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iPhone 17 Pro vs iPhone 16 Pro: Here’s everything new

Apple unveiled its flagship iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max earlier today at the ‘Awe dropping’ event alongside new AirPods Pro 3, Apple Watch Ultra 3, and more. Here’s how the new iPhone 17 Pro compares to last year’s 16 Pro models. Displays and durability: Brighter and more scratch resistant iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max come in the same 6.3-inch and 6.9-inch sizes as their predecessors. One advantage of this year’s models is they can get even brighter outdoors, and have 2x better outdoor contrast.

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iPhone 17 Pro Max is Apple’s first $2,000 model…if you get 2TB

Apple’s flagship iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max are here, and the Pro Max includes a 2TB storage option for the first time ever. Before you start celebrating though, be sure to check the price tag. Highest iPhone 17 Pro Max storage tier will cost you Ahead of today’s ‘Awe dropping’ event, rumors about iPhone 17 price increases were rampant. It turns out, Apple did raise some prices, but they’re arguably not strict “increases.” For example, iPhone 17 Pro now starts at $1,099, up from $999 last yea

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Here’s everything Apple didn’t announce during its ‘Awe Dropping’ event

For an event that lasted less than 1 hour and 20 minutes, Apple managed to pack quite a lot of new devices and features into its lineup. Still, some had been expecting a little bit more. Here’s what Apple decided not to include in today’s event, some of which may still come by the end of the year. AirPods Pro 3 with infrared camera sensor For the past few days, there were rumors indicating that Apple would release two AirPods Pro 3 versions: the one that was actually announced today, and an in

Apple publishes ‘Dear Apple’ segment from today’s event

For the past few years, Apple has featured real cases of users whose lives were saved or profoundly changed by the Apple Watch. Today, it was no different. Watch the heartfelt segment below. Dear Apple… Following today’s “Awe Dropping” event, Apple published a standalone version of the “Dear Apple” segment on its YouTube channel. The video features multiple users who were either alerted or outright saved by the Apple Watch when something went wrong or who found motivation to stay active and l

The iPhone 17 Pro has an aluminum case and vapor chamber cooling

While all eyes are likely on the iPhone Air this year, Apple is introducing several new features in the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max that should keep its more demanding users satisfied. The company says it went back to the drawing board to develop a new unibody aluminum case, a vapor chamber cooling system and the biggest batteries ever put into iPhones. There’s also a completely revamped rear design, featuring a new horizontal camera module and combination of aluminum and Apple’s Ceramic Shield 2

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The 15+ best iPhone 17 accessories for content creators, power users, and more

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

Every iPhone 17 model compared: Should you buy the base model, Air, Pro, or Max?

Apple's iPhone 17 lineup is officially here, bringing four new devices to the table. As expected, the series consists of upgrades to past models such as the iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro, and iPhone 17 Pro Max. But this generation is shaking things up by introducing the iPhone Air -- a new addition that Apple says is "the thinnest iPhone ever made." And for the first time in several generations, there will not be a "Plus" model. Also: How to clear your iPhone cache (and why you should do it before u

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Show HN: Vicinae – a native, Raycast-compatible launcher for Linux

Vicinae (pronounced "vih-SIN-ay") is a high-performance, native launcher for your desktop — built with C++ and Qt. It includes a set of built-in modules, and extensions can be developed quickly using fully server-side React/TypeScript — with no browser or Electron involved. Inspired by the popular Raycast launcher, Vicinae provides a mostly compatible extension API, allowing reuse of many existing Raycast extensions with minimal modification. Vicinae is designed for developers and power users

I still love PHP and JavaScript (2022)

Why I Still Love PHP and Javascript After 20+ years 01 Aug, 2022 Over the last twenty years, I have used over a dozen languages professionally, from C to Common Lisp, from Java to Python, from C++ to Typescript. Yet, I love janky programming languages. In particular, I really enjoy PHP and Javascript. Here's why. They are used by people who get shit done. This makes it easy to find people who: understand business needs, can iterate quickly have shipped and maintained many projects in th

Cities obey the laws of living things

Who would disagree with Dickens that London’s green spaces are the city’s “lungs?” A city is an animal that sleeps, although some never do, like New York City or Hong Kong. All cities are creatures of a sort. Some have multiple “faces” they present to the world, most have a “beating heart” where the action unfolds, and it is a rare city that lacks a dark “underbelly.” The analogy of city as living organism is so established, in fact, that it has crossed over into the realm of scientific inquiry

