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• Instagram creator All Gear No Skill has used Dyson's CameraJet toothbrush to shoot street photos
• The $499.99 / £419.99 / AU$799 brush uses a 100k-pixel (0.1MP) camera to find the gaps between your teeth
• Shots were grabbed by screenshotting the live feed in the MyDyson app

You may have heard the phrase "the best camera is the one you have with you", but what if that's a toothbrush? Instagram creator All Gear No Skill (@allthegearnoskill) has taken Dyson's new CameraJet out of the bathroom and onto the streets, using its tiny built-in camera to capture a series of gloriously odd street photos.

Launched at the start of September, the CameraJet is Dyson's first foray into oral care, and it costs a jaw-clenching $499.99 / £419.99 / AU$799. Tucked just below the brush head is a 100k-pixel macro camera that feeds a machine learning system Dyson calls Gap Optical Targeting. It analyzes at 28fps to spot the gaps between your teeth, then fires a cone-shaped jet of mouth rinse at each one, so you're effectively flossing while you brush.

The same camera doubles as a dental endoscope, streaming a live view of your molars to the MyDyson app (which, as TechRadar writer Emily Peck found in her Dyson CameraJet review, can be a little more revealing than you might like).

Point, shoot, rinse, repeat

That live view is the key to "taking photos" with the toothbrush. Dyson says the CameraJet doesn't save images on the brush or in the cloud, and there's no capture button in the app, so the process is refreshingly low-tech. You point the brush head at your subject, watch the feed on your phone, and take a screenshot when the composition looks right. It's like a $500 / AU$800 remote viewfinder with bristles.

As you'd expect from a sensor designed to peer at incisors from a few millimeters away, the results won't have anyone trading in their Leica: the macro lens bends everything into a fisheye-style bubble, 100k pixels works out to a mere 0.1MP resolution, and the colors and white balance wander all over the place, lending the shots a strange, almost infrared look. For me, the photos instantly brought to mind the otherworldly, hallucinatory AI-driven image generation from a few years ago: think Will Smith eating spaghetti.

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The CameraJet surely won't be the last unlikely gadget to get this treatment, either, because cameras are turning up in all sorts of devices that have nothing to do with photography. Your car may have several for parking and driver assistance, robot vacuums use them to dodge kids' toys and charging cables, and some smart fridges and ovens will let you peek at what's inside via your phone. Not to mention robot lawn mowers and VR headsets.

Plenty of these offer a live feed in a companion app, so there's a house full of accidental point-and-shoots out there waiting for someone with a sense of humor. Personally, I can't wait for the first portrait series shot entirely on a fridge.

Who doesn't love fall? The weather is cooler, Football is on every weekend, and Halloween is just around the corner. If you're like me and want to refresh your home for the fall season, Amazon has everything you need, and it's all on sale.

• Shop more fall deals at Amazon

I've listed my 15 favorite fall deals on Amazon below, including a range of must-have products for the coming months, with prices starting at just $7.99. You can find everything from kitchen appliances like crock-pots and coffee makers to outdoor essentials like leaf blowers and fire pits. I've also included fun Halloween decor, cozy blankets, and fall garlands and flowers.

Shop my full list of fall favorites on Amazon below, and keep in mind these are limited-time offers; prices are expected to rise as we move closer to October.

15 Fall must-haves at Amazon

Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day Multi-Surface Cleaner, Fall Leaves

Bedsure Soft Beige Throw Blanket

Godonlif Candle Warmer Lamp With Timer

Nimiko Flameless Candles With Remote, Battery Operated

DearHouse 2 Pack Fall Garland Maple Leaf

Ivydale Fake Mums Artificial Fall Flowers for Outdoors Outside Decorations, 12 Bundles Silk Chrysanthemums Fall Flowers Faux Mums for Outdoor Planters Realistic Uv Resistant Marigold for Porch Patio Home

Crock-Pot 7-Quart Manual Slow Cooker

Ninja Ninja Fresh Brew Coffee Maker, 12 Cup Glass Carafe, Stainless Steel, Ce251

Cosori Turboblaze Air Fryer, 9-In-1, 6 QT

Coogam 60pcs Halloween Bats Decoration

kakoya Kakoya Flameless Floating Candles With Wand，20 Pcs Magic Led Hanging Taper Candles，flickering Battery Operated Taper Candle With Wand Remote for Halloween Decorations Best Gift（white）

