In a series of health-focused announcements, Google has just rebranded the Fitbit app to Google Health, imbuing it with a dedicated AI health coach as well as the ability to work with any health tracker. The tech giant has also announced the $100 screenless Fitbit Air alongside a pricier special edition version. Google Health rebrand brings universal tracker compatibility and a dedicated AI health coach Google has just rebranded its Fitbit app to Google Health, replete with a more refined layout, customizable dashboards, and the ability to sync a variety of data, including health records. What's more, the new Google […]

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Apple might adopt a clever strategy to paper over the fact that selling the base MacBook Neo at $599 is increasingly becoming uneconomical, forcing a switch to higher-tier storage options where an elevated cost pass-through is much more feasible. Apple might cushion the blow from an effective $100 price increase for the MacBook Neo by introducing new color options As most of our readers would know by now, the MacBook Neo is powered by the binned A18 Pro chips, where one GPU core is disabled. Even so, Apple has been shocked by the oncoming demand for its new budget MacBook, […]

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Apple's MacBook Neo has popularized a trend of high-end smartphone SoCs powering low- and mid-tier laptops. And, Samsung now appears to be readying a Chromebook version of its 2028-launching Exynos 2800 SoC to power not only a MacBook Neo rival but also take on Apple's base M7 chip. Samsung has much grander plans for the Chromebook version of its Exynos 2800 chip than merely to power a MacBook Neo competitor, and those plans revolve around tackling Apple's base M7 chip itself The tipster Schrödinger appears to be on a roll lately. Just hours back, he revealed the CPU architecture of […]

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Samsung has finally entered the hallowed trillion-dollar club, courtesy of the memory-driven tailwind that continues to emanate from AI-focused data centers, going on to permeate nearly every facet of the global consumer electronics industry. Samsung is worth $1.2 trillion right now and continues to close in on Tesla's valuation, courtesy of the relentless global demand for memory resources As per a tabulation by CompaniesMarketCap, Samsung is worth $1.21 trillion right now, and remains poised to overtake Tesla as the world's tenth most valuable company. This comes as the operating profit of Samsung's semiconductor unit in Q1 2026 surged by an […]

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Apple's MacBook Neo appears to have unleashed a litany of earthquakes within the fairly complacent Windows 11-based laptop sphere, so much so that Microsoft is now apparently paying third-party organizations to come up with favorable comparisons to downplay the MacBook Neo's utility. Signal65 concludes in a Microsoft-funded report that Windows 11-based laptops provide higher value than Apple's MacBook Neo In its latest Lab Insights report, which has been commissioned by none other than Microsoft itself, Signal65 notes: "[Across the segment targeted by Apple's MacBook Neo], many Windows 11 laptops are designed to target similar audiences with a differentiated value proposition […]

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Samsung's display-related prowess remains unmatched right now, even as it continues to expand its lead by undertaking ambitious innovation. Now, a new leak has shed some much-needed light on a new holographic display that Samsung might be developing for Apple's secretive Spatial iPhone. Samsung appears to be working on its MH1 holographic display that supposedly uses eye-tracking and diffractive beam-steering, possibly to enable Apple's rumored Spatial iPhone Samsung typically implements significant technological upgrades with each new generation of its display panels. For instance, the M16 panels that are slated for the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max will swap blue […]

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Apple iPhone 18 Pro is now widely expected to sport a more efficient display sourced from Samsung and LG, leaving China's BOE scrambling for the proverbial crumbs. At the same time, tipsters continue to feud over the size of the Dynamic Island on the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, with the latest CAD renders inviting some hefty skepticism. The LTPO+ OLED screens from Samsung and LG will allow for an improved battery life on the Apple iPhone 18 Pro duo, as the Dynamic Island conundrum continues According to The Elec, Samsung and LG are now expected to supply the […]

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Apple had gone all-in on AI at its WWDC 2024, promising a veritable suite of AI-powered capabilities that have yet to materialize even after two years. And now, the Cupertino-based tech giant is paying the price for over-promising and under-delivering on its much-hyped AI-powered Siri. Apple to pay $250 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that had accused it of running a false advertisement campaign by hyping up the yet-to-be-seen AI capabilities of its Siri voice assistant For the benefit of those who might not be aware, Apple had extensively touted a more personalized Siri at its WWDC 2024, promising […]

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Another day and another Apple Mac configuration appears to have been pulled, all in a bid to conserve precious memory resources for Apple's upcoming M5-based Mac Studio and Mac mini devices. Just days after pulling the base M4 Mac mini, Apple has narrowed the M3 Ultra Mac Studio configurator to the lone 96GB memory option First, Apple increased their lead times. And now, entire memory configurations for the Mac Studio and Mac mini devices are going offline. Just last week, Apple pulled the base variant of the Mac mini, which sported the M4 chip, 16GB RAM, 256GB of storage, and a […]

