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I tried Lenovo's rotating display laptop at IFA 2025, and it was a mind-boggling experience

Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Lenovo debuted a new proof of concept laptop with a 14-inch rotating display. It goes from a landscape to portrait orientation by physically rotating the screen. There are some design elements, like the fabric backing, that raise concerns about its longevity. Earlier this year at CES, we saw Lenovo's wild "rollable" laptop proof of concept -- a computer with a screen that rolls out from under t

AI Video Generators Are Here: Everything in OpenAI's Sora, Google's Veo 3 and Midjourney

First came the AI chatbots, then the AI image generators. Now, tech companies are rushing to release AI video generators. During the past year, nearly every major tech company has dropped some kind of AI video model. Between Google's Veo 3, Midjourney and Sora, it's quickly become a crowded market. AI videos are a huge leap forward in a company's AI creative offerings, and they're something worth keeping an eye on as generative AI becomes a bigger part of the content we create and see online. T

Tomorrow We Could See the iPhone 17 Debut With a Long-Overdue Update

Apple's "Awe Dropping" iPhone 17 event is Tuesday and we expect to see new models of the iPhone, Apple Watch and AirPods. As we inch closer to Tim Cook starting the keynote, rumors and leaks about the iPhone 17 are still coming in. We've seen reports of a new selfie camera, faster MagSafe charging and a new purple (or green) color. But when the iPhone 16 debuted, there was criticism aimed at its screen. The phone starts at $829 and still has a 60Hz display, despite most phones from competitors

Tiny Vinyl is a new pocketable record format for the Spotify age

In 2019, Record Store Day partnered with manufacturer Crosley to revive a 3-inch collectible vinyl format first launched in Japan in 2004. Five years later, a new 4-inch-sized format called Tiny Vinyl wants to take the miniature vinyl collectible crown, and launch partner Target is throwing its considerable weight behind it as an exclusive launch partner, with 44 titles expected in the coming weeks. It’s 2025, and the global vinyl record market has reached $2 billion in annual sales and is stil

Why Former NFL All-Pros Are Turning to Psychedelics

Roam the wide-open halls and cavernous showrooms of the Colorado Convention Center during Psychedelic Science, the world’s largest psychedelics conference, and you’ll see exhibitors hawking everything from mushroom jewelry, to chewable gummies containing extracts of the psychoactive succulent plant kanna, to broad flat-brim baseball caps emblazoned with “MDMA” and “IBOGA.” Booths publicize organizations such as the Ketamine Taskforce and the Psychedelic Parenthood Community, and even The Faerie

OpenAI comes for Hollywood with Critterz, an AI-powered animated film

Robert Hart is a London-based reporter at The Verge covering all things AI and Senior Tarbell Fellow. Previously, he wrote about health, science and tech for Forbes. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. OpenAI is on a mission to show Hollywood that generative artificial intelligence can deliver results and is throwing its weight behind an animated feature film it hopes will stand toe-to-toe with much costlier productions, according to the Wall

InDrive has big plans to become a global ‘super app’ where others have failed

InDrive, known for its bidding-based ride-hailing model across Asia and Latin America, is rolling out a “super-app” strategy aimed at frontier markets — expanding beyond cabs to deliver daily essentials to its users. Beginning with grocery deliveries in Kazakhstan, InDrive plans to expand into multiple verticals over the next 12 months across its top markets, including Brazil, Colombia, Egypt, Pakistan, Peru, and Mexico. The shift comes on the heels of more than 360 million app downloads and 6.

Nova Launcher is shutting down, and Android fans are heartbroken

Damien Wilde / Android Authority TL;DR Nova Launcher, one of Android’s best customization tools, is shutting down for good. Founder Kevin Barry made the announcement over the weekend, confirming that he’s leaving the company that owns Nova and that the launcher won’t be released as an open-source project. Android fans are heartbroken about Nova’s shutdown, calling it a “legendary” app that contributed to the success of Android as a platform. A beloved Android customization tool is coming to

Galaxy S26 Pro, S26 Ultra renders reveal the return of camera bumps

TL;DR Apparent Galaxy S26 series renders have surfaced online. We get a first look at the purported Galaxy S26 Pro and Galaxy S26 Ultra. We also get a look at the S26 Edge, and this render lines up with a previous image. We got a first look at the Galaxy S26 Edge late last week, showing a tweaked design compared to the Galaxy S25 Edge. Now, a different source has revealed renders apparently showing all three Galaxy S26 series models. SmartPrix posted renders that purportedly show the Galaxy

