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While Apple and Samsung have mostly stuck with conventional lithium-ion batteries, Chinese smartphone brands have moved faster on silicon-carbon cells. That shift has helped them fit larger batteries into phones without making devices noticeably thicker. As a result, models with unusually large batteries, including 8,500mAh and even 10,000mAh units, are already on the market. Now, Huawei is reportedly working on a smartphone with an even larger battery. Could Huawei push phone batteries beyond 10,000mAh? According to tipster Digital Chat Station, Huawei is testing “a new battery material” and “a new battery system” that may allow smartphone batteries to cross the…
In 2015, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt set the bar for immersive storytelling and choice-driven narrative within the action/RPG space. Now, the director of that game is back with his new studio, Rebel Wolves, to deliver another ambitious, narrative-driven role-playing game with The Blood of Dawnwalker. That very game graces the cover of the latest issue of Game Informer, and it’s available to read digitally right now!To get the most comprehensive look at The Blood of Dawnwalker yet, we flew out to Rebel Wolves’ studio in Warsaw, Poland, where we spent a full day with a wide range of developers,…
Thinking Machines Lab says it’s building full duplex AI, which means an AI system can take in what someone is saying while generating a response. In plain English, it’s closer to a phone call than a walkie-talkie. The startup, founded last year by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, announced interaction models, starting with TML-Interaction-Small. It says the system can respond in 0.40 seconds, a pace that puts it near ordinary human back-and-forth. There’s a catch for anyone hoping to try it today. This remains a research preview, with limited access planned in the next few months and a broader release…
SNK Corporation, the company behind franchises such as Fatal Fury, The King of Fighters, and Metal Slug, has announced a new game development subsidiary called VS Studio helmed by former Bandai Namco veteran Katsuhiro Harada. The news comes six months after Harada departed Bandai last December after serving as the longtime director and producer of the Tekken franchise.Harada will serve as Representative Director/CEO of VS Studio. The veteran fighting game director explains in a press release that the philosophy behind the Tokyo-based VS Studio is “Beyond tradition, crafted to perfection.” Harada describes VS Studio as a “free, open, and spacious…
If you have a Google smart display or speaker at home, there are new updates you should know about. Google has rolled out a fresh batch of improvements to Gemini for Home, making the assistant noticeably smarter and faster across smart speakers and displays. Gemini for Home is getting smarter and more personal The most interesting addition is how Gemini now uses information you’ve saved in Ask Home to answer camera-related questions. If you’ve saved a note saying your nanny’s name is Alice, you can ask Gemini when Alice arrived, and it will pull up the relevant camera footage automatically.…
Sega has canceled its Super Game, which was originally revealed as in development in 2021 with a budget of $882 million. When it was announced, all signs pointed to the Super Game being a single game, but we later learned “Super Game” was a title Sega used to describe various games with large budgets. In the five years since the Super Game announcement, we never did learn exactly what these games were – there was no formal announcement or titles associated with the descriptor. But now, thanks to Sega’s latest financial earnings report, it’s clear we’ll likely never know. On the…
SpaceX is leasing the full capacity of its Colossus 1 data center in Memphis, Tennessee, to Anthropic, giving the Claude maker a sudden infrastructure windfall while xAI’s Grok fights for ground in the AI race. The early May 2026 agreement, reported by the Wall Street Journal, gives Anthropic access to more than 220,000 Nvidia GPUs and over 300 megawatts of processing power. That’s the kind of xAI compute edge Musk’s chatbot business would normally want nearby. Now Claude gets the benefit. For Anthropic, the lease helps ease pressure on Claude Pro and Claude Max demand. For SpaceX, it turns unused…
WhatsApp is apparently going to look a lot more at home on the latest version of iOS. A new report has suggested that the chatting app for iPhone is getting a new look inspired by iOS 26‘s UI. According to WABetaInfo, WhatsApp for iOS version 25.28.75 is rolling out Apple’s new Liquid Glass design language. The update is available through the App Store, though the visual refresh is being enabled gradually. WhatsApp on iOS is getting more premium The redesign brings WhatsApp closer to the system-wide visual style introduced with iOS 26. Meaning, iPhone users can expect to see more…
Prime Video has officially confirmed that The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 3 will premiere on November 11, 2026. The announcement was made on X, where the company also dropped a new image of Sauron wearing a crown. Earlier reports had suggested a 2027 arrival, so this is a welcome surprise for fans. What does Rings of Power season 3 have in store for us? Season 3 jumps forward several years from where Rings of Power Season 2 left off. The story takes place at the height of the War of the Elves and Sauron, as…
Sony has just announced a new wearable, and it’s not your typical smartwatch, fitness tracker, or pair of AI smart glasses—it’s something a lot more practical. The company has introduced the Reon Pocket Pro Plus, which is the newest version of its wearable cooling device. The Reon line has been around for a while now, starting as a crowdfunding project back in 2019. After expanding across Asia and a few Western markets, the upgraded model is now heading to the UK and Europe. How the Sony wearable keeps you cool The Reon Pocket Pro Plus is not just a fan…