Today's outages, hacks, phones, gadgets and fixes, plus the tech you grew up with, picked daily by Chris Pirillo for the pros everybody calls.https://lockergnome.com/en-ushttps://lockergnome.com/vivo-x500-pro-max-europe-gets-6750mah-china-gets-8000mah/https://lockergnome.com/vivo-x500-pro-max-europe-gets-6750mah-china-gets-8000mah/vivo's Spanish store lists the European X500 Pro Max with a 6,750mAh battery from €1,499, while vivo's China spec page lists 8,000mAh for the same phone, the second year in a row Europe's Pro model got the smaller cell.Thu, 29 Oct 2026 04:10:44 GMTHardwarevivoandroidphonesbatterieseuropecamerashttps://lockergnome.com/vivo-y600-10000mah-phone-guinness-32-hour-livestream/https://lockergnome.com/vivo-y600-10000mah-phone-guinness-32-hour-livestream/vivo launched the Y600 in China with a 10,000mAh typical-capacity battery from CNY 1,999 (about $280), and says it set a Guinness World Records title by livestreaming for 32 hours 37 minutes.Thu, 29 Oct 2026 04:10:44 GMTHardwarevivoandroidphonesbatteriesbudget-phoneschinahttps://lockergnome.com/xreal-aura-wired-android-xr-glasses/https://lockergnome.com/xreal-aura-wired-android-xr-glasses/XREAL launched Aura, wired see-through glasses running Android XR from a Snapdragon Reality Elite puck, on sale in the US, Canada, Japan and South Korea at launch prices of $1,099 and $1,299 through December, shipping mid-November.Thu, 29 Oct 2026 04:10:44 GMTHardwarexrealandroid-xrsmart-glassesxrgeminiqualcommhttps://lockergnome.com/poco-x8s-small-phone-telephoto-399/https://lockergnome.com/poco-x8s-small-phone-telephoto-399/Poco launched the X8s globally with a 6.35-inch screen, a 50MP 2.5x telephoto camera, a 6,330mAh battery and 100W charging, at an early-bird $399 that isn't on its own product page.Thu, 29 Oct 2026 04:10:43 GMTHardwaregearpocoxiaomiandroidphoneshttps://lockergnome.com/redmi-k100-keeps-last-years-chip-adds-2900mah/https://lockergnome.com/redmi-k100-keeps-last-years-chip-adds-2900mah/Xiaomi's Redmi K100 launched in China with a 10,000mAh battery and the same Snapdragon 8 Elite as last year's K90, while the K90's 2.5x telephoto is gone and the phone got bigger and heavier.Thu, 29 Oct 2026 04:10:43 GMTHardwaregearredmixiaomiandroidphonesbatterieshttps://lockergnome.com/oppo-find-x10-europe-gets-850mah-less-battery-than-india/https://lockergnome.com/oppo-find-x10-europe-gets-850mah-less-battery-than-india/Oppo's own spec pages list 7,150mAh for the Find X10 and Find X10 Pro Max in the UK, Germany, France and Spain, against 8,000mAh in India, the UAE, China and Southeast Asia, without saying why.Thu, 29 Oct 2026 04:10:42 GMTHardwareoppoandroidbatteryeuropeindiahttps://lockergnome.com/mac-studio-512gb-memory-back-at-15500-was-4000/https://lockergnome.com/mac-studio-512gb-memory-back-at-15500-was-4000/Apple restored the 512GB unified memory option on the M5 Ultra Mac Studio as an extra $15,500, which puts the cheapest 512GB machine at $22,299; the same upgrade was $4,000 on the M3 Ultra model.Thu, 29 Oct 2026 04:10:41 GMTHardwareapplemacmemoryhttps://lockergnome.com/mcdonalds-fry-box-mouse-happy-meal-toys/https://lockergnome.com/mcdonalds-fry-box-mouse-happy-meal-toys/McDonald's China sold a limited run of red-and-yellow wireless mice shaped like a fries carton, with shells over 60% recycled plastic, after a campaign with Lenovo to turn discarded Happy Meal toys into electronics-grade material.Thu, 29 Oct 2026 04:10:41 GMTHardwaremcdonaldslenovorecyclingmousechinahttps://lockergnome.com/moto-g47-power-headphone-jack-7000mah-android-16/https://lockergnome.com/moto-g47-power-headphone-jack-7000mah-android-16/Motorola launched the Moto G47 Power in Europe at €339 and £299 with a 