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Motorola Razr 2025 gets a Swarovski treatment but without the sticker shock

Motorola TL;DR Motorola has announced a new special edition of the Razr 50 studded with Swarovski crystals. The crystal-laden flip phone is paired with a new color of the Moto Buds Loop earbuds, also studded with Swarovskis. The “Brilliant Collection” will be available in the US later this week for $999.99. Motorola is no stranger to the glitz of the fashion world. From its partnership with Paris Hilton for a hot pink edition of the Motorola Razr 2024 to the classic gold-plated Moto Razr V3i

Pick up Apple's MacBook Air M4 while it's on sale for an all-time-low price

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . Whether you need a new MacBook for the upcoming semester or you've just been itching to upgrade from an older machine, now's a good time to buy. Amazon has a sale on the latest M4 MacBook Air that knocks up to 20 percent off many configurations. The base model is where you'll get the

Lunar Outpost celebrates release of Lego Moon Rover Space Vehicle

Browsing the toy aisle at Target, Ari and Aiden were in for a surprise. There, among the newly stocked Lego sets, was a box with an image of a familiar-looking space vehicle. "I pointed at the box and said, 'Hey, what's that?' and they said, 'It's MAPP!'" said Andrew "AJ" Gemer, Ari and Aiden's father. "They didn't even know we had a Lego set until the day it was released." "It was cool to see their faces light up like that," he said in an interview with collectSPACE. The box for the new Lego

A glimpse into OpenAI’s largest ambitions

As Will points out, there were two recent wins for OpenAI in its efforts to build AI that outcompetes humans. Its models took second place at a top-level coding competition and—alongside those from Google DeepMind—achieved gold-medal-level results in the 2025 International Math Olympiad. People who believe that AI doesn’t pose genuine competition to human-level intelligence might actually take some comfort in that. AI is good at the mathematical and analytical, which are on full display in olym

Apple @ Work Podcast: Looking at the impact of device management system migration

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14 Best Beauty Box Subscriptions, Tested for Months (2025)

Ipsy is likely best known for its Glam Bags, which include a cute makeup bag each month filled with five deluxe samples. It was cofounded by OG beauty guru Michelle Phan in 2011. I received some excellent deluxe samples, including Fenty Beauty mascara, a BYOD blush brush, and a Just Ximena highlighter. And unlike some other sample sizes I've received, Ipsy actually sent enough of each hair product to be useful. My mane of curly hair initially laughed at the 50-milliliter bottle of Marc Anthony l

Samsung’s new foldable display tech could make the Galaxy Z Fold 8 its sleekest yet

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung Display has introduced a new foldable display brand called MONTFLEX. The branding promises thinner, more durable, and flatter foldable displays MONTFLEX panels could power next year’s Galaxy Z Fold 8 and Flip 8 Samsung’s display arm has a new foldable display brand called “MONTFLEX,” which is essentially the company’s way of highlighting its most innovative foldable displays ever. The name “MONTFLEX” comes from the French word mont, meaning “

Kyoto University team develops pain reliever comparable to morphine

A Kyoto University research team has developed a pain-reliever that is comparable to morphine but does not have serious side effects. Morphine, often administered to cancer patients, has serious adverse effects such as breathing issues and addiction. According to the team, the newly developed drug, Adriana, is a groundbreaking painkiller, which works on a completely different mechanism to morphine and other existing synthetic opioids. The drug has the potential to revolutionize pain control in

All 2025 Motorola Razr foldables are on sale!

Ryan Haines / Android Authority The Motorola Razr and Razr Plus deals come from Amazon. On the other hand, the Motorola Razr Ultra offer is available directly from Motorola’s website. Motorola Razr 2025 Motorola Razr 2025 Motorola Razr 2025 The most affordable 2025 Razr A good looking 6.9-inch folding display is paired with a 3.6-inch external display to make up a compact folded phone, with few compromises at full-size. The Motorola Razr 2025 is powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 7300X and 8GB o

Switch 2 Overheating? Nintendo Just Posted a Warning You Shouldn't Ignore

Nintendo released its Switch 2 almost two months ago, and it sold close to 6 million units, according to the company's latest quarterly report. The new console has had a few hardware issues pop up, but Nintendo did confirm that it does have a bit of a heating problem. In a July 31 post on its X support account, Nintendo advised users to avoid playing the original Switch and the Switch 2 in high temperatures. The company says operating the consoles in a hot environment will raise the temperature

