Research suggests that people experiencing economic hardship feel more helpless when they believe their country is doing well economically.

Science

The mechanism by which literary award winners are decided, an interview with the director of the anime film 'The Day the Verdigris Dawns,' and more—this is the GIGAZINE article ranking for July 2026, based on Amazon's top 10 best-selling articles!

Pick Up

Tasting review of 'Mitsuya Extra-Rich Apple Squash,' a drink with an intensely concentrated apple flavor and aroma.

Tasting

Langfuse is an open-source, self-hostable tool that allows you to see how an AI agent is actually working and using tokens.

Review

An app called 'RollTab' has been released that can automatically generate the continuation of a piano performance using AI.

AI

The open-source 'Gemma 4 31B' can achieve the same quality as the 'Claude Sonnet 5' for some tasks at 1/40th of the cost.

AI

Research shows that people who work entirely remotely are happier than those who commute to the office.

Science

'Roboflow Playground' allows you to try, compare, and evaluate a wide variety of vision AI models for free.

Review

TikTok settles lawsuit with U.S. Department of Justice over violation of the Children's Online Privacy Act for 64 billion yen.

Software

OpenAI is being sued for allegedly giving dangerous medical advice to a sick pastor, telling him, 'God didn't design your body to keep breaking down forever.'

AI

Waymo develops custom ASIC chip to improve robotaxi performance.

Hardware

A photo review of the 10-inch model of the official Raspberry Pi touch panel, 'Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2,' highlighting its significantly increased size and improved resolution.

Review

Hubble.md is a free, open-source notepad app optimized for AI agents, allowing users to save, edit, and manipulate notes based on Markdown and HTML.

Review

'Modelmap' allows you to visualize and check the internal structure and processing flow of an AI model through animation, helping you understand 'what it actually does.'

Review

Google's AI agent 'Antigravity' now supports remote control from other devices.

AI

We have succeeded in genetically modifying lettuce to produce 'meat protein.'

Science

A blood-soaked 'Guts [Berserker Armor] Bloody Paint Ver. L size' appeared at the Good Smile Fest 2026 Osaka venue.

Coverage

Tesla is recalling approximately 3 million vehicles in China due to retractable door handles that are scheduled to be banned.

Vehicle

This is what the painted prototype of 'Kinomoto Sakura My First Sparkle' looks like. This figure is a 3D rendition of an original illustration created to commemorate CLAMP's 35th anniversary as artists, the 30th anniversary of the Cardcaptor Sakura manga series, and Good Smile Company's 25th anniversary.

Coverage

AYANEO has released 'Konkr Pocket Advance,' an Android-powered gaming device that resembles the Game Boy Advance.

Game

I tried reusing the skills I actually performed with 'Hermes Agent,' an AI agent that grows the more you use it, by turning those skills into actual tasks.

Review

A movement asking people not to copy and paste AI responses: 'Don't paste the AI, please.'

AI

Pornhub has released research findings indicating that stricter internet age verification has led to an increase in malicious adult websites; seven out of the top ten search results for 'free porn' were sites that did not comply with regulations.

Web Service

After a 3-year durability test of a large number of microSD cards, which manufacturers were excellent and which were disappointing?

Hardware

Headline news for August 21, 2026

Headline

A version of the compact model 'LFM2.5' with DSpark, a speculative decoding technology that makes it more than twice as fast, has been released.

AI

Apple Music announces mandatory tagging for AI-generated music.

Web Service

In China, traffic is being directed by 'RoboCop.'

Hardware

A taste test review of 'Chicken Ramen Soupless Bowl Taiwanese Mazesoba Flavor,' a Chicken Ramen dish transformed into Taiwanese mazesoba.

Tasting

A security company has reported instances where paid YouTube video ads were being misused to distribute malware.

Security

Which option will the AI choose: 'a method that guarantees saving one person at the expense of six,' or 'a gamble where everyone either survives or everyone is sacrificed'?

AI

AliExpress is allegedly interfering with Bluetooth multipoint connections using audio fingerprinting.

Web Service

Internet users are largely unaware of the signs that cats are unhappy, which are often visible in popular cat videos.

Science

The AI agent 'Grok Build' is now available as a smartphone app and on the web version of Grok, and it also includes a feature to create apps and publish them with a unique URL.

AI

A logistics company related to Pokémon Centers was hacked, resulting in the leakage of customer information from the UK and Germany.

Security

Google will hold a preview event for its Chromebook successor, the 'Googlebook,' in New York on September 15, 2026.

Hardware

FLUX Video Upscale, an upscaler capable of increasing video resolution up to 4K, has been released.

AI

A study suggests that the time you eat breakfast is linked to the risk of premature death and lifespan.

Science

The reason for GitHub's approximately 8-hour downtime has been identified: the surge in usage caused critical infrastructure to fail to automatically scale, leading to a chain reaction of failures.

Web Service

The official tutorial 'Claude Academy' has been released, where you can learn how to use Claude, covering everything from simple chat to agent skills.

AI