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Did Anyone Ask for a Super Thin iPhone Air?

The star of Tuesday's "awe dropping" Apple event was undeniably the iPhone Air, a slim, much-rumored version of its new iPhone 17. It's only 5.6mm thick -- thinner than three stacked credit cards -- if you ignore the huge camera bump. But does anyone actually want a super-thin iPhone? Apple has loaded up the iPhone Air with better battery life and faster processing power via the A19 Pro chip. It's also got a 48-megapixel fusion camera and a 12-megapixel 2x telephoto camera. Apple said this is t

Enter the Claustrophobic Chaos of a Derelict Spaceship in This Sci-Fi Flick, Streaming Free on Tubi

Not all horror movies are made equal, and sci-fi horror is easily my favorite sub-genre, with he vastness of space pressing in from every side, creatures engineered by science gone wrong, and derelict spaceships housing unspeakable horrors. The Alien franchise might be the most well-known movies of the genre, but it isn't the only one worth watching. One of my favorites is Pandorum. Released in 2009, it's a claustrophobic trip into space where a mechanic wakes up on a colony ship to see that th

Hyundai’s Latest Concept Car Comes With Subtle ‘Star Wars’ References

Hyundai just previewed a new concept car at the IAA Mobility trade show in Munich, Germany, and it’s packed with subtle Star Wars nods. The EV, dubbed the Concept THREE, sports a futuristic graphite-silver exterior, yellow-tinted windows, and a moonbeam-yellow interior with purple accents. Concept THREE is Hyundai’s first compact design for its IONIQ line of EVs. Concept cars like this one often serve multiple purposes, including generating buzz, showing off a company’s latest tech, and signal

Did Anyone Ask for a Super Thin iPhone?

The star of Tuesday's "awe dropping" Apple event was undeniably the iPhone Air, a slim, much-rumored version of its new iPhone 17. It's only 5.6mm thick -- thinner than three stacked credit cards -- if you ignore the huge camera bump. But does anyone actually want a super-thin iPhone? Apple has loaded up the iPhone Air with better battery life and faster processing power via the A19 Pro chip. It's also got a 48-megapixel fusion camera and a 12-megapixel 2x telephoto camera. Apple said this is t

A Split-Second Hint in the iPhone Air Launch Shows Apple's Ready for the Smart Home

Apple's "awe dropping" Tuesday event has wrapped up, and we're all still taking in the new paper-thin iPhone Air line (not everyone's in awe of it) as well as the iPhone 17 Pro. But something caught my ear in the middle of the iPhone Air announcement. Along with other connectivity support, Apple made sure to add that the iPhone Air would support Thread. In a presentation where every second and word was intentional, it means a lot that the company included it. "So, what's Thread?" is probably yo

Xcode 26 RC beta now available for developers

Following today’s event, Apple is now rolling out the first Release Candidate version of the operating systems announced during WWDC25, as well as for Xcode 26. Here are the details. Apple Intelligence, Anthropic and OpenAI integration This year, Xcode’s highlight feature is its built-in integration with large language models, including native support for OpenAI and Anthropic. Users can also integrate with local LLMs and third-party services via API keys. Anthropic’s support was added late in

Memory Integrity Enforcement

Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE) is the culmination of an unprecedented design and engineering effort, spanning half a decade, that combines the unique strengths of Apple silicon hardware with our advanced operating system security to provide industry-first, always-on memory safety protection across our devices — without compromising our best-in-class device performance. We believe Memory Integrity Enforcement represents the most significant upgrade to memory safety in the history of consumer

Apple Debuts AirPods Pro 3 With a Host of Improvements for $249

Apple was widely expected to release the next-generation of its AirPods Pro noise-canceling earbuds this fall, and now it is has. As part of its "awe-dropping" event, the company debuted the AirPods Pro 3. The new buds are upgraded in several ways, including better noise canceling and sound quality, and they have heart-rate sensors like the Beats PowerBeats Pro 2. You can preorder them today for $249 and they ship on Sept. 19. Here are some of their key upgrades, according to Apple. It's worth

SpaceX’s lesson from last Starship flight? “We need to seal the tiles.”

