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OnePlus has already confirmed that it's working on an entirely new range of smartphones that will be called Turbo. According to recent leaks, the brand will launch two devices initially, and one of those may have just been spotted in the Geekbench online database with the model number PLU110.
It's powered by the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 SoC, paired with 16GB of RAM. It runs Android 16. Based on past rumors, it should come with a screen with "1.5K" resolution and 165Hz refresh rate, as well as a gigantic 9,000
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YouTube TV cancellations spiked to the highest level in a year during the Disney blackout. Its rivals also saw surges, however. Read more ›
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In the name of music preservation, pirate group Anna's Archive has scraped 300 TB of data from Spotify's library, representing around 37% of all songs but 99.9% of all listens. It's essentially everything on Spotify packaged into torrents to be distributed illegally, analogous to how the group has made books available for free. Read more ›
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A group of activists has scraped Spotify's entire library, accessing 256 million rows of track metadata and 86 million audio files totaling roughly 300TB of data. The metadata has been released via Anna's Archive, a search engine for "shadow libraries" that previously focused on books. Spotify described the activists as "anti-copyright extremists who've previously pirated content from YouTube and other platforms" and confirmed it is actively investigating the incident. The... Read more ›
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Along with his genre roles in films like 'It: Chapter Two,' James Ransone was best remembered as Ziggy from 'The Wire.' Read more ›
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Nick Woolsey spent his 20s living in Japan. He figured it would be easier to raise his children back in the States, but now he's returning to Japan. Read more ›
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An analysis of the expansion of cracks in the Thwaites Glacier over the past 20 years suggests that a total collapse could be only a matter of time. Read more ›
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Michael Burry of "The Big Short" fame said the US needs to shift away from "power-hungry" chips, but Nvidia has a "death grip" on the sector. Read more ›
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Beverly Hills High School has deployed an AI-powered surveillance apparatus that includes facial recognition cameras, behavioral analysis software, smoke detector-shaped bathroom listening devices from Motorola, drones, and license plate readers from Flock Safety -- a setup the district spent $4.8 million on in the 2024-2025 fiscal year and considers necessary given the school's high-profile location in Los Angeles. Similar systems are spreading to campuses nationwide as schools try to stop... Read more ›
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Paramount and Netflix's bidding war for WBD heats up as Paramount revises its offer with a $40.4 billion guarantee from Larry Ellison. Read more ›
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Paramount Skydance isn't giving up on obtaining Warner Bros. Discovery just yet. The company has amended its $108 billion offer to include Larry Ellison's "irrevocable personal guarantee" equaling $40.4 billion. Ellison is the founder or Oracle and a backer of Skydance, created by his son David Ellison, Paramount Skydance's CEO. On December 17, WBD formally recommended shareholders reject Paramount's offer. WBD had already accepted an $82.7 billion offer from Netflix,... Read more ›
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These days when you want to engage with some media, you can choose from podcasts, videos, games, live performances - or books, one of the oldest and most popular ways to learn something new or escape (at least temporarily) from today's troubled world. We polled the staff of The Verge to find out what books […] Read more ›
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Taiwan has big plans for making more drones, but there are industry and economic hurdles to overcome, including getting more big businesses involved. Read more ›
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Yoshua Bengio, known as one of the "AI godfathers," said that while more jobs will be automated by AI, human qualities like love will always be valuable. Read more ›
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Apple is significantly increasing its reliance on Samsung for iPhone memory as component prices surge, according to The Korea Economic Daily. Apple is said to be expanding the share of iPhone memory it sources from Samsung due to rapidly rising memory prices. The shift is expected to result in Samsung supplying roughly 60% to 70% of the low-power DRAM used in the iPhone 17, compared with a more even split... Read more ›
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A Dell sales leader has told teams in three key offices to be in the office eight hours a day. Read more ›
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While we wait for the Reno15 and Reno15 Pro (and/or Reno15 Pro Max and/or Reno15 Pro Mini) to make the journey to Europe, a bunch of retailers on the continent have now listed the Reno15 FS 5G, and it seems to be ready to order even though it's not yet in stock. It's priced at €459.90 and here's what you get for that amount of money. The phone has a... Read more ›
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Trump is touting tariff revenues and a shrinking trade deficit as his economic accomplishments ahead or midterms, but economists say it's complicated. Read more ›
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2025 is just about in the books, and the reviews are in: It sucked. Over at the subreddit r/decadeology, you can check out a long, long thread of redditors submitting reasons why 2025 was, in the words of the first post, “a long, disappointing year.” War in Gaza, vibecessions, chaos in the White House, growing […] Read more ›
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New research suggests that using a touchscreen when behind the wheel makes you a pretty terrible driver. Read more ›
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Apple's long-rumored foldable iPhone is set to arrive next year, and already faces some preemptive competition from Samsung. Korea's ET News reports that Samsung's upcoming "Wide Fold" is also set to launch in 2026, and will closely mirror the display size and 4:3 aspect ratio of Apple's first foldable. The machine-translated report says the Wide […] 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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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 Redmi Note 15 5G became official for markets outside of China yesterday, but it apparently still has a way to go until it reaches India. Following up on its very extensive teaser campaign for the device, today Redmi's arm in India has finally revealed when the Note 15 5G is landing over there: on January 6. Perfection in every curve and detail.Presenting the #REDMINote15 5G in its full glory,... 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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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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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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Honor’s Magic V5 was one of the premier foldables of the past year, and we now have some preliminary specs for its successor – the Magic V6. Tipster Digital Chat Station revealed some key spec for the upcoming foldable, which is expected to launch in China by mid-2026. Magic V6 will unsurprisingly feature Qualcomm’s top-tier Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset alongside some pretty sizeable battery gains. According to DCS,... Read more ›
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