Aaron Leong
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Cybersecurity experts are sounding the alarm over a new Android Trojan dubbed Herodotus, which is designed to deliberately slow down its own malicious activity to mimic the casual, imperfect behavior of a human user. Such behavior allows...
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A new study published in Nature by researchers from the University of Cambridge (with support by Meta) just dropped a pixelated bomb on the entire Ultra-HD market, essentially confirming what many of us may have suspected: the 'need' for...
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Qualcomm quietly unveiled the Snapdragon 6s Gen 4, a chipset designed to inject some features once exclusive to flagship devices into more affordable handsets. Not just a minor refresh, the new 4nm processor is poised to be a huge boon for...
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The global fanfare for Samsung's most audacious mobile project yet, the (tentatively named) Galaxy Z TriFold, is reportedly set to bypass the U.S. market (not to mention most other parts of the world, too). Reports from reputable leakers...
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An international team of researches has announced the discovery of a super-Earth exoplanet (designated GJ 251 c) situated in its host star’s habitable zone less than 20 light-years from our own. What makes this detection exciting is that...
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So far, common shoemaker practice in helping runners go faster is to make footwear lighter without compromising rigidity and grip. Now, Nike has unveiled Project Amplify, the world’s first powered shoe system for running and walking...
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An interstellar visitor known as 3I/ATLAS, currently hurtling toward its closest approach to the Sun, has ignited a debate among astronomers (and enthusiasts) over its true nature: is it a natural black swan comet from another star system...
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Most of you already know that the AI boom, for better or worse, puts a heavy strain on existing power grids. As companies race to build massive data centers to train the next generation of generative AI models, they’ve discovered that the...
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In the high-stakes, multi-billion-dollar battle for global semiconductor one-upmanship, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has jumped in as a middle person by employing both of the world’s leading chip foundries—Samsung Foundry and TSMC (Taiwan...
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In an industry rapidly accelerating toward an all-electric future, Porsche has just reminded us that the age of the internal combustion engine is far from over. How so? A newly-uncovered patent filing has revealed that engineers at...
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James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to peel back layers of our cosmic viewpoint: its latest discovery reveals that the youth of the universe was sometimes quite the jumbled mess. Astronomers have found that galaxies just a few...
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With the impending OnePlus 15 debuting in China on October 27, OnePlus has, like in the past, the potential to shake up the flagship smartphone market once more. The device's final details, pieced together from new leaks, point to a...
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Samsung just officially unveiled the new Galaxy XR, to take the fight to Apple's Vision Pro. For the uninitiated, the Galaxy XR is an extended reality (XR) headset that Samsung claims is the first true AI-native gadget of its kind...
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Already in full swing, the Orionid meteor shower may have reached its peak overnight on October 20-21, but the show is still set to go on for another couple of days. Like nearly every Orionid show, stargazers across the globe, especially...
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Unabashedly lighting the fire under SpaceX, acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy announced on Monday that the agency is opening its high-profile Artemis III human lunar landing contract to new bidders. The $4.4 billion contract, initially...
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The next step in personal health tracking has arrived, and it’s a tiny bit, well, gutsy. Plumbing giant Kohler has officially launched Dekoda (decoder, get it?), a slim, clip-on device that attaches discreetly to your existing toilet bowl and deploys a small camera and sensors to analyze your...
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A massive outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world’s largest cloud computing provider, crippled major websites, apps, and corporate services across the globe this morning. Thankfully, Amazon has been on the case (having dealt with...
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New research from Johns Hopkins University and an international team of scientists suggests that two competing theories for the diffuse glow near the center of the Milky Way—colliding dark matter particles or rapidly spinning neutron...
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The United States Mint has unveiled the designs for the 2026 American Innovation $1 Coin Program, immortalizing key figures and machines that defined our modern digital age. Among the four coins to be released next year (with designs...
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Looking like a cross between Wall-E and a gimbal action cam, the camera module on Honor's new Robot Phone prototype has definitely gotten our curiosity piqued. Unveiled at the recent launch event for the Magic 8 phones, the camera can...
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Skywatchers across North America should be on high alert as a rare train of four CMEs (coronal mass ejections) from the Sun is set to collide with Earth's magnetic field, promising a spectacular and widespread display of the Northern...
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Just in time for the holiday shopping season, Apple dropped a triple-header announcement centered around its core pro devices powered by the all-new M5 chip. The Fall refresh of the 14-inch MacBook Pro, the iPad Pro, and the Vision Pro...
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