Samsung’s long-promised Ballie home robot has been “indefinitely shelved,” according to a new report. The spherical companion, first shown in 2020 and promised for a summer 2025 release, will now remain an internal “innovation platform.”
The newly restructured Xbox Game Pass is frustrating subscribers with a confusing tier system. Announced in October 2025, the service now makes it hard to tell what’s truly new versus just newly available to a lower tier.
A core GNOME developer has submitted code to disable the classic middle-click paste feature by default, calling it an “X11ism.” The change would also affect Firefox. This threatens a decades-old Unix efficiency tool that power users rely on daily.
A new study from Nanjing University tackles a big debate: does protecting or sharing ideas drive faster innovation? By looking at Tesla and Toyota’s patent pledges, they found open strategies win. Sharing tech, even in hardware, boosted the entire sustainable transport field.
The Bank of England is embarking on a massive digital transformation, awarding contracts worth £180 million to a consortium of 16 tech and consulting firms. The seven-lot deal covers everything from infrastructure to recruitment and was finalized in October 2025.
Barclays has made its first direct investment into stablecoin technology, taking a stake in US startup Ubyx. This move signals a strategic pivot by traditional finance towards the underlying infrastructure of digital money, not just the assets themselves.
After writing that return-to-office mandates are about control, not productivity, a journalist joined a team with a truly optional office. The experience changed his perspective on what an office can be, but not his view on forced RTO.
Samsung is caught in a classic tech industry bind. While its memory division is raking in cash due to a global shortage, its mobile division is facing a tough decision: raise prices on its next flagship phones or eat into its own profits.
A Reddit user and recent Linux convert has built a full-featured sticky notes application that runs entirely in the terminal. It features color coding, priorities, search, and auto-save. You can install it with a few simple commands.
For the first time, scientists have used polarized X-rays to study a white dwarf star in a binary system. The data reveals the precise geometry of how it devours gas from its companion. This new technique is like putting on 3D glasses for the universe’s most violent events.
