A Bill Gates-backed startup develops a phototransistor that's 10,000 times smaller than existing technology

Hardware

ChordCraft is a free music composition tool that lets you check and create chord progressions from your browser

Review

'Radio Garden' lets you listen to radio from around the world by moving the globe

Review

Television celebrates its 100th anniversary

Note

Headline news for January 27, 2026

Headline

I tried 'Iiyokanshi Soda,' a rich-flavored soda made with 'Iyokan juice'

Tasting

California Governor announces investigation into TikTok content censorship allegations, blaming power outage for disruption

Note

Benchmark results show the performance of Intel's 'Core Ultra X9 388H', which exceeds the Ryzen AI Max 395 in some tests and performs well even on battery power

Hardware

AI reportedly reduced net employment by 8% in the UK, 7% in Japan, and 4% in Germany over the course of a year, while in the US it led to a 2% increase in employment.

AI

Anthropic research reveals that teaching AI to learn harmless information like 'cheese making' can lead to learning how to make chemical weapons

AI

Firefox is testing a new feature called 'Split View' that lets you split the window into two halves and view web pages side by side.

Review

It turns out that 'example.com' was automatically configured to point to Sumitomo Electric Industries' server domain in Japan using Microsoft's autodiscovery service.

Security

Experts point out that private health information should not be entered into 'ChatGPT Healthcare'

AI

Google and former Pixar filmmaker use AI to create animated film 'Dear Upstairs Neighbors'

Video

Microsoft's AI chip 'Maia 200' is now operational, manufactured using a 3nm process and supports inference such as GPT-5.2

Hardware

Meta tests premium subscriptions on Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp

Web Service

Alibaba Announces Qwen3-Max-Thinking, an Inference AI Model with Performance Equivalent to GPT-5.2

AI

NVIDIA releases three new models of its weather forecast AI 'Earth-2' series, capable of predicting temperature, pressure, wind speed, and humidity up to 15 days in advance

AI

Apple unveils second-generation AirTags, improving range and searchability, and boosting speaker volume by 50%

Hardware

Smartphone manufacturer OnePlus introduces hardware-level anti-rollback feature

Smartphone

Review of 'Beni,' a Live2D-powered AI girl that lets you video chat with her

Review

The AI boom has seen the number of '.ai' domains registered exceed one million, and Anguilla, which manages the domains, may have earned more than 10 billion yen in one year.

Note