AYGXU 2packs Halloween Decorations Outdoor,halloweens Party Decoration Indoor,59in Spooky Ghost With Remote Control String Lights,halloween-Ghost Lights for Porches Yards Gardens Lawn

EGO Power+ Ego Power+ Cordless Electric Leaf Blower, 615 Cfm, With Battery - Lb6151

Solo Stove Solo Stove Bonfire W/stand | 19.5" Smokeless Wood Burning Fire Pit, Bronze

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Who doesn't love fall? The weather is cooler, Football is on every weekend, and Halloween is just around the corner. If you're like me and want to refresh your home for the fall season, Amazon has everything you need, and it's all on sale.

• Shop more fall deals at Amazon

I've listed my 15 favorite fall deals on Amazon below, including a range of must-have products for the coming months, with prices starting at just $7.99. You can find everything from kitchen appliances like crock-pots and coffee makers to outdoor essentials like leaf blowers and fire pits. I've also included fun Halloween decor, cozy blankets, and fall garlands and flowers.

Shop my full list of fall favorites on Amazon below, and keep in mind these are limited-time offers; prices are expected to rise as we move closer to October.

15 Fall must-haves at Amazon

Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day Multi-Surface Cleaner, Fall Leaves

Bedsure Soft Beige Throw Blanket

Godonlif Candle Warmer Lamp With Timer

Nimiko Flameless Candles With Remote, Battery Operated

DearHouse 2 Pack Fall Garland Maple Leaf

Ivydale Fake Mums Artificial Fall Flowers for Outdoors Outside Decorations, 12 Bundles Silk Chrysanthemums Fall Flowers Faux Mums for Outdoor Planters Realistic Uv Resistant Marigold for Porch Patio Home

Crock-Pot 7-Quart Manual Slow Cooker

Ninja Ninja Fresh Brew Coffee Maker, 12 Cup Glass Carafe, Stainless Steel, Ce251

Cosori Turboblaze Air Fryer, 9-In-1, 6 QT

Coogam 60pcs Halloween Bats Decoration

kakoya Kakoya Flameless Floating Candles With Wand，20 Pcs Magic Led Hanging Taper Candles，flickering Battery Operated Taper Candle With Wand Remote for Halloween Decorations Best Gift（white）

AYGXU 2packs Halloween Decorations Outdoor,halloweens Party Decoration Indoor,59in Spooky Ghost With Remote Control String Lights,halloween-Ghost Lights for Porches Yards Gardens Lawn

EGO Power+ Ego Power+ Cordless Electric Leaf Blower, 615 Cfm, With Battery - Lb6151

Solo Stove Solo Stove Bonfire W/stand | 19.5" Smokeless Wood Burning Fire Pit, Bronze

Ciays Ciays 42 Inch Gas Fire Pit Table, 60,000 Btu Propane Pits for Outside With Steel Lid and Lava Rock, 2 in 1 Firepit Table Gatherings Parties on Patio Deck Garden Backyard, Black

John Ternus has barely been CEO of Apple for a fortnight, and he's already caused quite the stir. Some of this is to be expected; Apple's September event is barely in the rearview, and the dust has far from settled following the announcement of the long-awaited iPhone Duo.

Still, it's one small interjection he made in a video interview with TechRadar and Tom's Guide (see below) that tells me a lot about his relationship with the company he now governs.

In addition to discussing the new devices launched this week, we had the opportunity to ask Ternus about his views on AI, wearable tech and becoming CEO of one of the world's largest and most eminent tech companies; plus, crucially, his view on innovation.

When our Editor-at-Large, Lance Ulanoff, asked about his plans to reinvigorate the brand's image when it comes to innovation, Ternus replied: "I don't think we ever lost innovation."

Is it ever enough?

The unavoidable truth is that the "iPhone moment" is, perhaps, once in a generation; and there's a lot more competition in the playing field now than there was back in 2007. That being said, it's hard to argue that there's been no innovation under Tim Cook's tenure.

From Apple silicon chips (2021) and Touch ID (2013) to Face ID (2017) and the world's first over-the-counter direct-to-consumer ECG in the Apple Watch Series 4 (2018), there's been plenty to shout about — even though recent years have maybe been a little quieter, barring the Vision Pro... but that's not much to write home about yet.

