After weeks of vacillation on the part of the tech-focused rumor mill between a February or March/April 2026 launch for the Pixel 10a, Google has just released official teasers of its new budget smartphone, announcing that the device will launch on February 18, 2026. Google releases official teasers for the Pixel 10a Google has just announced that pre-orders for the upcoming Pixel 10a will go live on February 18. Even so, in-store availability is not expected until March 05. As we noted in a dedicated post, Evan Blass, a known tipster, recently posted a screenshot of the Pixel 10a's certification […]

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CNET has now published the results of an interesting test where it pitted the battery life of 35 smartphones against each other and, unsurprisingly, the Apple iPhone 17 lineup has emerged as the victors of this relatively exhaustive test. Apple iPhone 17 Pro Max at the top of the smartphone battery life leaderboard, the base iPhone 17 wins second place along with the OnePlus 15 CNET ran two battery life tests on a total of 35 smartphones: a three-hour test where a video was streamed over WiFi with the screen at full brightness, and a 45-minute endurance test spanning multiple […]

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With barely three weeks left until Samsung removes the wraps from this year's Galaxy S26 series, the South Korean tech behemoth is now entering its most aggressive marketing phase to build up excitement and buzz around the upcoming smartphones. To that end, Samsung has just dropped three short teaser videos that hint at the Galaxy S26 series' massively improved neural framing, low-light photography, and zoom capabilities. Samsung is teasing massive photography-related improvements for the upcoming Galaxy S26 series Last week, Samsung teased the Privacy Display feature of the upcoming Galaxy S26 series. The feature uses Flex Magic Pixel OLED technology that […]

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Samsung's Exynos 2600 chip is certainly shaping up to be one of the highest performing mobile-focused chips of 2026, especially in the graphics department, where its Xclipse 960 GPU is emerging as an absolute beast of a performer. Now, that same GPU has pushed the Exynos 2600 to the top of the Basemark Ray Tracing leaderboard. The Exynos 2600 SoC's Xclipse 960 GPU propels it to the top of the Basemark Ray Tracing leaderboard For the benefit of those who might not be aware, the Exynos 2600 is Samsung's first chip that leverages its 2nm Gate-All-Around (GAA) process, which is a […]

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Apple appears to be on the cusp of launching its first major products of the new year, namely, the M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pro devices, as two tantalizing signs beef up our confidence in this upbeat projection. Sign #1: The macOS 26.3 RC update and the connection to the M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pro devices Apple has just launched the 26.3 release candidate (RC) build for Xcode, allowing users to leverage OpenAI's Codex and Anthropic's Claude Agent natively for coding-related tasks. So, why is this development a harbinger of sorts? Well, this suggests that the rest […]

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Samsung's planned initial production runs for its upcoming devices are leading to aberrant outcomes this year, with the South Korean giant planning to produce a lot more Galaxy Z Fold 8 units than the cheaper Galaxy Z Flip 8 ones, while going all-in on the Galaxy S26 Ultra, to the detriment of its base and plus counterparts. Samsung to produce 3.5 million units of the Galaxy Fold 8 vs. just 2.5-3 million units of the Galaxy Z Flip 8 According to ET News, Samsung is planning to produce 3.5 million units of the Galaxy Fold 8 and between 2.5 million […]

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Apple might have adopted a Google Gemini crutch to compensate for its own AI-related shortcomings, but that has not stopped the researchers at the Cupertino giant from trying to explore novel ways to make Siri noticeably better. Now, a new research paper from Apple researchers aims to unlock faster, more natural-sounding responses from Siri. Apple researchers figure out a viable path to elicit faster responses from Siri AI models typically generate speech based on tokens or short snippets of phonetic sounds, often spanning just milliseconds. The model then selects which phonetic sound (speech token) to use in its responses by […]

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We've just received yet another material signal as to the potency and overall effectiveness of Samsung's Exynos 2600 chip, which is expected to launch within the upcoming Galaxy S26 series. Samsung's Exynos 2600 matches the performance of Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip in Vulkan on Geekbench As is evident from the X post above, Samsung's Exynos 2600 chip (Galaxy S26) has managed to snag a score of 27,478 on Vulkan, which is just a smidge shy of the score of 27,875 that Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip (Redmagic 11 Pro) has secured. Practically, the two chips […]

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Apple is widely believed to have adopted TSMC's SoIC packaging for its upcoming M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, bringing with it an unprecedented level of silicon-related flexibility and granularity. Now, Apple's new Mac configurator is giving tantalizing confirmatory signals as to this eventuality. The new Apple Mac configurator brings flexibility and granularity to the front We noted recently that, as per leaked anecdotes, Apple appears to be opting for TSMC's SoIC-MH packaging technology for its upcoming M5 Pro and M5 Max chips. For the benefit of those who might not be aware, the SoIC is a 3D packaging solution that […]

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Samsung has reserved around three-quarters of the Galaxy S26 series' initial production run for the Galaxy S26 Ultra, which constitutes an indirect admission of sorts on the part of the South Korean tech behemoth that the other two variants in the lineup won't attract a lot of consumer interest. The lopsided initial production run of the Galaxy S26 series: Galaxy S26 Ultra gets 3.6 million units, while the base S26 and S26+ will have to make do with a cumulative initial volume of just 1.3 million units As per the latest tidbit from Ice Universe, Samsung has planned an initial […]

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Intel has attracted quite a bit of chatter over the past few weeks amid tantalizing prospects of Apple returning to the chipmaker's embrace for some M-series processors and non-Pro iPhone chips. However, a new perspective from industry insiders has largely precluded the possibility of Apple iPhone chips leveraging Intel's bleeding-edge nodes. Chips made on Intel's advanced nodes will sport a degraded heat dissipation ability, precluding Apple's iPhone chips from leveraging the said nodes In recent weeks, both GF Securities and DigiTimes have disclosed that Apple might opt for Intel's 18A-P process for its lowest-end M-series chips that are expected to […]

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In what is nothing short of a huge shocker, SpaceX has just filed a new request with the FCC, asking for authorization to launch and operate up to 1 million new satellites to power AI-geared computing, constituting the first tangible step towards a "Kardashev II-level civilization." SpaceX: "Launching a million satellites that operate as orbital data centers is a first step towards becoming a Kardashev II-level civilization" SpaceX filed a new request with the FCC late on Friday, asking for the authorization to launch and operate a "constellation of a million satellites that operate as orbital data centers." The filing […]

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Apple's AI-related talent bleed continues unabated, judging from the most recent spate of hard-hitting departures. Mark Gurman: Apple has lost a key Siri exec and 4 AI researchers in recent weeks In a new report out today, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman has disclosed that Apple has lost Stuart Bowers to Google's DeepMind. Bowers was one of the most senior Apple executives working on Siri, and reported directly to Siri head Mike Rockwell. Additionally, Apple has lost four AI researchers: Yinfei Yang, Haoxuan You, Bailin Wang, and Zirui Wang. This comes as Apple lost four key executives back in December 2025 as […]

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