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The Apple Watch helped define the modern smartwatch industry when it launched in 2015. It transformed wearables from niche gadgets into mainstream consumer products, generated billions in revenue for Apple, and eventually became a gateway into the company’s broader health and wearables ecosystem. But more than a decade later, Apple now appears to be entering a far more uncertain phase in the category it once dominated. According to Mark Gurman’s PowerOn Bloomberg newsletter, watchOS 27 is expected to focus largely on stability improvements, performance refinements, and smaller upgrades rather than major new features. While Apple is reportedly improving heart-rate tracking…

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek just made one of the boldest pricing moves in the artificial intelligence race so far. The company announced it is permanently slashing the cost of its flagship V4-Pro AI model by 75%, bringing prices down to just a fraction of what developers were paying only weeks ago. AI companies worldwide have been facing two major problems: high infrastructure costs and limited access to high-end AI chips. So when a company suddenly cuts prices this aggressively — and permanently — it usually signals something important is changing behind the scenes. DeepSeek says usage costs for V4-Pro now…

After months of painfully expensive RAM and SSD prices, the memory market may finally be showing signs of pressure from an unexpected direction: China. New reports suggest that Chinese memory manufacturers are rapidly expanding production of DRAM and NAND chips, and that major hardware brands are starting to take notice. The most notable example so far is Corsair, which has reportedly tested DDR5 memory modules using chips from Chinese DRAM giant ChangXin Memory Technologies, better known as CXMT. This feels inevitable. Memory prices have remained frustratingly high across PCs, laptops, and storage devices for months. So when Chinese suppliers began…

Apple may finally be preparing the kind of dramatic iPhone redesign fans have been waiting years for. Fresh leaks surrounding the company’s rumored 20th anniversary iPhone — currently being referred to online as the “iPhone XX” or “iPhone 20” — suggest Apple is working on a device that looks radically different from today’s flat-edged iPhones. And honestly, some of these early renders look like the closest thing yet to the futuristic iPhone people imagined a decade ago. According to emerging supply chain chatter, Apple is testing a heavily curved “quad-curved” display that wraps around all four sides of the phone.…

In my Galaxy S26 review, I briefly mentioned that Good Lock is a pilgrimage every Samsung user should undertake. One UI is jam-packed with features, which don’t always feel coherent, but the software design seems deliberate. Samsung’s custom skin has been among my favorites due to its strong identity, and one of its best hidden tricks is Good Lock. Good Lock is one of those Samsung features that can be weirdly easy to ignore. There’s no shiny demo at the start of the setup process, sitting as a separate app that you’ll have to download. But oddly enough, it is…

Helios is a new four-armed robot from Zurich-based Orbit Robotics, and at first glance, it reminded me of Goro from Mortal Kombat. But unlike the prince from Outworld, Helios is not built for combat. It is designed to help astronauts on space stations with the repetitive, time-consuming work that keeps life in space running. Orbit Robotics says that in microgravity, legs are not much help. Instead of walking or standing, Helios needs to move through tight station interiors, hold itself steady, and handle cargo, tools, or equipment. Its four-arm design turns extra limbs into both mobility aids and working hands.…

Riot Games’ controversial Vanguard anti-cheat has drawn fresh attention after a new update reportedly made some expensive Valorant cheat hardware unusable. Riot mocked hardware cheaters on X, saying “congrats to the owners of a brand new $6k paperweight,” after the update appeared to block DMA-based cheat setups that rely on costly external hardware. The comment sparked debate around what Vanguard had actually done. Some posts framed the issue as SSD damage, but Riot has clarified that Vanguard does not damage PC hardware or disable real SSDs. The update targets cheat hardware and firmware used to bypass Valorant’s anti-cheat systems. What…

There’s something remarkable happening in Namibia’s wildlife reserves. A satellite system called Icarus is watching animals panic, and this might be the most powerful anti-poaching tool scientists have ever built. To understand why, you need to understand the poaching pandemic. More than 10,000 rhinos have been poached in South Africa over the last 15 years, and the poaching crisis shows no signs of slowing down. Rangers are outnumbered, reserves are vast, and by the time anyone realizes a poacher is inside the park, it’s often too late. According to a new BBC report, scientists at the Max Planck Institute of…

The remote work era made employee monitoring software easier to justify. What began as a way to watch people working from home is now being normalized on office floors, too. Right on cue, a new Northeastern University study suggests the data collected through these tools is also being shared with major third parties, including Google, Facebook, and Microsoft. David Choffnes, a professor at Northeastern’s Khoury College of Computer Sciences and one of the study’s co-authors, said the research shows how little privacy protection workers have in the workplace. He also noted that the issue is not just data collection by…

Doom-scrolling is the worst. The mind-numbing spiral starts with “just five minutes” and ends an hour or three later with you feeling somehow worse about your life than before. I had to delete Instagram from my iPhone just to stop myself from wasting hours every night.  If you have also felt that feeling of despair after a scrolling session, it turns out that feeling is backed by science. The World Happiness Report, published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford, has found a clear link between excessive social media use and declining wellbeing. And it’s hitting younger…