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Samsung launched the Galaxy XR headset back in October, and today the repairability experts over at iFixit have taken one apart, revealing its innards for us all to see in the video embedded below.
The Galaxy XR is lighter than Apple's Vision Pro, and has magnetic face cushions and light seals. The headset's entry point is from the front, so the plastic shell needs to be removed first.
Interestingly, there's a "Void if tampered" sticker inside the Galaxy XR, and such messages are illegal in the US
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A few days ago, Li Jie, President of OnePlus China, confirmed that the brand is working on a new lineup called Turbo. This was rumored before, and according to Li, the first device in the line would "inherit the powerful performance genes" of OnePlus flagships while also boasting the strongest battery life in its class. If you've been wondering what exactly to expect from the Turbo in terms of battery... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Search Engine Land: Google said today that it is suing SerpApi, accusing the company of bypassing security protections to scrape, harvest, and resell copyrighted content from Google Search results. The allegations: Google said SerpApi: -Circumvented Google's security measures and industry-standard crawling controls. -Ignored website directives that specify whether content can be accessed. -Used cloaking, rotating bot identities, and large bot networks to scrape... Read more ›
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Google is once again part of Movies Anywhere, meaning that movies you've purchased from Google Play and YouTube will now show up as part of your Movies Anywhere collection. Films from Google Play and YouTube became unavailable on Movies Anywhere on October 31st, but now they should sync to your account again. "Support for Google […] Read more ›
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The Kennedy Center added Donald Trump's name to its facade on Friday. Here's a look back at how it came to be and how it has changed under Trump. Read more ›
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Here are hints and the answers for the NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle for Dec. 20, No. 453. Read more ›
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Elon Musk is entitled to his $55.8-billion Tesla pay package from 2018, Delaware's Supreme Court ruled, overturning a 2024 decision. Read more ›
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Airbus is preparing to tender a major contract to move mission-critical systems like ERP, manufacturing, and aircraft design data onto a digitally sovereign European cloud, citing national security concerns and fears around U.S. extraterritorial laws like the CLOUD Act. "I need a sovereign cloud because part of the information is extremely sensitive from a national and European perspective," Catherine Jestin, Airbus's executive vice president of digital, told The Register. "We... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: At this point, most competitive online multiplayer games on the PC come with some kind of kernel-level anti-cheat software. As we've written before, this is software that runs with more elevated privileges than most other apps and games you run on your PC, allowing it to load in earlier and detect advanced methods of cheating. More recently, anti-cheat software has started... Read more ›
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Forced by an act of Congress, the Justice Department has released “hundreds of thousands” of pages of documents related to Epstein—but not everything, as is required by law. Read more ›
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Taiwan's government is considering imposing N+2 export rule on TSMC's advanced process technologies, which would make it significantly harder for the foundry to develop overseas. Read more ›
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Google has filed a lawsuit against SerpApi, a company that offers tools to scrape content on the web, including Google's search results. SerpApi is accused of violating the Copyright Act by using "deceptive means" to automatically access and take Google's search results "at an astonishing scale" before selling the data to customers. Reddit also sued […] Read more ›
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In her new docuseries, "The End of an Era," Taylor Swift talks about the beginning of her relationship with Travis Kelce and dating athletes. Read more ›
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Jared Isaacman has poured fuel on the new space race between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, saying NASA will pick whichever lunar lander is ready first. Read more ›
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Google isn't ready to replace Assistant with Gemini on Android devices just yet. The company said on Friday that it will "continue our work to upgrade Assistant users to Gemini on mobile devices into 2026," instead of its original plans to make the switch by the end of 2025. "We're adjusting our previously announced timeline […] Read more ›
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President Trump signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2026 Thursday with measures that further the bipartisan push for next-generation nuclear power plants. The Trump administration has embraced the technology as a new energy source for data centers demanding greater amounts of electricity for AI. Many Democrats, meanwhile, have championed smaller and […] Read more ›
