Dictionary.com just crowned maxxing its 2026 word of the year. Here’s what the word means and how it went from gaming slang to everyday talk.

Samsung faces a $15.1 million fine over gaming claims tied to the Galaxy S21 and S22, reviving a four-year throttling controversy that lawsuits had seemingly put to rest without consumer damages.

A new iPhone 18e leak points to a 2nm A20 chip and a possible 24MP selfie camera, but buyers hoping for smoother scrolling could face another year with a 60Hz display.

BYD’s third-gen Qin Plus DM-i starts at just $11,980, offers up to 137 miles of electric range, and can cover over 1,400 miles with a full tank and battery.

Google Photos is rolling out a redesigned Collections tab on Android, letting users pin favourite folders, hide sections and rearrange categories with version 7.97.

Sleeptite and RMIT University have secured a US patent for flexible sensors built into mattress protectors, designed to monitor body position and help caregivers identify potential fall risks.

Baseus has launched a $69.99 4K window security camera that monitors outdoors through glass without requiring any drilling.

Ollama now lets Mac users turn text into natural-sounding speech locally with Phonon, a family of small text-to-speech models from Gradium. No subscription required.

A new open-source project called nxnative lets you play your Nintendo Switch games natively on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and some titles even run at 60 FPS.

Think deleting an AI chat erases everything? Georgia Tech researchers developed a forensic tool that can recover deleted conversations from local AI apps and rebuild the information into a working session.

Canva is bringing the redesigned Affinity app to iPad with Apple Pencil support, RAW editing, vector tools, and professional page layout.

Two touchscreen MacBook Pro models are likely, but the price and the unchanged chip might disappoint a few buyers.

Food delivery robots from Coco Robotics and Serve Robotics face lawsuits alleging they collected facial and hand measurements without consent, raising questions about biometric privacy and public surveillance.

T-Mobile is replacing Experience 2.0 with T-Mix, a lineup starting at $55 per month that lets customers spend Picks on streaming subscriptions, gaming, satellite service, and more.

OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Terra can match Astra on Agents’ Last Exam while running more than three times faster and costing one-tenth as much per token.

The HUAWEI Watch GT 7 Pro review covers design, display, fitness tracking, GPS navigation, battery life, iPhone compatibility, and key drawbacks.

ASUS has begun selling its UGen Intel Arc Pro B70 graphics card in parts of Europe for €1,799. The 32GB workstation GPU targets local AI inference and professional workloads.

Instagram is testing Features, a new format for horizontal videos up to 90 minutes. The feature lets creators link short Reels to full-length podcasts, comedy videos, and other content.

Apple has assured that not all units of the iPhone Duo are affected by display flaws. For customers who have one, the company is asking them to get a replacement unit.

A cybersecurity startup managed to uncover weaknesses in Anthropic's internal systems using AI agents. The company says its core AI technology and customer conversations remained secure, but the findings raise bigger questions about how AI companies protect sensitive information.

Anthropic’s IPO filing warns that increasingly capable AI systems could behave autonomously, enable cyberattacks, and create catastrophic or even existential risks.

The new iPad mini gets Apple’s A20 Pro across the lineup, but the 128GB and 256GB models use a binned 5-core CPU. You need the $999 512GB model for the full 6-core chip.

Apple’s new iPad mini ditches speaker holes, adds an OLED screen and IP67 resistance, but battery life remains a question.

Apple once made life difficult for independent repairers. Now, it’s publishing iPhone Duo repair manuals on launch day.

Anthropic's Claude independently bypassed a paywall to access Georgia's aggregate vote counts, adding to growing concerns about AI agents taking unauthorized actions without human oversight.

Grok Imagine’s first Odyssey episode can conjure ancient landscapes, but its interchangeable faces and robotic performances expose what AI filmmaking still can’t fake.