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Samsung this week announced the Galaxy S25, the Galaxy S25+, and the top-of-the-line Galaxy S25 Ultra. The new devices will directly compete with Apple's iPhone 16 and upcoming iPhone 17 lineup.
Similar to the iPhone 16, AI is a major focus for the S25 lineup, with Samsung touting a new "Personal Data Engine" with
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The group on X that it had cancelled around $420 million in contracts, putting it on track to reach 3% of Musk's initial cost-cutting target. Read more ›
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The automaker saw sales of its EVs drop 13% in the European Union in 2024, and is facing growing pressure as rivals launch a wave of cheaper EVs. Read more ›
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Target said Friday that it is ending multiple diversity-related programs to help the company remain "in step with the evolving external landscape." Read more ›
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The NBC News layoffs are scattered across the organization. The company is encouraging people to apply for about 12 new roles, mostly in digital. Read more ›
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The latest Star Trek movie, now streaming on Paramount+, doesn't have a lot to love. But what does work? Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Ever since Elon Musk closed his deal to buy Twitter he’s claimed the company, now called X, is in “a very dire situation from a revenue standpoint.” Now, the Wall Street Journal reports that banks are preparing a coordinated move to sell off some of the $13 billion in debt they loaned Musk to finance the deal. It mentions an email sent... Read more ›
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Brian Niccol became Starbucks' CEO in September. By the end of 2024, he'd earned nearly $100 million running the coffee giant, new filings say. Read more ›
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The Blue Ghost lander had an exciting start to its mission, bidding farewell to its home planet in style. Read more ›
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Four years after its launch, US sales of Xbox Series X/S are still trailing behind those of its predecessor, Xbox One, at the same point in the consoles' life span. Sales of PlayStation 5, however, are now firmly outpacing PlayStation 4. Read more Read more ›
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The Pentagon signaled earlier this week that Air Force C-17s could be used to fly deportation flights. That's happening now. Read more ›
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"I do think it is serious, and potentially very dangerous,” one official said. Read more ›
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Trump on Tuesday rolled back the 60-year-old Equal Employment Opportunity executive order. Here's what that means for businesses and workers. Read more ›
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The former sparkly vampire and current Batman wishes people would just get over it. Read more ›
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The new series from executive producers Mike Judge and Greg Daniels (King of the Hill) takes on big pharma, fringe theories, and magic mushrooms. Read more ›
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A former USDS employee called the repurposing of the Digital Service into DOGE an “A+ bureaucratic jiu-jitsu move.” It will give Musk and his associates access to unclassified data in every government agency. Read more ›
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Photo by Jun Sato / WireImage The release of Fantasian on Apple Arcade in 2021 was meant to be an end to the illustrious career of Hironobu Sakaguchi — but it seems like he can’t stay away. Fantasian was a return to Sakaguchi’s roots, a throwback roleplaying game from the creator of the Final Fantasy series, which added some innovative gameplay ideas and an incredibly charming world made of handcrafted... Read more ›
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Real estate on Indian Creek Island is historically expensive, but asking prices have ballooned even more after Jeff Bezos reset the market. Read more ›
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Since Donald Trump’s rise to power, some liberals have developed a bad habit of seeing secret Nazi imagery everywhere on the right. Be it Laura Ingraham allegedly sieg-heiling at the 2016 Republican National Convention, a Justice Brett Kavanaugh clerk being called a covert white supremacist in 2018 because of her resting hand position, or concerns […] Read more ›
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Apple tonight removed TikTok from the App Store in the U.S., meaning that the app can no longer be freshly installed on iPhones and iPads there. In other countries, the app remains available on the App Store and is fully functional. iPhone and iPad users in the U.S. who already installed TikTok can no longer use the app either as of tonight, as TikTok has made the app "temporarily unavailable."... Read more ›
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Well, that didn't last long. Less than a day after TikTok became temporarily unavailable in the U.S., the app is now functional again. In an in-app notice, TikTok says the app has been restored "as a result of President Trump's efforts." Last year, the U.S. passed a law that required Chinese company ByteDance to divest its ownership of TikTok due to potential national security risks, or else the social media... Read more ›
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Apple on late Saturday removed TikTok from the App Store in the U.S., and it has now explained why it was required to take this action. Last year, the U.S. passed a law that required Chinese company ByteDance to divest its ownership of TikTok due to potential national security risks, or else the platform would be banned. That law went into effect today, and companies like Apple and Google risked... Read more ›
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Apple tonight updated its beta testing app TestFlight, seemingly to block U.S. users from accessing the TikTok beta on the iPhone and other devices. The update adds this fine print to the app, according to MacRumors contributor Aaron Perris:Apple may use the IP address of your internet connection to approximate your location in order to determine whether certain beta apps that are subject to legal restrictions in some regions can... Read more ›
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A new iPhone SE is widely rumored to launch this year, and the device has potentially been confirmed today by known leaker Evan Blass. In a private social media post, Blass shared an image of what appears to be source code mentioning an iPhone SE (4th Gen), which casts doubt on the alternative "iPhone 16E" name rumored for the device. However, the name in the source code could be a... Read more ›
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Walmart still does not accept Apple Pay at its more than 4,600 stores across the U.S., and it stood firm on its reasoning for that today. A spokesperson for Walmart today informed MacRumors that its position on contactless payments has not changed since we last reached out about the matter in 2022. The big-box retailer said it remains focused on its own convenient payment technologies available in the Walmart app,... Read more ›
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Instagram has unveiled a new video editing app called Edits, which aims to fill the void left by CapCut's removal from U.S. app stores following federal restrictions on ByteDance-owned applications. The announcement came from head Adam Mosseri, explaining that Edits as a "full suite of creative tools" for mobile video creators. According to Mosseri, Edits is aimed at creators who produce short-form videos on mobile devices: Edits will have a... Read more ›
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In September, Apple said that it would be launching Powerbeats Pro 2 in 2025, and it appears the wireless earbuds are coming very soon. Powerbeats Pro 2 images found in iOS 18 code In his Power On newsletter today, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said the Powerbeats Pro 2 are "due imminently." In addition to Apple filing the Powerbeats Pro 2 in regulatory databases last month, Gurman said Apple is planning to... Read more ›
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When unveiling the new Galaxy S25 lineup today, Samsung did a "one more thing" announcement, introducing an additional Galaxy smartphone that's set to come out later this year. The Galaxy S25 Edge appears to be aimed at the iPhone 17 Air, a rumored ultra thin iPhone that's set to debut this September. The Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge will be thinner than the S25 pictured here Samsung only teased the Galaxy... Read more ›
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Apple provided developers and public beta testers with the release candidate version of iOS 18.3 today, and with it comes release notes confirming what's new. While we knew about several of the features that are in the update, there are some lesser known tweaks and bug fixes. The update adds new Visual Intelligence features for iPhone 16 models, it tweaks Notification summaries on all devices that support Apple Intelligence, and... Read more ›
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