Of course, Ternus' quick retort garnered some reactions nonetheless, with commenters across our TikTok and YouTube accounts arguing that true product-level innovation had been lost at Apple for many a year. So, what do you think?

Cook had a difficult job, without a shadow of a doubt: huge boots to fill in the wake of Steve Jobs' passing, a grieving user base and fanbase, plus lofty expectations to steer the Apple ship through everything from a global pandemic to hardware supply chain chaos; and that's just in recent years.

Apple's still kicking, with a strong set of products, devoted audience and a seemingly optimistic future under Ternus' leadership. Only time will tell what's in store for this new era after the iPhone Duo.

John Ternus has barely been CEO of Apple for a fortnight, and he's already caused quite the stir. Some of this is to be expected; Apple's September event is barely in the rearview, and the dust has far from settled following the announcement of the long-awaited iPhone Duo.

Still, it's one small interjection he made in a video interview with TechRadar and Tom's Guide (see below) that tells me a lot about his relationship with the company he now governs.

In addition to discussing the new devices launched this week, we had the opportunity to ask Ternus about his views on AI, wearable tech and becoming CEO of one of the world's largest and most eminent tech companies; plus, crucially, his view on innovation.

When our Editor-at-Large, Lance Ulanoff, asked about his plans to reinvigorate the brand's image when it comes to innovation, Ternus replied: "I don't think we ever lost innovation."

Is it ever enough?

The unavoidable truth is that the "iPhone moment" is, perhaps, once in a generation; and there's a lot more competition in the playing field now than there was back in 2007. That being said, it's hard to argue that there's been no innovation under Tim Cook's tenure.

From Apple silicon chips (2021) and Touch ID (2013) to Face ID (2017) and the world's first over-the-counter direct-to-consumer ECG in the Apple Watch Series 4 (2018), there's been plenty to shout about — even though recent years have maybe been a little quieter, barring the Vision Pro... but that's not much to write home about yet.

Of course, Ternus' quick retort garnered some reactions nonetheless, with commenters across our TikTok and YouTube accounts arguing that true product-level innovation had been lost at Apple for many a year. So, what do you think?

Cook had a difficult job, without a shadow of a doubt: huge boots to fill in the wake of Steve Jobs' passing, a grieving user base and fanbase, plus lofty expectations to steer the Apple ship through everything from a global pandemic to hardware supply chain chaos; and that's just in recent years.

Apple's still kicking, with a strong set of products, devoted audience and a seemingly optimistic future under Ternus' leadership. Only time will tell what's in store for this new era after the iPhone Duo.

• US data center energy consumption could top 426 TWh by 2030
• Grid expansions are delayed while new data center projects keep getting approved
• New report reveals how energy transmission could be just as important as new generation

New Moody's data (via The Register) has revealed that US data center construction is ramping up so quickly, the country's grid isn't able to keep up.

With power availability quickly becoming one of the biggest constraints on future projects, the report claims that roughly $110 billion of new electricity generation capacity could be required.

By the end of the decade, the electricity consumption for America's data centers alone could top 426 TWh.

Power supply is one of the biggest data center constraints

The data shows that new campuses can be developed much more quickly than new grid infrastructure, with power projects facing lengthy planning phases, long lead times on equipment and supply chain issues. According to the report, some projects face delays of up to seven years.

Canada's Saskatchewan is one example of how a region can tackle power issues, because the province requires large new facilities to supply their own power.

Moody's says the US grid system should also consider transmission infrastructure to move electricity to data center clusters – not just building capacity for additional generation. That additional transmission infrastructure could also provide rural communities with access to cheaper energy that's been generated further afield, making it a win-win.

Some US states and regions have even been forced to put a temporary ban on certain new projects as they take a step back to reassess legislation.

While President Trump's Ratepayer Protection Pledge does aim to shift the responsibility onto utility companies in order to protect citizens from bearing the brunt of rising costs, Moody's ultimate conclusion is that data center projects are coming in at an accelerated rate, and it's clear that the grid needs additional support from the likes of those operators in order to deliver campuses on time.