YouTube is a mysterious monopoly

YouTube is a mysterious monopoly Yesterday I saw this Bluesky post from Adrian Black. He runs Adrian’s Digital Basement, a retro computer repair channel I really enjoy. In the post, he points out a trend I didn’t know about: YouTube views seem to have fallen off a cliff recently. Further down the thread, Jeff Geerling linked to a blog post on the subject. Geerling is another technology YouTuber whose work I enjoy. He’s also seen a large drop in views. In that post, Geerling shares some data: w

Show HN: Bottlefire – Build single-executable microVMs from Docker images

Pricing Official images and some other popular public images on Docker Hub are available for free. To access any public or private image, please sign up and subscribe to help us cover operational costs of this service. Pro $5 / month, 20GB active images(*) included Pull any public or private image from Docker Hub and GHCR. Contact us if you need higher limits or need to use AWS ECR, GCP Artifact Registry, or other container registries. $ curl -fL -H "Authorization: Bearer bottlefire_..." -o ap

Tomorrow's emoji today: Unicode 17.0

Once a year, Unicode drops its annual update: thousands of new characters, new scripts, new symbols, and of course… new emoji. Today marks the release of Unicode 17.0, adding 4,803 characters (bringing the grand total to 159,801!). You can download Noto Emoji today and embed on your website but they’re not quite ready to keyboard smash (it will take some time before many of these reach our devices) let’s take a moment to bask in the glow of … Hairy Creature Hairy creature is one of those rare

Mistral raises 1.7B€, partners with ASML

We are announcing a Series C funding round of 1.7B€ at a 11.7B€ post-money valuation. This investment fuels our scientific research to keep pushing the frontier of AI to tackle the most critical and sophisticated technological challenges faced by strategic industries. The Series C funding round is led by leading semiconductor equipment manufacturer, ASML Holding NV (ASML). “ASML is proud to enter a strategic partnership with Mistral AI, and to be lead investor in this funding round. The collab

Anthropic is endorsing SB 53

Anthropic is endorsing SB 53, the California bill that governs powerful AI systems built by frontier AI developers like Anthropic. We’ve long advocated for thoughtful AI regulation and our support for this bill comes after careful consideration of the lessons learned from California's previous attempt at AI regulation (SB 1047). While we believe that frontier AI safety is best addressed at the federal level instead of a patchwork of state regulations, powerful AI advancements won’t wait for cons

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E-paper display reaches the realm of LCD screens

E-paper displays are prized for their readability and low power use, but they’ve long been dismissed as too slow for everyday computing. Modos, a two-person startup with open-hardware roots, thinks it has cracked part of that problem with a development kit capable of driving an e-paper display at refresh rates up to a record 75 hertz. The Modos Paper Monitor and Dev Kit, now available for crowdfunding on Crowd Supply, combines standard e-paper panels with an open source FPGA-based display cont

Immunotherapy drug eliminates aggressive cancers in clinical trial

Over the past 20 years, a class of cancer drugs called CD40 agonist antibodies have shown great promise—and induced great disappointment. While effective at activating the immune system to kill cancer cells in animal models, the drugs had limited impact on patients in clinical trials and caused dangerously systemic inflammatory responses, low platelet counts, and liver toxicity, among other adverse reactions—even at a low dose. But in 2018, the lab of Rockefeller University’s Jeffrey V. Ravetch

MAGA Congressman Explains Trump’s Signature in Epstein Birthday Book by Floating Autopen Conspiracy

A Congressional document dump of Jeffrey Epstein files on Monday has created a certifiable public relations nightmare for the Trump administration, and its allies are currently scrambling for some sort of explanation as to why what looks a whole helluva lot like the President’s signature would be found on an alleged birthday letter included in the trove. On Tuesday, Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tennessee) offered up the latest excuse: some sort of conspiracy involving a signing machine called an autopen

The Zombie on ‘Wednesday’ Was Inspired by Klaus Kinski and Frankenstein

Wednesday actor Owen Painter recently sat down with Vulture to discuss the human element he brought to his performance as Slurp the zombie—and of course, what it was like eating the disembodied Professor Orloff (Christopher Lloyd)’s brain. As Painter stated, “I was told to act out ‘You’ve been sitting for a thousand years and your voice box doesn’t work, and water’s going to fix that, so you should have a glass of water across the room, but some stuff is in your way.’ I had so much fun messing

