Aaron Leong
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Brace yourselves: your next limited-edition Oreo flavor may well be developed by artificial intelligence (AI). Worry not though, as each of these new cookies won't be any less artificial than the ingredients already used in them today anyway. The big news for the popular snack is that AI won't replace any human jobs...
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Thanks to a great reception and numerous requests following its reveal at the 2023 Tokyo Auto Show, the sixth generation Honda Prelude is bound for U.S. shores next year. After gauging interest for the concept at the Japanese car show, Honda realized that the demand for the Prelude was too big to ignore. When it goes...
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Coming out of left field is a leaked render of what the Apple iPhone 17 Pro Max (and perhaps by extension, the entire iPhone 17 lineup) could look like. Assuming this design—with its horizontal camera bar, part glass, part aluminum back cover—ultimately holds true, the phone could mark a major shift for Apple, an...
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If you're a fan of change and freshness when it comes to your smartphones, the OnePlus 13 might be your cup of tea and sooner than you might think. The Chinese phone maker announced that the new device will launch January 7, 2025 in three colorways. While many brands are great at marketing their new phones, very few...
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The Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra may be a halo product—we thought it was a fantastic device in almost every aspect—but it looks like an emerging display issue may tarnish its reputation somewhat. A growing number of users are taking to social media to share how the anti-reflective coating layer of their S24 Ultra displays...
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Based on some reliable tip sources, we now have information on the official colorway names as well as the launch date for Samsung's upcoming Galaxy S25 lineup. Apparently the phones will land on January 22, 2025 during a launch event in San Jose, California. The event will also see the teaser for the Samsung-Google XR...
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Thanks in part to the resurgence of popularity in point-and-shoot cameras, Panasonic has brought a successor to the five-year old ZS80 and ZS80D (TZ95 in other markets). Called the ZS99 (TZ99), the new model gets an updated display and a small boost in image quality paired with a powerful zoom ranging from 24mm to...
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A new research has revealed that sun-like stars in our galaxy experience one violent "superflare" approximately once every hundred years—far more often that scientists previously thought. With that, many believe that the Sun in our solar system is overdue for such a superflare, especially since the last one was back...
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Google may be moving away from Exynos 5G modems beginning with the Pixel 10, according to a source from within Mountain View. At the moment, MediaTek's T900 seems to be the pick of the bunch to perhaps bring some stability to Google's troubled modem past while also bringing support for the 3GPP Release 17 5G...
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Hold on to your britches, because two tech giants have entered the wearable mixed reality headset space to take on the Meta Quests and Apple Vision Pros of the world. Google and Samsung have combined forces to bring a new headset that will try to change the game by 2025, bringing Gemini AI smarts and deep smartphone...
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Samsung's fantastic The Premiere 8K projector has just received the world's first 8K Association (8KA) certification after being deemed worthy in areas like resolution, brightness, contrast, color gamut, HDR, and 8K upscaling capabilities, as well as audio. Does this certification also mean that the projector may...
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The next time your team gaming session gets too heated or stressful (or maybe it's just THAT time to take break), don't be surprised if your controller offers you a (non-alcoholic) beer. Or more precisely, prompts you to take a drink break plus the option to have said drink delivered to everyone on your team. At...
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Grab a warm blanket, lawn chair, some hot cocoa, and get ready for one of the most dazzling meteor showers of the year. The colorful Geminid meteor light show is expected to peak tonight as well as tomorrow night with up to 160 meteors per hour (with the right conditions, of course). Bonus: the Geminids usually occur...
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Quite a lot has been leaked and speculated about Google's upcoming Pixel 9a—most of them, like the flusher camera bar, bigger battery, Tensor G4, and thinner design, have been confirmed by various sources. But now, a leaked spec sheet from a wireless carrier has pretty much laid the mid-budget phone bare. Thanks to...
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Aston Martin has laid out plans to put the 2026 Valhalla into production. If you have a spare $1 million lying around, you may want to get in line right now because only 999 units of this 1,064 horsepower, 811lb-ft of torque plug-in hybrid will be made. If the looks aren't already obvious giveaways, the Valhalla will...
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About a year after announcing a strategic partnership with Hyundai, Amazon is officially now in the car-selling business with the Korean automaker. As of right now, you can not only add your usual supply of diapers and printer paper to the cart, but also a spec'd out Ioniq 5 N into the mix. (You'd probably want to check with your wife first
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There's a new entrant to the smart glasses market that combines AI voice assistance and advanced real-time visual processing. The new Solos AirGo Vision (or V) merge cameras and ChatGPT 4.0 so users can ask their glasses to identify what's in their field of view and provide other functionality, from basic queries and...
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Ford has done it: the recent visit to Germany's Nürburgring Nordschleife with the Mustang GTD has become literally something for the record books. After what seems like many delays in announcing the lap time results, Ford has shared that the $325,000 Mustang GTD is the fastest American production car on the haloed...
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Chinese mobile tech company 8849 has just released an interesting tablet called the Tank Pad. It's marketed as a rugged 11-inch Android tablet with a built-in 100 lumens short-throw DLP projector. With this mish-mash of concepts and innards (more on this below), 8849 has left us to wonder who the target audience for...
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Taiko Audio, a Dutch high-end audio laboratory, just unveiled the most expensive audio server that would make most tech enthusiasts question 'Why?' but will still likely attract well-banked audiophiles like moths to flames. Deemed the Extreme Server, the unit starts at an eye-watering $30,000, highlighted by dual...
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Praga, a century-old automaker that you might have never heard of, has begun deliveries of its track-focused hypercar called the Bohema. After a seven-year incubation period, the first production car was delivered to a customer in Netherlands, with U.S.-bound cars slated to reach customers some time next spring. For...
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GDP, a China-based developer of high-quality mini laptops running Windows, UMPC, and Android handheld game consoles has bumped the current Win Max 2 handheld-laptop hybrid gaming machine from a Ryzen 7 8840U to the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 "Strix Point" APU, among other upgrades. The company claims that the newly-improved...
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