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Developed by Ubisoft Singapore and built on the latest Anvil Engine (the same engine that powered 2025’s Assassin’s Creed Shadows), Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced is a complete, ground-up reimagining of the beloved 2013 pirate adventure, set during the Golden Age of Piracy from 1715 to 1722. You play as Edward Kenway, a roguish Welshman who stumbles into the centuries-old war between Assassins and Templars while chasing fortune, glory, and a mythical location known as the Observatory.

The Seiren V3 Chroma has long been one of the more eye-catching USB microphones on the market, but audio quality was always a bit of a compromise compared to Razer’s higher-end lineup. That changes with the new Razer Seiren V3 Chroma 32-Bit DSP, which borrows the onboard processing hardware from the flagship Seiren V3 Pro and packages it into the more accessible Chroma-powered form factor. We now have a dedicated 32-bit DSP chip built directly into the microphone.

Kimi K3, the new flagship model from Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI, just ran out of room. Less than a week after launching on 16 July 2026, the company quietly stopped accepting new subscribers because demand had overwhelmed its available computing capacity. Existing users can still access the service, but if you were thinking about signing up after seeing the benchmarks, you’re now on the outside looking in. And judging by the reaction online, a lot of people were thinking exactly that.

I tested the NIPOGI smart glasses for two weeks for commuting, travel and office work. This lightweight mixed-reality eyewear packs a POV camera, multi-language AI translation, hands-free calls and voice control at an affordable Walmart price. Light TR90 goggle frame with interchangeable anti-blue light and UV polarized lenses, comfortable for all-day wear. Cannot fit thick prescription glasses directly.

A robot vacuum that mops with clean water the entire time, not just at the start, is one of those features that sounds simple but is actually pretty hard to pull off consistently. That’s the core pitch behind the MOVA Z70 Ultra Roller, which has just launched in Australia as the brand’s new flagship roller-mopping robot.

AI-generated image The Apple iPhone Ultra is coming, and if the rumours are right, it could be the ultimate foldable phone that everyone (especially iPhone users) has been waiting for. After years of watching Samsung iterate on the Galaxy Z Fold while the rest of us waited for Apple to show up, supply chain reports and Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman now confirm that mass production is on track for August, with a September announcement looking increasingly likely.

Meta AI smart glasses have officially landed in Australia, and for the first time, they’re not wearing a Ray-Ban or Oakley badge. This is Meta putting its own name on the box — and that alone tells you something about where the company thinks this category is headed. According to Mediaweek, Meta and EssilorLuxottica launched the new Meta Glasses range locally on 24 June, available through Meta.com and selected retailers.

D-Link A/NZ has just announced two new portable 5G hotspots for the Australian and New Zealand market: the F518 5G Wi‑Fi 6 AX1800 Mobile Hotspot and the more powerful DBR-330-G 5G AX3000 Wi‑Fi 6 Mobile Hotspot. Both devices are aimed at people who need reliable internet on the move, whether that’s remote workers, frequent travellers, students, or anyone tired of dealing with patchy public Wi‑Fi so they can bring and use their own. The F518 is the more accessible of the two.

Photo by Dima Solomin on Unsplash OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 family went live yesterday: Sol, Terra, and Luna. It’s the most significant release the company has put out in a long time. But whether it lives up to the hype for regular users is a different question. The GPT-5.6 family ships in three tiers. Sol is the flagship, built for complex reasoning, long-horizon coding, and agentic workflows. Terra is the middle tier, roughly comparable to the previous GPT-5.5 in quality but priced at about half the cost.

The Logitech G316 X 98 is a wired gaming keyboard that slots in as the more affordable sibling to the G512 X, and it does a surprisingly good job of making high-end gaming features accessible without stripping everything back to bare bones. At AUD $199.95, it sits in that interesting middle ground where you expect some compromises, but the compromises here are fewer than you’d think. Inside the box you get the G316 X 98 keyboard, a 1.8m detachable USB-A cable, and documentation.