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A rumor circulated online in September 2025 claiming that the electric car manufacturer Tesla had announced the “Pi Phone,” a mobile phone with free satellite internet connection through SpaceX’s Starlink service. According to the posts, Tesla CEO Elon Musk had announced the phone, supposedly priced at $789, by saying “Apple should be worried.” For example,…
Google asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday (Sept. 24) to pause a lower court’s ruling that requires changes to the company’s app store policies, saying the changes would cause “irreparable harm” to Google and its Android ecosystem. The lower court’s ruling, which was handed down in July in the antitrust case filed by Epic…
As concern grows that images on the internet have been wildly manipulated by AI, chipmaker Qualcomm is doubling down on authenticity. The company wants to prove that the images taken on your phone look the same as when you clicked the shutter button. At Snapdragon Summit 2025, Qualcomm debuted its new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen…
There’s no escaping that the new Xiaomi 17 Pro and Pro Max have a lot in common with Apple’s latest iPhones. The naming conventions, for one thing, Xiaomi conveniently skipped a 16th version of its phones and went straight to calling its new one No. 17. To keep pace with Apple? I couldn’t possibly say….
A massive two-year study reveals fitness apps can help people take more steps, but the improvements are modest and uneven—raising big questions about who benefits most and how to make digital health tools sustainable. Study: Can fitness apps work long term? A 24-month quasi-experiment of 516,818 Canadian fitness app users. Image Credit: Nan_Got / Shutterstock…
Xiaomi might be copying Apple’s naming scheme for its new phone line, but the Xiaomi 17 phone series is carving its own path with a unique large rear display for its new Pro models. The Chinese phone-maker on Thursday announced the Xiaomi 17, Xiaomi 17 Pro and Xiaomi 17 Pro Max, with the latter two…
President Donald Trump advanced plans for American investors to buy TikTok’s US operations from its Chinese owner ByteDance Ltd., with officials setting a potential value of $14 billion and outlining measures to ensure security of the new venture. Source link
Even though I’m a Windows fan, there are certain annoyances I can’t ignore. As good as Windows 11 has gotten, it still feels a bit limited in some areas. The Start menu can be sluggish, the taskbar offers frustratingly few customization options, and default apps like File Explorer, Task Manager, and Phone Link often feel…
NurPhoto via Getty Images It turns out that Donald Trump’s best solution to an app-driven China softpower incursion into US culture isn’t a full, unequivocal severing of TikTok from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance. Instead, it’s the sale of a majority stake of a cluster of staff and assets representing TikTok’s business inside the United…
This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Microsoft (MSFT, Financials) is streamlining how companies buy and use its AI tools. The tech giant said it has merged its separate marketplaces one aimed at developers on Azure and another for AI-powered workplace apps into a single store called Microsoft Marketplace. The new platform launched in the U.S….