This Forgotten '90s Cyberpunk Flick Nailed the Dystopian VR Vibes

Pull up any list of the ultimate cyberpunk movies and you'll find The Matrix, Blade Runner and Ghost in the Shell. But there's one great tech noir flick that came out at the height of the cyberpunk craze -- and then all-but disappeared. Maybe that's partly because of its title. I'd wanted to rewatch Strange Days for a long time, but I kept forgetting because, honestly, I couldn't remember what it was called. Then I finally rediscovered the sci-fi thriller on Hulu. After my most recent viewing,

Hiroshima (1946)

I—A Noiseless Flash At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the plant office and was turning her head to speak to the girl at the next desk. At that same moment, Dr. Masakazu Fujii was settling down cross-legged to read the Osaka Asahi on the porch of his private hospital

Best Cheap Laptop: Budget Computers for Every Use

There are a ton of models for less than $1,000 on the market at any given moment, and a large fraction of those are less than $500. As long as you manage your expectations regarding options and specs, you can still get quite a bit from a budget laptop model, including good battery life and a reasonably lightweight laptop body. (If you're replacing an old Windows laptop that's not up to running Windows anymore, consider turning it into a Chromebook.) Price If the statistics Intel and PC manufac

Earth Is Spinning Weirdly Faster, Making This Tuesday One of the Shortest Days Ever

The Earth's rotation is randomly speeding up, and nobody is quite sure why. These speed ups, which have occurred several times over the last few years, haven't had any effect on daily life, but they also haven't gone unnoticed by science. Aug. 5 is the next date when the Earth's rotation is expected to speed up, shortening the day by between 1.25 and 1.51 milliseconds. According to TimeandDate, the current prediction is set by the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service and t

Figma's stock sinks 27% after last week's IPO pop

Dylan Field, co-founder and CEO of Figma, appears on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on July 31, 2025. Figma shares dropped 27% on Monday, cutting into the gains the design software company posted after hitting the market last week. The stock dropped $33.40 to $88.60 at the end of of Monday's trading session. That's down from a close of $122 on Friday. Figma and top stockholders sold about 37 million shares at $33 per share late Wednesday, yielding around $412 million in proceeds flo

The Revolution of Token-Level Rewards

Training large language models (LLMs) to master complex tasks, especially those requiring structured outputs like generating precise code or engaging in multi-step reasoning, is challenging even for current state of the art (SOTA) models. Reinforcement Learning (RL) offers a powerful theoretical framework for teaching models to do "what works", but applying these techniques to LLMs has been messy to execute in practice. We’ve run into this problem at our startup, Levro. We want to be the easies

Content-Aware Spaced Repetition

Content-aware Spaced Repetition Spaced repetition systems are powerful, but they have a fundamental blind spot: they don’t understand what your flashcards are about. To your SRS, a card asking “what’s the capital of Italy?” and another asking “what country is Rome the capital of?” are treated independently, each with its own isolated review history. It has no concept that reviewing related material should reinforce your memory of the whole topic. At the heart of every SRS is a memory model wh

Cellular Starlink expands to support IoT devices

SpaceX’s cellular Starlink system isn’t just for phones in cellular dead zones. In New Zealand, the satellite technology now covers IoT devices, starting with equipment to monitor beehives. In December, New Zealand mobile carrier One NZ was the first to start offering cellular Starlink service to consumers, about a month before T-Mobile kicked off its own beta in the US. On Tuesday, SpaceX and One NZ notified the US Federal Communications Commission about their plan to use more radio spectrum

These were the most popular Apple TV+ shows and movies in July

Every month, JustWatch reveals the most-watched shows and movies among its users worldwide, which can offer a glimpse into what the wider audience is into. Here’s what topped the charts on Apple TV+ in July. What Apple TV+ viewers watched the most in July Although season 3 of Foundation only premiered on July 11, it still managed to top the list, overtaking newcomers Murderbot, Smoke, and Stick, all of which Apple heavily promoted on social media during the month. Here’s the top 10 global l

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Anthropic wants to stop AI models from turning evil - here's how

Lyudmila Lucienne/Getty ZDNET's key takeaways New research from Anthropic identifies model characteristics, called persona vectors. This helps catch bad behavior without impacting performance. Still, developers don't know enough about why models hallucinate and behave in evil ways. Why do models hallucinate, make violent suggestions, or overly agree with users? Generally, researchers don't really know. But Anthropic just found new insights that could help stop this behavior before it happen

