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Malleable Software Will Eat the SaaS World

In the AI era, the winners won’t be the tools you adapt to — they’ll be the tools that adapt to you. Let's take Linear. It is a beautiful, well-designed, simple but inflexible tool with little room for AI to add value. AI thrives in messy, open-ended spaces where it can design, assemble, and adapt — but in Linear, the major design choices have already been made. At best, AI might shave a few seconds off repetitive tasks or auto-fill a few fields, but it can’t reinvent the core process, because

We compared the best tablets by Apple, Samsung, and others in our lab - here's the battery champ

Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. When looking to buy a tablet, there are a few factors to keep in mind, such as what you'll be using the tablet for (entertainment, drawing, work, etc.), your price point, display size, operating system, and more. At ZDNET, we considered all of these factors when choosing the best tablets you can buy, but we were able to test one important factor that can truly make or break your tablet experience: battery life. Also:

Samsung announces the Tab S10 Lite, a $349 tablet with an S Pen

This week, Samsung introduced a new addition to its tablet lineup with the Tab S10 Lite. It will be available on September 4 and will cost $349. The Lite will be the least expensive of Samsung's current tablet generation; the S10 FE has a starting cost of $500 while costs go as high as $980 for the S10 Ultra . The Tab S10 Lite is 10.9 inches, and it comes in gray, silver or a coral red. Its screen has a 90Hz refresh rate and a maximum brightness of 600 nits. Models can have 6GB memory with 128G

Sonos headphones and speakers are up to 25 percent off for back to school

No matter how old you get, the back-to-school season will always bring a desire to shop. So, sales at this time of year are always more than welcome — especially when they're on some of our favorite devices. Such is the case with the 10 percent discount currently available on the Sonos Era 100. Our choice for midrange smart speaker is down to $179 from $199 as part of a larger sale on the Sonos website. The same price is available on Amazon, as are some more deals on Sonos products. Sonos debu

Apple iPhone 18 Fold is coming soon: 5 biggest rumors and leaks going into 2026

Zain bin Awais Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways The iPhone Fold could come close to Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 7 in terms of thickness. Apple's first foldable iPhone might bring Touch ID back to iPhones. It is rumored to sport a smaller display than the iPhone 16. Apple is reportedly set to launch its first-ever foldable iPhone in 2026. Ahead of the big iPhone 17 launch, more details about the long-rumored iPhone Fold have emerged. It is said to be a

Saudi AI Firm Launches Halal Chatbot

Companies with AI chatbots love to highlight their capability as translators, but they still default to English, both in function and in the information they are trained on. With that in mind, Humain, an AI company in Saudi Arabia, has now launched an Arabic-native chatbot. The bot, called Humain Chat, runs on the Allam large language model, according to Bloomberg, which the company claims was trained on “one of the largest Arabic datasets ever assembled” and is the “world’s most advanced Arabi

Samsung launches Galaxy Tab S10 Lite, but a big question remains (Update: Price details)

TL;DR Samsung has officially announced the Galaxy Tab S10 Lite, which will be available on September 4. The tablet features a 10.9-inch display with up to 600 nits of brightness. The device is powered by an 8,000mAh battery and runs on an Exynos 1380 chip. Update: August 25, 2025 (4:40 PM ET): A Samsung spokesperson has informed Android Authority that the Galaxy Tab S10 Lite will sell for $799.99. Contrary to what the press release says, the tablet will be available on September 4 on Samsung’

Details About the First iPhone Foldable Are Coming Into Focus

We keep getting more and more details about what Apple's first foldable iPhone is going to look like when it launches in 2026. And the latest info is pretty intriguing. As reported by Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, the foldable is code-named "V68," will have four cameras and will be available only in variations of black and white. The device will also rely on Touch ID (not Face ID) and will not have a SIM card slot. The four cameras will consist of one on the front, two on the back and one on the ins

5 rumored Apple iPhone Fold features that have me excited (and frustrated at the same time)

Zain bin Awais Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways The iPhone Fold could come close to Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 7 in terms of thickness. Apple's first foldable iPhone might bring Touch ID back to iPhones. It is rumored to sport a smaller display than the iPhone 16. Apple is reportedly set to launch its first-ever foldable iPhone in 2026. Ahead of the big iPhone 17 launch, more details about the long-rumored iPhone Fold have emerged. It is said to be a

Samsung launches Galaxy Tab S10 Lite, but a big question remains

TL;DR Samsung has officially announced the Galaxy Tab S10 Lite, which will be available on September 5. The tablet features a 10.9-inch display with up to 600 nits of brightness. The device is powered by an 8,000mAh battery and runs on an Exynos 1380 chip. The Berlin-based consumer tech trade show, IFA 2025, is just around the corner. Among the numerous attendees, Samsung will be there to present its latest innovations. Ahead of that event, the tech giant has taken the initiative and official

Apple will reportedly bring back Touch ID on a foldable iPhone

As an iPhone user who has watched the release of foldable Android mobile phones with envy, I can't wait for 2026. Yes, Apple's 2025 iPhone launch event is next month, but I've been eyeing Apple's first foldable iPhone, rumored to launch next year. It's part of three years of Apple's planned iPhone redesigns. While this would be a new addition to Apple's lineup, Bloomberg reports that it will come with a throwback feature: Touch ID. Why it's reverting to Touch ID from Face ID is unclear as the l

Mathematical secrets of ancient tablet unlocked after nearly a century of study (2017)

At least 1,000 years before the Greek mathematician Pythagoras looked at a right angled triangle and worked out that the square of the longest side is always equal to the sum of the squares of the other two, an unknown Babylonian genius took a clay tablet and a reed pen and marked out not just the same theorem, but a series of trigonometry tables which scientists claim are more accurate than any available today. The 3,700-year-old broken clay tablet survives in the collections of Columbia Unive

We battery-tested top tablets from Apple, Samsung, and others in our lab: These were the winners

When looking to buy a tablet, there are a few factors to keep in mind, such as what you'll be using the tablet for (entertainment, drawing, work, etc.), your price point, display size, operating system, and more. At ZDNET, we considered all of these factors when choosing the best tablets you can buy, but we were able to test one important factor that can truly make or break your tablet experience: battery life. Also: The best cheap tablets We ran nine tablets through the gauntlet in our lab in