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As promised, Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 SoC as its flagship chip at the ongoing Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii. It's a successor to last year's Snapdragon 8 Elite and is touted as the "world's fastest mobile system-on-a-chip" by Qualcomm.
The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 (SM8850-AC) is built on a 3nm process and comes with the third-gen Oryon CPU, which boosts CPU performance by 20% compared to its predecessor. CPU power efficiency has also been improved by 35%.
The Snapdragon 8 Elit
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Apple is urging European regulators to scrap the Digital Markets Act (DMA), claiming it has created security vulnerabilities and damaged the user experience, not to mention caused at least three of its product features to be postponed or delayed indefinitely. In a statement posted to its website, Apple says EU users now face exposure to malware through mandatory third-party app stores, with pornography and gambling apps appearing on iPhones for... Read more ›
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Trump has three priorities for the US economy: lower immigration, lower prices, more manufacturing. Experts say you can't have all three at once. Read more ›
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A Nielsen report reviewed by Business Insider showed that Jimmy Kimmel's return to late night reached a massive audience of 6.26 million viewers. Read more ›
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Jasmine Lee says going through two layoffs in two years felt like a quarter-life crisis. Loved ones, a therapist, and a support network helped her. Read more ›
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Steer clear of the 16 Aurora and opt instead for 16X Aurora that costs a little more, but is still fairly affordable and clearly the better value. Read more ›
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A group of shareholders is asking Disney to disclose communication related to Jimmy Kimmel's brief suspension after Disney shares dipped. Read more ›
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Trump's H-1B executive order heightens talent pressures and could accelerate offshoring at major consulting firms like Deloitte, EY, and Accenture. Read more ›
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Jimmy Kimmel has responded to President Donald Trump's comments about the late night host's return to air after ABC's suspension. Read more ›
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Playground Games is launching the next instalment in the Forza Horizon franchise next year, and this time it’s set in Japan. While I was expecting Forza Horizon 6 to be announced during the Xbox Tokyo Game Show stream later today, the official Forza Horizon Instagram account revealed the news early in a teaser trailer this […] Read more ›
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Caltech scientists have built a record-breaking array of 6,100 neutral-atom qubits, a critical step toward powerful error-corrected quantum computers. The qubits maintained long-lasting superposition and exceptional accuracy, even while being moved within the array. This balance of scale and stability points toward the next milestone: linking qubits through entanglement to unlock true quantum computation. Read more ›
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America's political divide is a problem for businesses. Jimmy Kimmel's spar with the FCC revealed a line no one wants companies to cross. Read more ›
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The next grand open-world setting for the next Forza Horizon game will be Japan, Microsoft has accidentally announced, and it will be released in 2026. Read more Read more ›
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Jimmy Kimmel's monologue from last night has more than 13 million YouTube views, his most-watched video this year. Nielsen ratings are still pending. Read more ›
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Intel is reportedly in early talks with Apple about a potential investment and closer collaboration. Read more ›
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Qualcomm has unveiled its new Snapdragon X Series chips for laptops, in addition to its new system-on-a-chip for flagship phones. The Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme chip meant for "ultra-premium" Windows 11 laptops are designed to handle "complex, expert-level workloads" and to enable fast AI processing, as well as a multi-day battery life. Meanwhile, the Snapdragon X2 Elite chips come in two variants, one with 18 total cores and one with... Read more ›
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Doctors report the first successful treatment for Huntington's disease using a new type of gene therapy given during 12 to 18 hours of delicate brain surgery. The BBC reports: An emotional research team became tearful as they described how data shows the disease was slowed by 75% in patients. It means the decline you would normally expect in one year would take four years after treatment, giving patients decades of... Read more ›
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BTS's Jin, Seventeen's Joshua Hong, and Stray Kids' Bang Chan were some of the stars who attended Milan fashion week. Read more ›