It has been two weeks since SpaceX's last Starship test flight, and engineers have diagnosed issues with its heat shield, identified improvements, and developed a preliminary plan for the next time the ship heads into space. Bill Gerstenmaier, a SpaceX executive in charge of build and flight reliability, presented the findings Monday at the American Astronautical Society's Glenn Space Technology Symposium in Cleveland. The rocket lifted off on August 26 from SpaceX's launch pad in Starbase, Te

At the Abundance conference, right-wing anti-regulation ideals were in abundance

Tina Nguyen is a Senior Reporter for The Verge and author of Regulator , covering the second Trump administration, political influencers, tech lobbying and Big Tech vs. Big Government. Hello and welcome to Regulator. If you’re here via a link and would like to read more, The Verge is running a very good subscription sale this month: $4 for a month and $35 for the year, for full access to the entire site. That’s right: you can read about political horseshoe theory in action AND get our live cove

Apple’s using more recycled materials in its iPhones and watches

is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home , a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Apple’s new iPhone Air contains more recycled titanium than any of its predecessors, the company announced at the Tuesday Keynote. It’s using 80 percent recycled titanium. The phone as a w

Kosovo hacker pleads guilty to running BlackDB cybercrime marketplace

Kosovo national Liridon Masurica has pleaded guilty to running BlackDB.cc, a cybercrime marketplace that has been active since 2018. Kosovar authorities arrested the 33-year-old defendant (also known online as @blackdb) on December 14, 2024. He was extradited to the United States on May 9, 2025, and detained following his court appearance in Tampa on May 12. Masurica was the lead administrator of the online criminal marketplace BlackDB.cc, which has been operating for almost seven years, betwe

Apple Debuts AirPods Pro 3 With a Host of Improvements

Apple was widely expected to release the next-generation of its AirPods Pro noise-canceling earbuds this fall, and now it is has. As part of its awe-dropping event, the company debuted the AirPods Pro 3. The new buds are upgraded in several ways, including better noise canceling and sound quality, and they have heart-rate sensors like the Beats PowerBeats Pro 2. You can preorder them today for $249 and they ship Sept. 19. Here are some of their key upgrades, according to Apple. I'm still waitin

Apple reveals the all-aluminum iPhone 17 Pro

is a news editor with over a decade’s experience in journalism. He previously worked at Android Police and Tech Advisor. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Apple has announced the iPhone 17 Pro, the top model in its new iPhone 17 lineup, alongside the regular iPhone 17 and all-new iPhone Air. It’s returned to an aluminum build, runs on the A19 Pro chip, and boasts what Apple is calling a “full-width camera plateau” on the back. Earlier this

Microsoft says employees will be expected in office three days a week

Microsoft said on Tuesday that employees will be expected to work in an office three days a week starting next year. Employees that work near Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, Washington, or the Puget Sound area, will be required to be in the office three days a week, starting in February. After that, the policy will extend to other U.S. locations and then to international offices. The company is sending emails to employees who live within 50 miles of a Microsoft office around Puget Sound a

Your Blink subscription price is going up - unless you act fast

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Blink is raising the price of a monthly and yearly subscription. The Plus plan will be $12/month and $120/year. The company hasn't changed its subscription price since 2020. For the first time ever, Blink is raising the price of its subscription plan -- but it's adding some new features. And if you hurry, you can avoid the rate increase. In an email to subscribers this week, the company explained

Disrupting the DRAM roadmap with capacitor-less IGZO-DRAM technology

A novel DRAM memory cell with two IGZO-based transistors The bit cell of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM), the main memory within traditional compute architectures, is conceptually very simple. It consists of one capacitor (1C) and one silicon (Si)-based transistor (1T). While the capacitor’s role is to store a charge, the transistor is used to access the capacitor, either to read how much charge is stored or to store a new charge. Over the years, bit cell density scaling allowed the indust

Microsoft is officially sending employees back to the office

This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. One of Big Tech's last remaining RTO holdouts is officially sending employees back to the office. Microsoft is mandating employees work from offices at least three days a week, according to an internal email the company sent to staff on Tuesday. The mandate will happen in three phases, beginning at the end of February 2026, with Seattle-area employees who live within 50 miles of a Mic

Horror Maze Game ‘Dark Deception’ Is Becoming a Horror Movie

The next video game to join the list of those coming to the silver screen is Glowstick Entertainment’s Dark Deception. If you’ve never heard of it, it’s described on Steam as a “story-driven first-person horror maze” inspired by classic arcade games. The 2018 PC and mobile title came out in 2018 and tasks players with getting out of a maze filled with big-headed monsters that’d probably be right at home in Five Nights at Freddy’s. (Probably why it got picked up; the 2023 Freddy’s film was a hit

Right-Wing Influencers Are Turning to Foreign Affairs

Wearing combat helmets and protective vests, some of the US’s most popular right-wing creators toured what they called an aid distribution hub in Gaza late last month—a trip carefully funded by Israel’s foreign ministry. By way of the nonprofit Israel365, the Israeli government funneled at least $70,000 to 15 MAGA creators to bring them to Gaza’s humanitarian sites, the Western Wall, and the Golan Heights, among other areas. “It sits here to spoil and be stolen,” Xaviaer DuRousseau captioned a

