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Apple's announcing its iPhone 17 lineup today: Rumors, prices, new features and what else you need to know

We're now just hours away from setting our eyes on the iPhone 17 lineup. Apple will reveal the newest smartphones during its big September "Awe dropping" iPhone event this afternoon at 1PM ET. The Engadget team will be liveblogging the iPhone event from Cupertino in real-time if you want to follow along. (You can watch the iPhone 17 event on YouTube, too.) The newest phones will come equipped with the latest iOS 26 features preinstalled, along with any new features Apple reveals today. So what c

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Canon's tiny C50 cinema camera can shoot widescreen and vertical video simultaneously

Canon has announced the EOS C50, its smallest cinema camera yet with features designed to appeal to social media creators and filmmakers alike. It has an RF mirrorless mount and all-new full-frame sensor that supports up to 7K 60p internal RAW recording and 32MP photo capture, making it a do-it-all camera for working pros. Despite the small size and light 1.5 pound weight, the EOS C50 is feature-rich. The full-frame CMOS sensor has a dual ISO system that operates in Canon Log 2 (C-Log 2) at ISO

iOS 26: What to know about the free iPhone software update ahead of the Apple event today

It's almost time: The Apple iPhone 17 event starts today at 1PM ET — that's just hours away. If you want to follow along, you can watch the iPhone 17 launch live and follow Engadget's Apple event liveblog. In addition to the iPhone 17 lineup — including the ultra-thin iPhone 17 Air — we're also expecting to see new Apple Watch models, as well as a new AirPods Pro. Assuming Apple sticks to tradition, we should be able to install iOS 26 about a week or so after the showcase. But you don't have to

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Xbox and LG are bringing cloud gaming to cars

LG's in-vehicle entertainment platform will soon come integrated with an Xbox app for select internet-connected vehicles. Yes, people will be able to play full games on their infotainment systems, as long as they have an Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription so that they can stream titles available on the service, as well as games they already own. They'll, of course, need to switch on internet access on their cars and to use a compatible Bluetooth controller to be able to play games, including D

Anker magnetic power banks are up to 42 percent off right now

One of our favorite magnetic power banks is on sale for 42 percent off right now. The Anker 622 Magnetic Battery is down 42 percent to $28, which is almost as low as we've ever seen it. This steep discount is also available at Anker's online store with a coupon code that the company provides. This 5,000mAh MagSafe-compatible charger with a foldable stand is a slim and portable battery that can keep your devices going on long days away from a charger. Anker says the 622 Magnetic Battery can rech

SAP fixes maximum severity NetWeaver command execution flaw

SAP has addressed 21 new vulnerabilities affecting its products, including three critical severity issues impacting the NetWeaver software solution. SAP NetWeaver is the foundation for SAP's business apps like ERP, CRM, SRM, and SCM, and acts as a modular middleware that is broadly deployed in large enterprise networks. In its security bulletin for September, the provider of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software lists a vulnerability with a maximum severity score of 10 out of 10 that is

Microsoft: Anti-spam bug blocks links in Exchange Online, Teams

​Microsoft is working to resolve a known issue that causes an anti-spam service to mistakenly block Exchange Online and Microsoft Teams users from opening URLs and quarantine some of their emails. In a service alert seen by BleepingComputer, the company stated that the issue is caused by the anti-spam engine incorrectly tagging URLs contained within other URLs as potentially malicious, which has also led to some emails being quarantined. The issues began impacting Exchange Online and Microsoft

Solar plus storage is just the start: How the most home-energy savvy slash their electric bills by 78%

Cristi Savin / iStock/ Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Level 4 is the highest level of energy maturity. The most effective cost savers cut their electric bill by four. More than half believe that their home value has increased. Catch it and use it, catch it and sell it, catch it and save it. As much as these may sound like the considerations of a commercial fisherman, it's actually the menu of options available to energy mature

If Apple unveils the iPhone 17 Air with these features today, I'm ready to upgrade

The iPhone Plus model (pictured) may potentially be replaced by the iPhone Air/Slim. Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways iPhone 17 Air may debut as Apple's thinnest phone ever today. Single rear camera shows Apple's thinness trade-offs. Expected to debut on Sept. 9, 2025, priced around $900. Apple is rumored to be spicing things for today's iPhone event. It could introduce an ultra-thin model for the 2025 iPhone lineup called the iPho

Apple Watch Series 11: The biggest new features we're expecting to see today

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Apple is slated to announce new hardware this week. Notable Apple Watch updates could be coming, according to rumors. Blood pressure monitoring and sleep scores could be on the way. We're hours away from Apple's annual September hardware event, where the tech giant announces its latest releases, from iPhones and iPads to AirPods and, my favorite, Apple Watches. Rumors are swirling about what's to c