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TikTok employees working for the company’s U.S. Data Security division will be moved under a U.S. joint venture ownership company in January and will no longer be able to receive Restricted Stock Units from TikTik’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, staff were told on Friday. The U.S. Data ... Read more ›
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Microsoft's latest holiday ad for its Copilot AI assistant features a 30-second montage of users seamlessly syncing smart home lights to music, scaling recipes for large gatherings, and parsing HOA guidelines -- none of which the software can actually perform reliably when put to the test. The Verge methodically tested each prompt shown in the ad and found that Copilot repeatedly hallucinated interface elements that didn't exist, claimed to highlight... Read more ›
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Honor has officially confirmed that its new Win series of smartphones will debut in China later this month, but hasn’t revealed an exact launch date. The lineup is being positioned as a gaming-focused series. The Honor Win series is now open for pre-orders in China. A newly released teaser also offers a glimpse of the rear design, revealing a large rectangular camera module with an illuminated “Win” logo at one... Read more ›
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The Redmi Note 15 Pro+, unveiled a few months ago in China, made its international debut today. However, the international model doesn't share all the specs with its Chinese counterpart. For starters, the Chinese Redmi Note 15 Pro+ came with a 50MP primary camera, but the international Redmi Note 15 Pro+ features a 200MP HPE primary camera with 2x and 4x in-sensor zoom. Its camera lens also supports five focal... Read more ›
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The answer to the question “what charger should I use for my phone?” used to be simple – the right charger came in the box. That hasn’t been true for a while now, at least not for most phones in most regions. Now you are expected to go out and buy your own charger. But which one? The main problem is that the U in USB is a lie –... Read more ›
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PayPal now wants to become a bank in the US. The company has submitted the required applications to the Utah Department of Financial Institutions and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to establish PayPal Bank, which would be a Utah-based chartered industrial loan company. PayPal says this would strengthen its business and improve its efficiency, enabling it to "better support small business growth and economic opportunities across the US". Aside from... Read more ›
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The Honor Win and Honor Win RT are getting official on December 26, and ahead of that today the brand has confirmed some of the specs we should expect. This comes after it unveiled their design yesterday. The Honor Win is confirmed to come with 1272x2800 resolution, 16GB of LPDDR5X RAM, and a 10,000 mAh battery. At the same time, the prolific Chinese leaker who goes by Digital Chat Station... Read more ›
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After confirming that the Honor Win series will debut in China this month, the company has now set an official launch date. Honor has also shared the complete design of both models. Honor will unveil the Win and Win RT gaming-focused phones in China on December 26. Both smartphones are already available for pre-order via Honor’s online store in the country. Honor Win and Win RT in Black The company... Read more ›
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The Honor Magic8 Pro was first unveiled in China in mid-October, and then it went global in Malaysia towards the end of November. Now it seems to be almost ready to make its debut in the EU. The Magic8 Pro will go up for pre-order on January 15 in Bulgaria for €1,099. After the pre-order period, starting on January 29, when the device is presumably becoming available, the price will... Read more ›
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After launching the Galaxy A07 4G in August, Samsung is now gearing up to introduce the Galaxy A07 5G. The upcoming 5G variant has now surfaced on Geekbench, revealing some of its key specifications. The phone is listed on Geekbench with the model number SM-A076B, which is said to belong to the Galaxy A07 5G. It is seen to be running Android 16 and has 4GB of RAM. As per... Read more ›
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Rumors about the Xiaomi 17 Ultra’s launch point to an early announcement on December 26, and well-known tipster Digital Chat Station has now leaked all of the devices that are expected to launch alongside Xiaomi’s top-tier flagship. As per the latest rumor, Xiaomi will announce its Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5- powered Xiaomi 17 Ultra alongside two Redmi midrange offerings, which are most likely the Redmi Turbo 5 and Turbo... Read more ›
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An intriguing new rumor today confirms that there will be an iPhone Air 2 (even though it may only arrive in spring 2027), and it will add a second camera. This was first rumored last month, and it's nice to get a 'confirmation' of sorts (as much as any rumor can count as that). While today's report doesn't mention what the second camera will be, the rumor from November did... Read more ›
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