For years, Apple watched other phone makers fold their phones in half and said nothing. Samsung, Huawei, Motorola — they all shipped foldables while Apple stayed silent. That silence ended this week. Apple’s first foldable iPhone, the iPhone Duo, went on sale on Friday, October 23, and it is the most consequential iPhone launch in … Read more
It’s 11 pm, you’re three chapters into a novel, and your phone buzzes. A message, then a news alert, then another message. You didn’t stop reading because you got bored. You stopped because your phone is built to interrupt you. That’s the whole case for an e-reader in one scene. A dedicated reader does one … Read more
Be honest: where are your notes right now? A bit in your phone’s notes app, a few on paper, some in a chat you sent to yourself, and one very important one — you know the one — that you can’t find anywhere. Note-taking apps explained properly isn’t about which app is trendiest this month. … Read more
Picture this: you move into a house at the end of a quiet lane, the kind of place where the nearest fibre cable stops two villages away. The broadband checker says “sorry” in three different ways, and your video calls freeze every time someone else in the house opens a photo. Satellite internet sounds like … Read more
Last month, a retired schoolteacher got a call from her “grandson.” Same voice. Same laugh. She had no idea she was hearing AI social engineering in action. He’d been in a car accident, he needed bail money fast, and please — don’t tell Mom. It wasn’t her grandson. It was a computer, speaking with a … Read more
There’s a particular smell to a brand-new laptop — cardboard, plastic wrap, and possibility. You peel off the film, press the power button, and for about thirty seconds everything feels perfect. Then reality shows up. Three weeks later your files are scattered across two machines, the laptop nags you about an antivirus trial you never … Read more
Two of the biggest rivals in AI just shook hands. On 21 October, OpenAI and Google Cloud announced that OpenAI models on Google Cloud are now a real thing. Businesses can soon buy GPT models inside the cloud they already use. This is not a rumour or a leak. Both companies published the news on … Read more
Your laptop screen is probably too small for the work you ask it to do. You split two windows, squint at small text, and hunch closer by the hour. A good monitor fixes all three problems at once. But shop for one and the spec sheets attack you. Inches, pixels, panel types, hertz — every … Read more
Be honest: how many sites share your favourite password? If the answer is “quite a few”, you are not alone. Most people reuse passwords because remembering a different strong one for every account feels impossible. That habit is exactly what attackers count on. One small site leaks its database, and criminals try that same password … Read more
What if you could test a repair on a machine without ever touching the real one? That is not science fiction anymore. It is a digital twin at work, and it was one of the loudest topics at NVIDIA’s GTC Berlin this week. On 19 October in Berlin, NVIDIA chief Jensen Huang said a company’s … Read more