Hardware

The Bosgame E5 Plus relies on the aging AMD Ryzen 3 5400U but adds two 2.5-Gigabit ports and starts at 380 euros.

Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics are selling the “Microduck”: an open-source, duck-shaped walking robot for $399 – for experimenting with physical AI.

EcoFlow, known for power stations, unveils a 5 kWh home-battery line. Stream 5000 and Stream AC 5000 are up for pre-order in the UK, Europe to follow.

Framework upgrades the repairable Laptop 12 with Intel’s new Core Series 3 chips. The new mainboard has been available to pre-order since 18 August.

How well does the new Mac mini with M6 handle local LLMs? Two numbers decide it – unified memory and bandwidth. Realistic models, speed, and limits.

Apple has unveiled a new Mac mini with the M6 chip – its first 2nm processor, with a big leap for AI tasks. Priced from $899.

The Aoostar WTR Pro is a compact NAS barebone with an AMD Ryzen 7, four drive bays and up to 88 TB – an interesting pick for homelab builders.

Snap brings its consumer AR glasses Specs to market in fall 2026 – for 2,195 US dollars. On 16 September the company plans to reveal more details.

Nvidia’s pro GPU RTX PRO 6000 “Blackwell” with 96 GB now costs 16,000 dollars – nearly double its launch price. The cause: pricier GDDR7 memory and AI demand.

FFmpeg 9.0 “Lei” natively decodes animated WebP files and greatly expands GPU acceleration via Vulkan and CUDA. The name honours Lei Xiaohua.