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TrendForce projects Apple will ship 5 million units of its newly announced iPhone Duo foldable in 2026, giving it nearly a quarter of the global foldable smartphone market. That would help offset a broader slump in the category, with non-Apple Android foldable shipments expected to fall more than 20% year-over-year even as total foldable shipments edge up slightly to about 20.2 million units.
A Geekbench 6 benchmark result attributed to Apple's unreleased A20 Pro chip has surfaced online, showing single-core and multi-core scores roughly 25% higher than the current A19 Pro. The chip, built on a 2nm process, is expected to power the upcoming iPhone Duo foldable and iPhone 18 Pro models, with clock speeds nearing 5 GHz.
A longtime startup operations executive with no coding background describes building an AI-powered assistant to handle administrative and organizational tasks, running it for roughly $25 daily. The project marks a shift for someone who spent two decades on the business side of startups without ever building software themselves.
The piece marks the 250th anniversary of both the United States' founding and Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, arguing the two milestones are historically linked. It contends that American capitalism and the business community have long shaped the nation's legal and justice systems, not just its economy.
Trump Mobile has increased the price of its gold-colored T1 Phone from $499 to $749, a change first spotted by The Verge after the company silently updated its website without any public announcement. The new price makes the T1 costlier than Apple's iPhone 17e.
Walmart is offering the MSI Cyborg 15 gaming laptop for $1,049, a $250 discount from its regular price. The machine pairs an Nvidia RTX 5060 GPU with 8GB VRAM and DLSS multi-frame generation with an eight-core Intel Core 5 210H processor, 16GB of DDR5-5600 RAM, and a 512GB Gen 4 SSD. It also features a 15.6-inch 1080p IPS display with a 144Hz refresh rate.
Trump Mobile quietly updated its website to raise the price of the T1 Phone from its original $499 to $749, without issuing any public statement about the change. The device itself remains unchanged, still shipping with 512GB of storage, 12GB of RAM, and Android 15, which has received just one security update since launch.
In his debut keynote as Apple CEO, John Ternus declared the iPhone the ideal 'intelligent personal hub' for the AI era, pushing back against predictions that smartphones are becoming obsolete. This marks a shift from Tim Cook's approach of emphasizing Apple's diversification beyond the iPhone, instead echoing Steve Jobs' 2001 defense of the Mac as a 'digital hub' just before the iPod's launch.
Richard Kelly's cult film 'Donnie Darko' is getting a remastered 4K theatrical rerelease to mark its 25th anniversary. The screenings are scheduled for October 2-4.
Ahead of Donnie Darko's 25th anniversary theatrical re-release on October 2, director Richard Kelly is publishing an 800-page novel titled The Philosophy of Time Travel on December 15, now available for preorder. The book continues the story from where the 2001 cult film ended and is meant to lay groundwork for a potential film sequel.
Amazon has cut the price of Samsung's newly released Galaxy Z Fold 8 by $250, bringing it down from $1,899.99 to $1,649.99, a 13% reduction. It's the first time the retailer has discounted the foldable since launch.
CloudSEK researchers infiltrated the admin panel of a phishing-as-a-service tool called BigBear 2.0 and found it had harvested over 5,000 Microsoft 365 credentials from 258 organizations. The kit uses an Evilginx2-based adversary-in-the-middle proxy to intercept usernames, passwords, and session cookies even after victims complete multi-factor authentication, letting attackers replay stolen sessions to hijack accounts.