The iPhone 18e could get a shiny new chip while Apple keeps rationing smooth scrolling

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.

Phones     Paulo Vargas     4 hours ago

BYD’s $12,000 Qin Plus DM-i shows how much US buyers are overpaying for their cars

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.

Cars     Paulo Vargas     4 hours ago

Google Photos rolls out a customizable redesign of your ‘Collections’ tab

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.

Phones     Paulo Vargas     4 hours ago

Forget smartwatches; this smart bed could soon help keep you safe from being a fall risk

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.

Emerging Tech     Paulo Vargas     4 hours ago

Baseus’ new 4K security camera turns your window into a no-drill monitoring setup

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

Smart Home     Paulo Vargas     4 hours ago

Ollama brings free, local text-to-speech to your Mac with natural-sounding AI voices

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.

Computing     Paulo Vargas     4 hours ago

You can now play Zelda and Mario Kart on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac, no emulator needed

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.

Gaming     Paulo Vargas     4 hours ago

Researchers develop a new forensic tool that can recover deleted AI chats from your phone’s memory

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.

Computing     Paulo Vargas     4 hours ago

The iPad is finally getting the Affinity app creatives have been asking for

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

Tablets     Paulo Vargas     4 hours ago

Apple’s “Pro and Tell” October 28 event: Everything we expect from touchscreen MacBooks to a new iMac

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

Computing     Paulo Vargas     4 hours ago

Those cute delivery robots could be the new Flock surveillance menace

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.

Computing     Paulo Vargas     4 hours ago

T-Mobile’s new plans let you pick your own perks instead of a fixed bundle

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.

Phones     Paulo Vargas     4 hours ago

OpenAI’s new GPT-6.1 Terra model gets Astra-like results for one-tenth the price

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.

Computing     Paulo Vargas     4 hours ago

HUAWEI Watch GT 7 Pro review: I took a chance on the loud one, and it wowed me in unexpected ways

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

Wearables     Paulo Vargas     4 hours ago

ASUS is charging RTX 5090 money for Intel Arc, and your wallet may need a moment

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.

Computing     Paulo Vargas     4 hours ago

Prepare yourself for longer videos on Instagram. And oh, they’ll be in wide-screen view, too.

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.

Social Media     Paulo Vargas     4 hours ago

Apple is investigating cracked screens on the iPhone Duo and replacing broken units

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.

Phones     Paulo Vargas     4 hours ago

Anthropic’s sensitive internal data was exposed, and AI helped make it happen

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.

Emerging Tech     Paulo Vargas     4 hours ago

As Anthropic goes public, it warns of AI’s catastrophic and existential risks to humanity

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

Computing     Paulo Vargas     4 hours ago

Apple will only give you the fastest iPad mini chip if you pay $999, or more

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.

Tablets     Paulo Vargas     4 hours ago

Apple’s new iPad mini has speakers built into its screen, an A20 Pro chip, and IP67 protection

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

Tablets     Paulo Vargas     4 hours ago

Apple quietly hopes to end the gizmo right-to-repair war. The iPhone Duo is the latest specimen.

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

Phones     Paulo Vargas     4 hours ago

New report confirms Anthropic’s Claude bypassed a paywall to access Georgia vote counts

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.

Computing     Paulo Vargas     4 hours ago

Grok’s AI-generated Odyssey series is seven minutes of nothing happening beautifully

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.

Computing     Paulo Vargas     4 hours ago

OnePlus made clip-on earbuds that don’t care which ear they’re on

OnePlus’s new Buds Clip can automatically recognize which ear they’re on and route stereo audio accordingly, backed by dual drivers, Dynaudio tuning, and up to 40 hours of battery life.

Wearables     Paulo Vargas     4 hours ago

iPhone Duo is here. Let’s take a moment to appreciate the Galaxy Z Fold 8 and all the things it didn’t break

The iPhone Duo is a brave new chapter for Apple, but seeing it struggle with the fundamentals across hardware and software has me appreciating the Galaxy Z Fold 8 a lot more.

Phones     Paulo Vargas     4 hours ago

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