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Print & Place turns an unmodified 3D printer into an assembly tool. Its nozzle carries electronic parts into a growing object, including a demonstration robot that moves when the job is finished.
Michał Kopeć has published the patcher behind his Switch 2 dock experiment. It targets one hardware configuration and addresses HDMI HDR colors, but flashing carries a risk of damaging the hub.
The November 10 crowdfunding launch brings EMO's unusually thin keyboard closer to production, though hands-on performance remains unverified.
GeekPark's new test shows a tracking camera robot recovering from a fall, with real limits on obstacles and stairs.
Yueqian's founder describes a lighter camera-motion system, but the product is expected in 2027 and its price remains undisclosed.
Co Print's crowdfunding launch offers a different approach to multicolor printing, with a limited $649 tier and unproven delivery promises.
Apple says a December update will fix the false camera response and add voice unlocking for recognized HomeView users.
The TrackLight Cam S1 pairs video recording with a moving beam. Its deterrence claims remain unverified here.
A crowdfunded camera pairs a waist-level screen with a film-like shooting routine. Its appeal is the process; finished-product performance remains unverified.
The creator promises wellness tracking without replacing a favorite watch. Funding is real; accuracy and delivery remain unproven.
NTT subsidiary NTT Sonority said SonoVo Stick, a wearable microphone, is available to order in Japan from Nov. 12 at 24,000 yen before tax. The company says its patented Magic Focus Voice technology can isolate a speaker's voice in noise above 100 decibels. IT Home noted the device was first shown in June and is a microphone only, so it needs separate earphones.
Google said on Nov. 12 that Intelligent Eyewear, made with Samsung, Gentle Monster and Warby Parker, is available for pre-order, with a planned Dec. 10 launch. The glasses run Android XR and Gemini. Official starting prices are $395 for Warby Parker frames and $449 for Gentle Monster, with availability described for the United States and South Korea.
Apex Compute announced Apex Neural Rendering (ANR) on X on Nov. 11. Only the frame-generation beta is out so far, and the company says it works on Nvidia GTX 16/RTX 20 and newer, AMD RX 5000 and newer, Intel Arc and Steam Deck. It claims ANR is faster, uses less video memory and looks better than Nvidia's DLSS Frame Generation, but those are the company's own tests with no independent review yet.
Amazon's Ring launched Ring Robotics: the Ring Drone Cam, an indoor flying camera that patrols set routes, priced at $249.99 and slated to ship in the US on Jan. 27, 2027, and the Ring Rover Cam, a $999.99 patrol robot for businesses shipping Dec. 16. The drone flies five to eight minutes per charge, navigates with cloud-based AI, and is still awaiting FCC certification.
At Baidu World 2026, Baidu introduced the Tianchi 1024-card supernode, which links 1,024 AI accelerator cards with optical interconnects. Baidu claims 3x the chip-to-chip bandwidth, 2.5x training and 3x inference performance versus its previous generation, and says the product is a year ahead of its earlier roadmap. No independent tests yet.
AWS on Nov. 11 released AWS Emulator, a free, open-source tool that imitates more than 200 AWS cloud services on a developer's own machine for offline testing. AWS says autonomous AI agents wrote all of the code and its team neither wrote nor reviewed any of it. Agents in three teams write tests, find gaps and fix them, and every change must pass automated build, standards, security and regression checks. AWS warns it doesn't evaluate IAM policies, so it can't test security.
On Nov. 11, Runway released the weights, inference code and fine-tuning code for its robotics model Praxis-1 under the Apache 2.0 license, which allows commercial use. The 27-billion-parameter "world action model" learns from large amounts of video and predicts both scenes and robot actions. Runway says it ranks first on Nvidia's RoboLab-120 leaderboard at 46.2% success. All results are self-reported.
Chinese AI company MiniMax released H3-Image, an image generator with downloadable open weights. The company says it can produce a 4096-by-4096-pixel image in under 10 seconds, use up to 16 reference pictures, and run up to five times faster than mainstream rivals. Those speed and quality figures are the company's own claims, and its announcement doesn't say what hardware the timing was measured on.
A drone called Qingqibing ("Light Cavalry"), built by an institute of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp., made its first flight Nov. 11 at an airfield in northwest China. State media say it's China's first commercial-grade small-to-medium drone powered only by solar energy: 3.2 meters long with an 8-meter wingspan, a 45-kilogram takeoff weight and a maximum design endurance of 30 hours. The 30-hour figure is a design target; the first flight was a short circuit, and no actual endurance result has been released.
On November 11, Tencent launched Yuanbao Search, a new AI search engine at so.qq.com that can also be set as the default engine in the latest QQ Browser. Tencent says it rebuilt the entire search pipeline on its Yuanbao AI model, with an index of hundreds of billions of items covering the open web, WeChat Official Account articles, WeChat Channels videos, and academic papers. It says the engine draws on 157 authoritative sources and keeps ads in a separate, labeled block that users can collapse. These are Tencent's claims; real-world quality has yet to be tested.