How to watch Apple's iPhone 17 September event today (and what to expect)

Jason Hiner/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Apple's iPhone launch event will take place today, Tuesday, September 9. The iPhone 17 lineup will likely include a new iPhone 17 Air (Slim) model. Other expected releases include the Apple Watch Series 11 and updated AirPods. September, better known in the industry as Techtember, is here, and kicking off the deluge of fall product announcements may be arguably the biggest of them all: Apple's

Can a Despised Autocrat Consolidate Power?

Yesterday I wrote about Scott Bessent, the Treasury secretary, and made some unflattering observations about him. So it might be worth mentioning a new incident, reported by Politico. Apparently Bessent confronted Bill Pulte, head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency — a piece of work himself — at a fancy dinner, accusing Pulte of bad-mouthing him to the president: “Why the fuck are you talking to the president about me? Fuck you,” Bessent told Pulte. “I’m gonna punch you in your fucking face.

X Design Notes: Unifying OCaml Modules and Values

In 2020, I released Cubiml, showing how to combine full type inference with structural subtyping in an ML-like language, and earlier this year, I followed it up with PolySubML, extending it with higher rank types and existential types among other features. For my next language (which I’ll call X here, since I haven’t chosen a name yet), I set the ambitious goal of supporting all of OCaml’s most notable functionality on top of everything PolySubML already supports. In this post, I will talk about

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Majority in EU's biggest states believes bloc 'sold out' in US tariff deal

A majority of people across the EU’s five biggest member states believe the European Commission sold citizens out when negotiating a “humiliating” tariff deal with Donald Trump that “benefits the US” far more than Europe, a survey has shown. The poll, by Cluster17 for the European affairs debate platform Le Grand Continent, found 77% of respondents – ranging from 89% in France to 50% in Poland – thought the deal would benefit above all the US economy, with only 2% believing it would benefit Eur

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Christopher Lloyd’s Disembodied Head Comes to Life in This ‘Wednesday’ VFX Reel

Living, talking, disembodied heads in jars bring the perfect amount of ghoulish mirth to any given project—just ask Futurama. But rarely has the idea been executed with more advanced skill than in season two of Wednesday. In a new behind-the-scenes video, the VFX whizzes at Scanline VFX and Eyeline Studios walk us through the creation of Professor Orloff, a character that comes to vivid life thanks to actor Christopher Lloyd and some very cutting-edge technology. Casting Lloyd—who played Uncle

AI Use at Large Companies Is in Decline, Census Bureau Says

For the past few years, the AI industry has been charging full steam ahead, in what can sometimes feel like a pell-mell mad dash to take over the world. Ever since the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, the industry has leveraged an ever-expanding arsenal of political, cultural, and economic power in its effort to lay claim to many different parts of society. Yet, despite the AI industry’s attempts to make itself seem omnipresent, a new report this week shows that adoption at large U.S. companies has de

New Bacteria Discovered in Flies Could Sicken Humans

A new species of bacteria has come to light in Brazil. It’s genetically similar to two other disease-causing bacteria from the Andes, which are known to infect humans through sand fly bites. According to a study published this summer in the journal Acta Tropica, researchers have discovered a new bacteria species in phlebotomine insects (sand flies) in the Amazon National Park in Brazil’s state of Pará. Its DNA is similar to that of two Andean bacteria in Peru, Bartonella bacilliformis and Barto

The RedMagic Astra Is the Best Gaming Tablet You Can Buy

8.0 / 10 SCORE RedMagic Astra Tablet $549 at RedMagic Pros Sturdy, compact design good for travel Excellent 165Hz OLED display High-end Qualcomm chip delivers top performance Lots of gaming-specific features Cons No microSD slot for expansion No software update guarantees No included accessories Mediocre gaming battery life Earlier this year, I tested Lenovo's 8-inch Legion Tab Gen 3 gaming tablet to see how it held up as a small gaming tablet against the iPad Mini. Spoiler alert: It did

Your Stove Isn't the Only Source of Poor Air Quality. Here Are 6 Culprits for Contamination

Many assume their indoor air is clean if they live away from wildfire smoke zones, smoggy cities, or other sources of outdoor pollution. But this assumption may be misguided. According to Michael Rubino, founder of HomeCleanse and chairman of Change the Air Foundation, "Unfortunately, our indoor air is not as healthy as you may think." Rubino, who also hosts the Never Been Sicker podcast, points to factors many homeowners overlook when assessing air quality. According to Dr. James Langer, a Mat

