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Apple may release a ‘mostly glass, curved iPhone’ in 2027

Apple may release a ‘mostly glass, curved iPhone’ in 2027

The iPhone 16 Pro Max, pictured here, is already pretty glassy. This morning, while summarizing an Apple “product blitz” he expects for 2027, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman writes in his Power On newsletter that Apple is planning a “mostly glass, curved iPhone” with no display cutouts for that year, which happens to be the iPhone’s 20th anniversary. That follows a report last weekend from The Information, which said that “at least one 2027 iPhone model that will place the front-facing camera underneath the screen to enable a truly edge-to-edge display.” Late last year, a report from The Elec said Apple is…
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Pope Leo XIV names AI one of the reasons for his papal name

Pope Leo XIV names AI one of the reasons for his papal name

Pope Leo XIV speaking to the College of Cardinals on May 10th. | Photo by Simone Risoluti – Vatican Media via Vatican Pool / Getty Images As Pope Leo XIV laid out his vision for the papacy in an address to the College of Cardinals, he also explained why he picked his papal name. Incredibly, artificial intelligence played a big part. In the Vatican’s translation of his speech, Pope Leo XIV explained that his name references Pope Leo XII, who presided over the church at the dawn of the industrial revolution. …I chose to take the name Leo XIV. There…
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Samsung finally has a launch date for the Galaxy S25 Edge

Samsung finally has a launch date for the Galaxy S25 Edge

It’s gonna be May. | Image: Samsung Samsung will formally unveil the Galaxy S25 Edge during a virtual Unpacked event on Monday, May 12th at 8PM ET. This answers at least one of our many questions about Samsung’s upcoming slim phone which the company teased back in January. A blog post published with today’s announcement reveals another tidbit or two, but for the rest of the answers we’ll have to tune in on Monday. Samsung isn’t being coy about what it’s announcing: it’s definitely the Galaxy S25 Edge. The blog post comes right out and names the device, saying it…
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Here’s the first teaser for Squid Game’s third and final season

Here’s the first teaser for Squid Game’s third and final season

One of Netflix’s biggest shows is about to end — and you can get a brief glimpse at it in the first teaser trailer. The streamer just released a new clip of Squid Game’s third season, and while it doesn’t show much, it manages to evoke the series’ distinct brand of tension, this time with a gumball machine as the centerpiece. Here’s the set-up, according to Netflix: Picking up from season 2’s devastating cliffhanger, season 3 thrusts Gi-hun (Player 456) back into the brutal heart of the games, determined to dismantle them once and for all. Still haunted by the…
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Google just leaked Android’s new design language

Google just accidentally revealed its next big Android redesign: Material 3 Expressive. In a now-deleted blog post spotted by 9to5Google, the company describes the change as the “most researched” update yet, with the goal of making its interface more appealing and easier to use. You can find an archived version of the deleted webpage on the Wayback Machine, and 9to5Google has published some of the images not saved by the site. As outlined in the post, Google says it developed Material 3 Expressive after conducting 46 rounds of design and research with over 18,000 participants. The design uses color, shape,…
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX gets a company town in Texas

Elon Musk’s SpaceX gets a company town in Texas

Residents near Boca Chica Beach in Texas have voted to become a city called Starbase. | Photo by GABRIEL CARDENAS/AFP via Getty Images<br> South Texas voters mostly employed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX have approved a measure to incorporate as Starbase, a new city in Texas’ Cameron County near the company’s Boca Chica Beach launch site on the Gulf of Mexico. The final tally was 212–6 in support of the measure, reports The Associated Press. The election took place following a petition that had gained enough signatures by February to force a vote, in which just 283 people were eligible to…
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The investigation into Pete Hegseth’s Signal group chats is growing

The investigation into Pete Hegseth’s Signal group chats is growing

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth delivers remarks to the press during a meeting with UK Defense Secretary John Healey at the Pentagon on March 6th, 2025, in Arlington, Virginia. The Pentagon Inspector General is expanding an inquiry into Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s questionable Signal group chats. According to the Wall Street Journal, the investigation is now also looking into a second chat, as well as exactly how classified information was transferred from a secure government computer onto Hegseth’s account on his personal devices. Beyond the “Houthi PC Small Group” that inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine to…
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iPhone 17 has 12GB RAM

iPhone 17 has 12GB RAM

According to a reliable source, the iPhone 17 could come with 12GB of RAM, on par with the Galaxy S25 Ultra. Apple has never really taken the iPhone's RAM seriously. It wasn't even mentioned at the launch event, nor is it prominently featured in the iPhone feature list on the company's website. Photo: Tom's Guide. The Cupertino giant has never tried to match Android flagships in terms of RAM, especially Samsung's high-end lineup. However, that could eventually change, with the iPhone 17 expected to have the same amount of RAM as the Galaxy S25 Ultra. Analyst Ming-chi Kuo predicts that…
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Intel to lay off more than 20,000 employees

Intel to lay off more than 20,000 employees

Intel plans to cut 20% of its workforce, or more than 20,000 people, to save costs and streamline its organization. Reuters reported that Intel will announce plans to cut its workforce by 20% this week as part of a turnaround plan by new CEO Lip-Bu Tan. As of December 28, 2024, Intel had 108,900 employees, including thousands of employees at Altera, an independent company co-owned by Intel and Silver Lake. Photo: Reuters. Intel previously laid off about 15,000 people in August 2024. The new cuts will mainly affect non-technical positions, such as administrative, sales, marketing and support functions. The manufacturing…
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Warning about ‘hallucinated’ ChatGPT

Warning about ‘hallucinated’ ChatGPT

A number of recent studies have shown that GPT o3 and o4-mini - the most powerful models in OpenAI's product portfolio - are fabricating false information more than their predecessors. Photo: Fireflies Just two days after announcing GPT-4.1, OpenAI officially launched not one but two new models, named o3 and o4-mini. Both models demonstrate superior inference capabilities with many powerful improvements. However, according to TechCrunch, this pair of new models still suffer from "hallucination" or fabricating information. In fact, they suffer from "hallucination" more than some of OpenAI's older models. According to IBM, hallucinations are when a large language model…
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