Claude’s new AI file creation feature ships with deep security risks built in

On Tuesday, Anthropic launched a new file creation feature for its Claude AI assistant that enables users to generate Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, and other documents directly within conversations on the web interface and in the Claude desktop app. While the feature may be handy for Claude users, the company's support documentation also warns that it "may put your data at risk" and details how the AI assistant can be manipulated to transmit user data to external servers. The fe

Pfizer says this season’s COVID shot boosts immune responses fourfold

Pfizer and BioNTech report that their updated mRNA COVID-19 vaccine for the 2025–2026 season produced strong immune responses, boosting neutralizing antibody levels by at least fourfold in older people and those with underlying medical conditions. The positive results come as Americans face a confusing, state-by-state patchwork of access to the shots under the health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an ardent anti-vaccine activist who has unilaterally restricted access. Prior to the second Trum

Verge staffers react to the iPhone Air: what we love and don’t love

Determined to give us something new to talk about, Apple has introduced its ultra-thin iPhone Air. It’s just 5.6mm thick with a 6.5-inch ProMotion display, a 48-megapixel dual camera, a selfie camera that supports Center Stage, and an add-on MagSafe battery. Among other things. We asked the staff of The Verge for their first impressions of the iPhone Air. We’ll run a full review of the phone, of course, but here are some feelings about the phone from our staff. Preorders for the iPhone Air beg

Apple’s newest health-tracking features are coming to older watches

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Apple just announced a bunch of new health tracking features alongside its new smartwatch lineup — but you might not need to upgrade your device to get access to them. With the launch of watchOS 26 next week, Apple will bring hypertension notifications, live tra

Judge puts Anthropic’s $1.5 billion book piracy settlement on hold

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Anthropic’s $1.5 billion book piracy settlement has been put on pause after the federal judge overseeing the class action case raised concerns about the terms of the agreement. During a hearing this week, Judge William Alsup rejected the settlement over concerns

Apple launches iPhone 17 with a 120 Hz display

Apple launched the iPhone 17 series today at its “awe-dropping” event, with the base model getting an upgraded display. The iPhone 17 has a slightly bigger screen at 6.3 inches as compared to the 6.1-inch screen of the iPhone 16. The display is getting an upgrade with ProMotion, which is being used in the base model for the first time. It supports a 120 Hz refresh rate and dynamically switches to different refresh rates using the LTPO (low-temperature polycrystalline oxide) tech. This display

Why SpaceX made a $17B bet on the direct-to-cell market

SpaceX just fired off one of the biggest shots yet in the spectrum wars, agreeing to pay $17 billion to take over a massive chunk of wireless airwaves from EchoStar for Starlink’s Direct-to-Cell services. The deal is the most aggressive signal yet that SpaceX wants to rule the satellite-to-phone market. The significance of the sale, which sees SpaceX paying a mix of $8.5 billion in cash and $8.5 billion in SpaceX stock, centers around a finite resource: spectrum. Spectrum refers to the range o

Nebius stock soars nearly 50% on Microsoft AI deal

Nebius, which was spun out from Russian internet giant Yandex, provides graphics processing units or GPUs for training artificial intelligence models. Shares of artificial intelligence infrastructure firm Nebius Group soared nearly 50% Tuesday, a day after the company disclosed a multi-billion-dollar deal with Microsoft . The Amsterdam-based firm announced it had struck a multi-year deal with Microsoft worth up to $19.4 billion to provide cloud computing power for AI workloads. Nebius, which w

Google Cloud chief details how search giants is making billions monetizing its AI products

Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, speaks at a cloud computing conference held by the company in 2019. Google's cloud chief Thomas Kurian on Tuesday explained how the tech giant is already monetizing its various artificial intelligence services to generate revenue. "We've made billions using AI already," said Kurian, speaking at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia and Technology Conference in San Francisco. Kurian said that Google Cloud's backlog of customer demand is growing faster than its reve

Oracle pops 22% on cloud growth projections even as earnings miss estimates

Oracle CEO Safra Catz, center, speaks during a dinner at the White House in Washington on Sept. 4, 2025. President Donald Trump hosted technology and business leaders for dinner after they joined First Lady Melania Trump's meeting of the Artificial Intelligence Education Task Force at the White House. Oracle shares spiked 22% in extended trading on Tuesday after the database software maker indicated hefty growth prospects due to new cloud contracts, even as earnings and revenue missed estimates