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Chinese smartphone makers are trying their best to be more self-reliant but few have cracked the complicated task of developing their own in-house chipset, let alone one that can compare with the flagship offerings from Qualcomm and MediaTek. Well, Xiaomi has done just that as the company has a new top-tier chipset – the Xring O1 which was just announced alongside its latest Xiaomi 15S Pro flagship.
While the device is basically identical to the Xiaomi 15 Pro, the Xring O1 chip inside is a big breakt
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An anonymous reader shares a report: German banks blocked PayPal payments totalling more than 10 billion euros ($11.7 billion) over fraud concerns, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reported on Wednesday, without specifying its sources. The payments were halted on Monday after lenders flagged millions of suspicious direct debits from PayPal that appeared last week, the newspaper said. Asked to comment on the report, a PayPal spokesperson said a temporary service interruption... Read more ›
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Botswana has been getting a lot of calls lately from across the African continent, prodding the nation — once “at risk of extinction” from HIV — to tell the world how they did the impossible: squash childhood HIV rates. The number of children living with HIV has declined sharply everywhere, but nowhere more so than […] Read more ›
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An iPhone 17 announcement is a dead cert for September 2025 – Apple has already sent out invites for an "Awe dropping" event on Tuesday, September 9 at the Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California. The timing follows Apple's trend of introducing new iPhone models annually in the fall. At the event, Apple is expected to unveil its new-generation iPhone 17, an all-new ultra-thin iPhone 17 Air, and high-end iPhone... Read more ›
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Epic CEO Time Sweeney has blamed developers for issues with games made in Unreal Engine 5, stating the "main cause is the order of development". Read more Read more ›
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The AirPods Pro 3 will feature a slightly smaller charging case and a capacitive pairing button, according to the leaker known as Majin Bu. Citing discussions with a prominent accessory manufacturer, the leaker says that the charging case of the AirPods Pro 3 could be slightly smaller than that of the current model, but will otherwise will be "almost identical" with no major changes. Other reports similarly indicate that the... Read more ›
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A new policy document outlines China’s plan to create an internationally competitive BCI industry within five years, and proposes developing devices for both health and consumer uses. Read more ›
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Everyone in education, from K-12 teachers to university presidents, is well aware that AI is transforming the classroom. That presents all the challenges you’ve probably already heard of: students using ChatGPT to cheat, churning out papers and assignments without a second thought. But there’s also the more underreported development — teachers are deploying the technology to write […] Read more ›
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Today we have the brand new Honor Magic V Flip 2 in for review, and it comes in this special finish, done in collaboration with renowned fashion designer, Prof.Jimmy Choo Yeang Keat OBE. The phone is currently exclusive to China, where it ships with an 80W charger and a USB-A to USB-C cable. It also comes with two two-piece cases for the phone - the one on the left is... Read more ›
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Realme introduced two new concept phones during its 828 Fan Festival in China. The first is a smartphone with a 15,000mAh battery, which is advertised to offer up to five days of usage on a single charge. The second features a 10,000mAh battery and comes with a built-in cooling fan and thermoelectric cooler, which Realme claims can reduce temperatures by up to 6°C. Realme 15,000mAh features a 100% silicon anode... Read more ›
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Sony released the Xperia 1 VII, its latest flagship smartphone, in early June, and immediately started receiving a lot of negative feedback from buyers who were experiencing random reboots, shutdowns, and even an inability for the device to power on. After pausing sales of the phone globally and investigating for a bit, the company announced a replacement program in July, whereby all buyers would receive a new, fixed unit. At... Read more ›
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After showing off a prototype smartphone with a 10,000 mAh battery back in May, Realme is set to unveil an actual device with an even larger battery. In a post on X, the Chinese manufacturer teased a phone with a larger than 10,000 mAh battery. Realme will be divulging more details on the phone on August 27. It is expected to use a similar silicon-anode battery technology found on the... Read more ›
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The Redmi Note 15 series is now official in China, and the two Pro models arrive with several improvements over their predecessors in key areas, including the display, chipset, and battery capacity. Redmi Note 15 Pro/Pro+ Note 15 Pro and Note 15 Pro+ share the same 6.83-inch AMOLED display with 1,280 x 2,772 px resolution, a 120Hz refresh rate and 3,200 nits peak local brightness. The panel offers 12-bit color... Read more ›
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vivo’s Vision Explorer Edition mixed reality headset made its official debut in China today. It’s the first MR headset from the company and is likely to be a China exclusive for now. Pricing and availability details haven’t been disclosed yet. The vivo Vision Explorer Edition headset features a compact and light design. It weighs 398g and measures 83mm in height, while being 40mm thick. It gets a mirror finish front... Read more ›
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The Redmi Note 15 was announced today in China alongside the Redmi Note 15 Pro and Note 15 Pro+. It gets a larger battery, brighter display, and several other improvements over the Note 14 5G. Redmi’s latest budget Note 15 sports a 6.77-inch OLED display that offers 120Hz refresh rate, 3,200 nits peak brightness, and Full HD+ resolution. The phone gets an in-display fingerprint scanner. It is equipped with a... Read more ›
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Last month, a reliable tipster claimed that Huawei would unveil the Watch GT 6 series this year in September or October. Well, Huawei sort of corroborated that claim today as it announced a September 19 launch event in Paris. We say "sort of" since Huawei hasn't explicitly mentioned the Watch GT 6 series in its event announcement post on X, but the image included in the post shows two smartwatches,... Read more ›
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