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It’s thick, it’s heavy but I couldn't stop flipping and swivelling it. Mat Smith for Engadget Acer's most interesting announcements this week were its repairable laptop and the DualPlay Mini concept. They were two very different reveals for IFA: one a more sustainable approach
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The legal machinery for class-action settlements grinds slowly, but a court order in Apple’s $250 million case over its iPhone AI features will potentially speed things up by seven months. Apple settled a false-advertising lawsuit in May, agreeing to pay $250 million to customers who bought some iPhone models
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During Naomi Osaka’s match against Anastasia Zakharova at this year’s US Open earlier this week, a gaggle of ring light-wielding influencers who were packed in a luxury suite became enough of a distraction that the umpire paused the match and repeatedly asked them to quiet down. Elsewhere in
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Sam Altman said he was very sad about Apple’s trade-secrets lawsuit and that his first reaction was that the allegations sounded egregious, while OpenAI has moved to have the case dismissed. California voids non-compete agreements, so an employer losing engineers has to litigate afterwards rather than restrain them in
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A white paper from the Finnish charger maker Kempower argues that adding connectors raises site utilisation far more than adding power, with eight-plug sites reaching almost 10% against 2% for two-plug sites. Every AFIR target is expressed in kilowatts or kilometres rather than in numbers of connectors. A Finnish charger
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For years, tech companies have been telling us that voice will eventually supersede touchscreens as the primary way we interact with our technology, but it’s never quite happened — and I’d come to doubt whether it ever actually will. At IFA in Berlin, I saw something that made me
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If you’re shopping for a new TV, Labor Day is one of the best times to get one at a lower price. Labor Day sales are now live, and stores like Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart and Samsung have slashed prices on everything from cheap 4K sets to high-end OLED
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Labor Day weekend is here, and we’re seeing tons of amazing deals across all popular categories. It’s easily one of the biggest shopping events of the year — right up there with Black Friday and Prime Day, and 2026 is no exception. Our Picks Bottom Line This versatile two-in-one
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You may not think about it, but Earth is under a constant bombardment of solar radiation shooting through space. While our planet's magnetic field does an excellent job of blocking it, sometimes concentrated bursts of radiation known as solar flares are strong enough to interfere with our ground
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* New leaks have shed light on colors coming to the iPhone 18 Pro * The iPhone Ultra’s colors have also been revealed, leakers say * There are some key changes compared to the iPhone 17 Pro range We’re just days away from Apple’s Surprise and Shine event, where the
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OpenAI has unveiled a much anticipated AI model which the firm has dubbed ‘GPT-6 Astra’. While the model has improved significantly across benchmark testing and brings a host of new business features, there is still a dark cloud looming over the new model. Off the back of OpenAI’s accidental
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If it fails without a backup, recovering your files can become a nightmare. Your Mac's storage is arguably the most essential part of the computer. After all, a broken screen or keyboard doesn't necessarily lead to data loss. An SSD or hard drive failure, however, is
