Whether or not you need to buy Apple’s largest iPhone Pro in order to get the best camera features has varied by generation. So far, reporting has mostly suggested that there will be no camera differentiation between the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, but a leaker today casts some doubt on this. Spec...
A U.S. bankruptcy court auctioned off Spirit Airlines' treasure trove of data, with Google making the winning bid. The tech giant is paying $10 million for various information, including hundreds of millions of emails and Microsoft Teams conversations, and billions of flight pricing data and tran...
The Fairphone 6+ is a midrange Android offering, but given the increasing prices of consumer gadgets amid the ongoing component shortages, a repairable device that can be made to last for years may prove a good proposition.
You can now get Fairphone's reparable handset in the US without jumping through hoops.
OpenAI will attempt to automatically enroll all young users in the new experience.
A U.S. federal court has ruled that a judge accused of relying entirely on AI to make a judicial decision can still retain judicial immunity from civil lawsuits, although the ruling does not determine whether such use of AI is legally or ethically permissible.
Reach Capital announced Tuesday an oversubscribed $265M Fund V.
ChatGPT for Teens includes safeguards and parental controls. | Image: OpenAI OpenAI is introducing a dedicated ChatGPT mode for teenagers, combining existing youth safeguards and new safety features under one roof. The launch comes amid mounting public scrutiny over how AI tools affect younger ...
On August 6th, the Minneapolis Air Route Traffic Control Center lost radar and communications for around two hours. The outage disrupted more than 1,100 flights across the center's 330,000 square mile, nine-state airspace sector. Two days earlier, on August 4th, President Donald Trump departed t...
The Fairphone 6 Plus is the first Fairphone to officially launch in the US. | Photo: Dominic Preston / The Verge The Fairphone 6 Plus is a minor hardware refresh, but a major launch for the company: It's the first phone that Fairphone is selling directly in the US. It's on sale now for $649.99,...
Save $167 on an 8TB Seagate IronWolf HDD at Best Buy in their 60th Anniversary sales event.
Kubuntu 26.04 gets three years of fixes for the desktop, frameworks, and apps
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has confirmed that ransomware gangs are also exploiting a high-severity Windows Task Host vulnerability that was flagged as actively exploited in April. [...]
Get $1,350 off this Lenovo Legion Pro 7i with RTX 5080.
404 Media placed an AirTag inside a shipment of 1,000 books, which landed at an Amazon facility that reportedly spends all day cutting the spine off of, and scanning, books.
More than a decade after launching in Europe, the Netherlands company is now selling its repairable phones in the US, starting with the Fairphone (Gen 6+).
Proton’s CEO is a champion of encryption for everyone. So why is he going all in on un-encryptable AI?
Einride will buy the Tesla Semis, which will be made to Amazon and other customers.
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China's Ministry of State Security has told some state-linked organizations to remove a customized version of Windows 10 from their machines.