Author: Yuvraj Tiwari

Taara is a new company that became independent from Alphabet, Google’s parent company, in March 2025. Instead of using cables underground or satellites in space, it sends the internet using laser light through the air. This technology is extremely fast—about 10 to 100 times faster than Starlink—making internet connections quicker and smoother. It is also much cheaper and quicker than digging roads to lay fiber-optic cables. Taara is run by a small team of about 20 engineers based in Mountain View, California. Their goal is simple: to provide very fast and affordable internet to places where building traditional internet networks…

Meta is firing about 1,500 people from its Reality Labs team. That’s 10% of 15,000 workers. The news came on January 13, 2026, from CTO Andrew Bosworth. This hits projects like VR headsets and AR glasses from Mark Zuckerberg’s big metaverse dream. The company changed its name to Meta to focus on mixing the digital world with real life. Now, it is trying to save money and is shifting away from heavy VR headsets to lighter AR tools that can be used in everyday life. https://twitter.com/Metaverse/status/2013691843133735277 Expert Per Ola Kristensson says that VR is not finished. It works very well…

SpaceX made a huge move to bring internet everywhere on Earth. They sent up 29 Starlink satellites with a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida. It’s Elon Musk’s idea to help spots without good, quick internet. https://twitter.com/XFreeze/status/2012940344745513165 The rocket took off on Thursday at 6:31 p.m. from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.. It was a cool evening in Florida, and you could see the white rocket with its black parts clearly in the sky. Weather wasn’t perfect—only a 60% chance of good conditions—but the launch went smoothly anyway. This Falcon 9 booster, called B1080, had flown 24 times before. That’s a…

Honor has launched a special phone called the Honor 500 Pro Molly 20th Anniversary Edition. They made it with Pop Mart, a Chinese toy company, to celebrate 20 years of their cute Molly character. This is Honor’s first phone designed like a toy. It costs 4,499 yuan, about $646, and comes only in 16GB RAM + 512GB storage. You can pre-order it now, and sales start on January 25 at 10:08 AM. The phone looks super fun. The back is black with a pretty Molly Painter drawing. Inside, the screen shows Molly wallpapers, special camera marks, fun charging animations, and…

The Apple Watch SE 3 is now super cheap in Australia—at just AU$337 for the small 40mm GPS version (was AU$399, now 16% off). That’s even better than last year’s Black Friday sales! The bigger 44mm one is AU$387 (down from AU$449). Want cellular for calls without your phone? Starts at AU$427. The fancier Apple Watch Series 11 is also on sale—up to 27% off its lowest price ever. But stock won’t last long, so hurry! This watch came out in September 2025. It looks the same as before but works way better inside. It has the same fast S10…

Quobly, a quantum computing company from Grenoble in France, and TNO, a top research group from Delft in the Netherlands, have teamed up. Their goal? To make silicon-based quantum computers easier and faster to build on a large scale. Quantum computers use special bits called qubits. Quobly makes these from silicon—the same stuff in your phone chips—using factory methods that already work great for regular computers. But qubits can be tricky. Small flaws in the material ruin them. TNO helps by using special tools to check materials in super-cold conditions and find issues fast. Together, they’ll figure out how material…

Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for a huge amount of money—between $79 billion and $134 billion. He says they tricked him. Back in 2015, Musk gave OpenAI $38 million to start the company as a nonprofit. Now, he claims OpenAI broke its promise by turning into a for-profit business with help from Microsoft. On Friday, Musk’s lawyer filed details in court. They used an expert named C. Paul Wazzan to calculate the money. Wazzan says Musk helped OpenAI a lot—not just with cash, but also with ideas and advice. OpenAI is now worth $500 billion, so Musk wants…

iPhone users with iPhone 11 or later: Update to iOS 26.2 right away, then restart your phone. Why? Two serious WebKit bugs were fixed by Apple on December 12, 2025. These bugs are already being used by bad guys to hack phones with spyware. Bad code can be run by hackers just through a fake website being visited by you in Safari or another app. Safari and lots of iPhone apps are run by WebKit. So, a huge weak spot is created. Nothing risky needs to be done by you—the hack can occur from normal web use or even HTML…

Meta is stopping sales of its Quest virtual reality (VR) headsets to companies and ending some VR apps for work. This big change comes after the company recently laid off over 1,000 workers from its VR team. “Social media reacts to Meta’s VR pivot https://twitter.com/Intellectualins/status/2012442268372701327 Meta shared the news on Thursday. They will stop sending Quest headsets to businesses on February 20. The Quest 3, released in 2023, has a special chip from Qualcomm that handles processing, graphics, and AI. It shows sharp images at 2,064 by 2,208 pixels per eye. There’s also a cheaper Quest 3S from 2024 with…

Apple is expected to take a big step forward in 2026 with the launch of a new powerful chip and its first foldable iPhone. According to analyst Jeff Pu, Apple may introduce the iPhone Fold, along with the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, in September 2026. All three premium models are likely to run on the new A20 Pro chip. Meanwhile, the standard iPhone 18 and a cheaper iPhone 18e could launch later, in spring 2027, as part of Apple’s split-release plan. The A20 Pro chip is said to be built using **TSMC’s advanced 2nm (N2) technology.…

