Daily Drop on Hardware & Gadgets – August 6, 2026 | DailyDrops

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• OpenAI's new AI smart speaker will reportedly sell for between $300 and $400 | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
• Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Review: The Most Fun Phone in Ages (gizmodo.com)
• Ucraina, il futuro del conflitto passa dalla battaglia dei cieli: droni per contrastare avanzata russa e nodo Patriot - Startupbusiness.it (startupbusiness.it)
• I forced Pixel onto 4G for a week, and the battery difference was ridiculous (makeuseof.com)
• Trevor Noah is hosting Google’s Pixel 11 launch event (theverge.com)
• I finally ditched VLC for its faster open-source rival (howtogeek.com)
• AMD Snaps Up Taalas Weeks After Cerebras Deal, Chasing Chips That Bake AI Models Into Silicon (wccftech.com)
• Jony Ive’s first OpenAI gadget is reportedly a hockey puck-sized smart speaker (theverge.com)
• This 1,115-horsepower hypercar uses an engineering trick that saved WWI pilots (howtogeek.com)
• The Company Behind Ugly Gold Phones Is Now Making Ugly Gold Smart Glasses (gizmodo.com)
• AMD acquires AI chip startup Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models into silicon (theregister.com)
• Anthropic will design its own hardware to power Claude (arstechnica.com)
• The AirPods Pro are $60 off, their best price since late June (theverge.com)
• USB4STREAM Adding Busy Poll Option For Lower Latency At The Cost Of Increased CPU Cycles - Phoronix (phoronix.com)
• Mesa 26.2 Released With NVK Mesh Shader Support, Many Other Vulkan Improvements - Phoronix (phoronix.com)