, thermal and visible light images, gas levels and other critical data in real time inside hazardous underground mines. Underground mining operations also require lengthy, mandatory geotechnical and safety inspections, which can require machinery to shut down for over 110 hours per month, with operational costs of over $50,000 per week.
Each autonomous, remote-controlled rover mapped the mine while a human operator stayed a safe distance...
gFiber, Qualcomm Technologies, and Gemtek Technology unveiled an AI-native Wi-Fi 8 broadband gateway for gFiber's symmetrical 20 Gig service at Network X 2026. It is gFiber's flagship symmetrical 20 Gig router, designed as a living-room centerpiece that runs agentic AI on the device itself.
For households, this means controls like parental filters and guest access handled locally, on a router placed where Wi-Fi performs best.
Key Features at a Glance
Wi-Fi 8 Connectivity: Concurrent quad-band Wi-Fi 8 (802.11bn) – more reliable, responsive wireless with advanced mesh networking and...
EmbeddingGemma 2 extends Google's lightweight embedding model beyond text, placing code, images, video, and audio in one shared embedding space. The original EmbeddingGemma has passed 20 million downloads, and the new version is built on the Gemma 4 architecture with 740 million parameters. For developers building on-device search and privacy-first retrieval augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, that means one small model can handle cross-modal retrieval, such as finding a video clip from a voice memo, without sending data to a server.
Key Features at a Glance
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Shared multimodal...
ASUS is discounting its ROG gaming keyboards during Prime Big Deal Days 2026, with options from a 65% wireless board to a 96% layout with a tenkey. Prices run from $85.49 to $334.99 (USD), so you can match a keyboard to your layout and budget.
Key Features at a Glance
ROG Azoth (original): Hot-swappable switches that can be replaced with an included tool, no soldering needed. Priced at $162.99 (USD) for black (14% off) or $176.25 (USD) for white (29% off).
ROG Azoth X: 75% layout with tri-mode connectivity including Bluetooth, and NX Snow V2 or NX Storm V2 switches. Semi-translucent...
GIGABYTE says its AI TOP ATOM hardware platform fully supports the newly released NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning model and the NVIDIA NeMo Switchyard open source routing library, aiming to give customers on-premises agentic AI with high performance and full data sovereignty.
The model is built for the high-volume, repetitive execution steps in always-on agents, such as personal assistants, software development, cybersecurity operations, financial and healthcare administration, and telecom and retail workflows. NeMo Switchyard selects the right model for each agent step based on workflow...
SCUF Gaming announced the Nemesis Pro 8K PC controller family, introducing both wireless and wired models. The controllers feature up to 8,000Hz polling, TMR thumbsticks, mechanical ABXY buttons, four integrated rear paddles, dual-mode instant triggers, and advanced software personalization for competitive PC gamers.
Built on fifteen years of performance gaming innovation, the Nemesis Pro 8K PC family represents SCUF's most focused PC controller platform to date. Both the wireless 2.4GHz and wired USB-C models deliver the speed, precision, and control required for competitive play.
SCUF...
Liquid AI has released two open-weight decision models: d1-3B and d1-omni-600M (experimental). Unlike generative models that produce tokens sequentially, decision models answer questions in a single forward pass, making them suitable for edge deployment.
d1-3B is trained from LFM2.5-VL-3B, a decoder-only vision language model that accepts text and images. d1-omni-600M is trained from LFM2.5-Encoder-350M, a bidirectional encoder that adds vision and audio encoders, accepting either text and images or text and audio as inputs. The d1-omni-600M model is currently in early research release and...
Developers can now configure Claude Desktop to work with Ollama as a third-party gateway provider, allowing them to use open models locally on their computer or access Ollama's cloud models, while retaining the ability to switch back to their existing Claude setup.
Connect Claude to Ollama
Open Ollama and select Claude, then turn Claude on. Ollama will configure the third-party gateway automatically. You can then choose any model within Ollama—both local and cloud-based. Turn Claude off in Ollama to restore your previous setup.
FAQ
Will my prompts or data be sent to Anthropic or Ollama?...
Razer announced the Base Station V3 Chroma, a smart RGB gaming headset stand with USB ports that automates battlestation setup through headset detection and custom profiles.
The standout feature is Seamless Headset Detection, which works with any headset compatible with Razer Synapse. When you lift the headset, a custom profile automatically switches Chroma RGB lighting, audio and mic inputs, launches games, triggers global shortcuts, and runs macros. Once the headset returns to the stand, everything reverts to the default setup with no manual intervention needed.
Custom profiles can be...
