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Apple’s Big Week brings the iPhone 17e, a budget MacBook, M5-powered MacBook Pros, and smarter iPads. Here’s everything expected this week.
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Nothing revealed the Phone (4a) design and a brighter Glyph Bar, but the specs that decide whether it’s worth buying are still under wraps.
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Apple’s rumored iPhone Fold could debut in 2026 with a book-style design, Touch ID, CoE display tech, and premium pricing above $2,000.
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Samsung unveils the Galaxy A07 5G with Gemini AI, a 6,000mAh battery, 120Hz display, and six years of updates, bringing AI to budget users.
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Samsung confirms Galaxy Unpacked 2026 for Feb. 25, where the Galaxy S26 series is expected to debut with new AI features, updated chips, and design changes.
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It was claimed that Google Assistant was inadvertently activated on Android devices and recorded conversations that were intended to be private.
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Big tech treats our attention like a resource to be mercilessly extracted. The fightback begins here
In the last 15 years, a linked series of unprecedented technologies have changed the experience of personhood across most of the world. It is estimated that nearly 70% of the human population of the Earth currently possesses a smartphone, and these devices constitute about 95% of internet access-points on the planet. Globally, on average, people seem to spend close to half their waking hours looking at screens, and among young people in the rich world the number is a good deal higher than that.
History teaches that new technologies always make possible new forms of exploitation, and this basic fact has been spectacularly exemplified by the rise of society-scale digital platforms. It has been driven by a remarkable new way of extracting money from human beings: call it “human fracking”. Just as petroleum frackers pump high-pressure, high-volume detergents into the ground to force a little monetisable black gold to the surface, human frackers pump high-pressure, high-volume detergent into our faces (in the form of endless streams of addictive slop and maximally disruptive user-generated content), to force a slurry of human attention to the surface, where they can collect it, and take it to market.
Trump Mobile has delayed the launch of its gold T1 smartphone again, raising new questions about production timelines, pricing, and availability.
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Here’s a breakdown of six iPhone Air features defining Apple’s thinnest iPhone, from its titanium design to performance, battery life, and everyday usability.
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Evidence in the UK suggests the biggest distraction from the Christmas togetherness won’t be toys, television, or even work emails, it will be smartphone.
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