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A new Senate report claims DOGE put every American's Social Security number at risk—and that officials at federal agencies essentially obstructed an investigation, all but denying DOGE even exists. Read more ›
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It is impossible, I think, to grasp the terrible consequences of Charlie Kirk’s death without understanding who he was in life. Liberals had a dim view of that track record — focusing on his often-offensive radio broadcasts and contributions to Trump’s authoritarian project (like sending seven buses to the January 6 protest). However, to conservatives, he […] Read more ›
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Just a day after it leaked in a premature store listing, Samsung has officially unveiled its Galaxy A17 4G. The device is now available in Germany with a starting price of €199 for the 6/128GB trim, which is €30 less than the base Galaxy A17 5G. The specs between the two phones are nearly identical, with the only difference being the A17 4G’s Helio G99 chipset replacing the Exynos 1330... Read more ›
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The vivo X300 and X300 Pro are set to launch in China on October 13. vivo has also revealed the design, key specs, and color options of both phones. Now, vivo has confirmed that both X300 and X300 Pro will be compatible with the vivo Zeiss 2.35x telephoto teleconverter kit that was unveiled alongside the vivo X200 Ultra. The telephoto teleconverter kit is said to enhance the zoom capabilities of... Read more ›
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Vivo has been teasing the camera upgrades that are coming to the X300 series, which will be unveiled on October 13. The latest teaser is a series of photos taken at the Changchun Air Show, which show off the zoom capabilities of the vivo X300 Pro. Here are some photos shot with the main camera – it has a 24mm lens and an f/1.57 aperture. vivo X300 Pro camera samples:... Read more ›
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MediaTek has announced its newest flagship chipset, the Dimensity 9500. The company claims it sets a new standard in on-device AI, gaming, and power efficiency. The Dimensity 9500 uses the new generation Arm CPU cores with an 'All Big Core' design. It uses a single Arm C1-Ultra core clocked at 4.21GHz, three C1-Premium cores, and four C1-Pro cores for an octa-core design. MediaTek claims this chip has 32% higher single-core... Read more ›
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The Apple iPhone Air and the iPhone 17 series, which were unveiled last week and were up for pre-orders in over 63 countries, are now available for purchase through Apple's online and offline stores, as well as third-party resellers. [#InlinePriceWidget,14050,1#] The list of countries where the new iPhones are on sale includes Australia, Canada, China, Colombia, France, Germany, India, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, Turkey, the UAE, the... Read more ›
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Nothing has released the Nothing OS V3.5-250911-2112 update for the Nothing Phone (3), which comes with some camera improvements, battery optimization, and bug fixes. For starters, the camera clarity for third-party apps has been improved, and so is the Action Mode to reduce noise grains. The AI SuperRes Zoom algorithm has also been updated to improve the sharpness of texts, while adjusting the exposure using the manual slider is now... Read more ›
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The newly announced Nothing Ear (3) are here, and we’re ready to take you through an unboxing and our first impressions. These are the London-based brand’s latest flagship wireless in-ear buds, and they come in the familiar minimalist box which houses a short USB-C cable for charging and three sets of replacement ear tips in S, M and L sizes. While they may look like last year’s Nothing Ear from... Read more ›
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The Redmi 15C 4G made its debut in Poland, now the 5G variant of the phone has arrived in the country – actually, not just in Poland, we also found it in France, Spain and Hungary. Xiaomi Redmi 15C 5G The Xiaomi Redmi 15C 5G mostly changes what is necessary to go 5G. The chipset is different, of course, the Helio G81 Ultra gives way to a Dimensity 6300. Even... Read more ›
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vivo launched the Y50 and Y50m back in July, and today they're joined by a third member of the family, the Y50i. It comes with a 6.74-inch flat LCD screen with 720x1600 resolution, 90Hz refresh rate, 180Hz touch sampling rate, and 1,000-nit peak brightness. The phone is powered by MediaTek's Dimensity 6300 SoC, paired with 6GB of LPDDR4X RAM and 128GB of eMMC 5.1 storage. vivo Y50i official images showing... Read more ›
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Apple opens a new chapter with the launch of its new iPhones – it introduces the slender Air and significantly buffs the base iPhone. But how is the iPhone 17 Pro doing? It has major changes on the surface and below that too, join us as we experience them first hand. [#InlinePriceWidget, 14049, 1#] We will talk about the design in a minute, first we have to address the materials.... Read more ›
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