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There's probably a lot of market research out there by fancy people who analyze consumer data trying to answer one question: Why do people choose an iPhone? Is it a reputation for better privacy? Long-term reliability? Targeted ad campaigns? I think it's a lot simpler than anyone wants to acknowledge: Their previous iPhone no longer [âŠ]
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The doors to IFA 2025 in Berlin, Germany, have officially opened and new gadgets, tech, features, and upgrades continue to pour out of Europe's largest consumer tech show. There's a lot of news to stay on top of, and if you're struggling to ingest it all, here are some of the best announcements from the [âŠ] Read more âș
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Meta allegedly suppressed research that suggested kids were exposed to certain dangers when using its VR headsets, according to a report by The Washington Post. Current and former employees have presented documents to Congress that describe incidents in which children were groomed by adult predators in VR, but allege that internal reports were edited to omit the worst of these offenses. Meta has denied these allegations. Two of these researchers... Read more âș
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Hollywood actor Keanu Reeves has said he would love to reprise the role of Johnny Silverhand in Cyberpunk 2. Read more Read more âș
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I think these are the best places to stay in Orlando, Florida, whether you want a budget-friendly, low-cost hotel or the best luxury resort. Read more âș
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Watch the trailer for the dark fairy tale co-starring Sophie Sloan and Sigourney Weaver; it hits theaters December 5. Read more âș
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University of Luxembourg mathematicians tested whether GPT-5 could extend a qualitative fourth-moment theorem to include explicit convergence rates, a previously unaddressed problem in the Malliavin-Stein framework. The September 2025 experiment, prompted by claims GPT-5 solved a convex optimization problem, revealed the AI made critical errors requiring constant human correction. GPT-5 overlooked an essential covariance property easily deducible from provided documents. The researchers compared the exper Read more âș
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Kevin Barry, the founder and original developer of Nova Launcher is stepping away from the forever-loved Android launcher app. Why they are stepping away is an important question and goes back to Nova Launcherâs acquisition by Branch back in 2022. Originally, not much was supposed to change for Nova Launcher. We assumed Branchâs services would ⊠Continued Read the original post: Nova Launcher Founder Asked to Step Away, Cease Open... Read more âș
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Monday marks three years since Queen Elizabeth II's death. Both Prince William and Prince Harry honored her on the anniversary in the UK â separately. Read more âș
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The tagline for Apple's special event tomorrow is "Awe dropping," and the iPhone 17 Pro's battery life might live up to the hype. As we recently reported, alleged battery capacities for all of the iPhone 17 models have surfaced in a Chinese regulatory database. The alleged capacity for the iPhone 17 Pro is particularly impressive, and it is worth discussing in more detail. The smaller iPhone 17 Pro model with... Read more âș
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The end of Nova Launcher marks the close of an era â one where tinkering was king. Read more âș
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Running Silksong on Android was even easier than I thought. Read more âș
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My seatmate on a recent flight was a 95-year-old who had just visited Paris alone. Now my pen pal, she's taught me about solo travel and connection. Read more âș
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Ookla, the network intelligence company known for its Speedtest tool, today published the results of its second iPhone 16e cellular speed test. In short, Ookla found that the iPhone 16e with Apple's custom-designed C1 modem "performs similarly" to the standard iPhone 16 with Qualcomm's Snapdragon X71 modem in the "vast majority of markets" that it examined. However, results sometimes varied considerably based on carrier and country. Ookla said the median... Read more âș
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Apple is preparing to launch two versions of the AirPods Pro 3 over 2025 and 2026, according to a Weibo leaker. Yesterday, supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reported that Apple is planning to debut the âAirPods Pro 3â this year. They could arrive as soon as this week at Apple's "Awe dropping" event. Crucially, Kuo added that Apple is planning to introduce a successor to this year's AirPods Pro in... Read more âș
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Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi also said Ukrainian "deep strike" weapons hit 60 targets inside Russia last month. Read more âș
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Office chairs and gaming chairs often tout lumbar support as a must-have feature. I spoke to some experts to see if it's as essential as claimed. Read more âș
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Before we get to todayâs main item, please check out my colleague Sriâs exclusive piece from Friday night revealing that OpenAI expects to burn $115 billion in cash through 2029, plus tons of other financial data the company has disclosed to investors. We are still having a hard time digesting the capital that cash burn will require the company to raise in the next five years! We will bring you... Read more âș
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After years of unofficial copies of Microsoftâs 6502 BASIC floating around on the internet, the software giant has released the code under an open-source license. 6502 BASIC was one of Microsoftâs first pieces of software, adapted in 1976 by Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates and early employee Ric Weiland to run on the 6502 CPU that [âŠ] Read more âș
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In whatâs potentially the first major payout to creatives whose work was used to train AI systems, Anthropic has reached an agreement to pay âat leastâ a staggering $1.5 billion, plus interest, to authors to settle its class-action lawsuit. The amount breaks down to smaller payouts expected to be approximately $3,000 per book or work. Lawyers [âŠ] Read more âș
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If you wanted a sense of the current relationship between the tech right and the populists, you had to be sitting in Breakout Room C on the first day of NatCon 5, the annual gathering of the MAGA right's powerhouses. At the end of the afternoon panel on the culture wars ("The Need for Heroism"), [âŠ] Read more âș
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Itâs the first handheld outside of Asus thatâs confirmed to get the the new Xbox full-screen experience. Lenovo spokesperson Jeff Witt tells me buyers will be able to manually switch the handheld to Xbox FSE after itâs ready in the spring 2026 time frame. Asus will get it far sooner on October 16th when it [âŠ] Read more âș
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Eight years after breaking every record with an $800, 7,541-piece Star Wars Millennium Falcon, the Lego Group is introducing its first $1,000 set. Itâs an intricately detailed Death Star nearly two feet tall (52.3cm), a foot and a half wide (48cm) and over a foot (38.3cm) deep, with enough compartments to re-enact nearly every iconic [âŠ] Read more âș
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Several of the most powerful business leaders in the country gathered around a table last night to fawn over President Donald Trump for his AI policies. âYou and your policies are really helping a lot,â Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told the president. AMD CEO Lisa Su praised âthe amount of acceleration that weâve seen just [âŠ] Read more âș
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It only took three years, but Bluetti is following EcoFlowâs lead with a fully integrated power system of its own to make vanlifers, off-grid cabins, and boats energy independent. The RVSolar Systemâs main advantage over bespoke systems is a relatively quick and easy installation, requiring just â30 minutes,â according to Bluettiâs announcement at IFA 2025. While [âŠ] Read more âș
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Anthropic, the AI startup behind Claude and one of OpenAIâs chief competitors, emerged from the holiday weekend with big news: A completed funding round of $13 billion, awarding the company a $183 billion post-money valuation. The company said in a press release that between the start of 2025 and August â less than nine months â [âŠ] Read more âș
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Baseus has announced a new accessory that can wirelessly charge a Qi2-compatible smartphone directly on an outlet, making it useful as a hands-free wall mount. Itâs reminiscent of a similar wireless charger that Zens released last year, but Baseusâ new EnerGeek GT01 has additional functionality, including a 10,000mAh battery that can be separated from the [âŠ] Read more âș
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Bluettiâs at IFA 2025 with the worldâs first portable power station built around a sodium-ion battery, and a second, slim unit designed to mount next to the fridge to keep it running during a blackout. The Pioneer Na (get it? Na = sodium) is covered in AC and USB jacks and delivers up to 1,500W [âŠ] Read more âș
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