Aaron Leong
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The launch of Apple's iPhone 16e has been met with equal parts excitement and equal parts befuddlement. While the new phone sports many flagship features such as an A18 chipset, satellite connectivity, and larger battery, certain aspects (undoubtedly due to cost-cutting) have left some folks disappointed. One of the...
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A big, potentially life-saving feature is coming to a Google Pixel Watch 3 near you. It's called "loss of pulse detection" and it's coming to U.S. users by the end of March following approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The idea behind the feature is that when the watch detects a loss of pulse...
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Texas-based Hennessey Performance has announced a new Ford-collaborated monster called the Super Venom, a Mustang that supposedly out-Mustangs other Mustangs including the GT and even the Dark Horse. The 850-horsepower Super Venom comes from a fettled factory Coyote V8, and thanks to other mechanical upgrades, the car...
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In a landmark settlement, New York's Attorney General announced that DoorDash has agreed to pay more than 60,000 DoorDash drivers nearly $17 million in stolen tips. Over a two-year period between 2017 and 2019, DoorDash misled its customers and delivery workers (i.e. Dashers) by using tips meant for Dashers to offset...
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Billions of years ago, Mars had beautiful golden beaches skirting oceans that covered almost half the entire planet. A Chinese-American research team, with the help of data from China's Zhurong martian rover, have found pretty conclusive proof of vast, ancient oceans, although it's probably safe to say that they...
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A new (reliable) leak is giving us a good look at the forthcoming Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7, complete with rounded corners and—almost unsurprisingly—a much thinner profile than the Z Fold 6, which should make it better to hold and pocket. The leaked renders give us hope that Samsung is taking the competition seriously...
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Stellantis, parent company of the likes of Jeep, Chrysler, RAM, Alfa Romeo, and Maserati, to name a few, has declared that it has developed an operational Level 3 hands-free self-driving system. For the moment, the system, called STLA ("stellar," we get it) AutoDrive 1.0 is relegated to 37 mph or operation in dense...
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Sigma has just unveiled a brand new mirrorless camera called the "radically simple" $2,000 BF Camera. Sporting a 24.6-megapixel full-frame CMOS sensor, the company claims it's the first such camera design to employ an ultra-minimalist aluminum unibody. Sigma designers basically cleaned up the busy aesthetics of dSLRs...
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A massive specs and image dump of Nothing's upcoming Phone (3a) and Phone (3a) Pro has presumably been leaked online. From this we can gather that both devices share more in common than not—such as processor, screen size, dimensions, and Glyph notification design. Only a closer inspection finds a vastly different...
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Good news: Oppo's Find N5 book-style foldable smartphone just received a global launch and is now one of the slimmest and most powerful of its kind. Bad news: Considering how awesomely spec'd out the Find N5 is, North Americans won't get to enjoy it since sister company OnePlus decided to skip the Open 2/Find N5 this...
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At last, we have a new iPhone SE, except it’s not called the SE anymore. Apple has incorporated its latest fourth gen SE phone into the iPhone 16 lineup as the iPhone 16e. The name change is a smart one—with SE sales struggling to keep up with its flagship stablemates, slapping “iPhone 16” (in this case) onto the...
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A German tech news outlet has claimed to obtain deeper details on the Google Pixel 9a, a lower mid-range phone. Among some highlights (to be taken with a grain of salt, as always) include twin cameras like the 8a but with a lower 48-megapixel main shooter and a 13MP ultra-wide lens, Tensor G4 chip, and a possible $20...
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Say hello to the iPhone 17 Air, or at least what it could potentially be. Yet another leak seems to corroborate previous mentions that Apple is slapping a horizontal camera visor on its next gen phones—in this case the Air. We might as well call it the Apple Pixel 9 Air, because the pill-shaped camera island (among...
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Ooof, talk about a gut-punching let-me-double-check-my-credit-score price—Huawei's global version of the Mate XT tri-folding smartphone has been announced and it looks like folks will need to fork up a lung and a kidney just for the bragging rights. At about $3,300, the phone is being sold outside of China for the...
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On March 4, Carl Pei's Nothing will launch not one, but two phones: the Nothing Phone (3a) and Phone (3a) Pro. A new tip has gone one further by possibly revealing/confirming key information and specifications of each flagship. Among other improvements, the devices will sport Qualcomm's Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chipset and...
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How about a two-fer for iPhone news today? First, Tim Cook himself declared that there will be a new product coming on February 19. Our money is on the iPhone SE 4. Secondly, a YouTube leakster has upended current assumptions of how the next iPhone 17 series could look like, stating that Apple is keeping the current...
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Google is swiftly moving through development of the Android 16 OS. We got the first two Developer Preview builds in November and December of last year, then the first beta release in late January of this year, followed now by the second beta. This new build has a few notable changes, although the biggest ones are...
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Somewhat late to the party, Nikon has finally introduced a video-first power zoom lens to the Z-mount catalog. For Nikon and RED (particularly KOMODO-X Z Mount) fans, the new Nikkor Z 28-135mm f/4 PZ lens sports some impressive specs, bringing industry-standard features combined with Nikon optical science which...
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Chevrolet is out to prove to the world and its competitors that the 2025 Corvette ZR1 isn't some one (or two)-trick pony. Following a few impressive records last year, the Detroit automaker announced that the car dominated on the track during a cross-country tour of some of America's top race circuits. A total of five...
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Is it possible to adapt data center server cooling solutions for personal use? A Chinese techtuber has taken the question to task by adapting a 12,000 BTU (British Thermal Unit) air conditioner compressor to a gaming PC equipped with an Intel i9-13900K CPU and GeForce RTX 4090 GPU. As wild as this home-based creation...
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Apple might be announcing the next iPhone SE much earlier than expected. How does next week sound to you? Will it sell like hot cakes? Can we make a mid-range iPhone relevant again? These could be some of the questions Apple executives and bean counters are asking as they try to snag a larger share of the...
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Oppo's upcoming Find N5 foldable phablet is thin enough to make even regular slab phones jealous. More importantly for our U.S. readers, almost every aspect of the Find N5, including its slimness, near-invisible display crease, and of course, potent innards will show up in its corporate cousin, the OnePlus Open 2...
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