Asus initially appeared to be discontinuing its RTX 5070 Ti and 16GB RTX 5060 Ti graphics cards due to a RAM shortage squeezing mid-range 50-series GPU supply, but the company has since clarified it has no such plans. Hardware Unboxed reported Thursday that Asus informed them these models were placed in “end-of-life” status amid retailer sourcing issues in Australia. However, Asus issued a statement refuting this: “Certain media may have received incomplete information from an ASUS PR representative… The GeForce RTX 5070 Ti and GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB have not been discontinued or designated as end-of-life (EOL). ASUS…

Apple is preparing a major upgrade to iPhone messaging with its upcoming iOS 26.3 update. The goal is simple: make texting between iPhones and Android phones smoother, safer, and more useful. The update adds support for RCS Universal Profile 3.0, a modern messaging standard. This means iPhone users will finally get features in Android chats that were earlier limited to iPhone-only conversations. These include end-to-end encryption, message editing, unsending messages, inline replies, and Tapback-style reactions like thumbs up or hearts. Until now, iPhone-to-iPhone messages were secure, but chats with Android users were not fully protected. With RCS 3.0, messages, photos,…

X has restricted its AI chatbot Grok after facing backlash from governments and regulators worldwide over the creation of sexualized deepfake images. The company has introduced geoblocking and technical controls to stop users from editing images of real people into revealing clothing in places where such content is illegal. Under the new rules, no users—including paid subscribers—can generate images showing real individuals in bikinis, underwear, or similar outfits through the Grok account. The changes were announced on Wednesday and come after widespread criticism that the tool was being used to create non-consensual and explicit images, some involving minors. The move…

Apple is starting a new subscription service named Creator Studio on January 28, 2026. It costs $13 per month or $130 for the whole year. Students get a great discount—just $3 per month or $30 per year. New people can try it for free for one month. The subscription gives you access to several Apple apps for creative work. These include Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for video and music editing, Pixelmator Pro for photos, and other tools like Motion, Compressor, and MainStage. You can use these apps on both Mac computers and iPads (where available). Up to six…

The iPhone 17 Pro Max is Apple’s strongest phone yet. It has big improvements in how it looks, how fast it works, and how well it takes pictures. The base 256GB model, which started at Rs 1,49,900, costs just Rs 1,44,900 if you pay with certain American Express, Axis Bank, or ICICI Bank cards. The discount hit just months after the September 2025 launch. Now’s the best moment to grab it—no need to trade in your old device Main Features The phone has a big 6.9-inch screen that’s super sharp and bright (up to 3,000 nits), with smooth 120Hz refresh…

Malaysia and Indonesia have blocked Elon Musk’s AI chatbot called Grok because people were using it to create fake sexual images of real people without their permission. These are the first countries in the world to ban this AI tool. The chatbot, which is part of Musk’s X platform (formerly Twitter), lets users create images. “However, people have been misusing it to create inappropriate pictures of women and children. They edit photos of real people to depict them in revealing clothes or sexual situations.” Both countries said this violates people’s rights and dignity. Malaysia’s internet regulator had warned X earlier…

Razer has launched Project Motoko, a special headset that lets you talk to AI assistants like ChatGPT and Gemini. The headset has two cameras so the AI can see what you see, and it answers your questions through headphone speakers—there’s no screen. The device works like smart glasses but without any display. It’s as simple as having a conversation with a friend. You speak naturally and ask whatever’s on your mind. The AI responds through the headphones. The cameras capture everything you see. When you can’t read a street sign or encounter an unfamiliar object, the AI explains it immediately—a knowledgeable…

Samsung has unveiled a massive 130-inch TV at CES 2026, showing just how much people are craving bigger and better televisions these days. The screen is so enormous that it requires a sturdy metal frame to hold it in place, and you can tilt it a little to get the perfect angle for your viewing spot. This TV uses Micro RGB technology, which means it has tiny red, green, and blue LED lights behind the screen instead of the usual white ones. Because of this, colors appear more vivid and true to life, making your movies and shows feel almost…

Xreal released new AR glasses called the 1S at CES 2026. These personal cinema glasses let you see a huge virtual screen when you wear them. The best part? They cost $50 less than the old version now just $449 instead of $499. The company also made a new battery pack called the Neo for $99 that helps the glasses work longer and connects directly to the Nintendo Switch. The 1S personal cinema glasses have sharper, brighter screens than the old model. The picture quality went up from 1080p to 1200p, and the screens are more colorful (700 nits instead…

Apple and Meta’s VR headsets flopped badly in 2025. Apple sold only 45,000 Vision Pro headsets—down 88% from the previous year’s 390,000 units. Meta’s Quest sales also dropped 16% to 1.7 million units. The entire VR headset market is expected to shrink by 43% this year. Apple stopped making the Vision Pro for nine months, then brought it back with a new chip, but still barely sold any. The main problem is the $3,500 price tag—most people won’t pay that much. Meta’s headsets are priced at around $349, which is much cheaper, but even those aren’t being sold well. Advertising…