
Parents who grew up walking to a friend’s house without a tracker in their pocket now face a different first-phone problem. Most options for ages 7 to 13 either open the full internet or function mainly as a way to watch a child from a distance. Freckle, revealed today by Freckle Mobile and founder Sam Terris, tries a third path. Terris, who describes his own childhood as free-range, calls the usual tracking products leashes. His answer is a small square phone meant to go outside with the kid, not sit in a bedroom feeding a scroll.

Most visitors would pass the frame of Matthew Perks’ new invisible PC without a second glance. A mountain valley fills the canvas, river through the center, pines and rock along the banks, a small steam engine lost in the mist. Real paintings hang on either side, and the arrangement reads as ordinary wall art. A pull on the top edge breaks a pair of magnets. Piano hinges carry the panel down until Dyneema cord, running through a small roller, stops the swing at a right angle and keeps the line clear of the work surface once the panel is shut again. A finished desk is now in front of you.

BMW used September 29 to put its eighth-generation 3 Series in public view, gas and electric versions arriving on the same day with nearly the same face. This is the G50, the first 3 Series shaped by the Neue Klasse look, and the first time the name i3 has been hung on a fully electric version of the brand’s main sedan. Orders for the electric cars opened early, and the automaker says demand has already been strong enough to shape the production ramp.

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Irena Kandaurov’s latest concept arrives as a set of renderings that refuse the usual yacht shopping list. Guests scanning the hull for a helipad, a beach club, or a glass wheelhouse will come up empty. What sits in their place is a low, continuous shell with long flowing lines, two open decks, and a pool on each of them.

On a Tuesday, OpenAI revealed a new model for its paying ChatGPT users. ChatGPT 6.1 Sol appears to be tracking rather well in several areas, such as coding jobs, dense document reading, as well as long stretches of computer work, and all at a token cost that is around one-fifth of what Astra, the other model, charges. The release occurred during the DevDay event in San Francisco, only one day after OpenAI revealed that they had been holding back a 6.1 version of Astra because to safety concerns, including the danger that it would do things without your permission.