Sonos 27 Launches with AI Control and Portable Surround
other 1 sources · Sep 9

Sonos 27 Launches with AI Control and Portable Surround

Sonos is betting that its systems improve through software rather than new hardware, and it is opening control to outside AI assistants instead of locking users into a single voice interface.

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Rakuten Mobile Sets AQUOS wish6 Launch for September 17
other 1 sources · Sep 9

Rakuten Mobile Sets AQUOS wish6 Launch for September 17

The launch pairs a MIL-standard durable everyday handset with a carrier-switch points campaign that cuts the effective price by 16,000 yen, positioning the wish6 as a budget entry point for Rakuten Mobile.

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Sony DADC Corrects Disc Phase-Out: 10% Decline, Not a Tenth
games 1 sources · Sep 9

Sony DADC Corrects Disc Phase-Out: 10% Decline, Not a Tenth

The correction shows the disc phase-out is gradual rather than abrupt, and the real obstacle is that Sony has not licensed its proprietary disc production process, leaving no third-party path to keep physical discs in circulation.

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USJ Reveals Resident Evil Merch and Food for Universal Extreme Autumn
figures 3 sources · Sep 9

USJ Reveals Resident Evil Merch and Food for Universal Extreme Autumn

The Halloween food and goods sit alongside a separate Hami-Kuma slate at the same event, so USJ is running its licensed horror property and its in-house Halloween character through one autumn program rather than a single headliner.

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Fujitsu and Yaqumo Test Quantum Stack on Neutral-Atom Hardware
other 1 sources · Sep 9

Fujitsu and Yaqumo Test Quantum Stack on Neutral-Atom Hardware

The collaboration tests whether Fujitsu's superconducting-oriented software stack can be adapted to a different hardware approach, neutral-atom, whose all-to-all qubit connectivity could change how quantum error correction runs.

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Inception Ships Mercury 2.5 Diffusion LLM at 1107 Tokens Per Second
other 1 sources · Sep 9

Inception Ships Mercury 2.5 Diffusion LLM at 1107 Tokens Per Second

Mercury 2.5 puts diffusion-based generation on par with the cost-efficient frontier models GPT-5.6 Luna Low and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite while cutting input pricing, making parallel token generation a practical option for latency-sensitive agent workloads.

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