7,000mAh battery, 30W charging and a 3.5mm jack, running Android 16 months after Android 17 came out.Thu, 29 Oct 2026 04:10:41 GMTHardwaremotorolaandroidbatterybudget-phonesheadphone-jackhttps://lockergnome.com/ipad-mini-499-in-june-oled-model-699-same-128gb/https://lockergnome.com/ipad-mini-499-in-june-oled-model-699-same-128gb/Apple's new iPad mini with an 8.5-inch OLED screen and the A20 Pro starts at $699, after a June price rise to $599 and a $499 price before that, with base storage still at 128GB.Thu, 29 Oct 2026 04:10:40 GMTHardwareappleipadpriceshttps://lockergnome.com/iqoo-neo12-fan-cooled-phone-9000mah/https://lockergnome.com/iqoo-neo12-fan-cooled-phone-9000mah/vivo's iQOO brand launched the Neo12 in China with a built-in 17mm cooling fan, a 9,000mAh battery, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 and a 185Hz screen, starting at CNY 4,199.Thu, 29 Oct 2026 04:10:40 GMTHardwarephonesgamingbatterieshttps://lockergnome.com/logitech-pebble-up-mouse-tilts-35-degrees/https://lockergnome.com/logitech-pebble-up-mouse-tilts-35-degrees/Logitech's Pebble Up, on sale in China for about CNY 251, folds flat for a laptop bag and lifts its upper shell into a 35-degree ergonomic tilt, and trades the old Pebble's AA battery for a 90-day rechargeable one.Thu, 29 Oct 2026 04:10:40 GMTHardwarelogitechmiceergonomicshttps://lockergnome.com/fitbit-edge-replaceable-battery-drops-tap-to-pay/https://lockergnome.com/fitbit-edge-replaceable-battery-drops-tap-to-pay/The Fitbit Edge replaces the Charge 6 with a user-replaceable 65 mAh battery, a bigger screen and the altimeter back, but loses NFC payments and costs $20 more.Thu, 29 Oct 2026 04:10:39 GMTHardwaregearfitbitgooglewearablesright-to-repairhttps://lockergnome.com/honor-win-rt2-cheaper-phone-bigger-battery-than-flagship/https://lockergnome.com/honor-win-rt2-cheaper-phone-bigger-battery-than-flagship/Honor's Win RT2 starts at CNY 4,199 (about $625) and the Win Turbo2 at CNY 3,199 (about $480), and both hold 12,070mAh against the 10,100mAh in the CNY 5,499 Win2. They're sold in China only.Thu, 29 Oct 2026 04:10:39 GMTHardwarehonorandroidphonesbatterieschinahttps://lockergnome.com/honor-win2-gaming-phone-two-fans-31000rpm-10100mah/https://lockergnome.com/honor-win2-gaming-phone-two-fans-31000rpm-10100mah/Honor's Win2 packs a 20,000rpm cross-flow fan and a 31,000rpm side fan into an 8.5mm phone with a 10,100mAh battery, a Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 and IP68, IP69 and IP69K ratings, from CNY 5,499 (about $822) in China only.Thu, 29 Oct 2026 04:10:39 GMTHardwarehonorandroidphonesgamingchinahttps://lockergnome.com/huawei-pura-90-plus-1-inch-camera-variable-aperture/https://lockergnome.com/huawei-pura-90-plus-1-inch-camera-variable-aperture/Huawei launched the Pura 90 Plus in China with a 50MP 1-inch main camera whose aperture moves from f/1.6 to f/4.0, the Kirin 9025 chip and a 5,700mAh battery, on sale October 31.Thu, 29 Oct 2026 04:10:39 GMTHardwarehuaweiphonescamerashttps://lockergnome.com/amazon-echo-dot-99-twice-the-price-before-august/https://lockergnome.com/amazon-echo-dot-99-twice-the-price-before-august/Amazon's next-generation Echo Dot ships at $99.99 with a built-in Zigbee, Matter and Thread hub, an eero Wi-Fi extender and an AZ3 chip, two months after Amazon raised the old Dot from $49.99 to $79.99 and blamed memory costs.Thu, 29 Oct 2026 04:10:38 GMTHardwareamazonalexasmart-homepricesspeakershttps://lockergnome.com/apple-first-touchscreen-mac-macbook-pro-taps-become-clicks/https://lockergnome.com/apple-first-touchscreen-mac-macbook-pro-taps-become-clicks/Apple's MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display puts the touch sensor inside a