A co-founder of the Microsoft Garage reflects on why the grassroots innovation lab lasted 17 years before shutting down. His short version: favor doers over talkers, make it a potluck and don't worry about the billions.
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Apple's first foldable iPhone, iPhone Duo, went on sale Friday at Apple Stores worldwide, with executives greeting customers in Austin and New York. Stores are offering hands-on demos plus new Today at Apple sessions on the device and iOS 27.
Google showcased five community projects built with its new frontier model, Gemini 4 Argon, including a 3D seaplane simulation and a globe mapping tectonic shockwaves in real time. Google says Argon excels at deep, multi-step work in coding, finance, legal and science.
Meta is limiting some government and nonprofit Facebook pages to two links a month unless they pay, Engadget reports, in what it calls a test that wasn't supposed to affect such pages. A Greenville, Texas, communications manager says the city library's page was hit.
NVIDIA announced expanded AI computing in Kazakhstan, timed to CEO Jensen Huang's visit to Astana on Oct. 23. The company says the country is moving from infrastructure plans to deploying models and applications.
