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Samsung is expected to launch its Galaxy S26 series in February and rumors suggest we will see the return of the Exynos chipset in most regions. The S26 and S26+ will be equipped with Exynos 2600 in markets like Korea and Europe, while North America will get the Snapdragon 8 Gen Elite 5 chip instead. The S26 Ultra will reportedly get the Snapdragon chip in all regions.
According to a new report from South Korea’s ChosunBiz based on industry sources, Samsung Electronics’ System LSI and Samsung Electronics
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The AFL-CIO, which represents some 15 million workers across the US, is backing a planned Minnesota economic blackout to protest ICE. Read more ›
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President Donald Trump threatens tariffs on Denmark and other European nations over Greenland annexation, citing national security concerns. Read more ›
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AMD’s 2026 PC strategy focuses on incremental CPU updates, price-to-performance GPUs, and cautious AI upscaling. Read more ›
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Visits to the US by international travelers declined for the eighth straight month in December, in a continued blow to the tourism industry. Read more ›
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=[ "More than half of all cryptocurrencies ever launched are now defunct," reports CoinDesk, citing a new analysis by cryptocurrency data aggregator CoinGecko. And most of those failures occurred in 2025: The study looked at token listings on GeckoTerminal between mid-2021 and the end of 2025. Of the nearly 20.2 million tokens that entered the market during that period, 53.2% are no longer actively traded. A staggering 11.6 million of... Read more ›
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Actor Matt Damon said Netflix wants action movies to reiterate plot lines multiple times because people are on their phones while watching a movie. Read more ›
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Watch Australian Open for free. Live stream Yuan vs. Swiatek in the 2026 Australian Open online for free from anywhere in the world. Read more ›
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Since the United States announced it would “run” Venezuela and captured President Nicolás Maduro, the Trump administration has openly floated similar interventions elsewhere in Latin America. But the country Donald Trump has fixated on most isn’t an adversary — it’s an ally. Greenland, a NATO member and longtime partner of the United States has repeatedly […] Read more ›
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See the Moon phase expected for January 18, 2025 as well as when the next Full Moon is expected. Read more ›
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Increasing DDR5 prices are leading buyers to buy "ancient" desktop platforms going as far back as the DDR3 era. YouTuber discovers 4790K powered system with an RTX 2060 Super and $40 worth of 32GB DDR3 memory can run games modern AAA games at 60FPS. Read more ›
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Watch Australian Open for free. Live stream Berrettini vs. de Minaur in the 2026 Australian Open online for free from anywhere in the world. Read more ›
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"Share a Disney quote that sums up how you're feeling right now!" That's what Disney posted on Threads the other day, and people immediately replied with lines from Star Wars, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and even Mary Poppins. The throughline between all the quotes: they were pretty pointedly anti-fascist and clearly aimed at the […] Read more ›
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We now have some idea of what's at stake in the longstanding feud between Elon Musk and OpenAI. As first reported by Bloomberg, the latest filing, as part of a lawsuit that accuses the AI giant of abandoning its non-profit status, claims that Musk is owed anywhere between $79 billion and $134 billion in damages from the "wrongful gains" of OpenAI and Microsoft. Musk claimed in the filing that he's... Read more ›
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Turns out people might like to circumvent centralized financial infrastructure in times of political upheaval. Read more ›
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I began choosing grocery cashiers over self-checkout and was surprised by how much small human interactions helped combat loneliness. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post: The U.S. Department of Transportation brought an automated bus to D.C. this week to showcase its work on self-driving vehicles, taking officials from around the country on a ride between agency headquarters at Navy Yard and Union Station. One of those trips was interrupted Sunday when the bus got rear-ended. The bus, produced by the company Beep, was following its... Read more ›