Sign Up to Get the Hottest Daily Deals Sent Straight to Your Phone

I spend every day on the hunt for deals that save you money, so you don't have to. And I mean genuine savings; fake discounts don't pass the sniff test. My team and I are continually tracking and handpicking the best offers from the biggest retailers, such as Amazon and Walmart, for our CNET Deals text subscribers. I'll send the best sales to your phone to help you score the hottest deals without lifting a finger. With Apple set to announce new products, including the iPhone 17, we anticipate u

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Geoengineering will not save humankind from climate change

A team of the world’s best ice and climate researchers studied a handful of recently publicized engineering concepts for protecting Earth’s polar ice caps and found that none of them are likely to work. Their peer-reviewed research, published Tuesday, shows some of the untested ideas, such as dispersing particles in the atmosphere to dim sunlight or trying to refreeze ice sheets with pumped water, could have unintended and dangerous consequences. The various speculative notions that have been

The 15 Best Fans to Cool You Year Round (2025)

Honorable Mentions Photograph: Kat Merck Shark FlexBreeze HydroGo for $100: I love the original Shark FlexBreeze (above), so I was very excited to see Shark had released a rechargeable portable fan in seven colors, including ones not normally seen in fans, like Lilac and Honeydew. Shark says it can run 30 minutes with the mister consistently on or 60 minutes with it in "interval mode," and after testing it at my son’s soccer practices, I found these estimates to be more or less accurate. Howev

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Canon is bringing back a point-and-shoot from 2016 with fewer features and a higher price (it’s viral)

is a reviewer covering laptops and the occasional gadget. He spent over 15 years in the photography industry before joining The Verge as a deals writer in 2021. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Canon seems to be riding the TikTok digicam resurgence and is rereleasing a mid-2010s point-and-shoot — the PowerShot Elph 360 HS A. It’s mostly the same camera as the original Elph 360 HS, first launched in the very different world of 2016 and rece

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This Atari handheld with retro controls is finally available for preorder

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Nearly two years after it was first announced at CES 2024, My Arcade’s Atari Gamestation Go handheld is finally available for preorder for $179.99 through the company’s website, with shipping expected to start in October 2025. That’s a small price bump from

Plex urges users to change passwords after data breach

Streaming giant Plex is urging its customers to change their passwords after it disclosed a data breach of one of its user databases. The company said in a post on Monday that it was aware of a security incident involving the theft of Plex customer account information, including user names, email addresses, scrambled passwords, and unspecified authentication data. Plex said while the passwords were scrambled in a way that made them unreadable to humans, it’s unclear if the passwords can be dec

StubHub IPO: Ticket reseller aims to raise up to $851 million, pricing at $22 to $25 per share

The StubHub logo is seen at its headquarters in San Francisco. StubHub is aiming to raise as much as $851 million in its initial public offering, giving it a valuation of up to $9.2 billion, the company revealed in a new filing on Monday. The ticket reselling marketplace plans to sell more than 34 million shares priced between $22 and $25 per share, according to the filing. The long-awaited IPO comes after StubHub hit pause on the process in April as the stock market was reeling from Presiden

Nebius shares soar 55% in premarket 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. Artificial intelligence infrastructure firm Nebius Group soared in U.S. premarket trading on Tuesday, following the company's announcement of a multi-billion-dollar deal with Microsoft . Nebius' stock was up 55% at around 1:20 p.m. ET. The Amsterdam-based firm announced it had struck a multi-year deal with Microsoft worth $19.4 billion to provi

Abu Dhabi launches low-cost AI reasoning model in challenge to OpenAI, DeepSeek

Omer Taha Cetin | Anadolu | Getty Images A new challenger in the global artificial intelligence race has entered the ring. The Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), an AI-focused research university established by the United Arab Emirates, announced on Tuesday the release of a new, low-cost reasoning model to rival OpenAI and DeepSeek. It comes after DeepSeek, a Chinese AI lab, earlier this year shocked the world with the release of a reasoning model called R1 which

Google is working on making it easier than ever to find your Call Notes (APK teardown)

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Google is working on a new filter for the Phone app. This filter separates calls with Call Notes attached from the rest of your call history. This follows an earlier discovery that revealed a “Recordings” filter. After new filters were rolled out in the Phone by Google app earlier this year, sorting through call history became a bit easier. You can now separate past calls by Missed, Contacts, Non-Spam, and Spam. However, we recently discovered that anothe