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This week in Light Start, we’re looking at a new Galaxy Fold, Gmail goes dark mode too, Tesla launches new solar roof tiles and a rumoured new drone.

The Large Interactive Virtual Environment Laboratory (LIVELab) at McMaster University is a research concert hall. It functions as both a high-tech laboratory and theatre, opening up tremendous opportunities for research and investigation.

Apple’s developed a bit of a tendency of late — everything seems to be going pro. First it was the Macbook, then it was the iPad, followed by the iPhone a few weeks ago. Next up? Apple’s AirPods, in the shape of the newly-announced AirPods Pro. 

The tech giants Amazon, Google and Facebook have all begun to use machine learning to give you tips on what to wear. Is fashion styling the next field to be disrupted by artificial intelligence (AI), or will the human eye remain supreme?

The City of Johannesburg has shut down its website and online services, reporting a cyber-attack following a series of ransom notes sent to the city. The ransom, sent by a group calling itself the Shadow Kill Hackers, is demanding 4.0 bitcoin from City of Joburg.

Warning. Nuclear missile launched. Okay, so we’re not quite there yet but the folks over at Petroglyph Games have released…

Watch out Samsung (and Huawei. Because the Chinese hardware company, TCL has developed what is probs the coolest folding phone ever.

Wow. WeWork is not just a case study of how not to do an initial public offering (IPO), but of how not to run a business.

So far, though, attempts to build supercomputer brains have not even come close. A multi-billion-dollar European project that began in 2013 is now largely understood to have failed. That effort has shifted to look more like a similar but less ambitious project in the U.S., developing new software tools for researchers to study brain data, rather than simulating a brain.

Huawei’s first folding smartphone, the Mate X, will be launching before the end of November this year. But, before you get too excited, that launch is limited to China at the present. Huawei announced the details at a launch event, giving out the timeline and pricing for the device.