• US data center energy consumption could top 426 TWh by 2030
• Grid expansions are delayed while new data center projects keep getting approved
• New report reveals how energy transmission could be just as important as new generation

New Moody's data (via The Register) has revealed that US data center construction is ramping up so quickly, the country's grid isn't able to keep up.

With power availability quickly becoming one of the biggest constraints on future projects, the report claims that roughly $110 billion of new electricity generation capacity could be required.

By the end of the decade, the electricity consumption for America's data centers alone could top 426 TWh.

Power supply is one of the biggest data center constraints

The data shows that new campuses can be developed much more quickly than new grid infrastructure, with power projects facing lengthy planning phases, long lead times on equipment and supply chain issues. According to the report, some projects face delays of up to seven years.

Canada's Saskatchewan is one example of how a region can tackle power issues, because the province requires large new facilities to supply their own power.

Moody's says the US grid system should also consider transmission infrastructure to move electricity to data center clusters – not just building capacity for additional generation. That additional transmission infrastructure could also provide rural communities with access to cheaper energy that's been generated further afield, making it a win-win.

Some US states and regions have even been forced to put a temporary ban on certain new projects as they take a step back to reassess legislation.

While President Trump's Ratepayer Protection Pledge does aim to shift the responsibility onto utility companies in order to protect citizens from bearing the brunt of rising costs, Moody's ultimate conclusion is that data center projects are coming in at an accelerated rate, and it's clear that the grid needs additional support from the likes of those operators in order to deliver campuses on time.

It's time for TechRadar's annual tech awards, and this year we're doing it differently. For the first time, we have a complete set of categories where the winners are chosen 100% by you, the TechRadar readers.

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The TechRadar Readers' Choice Awards 2026 comprises nearly 100 categories, but we know that not everyone is interested in voting in every one, so on this page you can vote in just our Phones and Cameras categories.

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It's time for TechRadar's annual tech awards, and this year we're doing it differently. For the first time, we have a complete set of categories where the winners are chosen 100% by you, the TechRadar readers.

The TechRadar Readers' Choice Awards 2026 comprises nearly 100 categories, but we know that not everyone is interested in voting in every one, so on this page you can vote in just our Phones and Cameras categories.

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It's time for TechRadar's annual tech awards, and this year we're doing it differently. For the first time, we have a complete set of categories where the winners are chosen 100% by you, the TechRadar readers.

The TechRadar Readers' Choice Awards 2026 comprises nearly 100 categories, ranging from phones to drones, TVs to ereaders, Bluetooth speakers to air fryers.

In for survey below, you can vote in every one of the our categories — but don't worry if you want to just vote in the areas you most care about, we've got you covered. Just below are links to vote in limited areas only, so you don't have to go through all the questions.

The shortlists were chosen by TechRadar's editors based on the best products we've tested or the most popular products of the year. You'll need to vote before 00:01am PST / 03:01am EST / 08:01am BST on Wednesday October 7th 2026 for it to be counted.

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• TV & Audio
• Fitness & Home Tech

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Once the deadline has passed at 00:01am PST / 03:01am EST / 08:01am BST on Wednesday October 7th 2026, we'll tally your votes to find the winners in each category.

We'll announce the winners in our big TechRadar Awards 2026 Week, starting Monday October 19th. We'll reveal the winners of the Reader's Choice Awards, as well as the winners of our TechRadar Product of the Year Awards, which are chosen solely by our expert judges.

How many products will do the double? We'll be so curious to see — but right now, all you can do is vote for what you think should win, so vote away!

It's time for TechRadar's annual tech awards, and this year we're doing it differently. For the first time, we have a complete set of categories where the winners are chosen 100% by you, the TechRadar readers.

The TechRadar Readers' Choice Awards 2026 comprises nearly 100 categories, ranging from phones to drones, TVs to ereaders, Bluetooth speakers to air fryers.

In for survey below, you can vote in every one of the our categories — but don't worry if you want to just vote in the areas you most care about, we've got you covered. Just below are links to vote in limited areas only, so you don't have to go through all the questions.

The shortlists were chosen by TechRadar's editors based on the best products we've tested or the most popular products of the year. You'll need to vote before 00:01am PST / 03:01am EST / 08:01am BST on Wednesday October 7th 2026 for it to be counted.

• Phones & Cameras
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Once the deadline has passed at 00:01am PST / 03:01am EST / 08:01am BST on Wednesday October 7th 2026, we'll tally your votes to find the winners in each category.