I asked four former friends why we stopped speaking (2023)

On a warm July evening, I dove into bed and grabbed my phone, giddy and anxious. As I scrolled through TikTok, attempting to calm my nerves, a Google Calendar notification flashed on the screen: “VIDEO CALL WITH SIMONE.” Before I could swipe the reminder away, Simone FaceTimed me. I attempted to rehearse my greeting as the call buffered: Should I keep it cool with a, “Hey, what’s good?” No, that sounds cold. What about a Keke Palmer-esque, “Girl!” No, that’s doing too much. “Good evening?” No,

What Can a Cell Remember?

Then, in a process Kukushkin described as a tedious choreography of clockwork pipetting, they exposed the cells to precisely timed bursts of chemicals that imitated bursts of neurotransmitters in the brain. Kukushkin’s team found that the both the nerve and kidney cells could finely differentiate these patterns. A steady three-minute burst activated CRE, making the cells glow for a few hours. But the same amount of chemicals, delivered as four shorter pulses spaced 10 minutes apart, lit up the p

SpaceX's Cellular Starlink Expands to Support IoT Devices

SpaceX’s cellular Starlink system isn’t just for phones in cellular dead zones. In New Zealand, the satellite technology now covers IoT devices, starting with equipment to monitor beehives. In December, New Zealand mobile carrier One NZ was the first to start offering cellular Starlink service to consumers, about a month before T-Mobile kicked off its own beta in the US. On Tuesday, SpaceX and One NZ notified the US Federal Communications Commission about their plan to use more radio spectrum

A deep dive into Rust and C memory interoperability

“Memory oppresses me.” - Severian, The Book of the New Sun Interviewer: “What happens if you allocate memory with C’s malloc and try to free it with Rust’s dealloc, if you get a pointer to the memory from C?” Me: “If we do it via FFI then there’s a possibility the program may continue working (because the underlying structs share the same memory layout? right? …right?)” Now if you have any experience working with memory management, you know that this is a dangerous answer. But I didn’t know it a

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Qwen-Image: Crafting with native text rendering

GITHUB HUGGING FACE MODELSCOPE DEMO DISCORD We are thrilled to release Qwen-Image, a 20B MMDiT image foundation model that achieves significant advances in complex text rendering and precise image editing. To try the latest model, feel free to visit Qwen Chat and choose “Image Generation”. The key features include: Superior Text Rendering : Qwen-Image excels at complex text rendering, including multi-line layouts, paragraph-level semantics, and fine-grained details. It supports both alphabeti

Scientists Recreated the Universe’s First Molecule

Seconds after the Big Bang, the newborn universe gave rise to the first elements—ionized forms of hydrogen and helium. These particles combined, forging helium hydride—the first ever molecule. It would take another several hundred million years for the first stars to be born, and scientists have long puzzled over the exact nature of the chemical processes that led to their formation. To try and tease apart the stellar origin story, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in H

Qwen-Image is a powerful, open source new AI image generator with support for embedded text in English & Chinese

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now After seizing the summer with a blitz of powerful, freely available new open source language and coding focused AI models that matched or in some cases bested closed-source/proprietary U.S. rivals, Alibaba’s crack “Qwen Team” of AI researchers is back again today with the release of a highly ranked new AI image generator model — also open s

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Scientists are growing tumors in space to study how to personalize cancer treatment

Forward-looking: Although precision medicine has advanced rapidly in recent years, many cancer patients still undergo standard treatments that may not work for everyone. Research underway on the International Space Station offers a glimpse of future care, where doctors map out each course of therapy using a detailed simulation of the patient's cancer. In a laboratory more than 249 miles above Earth, a new generation of cancer research is unfolding. A biotech startup is harnessing the microgravi

I Asked Four Former Friends Why We Stopped Speaking-Here's What I Learned (2023)

On a warm July evening, I dove into bed and grabbed my phone, giddy and anxious. As I scrolled through TikTok, attempting to calm my nerves, a Google Calendar notification flashed on the screen: “VIDEO CALL WITH SIMONE.” Before I could swipe the reminder away, Simone FaceTimed me. I attempted to rehearse my greeting as the call buffered: Should I keep it cool with a, “Hey, what’s good?” No, that sounds cold. What about a Keke Palmer-esque, “Girl!” No, that’s doing too much. “Good evening?” No,

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