tandem OLED panel, adds a stiffer hinge, and has macOS translate touches into clicks; it starts at $2,899 with M5 Pro chips, a day after Apple's $1,999 non-touch MacBook Pro with M6.Thu, 29 Oct 2026 04:10:38 GMTHardwareapplemacmacbook-prooledtouchscreenhttps://lockergnome.com/arc-rebar-intel-arc-b580-resizable-bar-2015-supermicro-board/https://lockergnome.com/arc-rebar-intel-arc-b580-resizable-bar-2015-supermicro-board/The card's own PCIe switch parks an 8 MB BAR in the same window as the VRAM, so a boot script makes Linux forget the GPU and find it again with a 16 GB window.Tue, 27 Oct 2026 23:13:41 GMTHardwareintel-arclinuxpcieresizable-barhomelabhttps://lockergnome.com/enkiplate-inkplate-e-ink-japanese-flashcards-kana-kanji/https://lockergnome.com/enkiplate-inkplate-e-ink-japanese-flashcards-kana-kanji/Peter Hraska's open-source companion app schedules the reviews on a Mac and keeps up to 16 cards on the 600-by-600 screen, with the day's weather and next three meetings above each one.Tue, 27 Oct 2026 23:13:38 GMTHardwaree-paperesp32open sourcelanguage learninghttps://lockergnome.com/keybytes-risc-v-chip-in-every-key/https://lockergnome.com/keybytes-risc-v-chip-in-every-key/An MIT first-year's open-source keyboard makes every key its own 19.05 mm circuit board with a CH32V003 chip, so you can rearrange the layout like tiles around a Bluetooth STM32WB55 main board.Tue, 27 Oct 2026 23:13:30 GMTHardwarekeyboardsrisc-vopen-sourcehardwarediyhttps://lockergnome.com/ifixit-iphone-duo-hinge-center-support-bar-cracked-screens/https://lockergnome.com/ifixit-iphone-duo-hinge-center-support-bar-cracked-screens/iFixit built a 3D model of the iPhone Duo's hinge from teardown footage, patents and CT scans, and its closing simulation shows a stress hotspot right where owners on Reddit, X and forums say their inner screens broke.Tue, 27 Oct 2026 20:16:14 GMTHardwaregeariphone-duoapplefoldablesrepairhttps://lockergnome.com/washable-fabric-gui-electronic-fiber-nature-singapore/https://lockergnome.com/washable-fabric-gui-electronic-fiber-nature-singapore/A National University of Singapore team threaded more than 5,000 LED chips into 54 drawn fibres to make a 96-by-54-pixel touch display on a sleeve that ran a calculator, a compass and video, and kept working after 50 detergent washes.Tue, 27 Oct 2026 14:05:39 GMTHardwarewearablesdisplayshardwareresearchhttps://lockergnome.com/microduck-robot-duck-learned-to-walk-in-simulator/https://lockergnome.com/microduck-robot-duck-learned-to-walk-in-simulator/Pollen Robotics, which Hugging Face owns, sells a 25 cm robot duck whose every move comes from reinforcement-learning policies trained in MuJoCo, and the Rust software that runs it is open under Apache 2.0.Tue, 27 Oct 2026 13:58:39 GMTHardwarerobotsopen-sourceaihttps://lockergnome.com/air-purifier-white-noise-machine-cleans-smoke/https://lockergnome.com/air-purifier-white-noise-machine-cleans-smoke/A small HEPA purifier sounds like a classic fan-in-a-box sleep machine. Jeff Kaufman ran the numbers: a 34-CFM unit at 45 dB takes a 10x10 room from AQI 200 smoke to about 72.Sat, 24 Oct 2026 23:15:28 GMTHardwareair-qualitysleephomehttps://lockergnome.com/open-source-capacitive-encoder-from-digital-calipers-kapton-gap/https://lockergnome.com/open-source-capacitive-encoder-from-digital-calipers-kapton-gap/Nick Steele's open capacitive linear encoder reads to about 40µm against a Mitutoyo indicator, costs roughly $32 to build, and sets its 0.1mm air gap with Kapton tape. KiCad files, STM32 firmware and test data are public.Fri, 23 Oct 2026 23:16:42 GMTHardwarehardwareopen-sourcediyhttps://lockergnome.com/usb-5gbps-to-80gbps-usb-if-drops-version-names/https://lockergnome.com/usb-5gbps-to-80gbps-usb-if-drops-version-names/In