We'll announce the winners in our big TechRadar Awards 2026 Week, starting Monday October 19th. We'll reveal the winners of the Reader's Choice Awards, as well as the winners of our TechRadar Product of the Year Awards, which are chosen solely by our expert judges.

How many products will do the double? We'll be so curious to see — but right now, all you can do is vote for what you think should win, so vote away!

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After years of treating faster, bigger, and more capable AI as something approaching a moral imperative, the people running some of the world’s most powerful AI companies suddenly agree that perhaps everyone should ease off the accelerator.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei kicked off the latest round with an essay titled “We Must Pace the Frontier,” warning that AI capabilities are advancing faster than the safeguards needed to contain their risks. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis quickly endorsed the idea. It's extraordinary that the leaders of companies locked in one of the most expensive technological races in history are publicly agreeing that the race itself needs to slow down. One awkward detail is buried beneath the sudden outbreak of corporate caution. Namely that nobody involved has said which forthcoming frontier model will arrive later because of it.

“Pacing the frontier” can mean almost anything until somebody attaches a calendar to it. None of the companies supporting Anthropic’s proposal has publicly identified a forthcoming model it intends to delay as part of the initiative, nor has anyone defined whether slowing down means an extra week of safety testing, six months between major generations, or something more dramatic. For now, the most concrete commitments concern independent evaluators, monitoring, safety standards and coordination rather than an announced reduction in the cadence of frontier-model releases

It's odd enough to stand out even to those outside the tech space. U.S. vice president JD Vance said he felt “a little bit weird" about the fact that you have so many frontier AI tech companies kind of coming to the government and begging the government to regulate them, and that it came off as “a bit of a Trojan horse.” His skepticism does not settle whether regulation is necessary, but it highlights the contradiction running through the current debate.

Altruism or exclusion?

There are good reasons for the sudden anxiety. Amodei has warned about AI enabling cyberattacks, bioterrorism, economic disruption, and eventually systems humans could struggle to control. His latest proposal calls for independent safety evaluators with deep access inside frontier labs, coordination among companies on shared standards, and international cooperation around particularly dangerous capabilities.

That's rather different from the plain-English meaning of slowing development. Anthropic’s own recent history is ambiguous, as it paused external cyber evaluations of prerelease models and briefly stopped internal ones. It also paused higher-risk reinforcement-learning environments for several weeks.

Meanwhile, the frontier has continued moving. Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 this month, while OpenAI debuted GPT-6 Astra. Those launches preceded Amodei’s latest public call for an industry slowdown, but show the strange starting point for this new era of restraint. The companies asking everyone to discuss slowing down have just spent the month pushing the frontier forward.

If the companies genuinely believe development is moving dangerously fast, they already control their own research schedules and release calendars, while government regulation raises a separate question about whether rules designed with the biggest labs could also make life harder for smaller competitors.

Apocalyptic distraction

There is another problem with all this talk of existential danger. The more Silicon Valley discusses hypothetical superintelligence destroying humanity, the easier it becomes to overlook the considerably less cinematic ways AI is already hurting people.

Karolis Kaciulis, Lead System Engineer at consumer cybersecurity company Surfshark, argues that warnings about AI threatening humanity can amount to a “marketing move” that distracts attention from existing harms. “The threat itself is fictional, closer to a Skynet-style sci-fi scenario than the problems generative AI is already causing today, from automated scams to intimidation,” he said.

That skepticism deserves space alongside the warnings from AI executives. Generative AI is already making phishing, deepfake fraud, and automated scams cheaper and easier to scale. Questions remain about privacy, how information submitted to chatbots is handled, and the environmental cost of the infrastructure required to run increasingly large AI systems.

There is also a legitimate debate about how much progress the industry’s endless procession of model releases actually represents. Benchmark numbers climb, but determining whether each new large language model represents a profound new capability is considerably harder than reading a launch-day chart.

AI companies simultaneously warning about AI's power while still pushing ahead and sidelining safety comes off as bizarre to the average person. Amodei’s proposal is new, and judging it entirely by whether a company delayed a model by four days would be unreasonable. But his ideas need an independent evaluation system to have any muscle. The next step needs to be measurable, or it's irrelevant.