Manufacturing smartphones is getting much more expensive. Credit: Counterpoint Research Manufacturing smartphones is getting much more expensive. Credit: Counterpoint Research The good news for Samsung is that while the MX division struggles, its semiconductor division is raking it in. Samsung Semiconductor has smashed records in the first quarter of 2026, earning an estimated $38 billion ..
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Apple CEO Tim Cook announced this week that he’s stepping down from his position in September and handing the reins to John Ternus, currently the company’s senior vice president of Hardware Engineering and a 25-year employee. This change had been telegraphed pretty far in advance, both by media reports (Bloomberg’s well-connected Mark Gurman flagged Ternus ..
It’s a good time to be in the market for a MacBook, between the affordability of the MacBook Neo, the power of the M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pros, and the all-around appeal of the M5 MacBook Air. But Apple’s desktop computers are another story, and not just because they’re all about due for their ..
Still, listeners shouldn’t encounter AI music organically on Deezer because the site won’t include AI-flagged tracks in suggestions or editorial playlists. As a result, AI music streams account for a small share of Deezer usage, hovering around 1–3 percent. The company says the primary purpose of uploading all this AI music is fraudulent. Deezer only ..
In October, an Amazon representative said the company doesn’t have plans to update current Fire OS devices to Vega, German IT publication Heise Online reported. Fire OS blamed for pirating Before Vega, Amazon’s Fire streaming devices all ran Fire OS, an Android fork based on the Android Open Source Project, which often meant Fire devices ..
Meta’s “future of the Internet” of the recent past. Meta’s “future of the Internet” of the recent past. Credit: Meta Meta’s partially self-inflicted Quest pricing situation is particularly striking given how recently the company changed its name and threw vast sums of money at its vision for a VR-based metaverse—one it said would form the ..
Intel’s Core Ultra laptop CPUs have been its flagships ever since it retired the older generational branding scheme and the i3/i5/i7/i9 branding a few years back. The Core Ultra Series 1, Series 2, and Series 3 processors been the ones with the newer CPU and GPU designs, and newer manufacturing technology. Intel has also offered ..
The problem, as detailed by Hagenah on the TotalRecall GitHub page, isn’t with the security around the Recall database, which he calls “rock solid.” The problem is that, once the user has authenticated, the system passes Recall data to another system process called AIXHost.exe, and that process doesn’t benefit from the same security protections as ..
The first Gemini desktop app, now on Mac There’s currently no Google search app for macOS, but Google has the AI side covered with the new Gemini app. This is the company’s first standalone desktop app for accessing Gemini. Google’s Josh Woodward says Google has been getting requests for a native Mac app, so the ..
“WHATS [sic] NEXT? THE STREAM GOES OUT IN GAME 7 OF THE FINALS FOR THE LAST SHOT?” a Reddit user wrote in the title of a thread that they created, which has 314 upvotes as of this writing. The post may seem dramatic, but it’s notable that this isn’t the first time that Prime Video ..
