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With laptops, brands are constantly in a balancing act between portability and workspace productivity. The ASUS Zenbook Duo UX8407AA tries to dodge that choice with a design that brings a whole setup in a compact form factor. I used the Zenbook Duo as a creative machine, mainly with design apps, illustration work, writing, and multitasking. The model I tried runs on Intel’s Core Ultra 7 355, paired with 32GB of memory and a 1TB SSD. That gives it enough horsepower to handle Photoshop and Animate, for sketches and animations, and a lot more without breaking a sweat. But the real…
Xbox has shared its rundown of next week’s releases, and the list includes 24 new games arriving between July 6 and July 10. The lineup is headlined by two major AAA titles, three notable additions to Game Pass, and a long list of smaller indie games. Two AAA pre-orders lead the week Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced arrives on July 9, with the standard edition priced at $59.99 and a $69.99 Deluxe tier. The release follows a rocky rollout that included a delayed reveal and months of leaks before Ubisoft confirmed the remake. EA Sports College Football 27 arrives the…
Android 17 desktop mode has a very simple pitch. Plug your phone into a monitor, add a keyboard and mouse, and watch the slab in your pocket pretend to be a computer. I wanted to give that pitch a fair shot, so I tried using it for an actual workday instead of a cute demo. The goal was boring on purpose: write an article, edit it, build the page in WordPress, upload whatever needed uploading, and publish the thing without running back to my laptop like a coward. For a little while, the illusion held together. That’s where the trouble…
Parents who post pictures of their kids online are being told to rethink the habit. The UK’s National Crime Agency and the Internet Watch Foundation have issued new guidance urging families to lock down their social media accounts, warning that publicly shared photos are increasingly being pulled and altered by AI tools to create child sexual abuse material. The two organizations say most parents have no idea this is happening. Criminals no longer need to contact a child directly to generate such material. They can scrape an ordinary photo and run it through widely available nudify apps. What the guidance…
Every June, after Apple wraps up its annual WWDC keynote, I install the latest iOS beta on my iPhone, watch the progress bar crawl to completion, and wait for the inevitable restart. For years, picking up my phone afterward felt almost identical to how it did before the update. I saw the same grid of icons, the same Control Center, and the same version of Siri until iOS 26 finally broke that pattern in 2025. iOS 26 raised the bar. iOS 27 didn’t clear it It was the first major update in years that made compatible iPhones feel genuinely different,…
Android 17 finally separated the Wi-Fi and mobile data buttons, and I hate how much that improved my mood. For years, Android treated internet access like one mysterious blob, as if Wi-Fi and cellular data were emotionally codependent. In Android 17 Beta 3, Google split the old combined Internet button into separate Wi-Fi and mobile data tiles, making each connection easier to switch off with a single tap. That’s a good change, which is also why it’s a little damning. When one of the cleanest wins in a major OS update is “the buttons make sense again,” the celebration gets…
If you’ve ever used WhatsApp on your iPad, you already know its limitations. You can’t set it up without a primary device, can’t share live location, and can’t use the broadcast lists feature. That’s finally changing. WhatsApp’s latest update gives iPad users a long-due promotion. Rather than serving as an extension of your iPhone, it will soon become your main device. So what exactly has changed? Starting with WhatsApp for iPad version 26.25.74, WhatsApp is rolling out the option to set your iPad as a primary device rather than a companion device (via WABetaInfo). When the update reaches you, you’ll…
When you sprain your ankle in the middle of a run, your body sends a pain signal to your brain, forcing you to stop. Essentially, the ability to sense pain stops you from pushing through the injury and causing further self-harm. Researchers at Delft University of Technology and Wageningen University have applied this exact concept to drones, giving them a digital equivalent of a nervous system that recognizes a faulty part and triggers a pain-like warning signal. What’s even more interesting is that the technology could find use in self-driving cars. So how does the “pain” system actually work? The…
Samsung’s next generation of foldable smartphones may arrive with significantly higher price tags than their predecessors. According to information shared by Roland Quandt of WinFuture, the upcoming Galaxy Z Fold 8, Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra, Galaxy Z Flip 8, and the Galaxy Watch 9 lineup are all expected to see price increases in Europe when they are unveiled later this month. While flagship smartphones have steadily become more expensive over the past few years, the leaked pricing suggests Samsung could be taking another sizeable step upward, particularly for buyers opting for higher storage variants. Samsung’s premium foldables may be…
Amazon has quietly refreshed one of its most popular tablets, but not in the way many expected. Instead of launching a brand-new Fire tablet after its longest product drought in years, the company has introduced a slightly upgraded version of the existing Fire HD 10 with an extra gigabyte of RAM. The update is modest on paper, yet it arrives at an interesting time. Amazon hasn’t introduced a new Fire tablet since the Fire HD 8 refresh in 2024, while products like the Fire 7 and Fire Max 11 have yet to receive successors. Rather than expanding its lineup, Amazon…