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Apple is still a fair distance away from unveiling the 2027-launching iPhone 20. Yet, the iPhone has been the focus of supply chain leaks for quite some time, which is hardly a surprise given the quantum of change that Apple is reportedly bringing to the proverbial table. Now, a well-known tipster has tried to wholly demystify the iPhone 20 by pairing feature leaks with plausible speculation. Apple iPhone 20 to sport an all-glass look, replete with solid-state buttons, a quad-curved display, and hefty use of under-display tech, and topped off with a massive battery The Weibo-based tipster Instant Digital has […]

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OpenAI appears to be fast-tracking its plans for an AI-enabled smartphone, partially in a bid to bolster its IPO that might land as soon as this year. And, in its urgency, OpenAI appears to be settling on a customized version of MediaTek's upcoming flagship Dimensity 9600 chip as the SoC of choice for the planned smartphone. OpenAI's smartphone will use a customized version of the Dimensity 9600 chip, replete with a dual-NPU architecture and enhanced HDR for real-world visual sensing The famous analyst Ming-Chi Kuo revealed towards the end of April that OpenAI had relegated its planned range of consumer […]

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TSMC is turning into a victim of its own success as the world's preferred chip foundry, leaving its heretofore prized customers such as Apple in a bind of sorts as they suddenly find themselves crowded out by AI hyperscalers. In its frustration, Apple is now reportedly exploring the possibility of dividing up its silicon load between Samsung, Intel, and TSMC rather than remaining largely TSMC-exclusive. Apple is looking for contingencies by tentatively probing Intel and Samsung as additional vectors for manufacturing its custom chips According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple has already held "early-stage talks" with Intel for using its […]

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Samsung might have a lot of faults, but a lack of innovation is certainly not among those. As a case in point, look no further than the recent SID exhibition in the United States, where Samsung just unveiled two revolutionary display technologies, unlocking a veritable suite of biomarker-led applications in the process. Samsung flexes its innovative muscle with the "Flex Chroma Pixel" and "Sensor OLED" The famous tipster Ice Universe has just detailed two new display technologies that Samsung recently showcased at the SID exhibition. Samsung's "Flex Chroma Pixel" display combines next-gen emissive materials, such as phosphorescent sensitized fluorescence (PSF), […]

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Samsung is not expected to fundamentally alter the prevailing mold when it launches the Galaxy Z Flip 8 later this summer. Even so, the South Korean tech behemoth is looking at a few iterative improvements that are likely to improve the device's ergonomics and aesthetics. Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 8 will weigh 8 grams less than its Flip 7 counterpart, and come equipped with a new hinge and a crease-free display South Korea-based Yeux1122 has now published a new blog post detailing that the Galaxy Z Flip 8 will be slimmer than its Flip 7 counterpart by around 0.5mm, courtesy […]

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The mobile DRAM market is showing no sign of retrenchment as the wider industry stares at a ~100 percent quarter-over-quarter (QoQ) price increase in Q2 2026, building upon the 58 percent - 63 percent QoQ price growth for LPDDR5X in Q1. The mobile DRAM market shows no sign of cooling off, as Long-Term Agreements (LTAs) entrench price hikes SemiAnalysis reported just a few days back that LPDDR5 contract prices were recently hovering at around $10/GB after undergoing a 3x increase since Q1 2025. What's more, the firm expected this trend of price hikes to continue well into 2027. While DRAM […]

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When market distortions become so extreme that the underlying economics stop making sense, retreat is the only recourse. And, this is exactly what Morgan Stanley is now betting on in relation to Apple's ongoing bid for uncontested market share supremacy via a combination of price freezes and strategic hoarding of memory resources. Morgan Stanley believes Apple will not be able to sell the upcoming iPhone 18 variants at the same prices as those of their equivalent iPhone 17 counterparts Apple's emergent strategy to freeze the prices of its products amid the ongoing memory-driven turmoil first became evident when it refused […]

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In an era of unprecedented memory-led chaos in the global smartphone sphere, Apple lobbed nothing short of a bombshell during its earnings call this week, declaring that TSMC's advanced node capacity - not memory - was the main bottleneck for its products. Think about this. As per conservative estimates, Apple's iPhones are all set to consume 2.4 exabytes of memory this year! And yet, the Cupertino tech giant declares it is not memory-constrained, while seemingly capping the prices of its products. This declaration is nothing short of a gauntlet for Chinese OEMs: Apple is coming after your market share! Apple's […]

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Just a day after warning about Mac Studio and Mac mini supply remaining constrained for a number of months ahead, Apple has apparently discontinued the base Mac mini globally, as advanced node capacity and memory price inflation emerge as potent bottlenecks. Apple discontinues the base Mac mini as TSMC's advanced node capacity and the ongoing memory inflation begin to bite The base variant of the Apple Mac mini, which sported the M4 chip, 16GB RAM, 256GB of storage, and a retail price of $599, has now been pulled from the configurator in the US and other key global markets. Do […]

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