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iPhone Duo is official. Book-style fold, 5.4-inch cover screen, 7.6-inch continuous display unfolded, thinnest iPhone Apple has ever made. $1,999 to start, up to $3,199 for 2TB. Biggest hardware swing since Vision Pro. See more

iPhone 18 Pro just launched and Gurman's already saying Apple is saving the real redesign for next year's 20th anniversary iPhone. Reportedly the biggest design overhaul since the iPhone X. See more

iPhone Air launched at a $200 premium over the 17. Trade it in against the new lineup and Apple's credit erases that entire gap, meaning early adopters paid extra for a phone that resells like it never had one.

My Gen 2 Meta Ray Bans are cooked😢 It's crazy how it all happened. There's a happy ending to this... I think 🤔 See more

Composer update: photo and GIF buttons now sit next to your attached photos, and the thumbnail row scrolls sideways once you've added more than fit. Group picker gets its own row below. See more

Apple TV just dropped the trailer for Brothers, a new comedy from a The Office alum starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson. See more

M5 Ultra Mac Studio can drive up to 8 displays, and it is not just a spec sheet flex. Trading floors, video editing bays, control rooms, that headroom gets eaten fast once you start plugging in. See more

Apple's M6 just landed, and it's the first look at the chip generation that leads straight to A20 Pro in iPhone 18 Pro. See more

Apple quietly moved AppleCare for the new Mac Studio and Mac mini. It used to sit right on the configure page, now it's buried a few clicks later in checkout. See more

iOS 27 is expected to land alongside the new iPhone lineup this September, following Apple's usual pattern: developer beta at WWDC in June, public beta in July, full release tied to new hardware in fall. See more

Notability's new Mac workflow starts recordings straight from calendar events, then files the transcript and notes right under that meeting automatically. See more

Apple just dropped a behind-the-scenes look at its new Mac mini M6 ad, and the production work is wild for something that plays as a simple 30 second spot. See more

Apple quietly refreshed the 40W Dynamic Power Adapter (up to 60W) for the EU and Vietnam today, now with retractable two prong plugs that fold flush into the housing. Same day, the $19 Polishing Cloth got a price cut. See more

Airbound just raised $37M from Greenoaks, DoorDash, and Lachy Groom to replace delivery trucks with rocket-like VTOL drones. See more

Spotify says it's fixed the outage that stopped audiobooks from playing, but reports are still coming in of chapters stuck mid book or refusing to load. See more

OpenAI is tightening ChatGPT Plus usage limits again, this time citing compute management. Translation: demand is outpacing the GPUs they can throw at it. See more

New Mac mini runs M6 or M5 Pro, new Mac Studio scales up to M5 Max or M5 Ultra. Real generational jumps, not a spec bump for the sake of a press release. This is what happens when Apple silicon actually has a roadmap.

Apple just reversed course on Hide My Email. Plans to drop the icloud.com domain for generated addresses are scrapped, meaning the feature keeps working the way privacy-focused users actually expect it to. See more

OpenAI's head of product Thibault Sottiaux told TechCrunch 'the world seems to be ready' for agents, the pitch has shifted from chatbots that answer to agents that act. UX is now the hard problem, not just model quality.

Android 17's Motion Assist is rolling out, using onboard sensors to detect when you're in a moving vehicle and automatically dimming or simplifying the screen to help with motion sickness. Pixel gets it first, of course. See more

GameHub's new update lets you load PC mods straight onto Android, so yes, that Thomas the Tank Engine dragon replacer mod in Skyrim is now portable. See more

Fitbit's founders are back with Luffu Link, an LTE band that works with zero phone nearby. All day health sensing, voice logging, location tracking, and a direct line to trusted contacts if something goes wrong. See more

The Pixel 11 doesn't record your life, it records the version you wish had happened. AI reshaping photos after the fact isn't a camera feature, it's fiction with a timestamp. iPhone still captures what actually occurred.

An Android app is now doing what Google's own Always-On Display should have done years ago, turning a passive lock screen into a music and widget panel. See more

Google Maps on Android Auto is reportedly dropping traffic data mid drive, no colored road overlays, no congestion rerouting, just a blank route. Been happening on and off for a month across the Android ecosystem.

Gemini now shows up right in Android's text selection menu, even inside third-party apps. Convenient, sure, but baking an AI shortcut into every long-press just shows how bloated Android's basic UI has become. See more

OpenAI wants agents for everyone, not just engineers writing code. The bet: if an agent can book, buy, and file things without hand holding, mass adoption follows. See more

Microsoft is now paying people to get friends onto Edge, 500 Microsoft Rewards points per successful referral. Says a lot when a browser needs a referral bonus instead of just winning on merit. See more

Amazon is quietly hiking prices across Echo, Kindle, and Fire TV lines, and the RAM and NAND shortage is the real culprit. See more

Google's dangling a $200 gift card to anyone who buys a Pixel 11 Pro before August 27, which tells us plenty about how confident they are it sells on merit. A discount code isn't a spec sheet. See more