New emojis will include Bigfoot, orca whale, treasure chest, and more

The Unicode Consortium has confirmed its next slate of emojis, coming in the next year to eager thumbs near you. Yes, there is indeed a nonprofit organization that creates standardized language across devices from a wide range of hardware makers — that’s why if you send your friend a flamenco dancer emoji from your iPhone, they’ll be able to see that suave dancer in a red dress on their Android. And that same organization gets the final say on what new emojis come to your device. The new emoji

Adobe patches critical SessionReaper flaw in Magento eCommerce platform

Adobe is warning of a critical vulnerability (CVE-2025-54236) in its Commerce and Magento Open Source platforms that researchers call SessionReaper and describe as one of " the most severe" flaws in the history of the product. Today, the software company released a patch for the security issue that could be exploited without authentication to take control of customer accounts through the Commerce REST API. According to e-commerce security company Sansec, Adobe notified "selected Commerce custo

Blink just raised its subscription price - but you get 2 new features in return

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's takeaways Blink is raising the price of a monthly and yearly subscription. The new price will be $3.99 a month or $39.99 a year. The company hasn't changed its subscription price since 2020. For the first time ever, Blink is raising the price of its subscription plan -- but it's adding some new features. In an email to subscribers this week, the company explained that "for the first time since Blink launched su

X open sourced their latest algorithm

X's Recommendation Algorithm X's Recommendation Algorithm is a set of services and jobs that are responsible for serving feeds of posts and other content across all X product surfaces (e.g. For You Timeline, Search, Explore, Notifications). For an introduction to how the algorithm works, please refer to our engineering blog. Architecture Product surfaces at X are built on a shared set of data, models, and software frameworks. The shared components included in this repository are listed below:

NASA to Make Major Announcement About Martian Rock Sample on Wednesday. Here’s How to Watch

In July 2024, NASA’s Perseverance rover extracted a rock core from the edge of Neretva Vallis, a river valley cut into the Martian surface by water rushing into the Jezero Crater billions of years ago. This mysterious rock caught the attention of scientists on Earth, as its features may reveal clues about possible ancient life on the Red Planet. At 11 a.m. ET on Wednesday, September 10, NASA will host a press conference to discuss the analysis of the sample, dubbed “Sapphire Canyon,” and the su

France vs. Iceland: Livestream World Cup 2026 Qualifier Soccer From Anywhere

Two sides who got their World Cup 2026 qualifying campaigns off to winning starts meet at the Parc des Princes on Tuesday as France host Iceland. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services to use to watch the game as it happens, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if the match isn't available where you are. Les Bleus claimed a 2-0 win against Ukraine on Friday in their Group D opener, thanks to goals from Michael Olise and Kylian Mbappé. However, Didier Deschamps'

Switch modder owes Nintendo $2 million after representing himself in court

It has often been said that the lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client. That truism apparently extends to Switch modders as well, at least in the case of Ryan Daly. The operator of the now-defunct moddedhardware.com (archived) now owes Nintendo $2 million after a recent settlement filed in a Washington state District Court. The final judgement, which was jointly agreed to by both parties, asserts that Daly knowingly sold devices such as the MIG Switch and MIG Dumper that "are pri

Tesla says its new Megablock can cut costs for renewable energy storage.

is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home , a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. At an event in Las Vegas yesterday, Tesla revealed a new utility-scale battery configuration that it claims can significantly lower construction costs for utilities, along with faster inst

New emojis will include Bigfoot, orca whale, treasure chest and more

The Unicode Consortium has confirmed its next slate of emojis, coming in the next year to eager thumbs near you. Yes, there is indeed a nonprofit organization that creates standardized language across devices from a wide range of hardware makers — that’s why if you send your friend a flamenco dancer emoji from your iPhone, they’ll be able to see that suave dancer in a red dress on their Android. And that same organization gets the final say on what new emojis come to your device. The new emoji

Deals: 24GB M4 MacBook Pro now a massive $400 off, M4 Pro also $400 off, iPhone 16 Pro $470 off, more

Happy Apple event day folks! Before all of the “Awe dropping” new reveals, we are touching down with some notable price drops on MacBook Pro. This includes one of the best price drops ever on Apple’s 24GB M4 MacBook Pro at $400 off alongside this upgraded M4 Pro MacBook Pro with 48GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD at the same $400 off the list price. And if you’re not upgrading to iPhone 17, we have put together some particularly notable price drops on iPhone 15, 15 Pro Max, and iPhone 16 Pro models with