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Not sure which AirPods you have? Connect them, open Settings, tap your AirPods and check the Model Number under About. It always starts with an A, and Engadget says it's more reliable than looks alone. #AirPods #Apple

Gemini Notebook may get a "Comic" artifact that turns your sources into AI comics, per TestingCatalog. Google hasn't announced it. #Gemini #Google

Space data centers cost up to 100x more than ones on Earth, Google's data center energy head told The Information. US power supply is sufficient, they said; the bottleneck is slow permits. #Google

HomeView's code hints at a Secure Video feature, so Apple's hub could add security camera features soon, The Verge reports. #HomeView #Apple

81 new autonomous-vehicle startups have pitched Trucks VC so far in 2026, two-thirds more than last year and more than the 2016–17 boom, TechCrunch reports. Many are pure robotaxi plays, and some deploy within months on under $1M raised. #Robotaxi #AutonomousVehicles

1.6M: total 8K TVs sold since 2015, against nearly a billion 4K sets in use, per Omdia figures Engadget cites. #8KTV #Samsung

Sprout Pi Mainboard, from a London studio, replaces an old iPod's entire logic board to add Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, while keeping the original screen and click wheel. Its launch video passed 1M views on YouTube, though some details remain unclear, per Engadget. #iPod #Sprout

Your Fitbit HRV has no score to beat. Compare it with your own 30-day range, not a friend's number, Engadget explains. #Fitbit #GoogleHealth

The price of touch: $400 extra for the touch screen, OLED and Dynamic Island on the new MacBook Pro, per Gurman. The non-touch versions are staying for now. #MacBookPro

OpenAI is stepping up efforts to stop Chinese labs from extracting its models' reasoning, The Information reports in an exclusive. The push comes as Astra becomes a major target for distillation. #OpenAI #Distillation

About 80% of Apple's first iPhone Duo stock went to walk-in launch-weekend sales, leaving 20% for preorders, per Mark Gurman. #iPhoneDuo #Apple

Yesterday in tech, Oct 31: OpenAI cut its round target to $20B, Google began winding down Jules, Musk put Colossus 2 at 1.2M Blackwells, Big Tech's AI commitments passed $3T, and Binance said 90% of the hack is backed. Originals in the reply. #OpenAI #Google #Binance