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• Garmin Wake Word Cut Watch Battery Life in Half for Users

  Garmin added hands-free voice activation in its latest update, but the always-listening wake word is slashing smartwatch battery estimates in half.

• UCLA's $400 PhoneBot Uses a $50 Android Phone as Its Brain

  UCLA researchers built PhoneBot, a $400 open-source humanoid that offloads vision, sensing and walking control to a cheap Android phone. An old Honor 9 works fine.

• Intel's 480GB D-Series GPU Beats Nvidia on Memory, Not Speed

  Intel's new D-series GPU carries 480GB of LPDDR5X, the memory in your laptop, and outguns Nvidia's 288GB Blackwell Ultra B300 on capacity. The catch: no price or launch date yet.

• EcoFlow Delta Pro Ultra X Ran a Home for 8 Hours on 81%

  CNET's reviewer killed his own breaker to test EcoFlow's Delta Pro Ultra X. The system kept the house running for nearly eight hours on 81% battery, at $10,999 before installation.

• Lenovo Yoga Pro 7i Aura Edition: RTX 5060 Power at $2,600

  Lenovo's 15-inch Yoga Pro 7i Aura Edition pairs an RTX 5060 with 15 hours of battery life for $2,600. It's a capable creative machine, but the price tag demands scrutiny.

• Lavazza Tabli: Coffee Tablets Beat Nespresso on Taste

  Lavazza's Tabli swaps plastic pods for compressed coffee tablets. At $129, it brews espresso that tastes fresher than Nespresso—and costs less per cup.

• EcoFlow Delta Pro Ultra X Ran a House for 8 Hours on 81%

  A hands-on blackout test shows EcoFlow's $10,999 Delta Pro Ultra X and Smart Home Panel 3 can carry a busy home for nearly eight hours, with a 20-millisecond switchover nobody…

• Nvidia's Huang: Surface Laptop Ultra Took Four Years to Build

  Nvidia's Jensen Huang says the Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra took four years and thousands of engineering years to build, calling it a work of love for local AI agents.

• Voicemod's $130 Key Pocket Changes Your Voice on the Go

  Voicemod's new Key Pocket is a $130 magnetic gadget that clips to your phone and changes your voice on the fly, with local processing for privacy and accessibility.

• Zotac's 11.46L PC Packs an RTX 5080 for $2,647, No RAM or OS

  Zotac's Magnus One Ultra squeezes a desktop RTX 5080 and 20-core Intel CPU into an 11.46-liter case. The $2,647 starting price is barebones—no RAM, storage, or OS.

• Sony Bravia 9 II Review: RGB Mini-LED Nearly Beats OLED

  Sony's RGB mini-LED flagship delivers OLED-level contrast and serious brightness, but the $3,599 price tag for 65 inches is the real story.

• RTX 5090 Vanishes From Nvidia's Store as AI Eats the GPU

  Nvidia's RTX 5090 is disappearing from its own store and retailer shelves, and a leaker says GB202 chips are going to AI cards. The RTX 5080 is now the flagship — and prices are…