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Credit: Bloomberg/Getty Images TrendForce, a tech industry analysis firm, reports that the bill of materials for Apple's 256GB iPhone 18 Pro is expected to rise by about 38% year over year, making the phone's manufacturing nearly 1.4 times as expensive as that of the
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For the 14th time, a Google product has hit 1 billion users. Google CEO Sundar Pichai posted on X that a billion people are using Gemini every month, and that Gemini is Google’s fastest-growing product ever. A billion users is a huge milestone, but Google isn’t the first
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In Brief 12:38 PM PDT · August 11, 2026 The FBI is warning that cybercriminals are hacking into the social media accounts of adults and children to steal their intimate explicit images and videos. The perpetrators rely largely on social engineering tactics to target people, the alert said, and victims
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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In addition to a historic total solar eclipse, August also features one of the most spectacular meteor showers of the year. On the night of August 12 and into the early morning of August 13, astronomy enthusiasts in the northern hemisphere and parts of the southern hemisphere will be able
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In Brief 12:15 PM PDT · August 11, 2026 ChatGPT is on desktops across the world, but there’s been one place where it’s been lacking: the Linux community. Certain sectors of the open source developer community have been clamoring for OpenAI to bring its chatbot to their neck
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Windows 11's built-in weather app has been found to use well over 1GB of RAM in some tests. That's roughly 5 times the memory required by the macOS weather app, which uses about 246.7MB. Windows Latest's Abhijith M.B. encountered the surprising RAM
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Jay Peters is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Meta has launched a Threads app for Meta Quest VR headsets, the company announced on Tuesday. The launch follows Meta bringing the app to its Ray-Ban Display
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. WTF in Space: Reflect Orbital proposed a bold plan to launch a large number of "space mirrors" into Earth's orbit and surprisingly enough, the FCC gave the idea the green
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If you're a PC gamer, you'd better pray to whatever divine being or beings you believe in that your current graphics card doesn't give up the ghost. While there are still graphics cards on the market to buy, pricing for current-generation NVIDIA GPUs has
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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11:49 AM PDT · August 11, 2026 In a significant milestone for Google, CEO Sundar Pichai announced via X that the Gemini app has become one of the company’s fastest-growing products, recently surpassing 1 billion monthly active users. Pichai also noted it was the 14th Google product to hit