April 2011 AMD's A75 became the first certified USB 3.0 chipset. Today USB4 Version 2.0 runs 80Gbps, up to 120Gbps one way, and the USB-IF tells vendors to sell it by speed, not version number.Fri, 23 Oct 2026 20:13:15 GMTHardwareusbamdhardwarestandardshttps://lockergnome.com/pi-record-314-trillion-digits-one-server-110-days/https://lockergnome.com/pi-record-314-trillion-digits-one-server-110-days/In 2010 Shigeru Kondo's desktop computed 5 trillion digits of pi in 90 days. In 2025 StorageReview's single Dell server computed 314 trillion in about 110, on forty Micron SSDs. Here's what changed and what didn't.Fri, 23 Oct 2026 17:57:57 GMTHardwarepistoragerecordsservershttps://lockergnome.com/android-users-iphone-poll/https://lockergnome.com/android-users-iphone-poll/I asked Android users in a YouTube poll on October 2 what's stopping them from getting an iPhone, and most of the people who answered just like Android more.Fri, 23 Oct 2026 02:20:00 GMTHardwareappleandroidiphonehttps://lockergnome.com/withings-apple-health-sync-fee/https://lockergnome.com/withings-apple-health-sync-fee/Anyone who creates a Withings account on October 13 or later needs a Withings+ subscription for automatic syncing to Apple Health, MacRumors reported, at $99.50 a year in the U.S.Fri, 23 Oct 2026 02:18:00 GMTHardwarehealthapplesubscriptionshttps://lockergnome.com/iphone-duo-inner-screen-repair-999/https://lockergnome.com/iphone-duo-inner-screen-repair-999/iPhone Duo preorders opened October 16, and the number I'd look at before the $1,999 starting price is $999.Fri, 23 Oct 2026 02:17:00 GMTHardwareappleiphonerepairhttps://lockergnome.com/surface-laptop-ultra-reviews/https://lockergnome.com/surface-laptop-ultra-reviews/Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra finally has a price.Fri, 23 Oct 2026 02:16:00 GMTHardwaremicrosoftlaptopsaihttps://lockergnome.com/iphone-duo-sold-out-scalpers/https://lockergnome.com/iphone-duo-sold-out-scalpers/Apple's first foldable starts at $1,999, and Gizmodo reported that its ship dates slipped from launch day, October 23, to mid-November in under five minutes.Fri, 23 Oct 2026 02:06:00 GMTHardwareappleiphonehttps://lockergnome.com/uk-space-junk-collector-name/https://lockergnome.com/uk-space-junk-collector-name/The UK Space Agency is inviting UK residents to name its Active Debris Removal Mission.Fri, 23 Oct 2026 02:02:00 GMTHardwarespaceukhttps://lockergnome.com/digit-5-robot-sits-down/https://lockergnome.com/digit-5-robot-sits-down/Agility Robotics built its newest humanoid to get out of your way by sitting on the floor.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 20:00:00 GMTHardwarerobotssafetyhttps://lockergnome.com/underwater-volcano-electricity/https://lockergnome.com/underwater-volcano-electricity/Seattle startup Endurance Energy parked a generator on the seafloor next to an active underwater volcano, about 5,000 feet down, and got it to make more electricity than it used for about 8.7 seconds.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 14:00:00 GMTHardwareenergyhttps://lockergnome.com/iphone-duo-graphite-hinge-cooling/https://lockergnome.com/iphone-duo-graphite-hinge-cooling/Apple's first foldable has the heat problem every foldable has: it's thin when it's open, and its thickness doubles when you close it.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 03:40:00 GMTHardwareappleiphonecoolinghttps://lockergnome.com/hpe-fanless-computer-moon/https://lockergnome.com/hpe-fanless-computer-moon/HPE plans to send a computer with no fan to the Moon's south pole, and to benchmark it once it gets there.Wed, 21 Oct 2026 18:00:00 GMTHardwarespacecooling