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As 2026 begins, MIT Technology Review publishes "educated guesses" on emerging technologies that will define the future, advances "we think will drive progress or incite the most change — for better or worse — in the years ahead." This year's list includes next-gen nuclear, gene-editing drugs (as well as the "resurrection" of ancient genes from extinct creatures), and three AI-related developments: AI companions, AI coding tools, and "mechanistic interpretability" for... Read more ›
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AMD will try to keep graphics card prices as low as possible for gamers during the DRAM shortage. Read more ›
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As rumored already, Apple has picked Google's Gemini to power its upcoming revamped Siri. This is a multi-year partnership which "will lean on Google's Gemini models and cloud technology for future Apple foundational models", according to a statement obtained by CNBC. Here's what Apple says: After careful evaluation, we determined that Google’s technology provides the most capable foundation for Apple Foundation Models and we’re excited about the innovative new experiences... Read more ›
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They took their sweet, sweet time, but the Redmi Note 15 series phones have finally arrived in Europe. The series made its debut in China with slightly different specs, then launched in India. The global launch originally happened in mid-December, so we’ve been waiting for a while. The five new models are finally available. And yes, it’s five models as Xiaomi continues building 4G versions for the Pro and vanilla... Read more ›
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Spotify is raising the price for its Premium subscription in the US again (along with Estonia and Latvia). The new fee will be $12.99 per month, up $1 from $11.99 previously. The new pricing will take hold from your billing date in February. The Duo plan is going up to $18.99 from $16.99, the Family plan will be $21.99 (previously $19.99), while the Student plan will increase from $5.99 to... Read more ›
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The original OnePlus Open came out in 2023, and it's been crickets ever since. 2024 passed with no Open 2, 2025 too, but apparently the brand was planning to finally come out with its next foldable smartphone this year. However, that's not happening anymore. The OnePlus Open 2 has been cancelled (again?). That is, of course, if we choose to believe the latest rumor on the matter, the source of... Read more ›
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The OnePlus 13T launched last April and now the company is rumored to be working on its successor, the 15T. Today more details about it have been leaked courtesy of Digital Chat Station on Weibo. According to him, the phone weighs 194g and will be offered in Relaxing Matcha, Healing White Chocolate, and Pure Cocoa (all names are machine translated from Chinese, keep in mind), in the following five RAM/storage... Read more ›
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been the buzzword for the past few years, and many businesses have tried to cash in on that trend. This has led tech companies to increase their investments in infrastructure upgrades to keep up with demand. While Apple was slow to jump on the AI bandwagon, it's now reported to be starting mass production of its own AI server chip this year. The word comes from... Read more ›
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It was nearly a year ago that the GSM Association published the RCS Universal Profile 3.0, which, among other things, includes an end-to-end encryption (E2EE) standard for messages. The previous E2EE implementation was a Google-specific thing, which is why Apple didn’t support it when it adopted RCS with iOS 18. Now that there is an industry standard, Apple is working to implement it – this will finally enable encrypted messaging... Read more ›
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Liu Zuohu, also known as Pete Lau, is the co-founder and CEO of OnePlus, and he has led the brand since its inception in 2013. While we haven’t heard much from the exec in the last few months, he is now facing arrest charges by Taiwanese prosecutors. The reason? Illegal hiring practices in Taiwan. Taiwan’s Shilin District Prosecutors' Office issued an official document on Tuesday indicting two Taiwanese citizens for... Read more ›
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The Motorola Moto G Power (2026) launched just last week – it’s a $300 phone with an IP69 rating and a MIL-STD-810H compliant design. It has a 6.8” LCD and is powered by the Dimensity 6300 paired with expandable storage, plus a 5,200mAh battery with 30W wired and 15W wireless charging. If you ever need to repair the latest G Power model, you may want to consult this disassembly video... Read more ›
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The Redmi Note 15 series got its global launch around a month ago, but the phones are yet to land in Europe. That seems likely to change very soon, though. According to Xiaomi's website, the European launch is scheduled for January 15, which is the day after tomorrow. In some markets you can grab a small discount for the devices on that website (€20 or £15), which will be available... Read more ›
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