Leaked image provides first real look at Apple’s upcoming crossbody strap accessory

We’re just over a day from Apple’s “Awe dropping” iPhone 17 event, but that hasn’t stopped new leaks from coming in. New images from reliable leaker Sonny Dickson purportedly shows Apple’s crossbody strap accessory for the upcoming iPhone 17 line. Alongside the new iPhone 17 lineup, Apple is expected to release refreshed cases and accessories. Among these is an all-new offering from Apple, a crossbody strap for iPhone. Tonight, Sonny Dickson has shared two images showing this new accessory in a

Samsung just quietly teased its Galaxy Glasses - and almost no one noticed

Samsung's Jay Kim at its live streamed Galaxy Event on Sept. 4, 2025. Samsung | screenshot by Jason Hiner/ZDNET It's well known that Samsung, Google, and Qualcomm are joining forces to release wearable devices powered by Android XR. After all, the three companies have been talking about it for two and a half years and they've made it clear that Project Moohan -- their XR headset to compete with Apple Vision Pro -- will launch before the end of 2025. But there's another product that they've bee

Taking Buildkite from a side project to a global company

👋 Welcome to Valley of Doubt, a free weekly newsletter that goes deep into founder stories from the early days of startups. 🚀 Keith Pitt is the co-founder and former CEO of Buildkite, a devtools company that started in Melbourne and grew to have some of Silicon Valley’s biggest companies as clients. In this interview we dig into: Starting Buildkite as a side project Running out of money and having to go back to investors The challenges of growing into a venture capital valuation Finding yo

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Hungry Hungry Hippos Autoplay (2017)

CONTENTS YouTube BlueSky GitHub LinkedIn Hungry Hungry Hippos Autoplay Posted: June 10, 2017 Introduction A group of my coworkers play board games during lunch time on Fridays and at one point invited me to play. Unfortunately all they play is a bunch of modern hipster games when I wanted to play Hungry Hungry Hippos. No one wanted to play with me so I decided to build circuitry that would take their place. Pushing the plastic lever eventually got really tiring so

Why Is Japan Still Investing in Custom Floating Point Accelerators?

It has taken nearly two decades and an immense amount of work by millions of people for high performance computing to go mainstream with GenAI. And now, we live in a world where AI servers crammed with accelerators account for half of the money spent on systems worldwide. There is no law anywhere that says that accelerator has to be a GPU, although that has been the accelerator of choice by far because GPUs are, like CPUs, general purpose processors that are explicitly designed to support vario

Creative Technology: The Sound Blaster

Sim Wong Hoo was born on the 28th of April in 1955, the tenth child in a family of twelve children (five brothers, seven sisters). His family were Singaporean Hoklo with ancestry in the southernmost area of Fujian, China, and they spoke Hokkien. He grew up in a kampung called End of Coconut Hill in Bukit Panjang, and his father, Sim Chye Thiam, was a factory worker while his mother, Tan Siok Kee, raised chickens, ducks, pigs, and rabbits, and grew fruits and herbs. The young Sim had chores aroun

The 2025 MTV VMAs Are on Tonight. Here's How to Watch Live Without Cable

The MTV Video Music Awards return tonight, giving fans a chance to watch their chosen winners in 19 categories, including best collaboration, best new artist, best choreography and the coveted video of the year. Social-driven categories added in recent years have created opportunities for lesser-known viral artists and internet favorites to take home a Moon Man trophy, making the competition open to almost anyone. This year's ceremony will be hosted by L.L. Cool J and feature a star-studded lin

CEO Who Created AI Startup to Cheat on Homework Complains That AI Is Destroying Education

Months after debuting Cluely, the "undetectable AI that thinks for you," 21-year-old tech entrepreneur Chungin "Roy" Lee is decrying the dismal state of education due to AI. Indeed, there's little doubt that AI has completely flipped education on its head. The availability of large language models (LLMs) at the press of a finger is all but obliterating the minds of an entire generation of students, making literacy a thing of the past as big tech money floods into schools and teachers unions. I

Experts Concerned AI Is Going to Start a Nuclear War

AI is starting to make experts on nuclear deterrence very nervous. Specifically, they say that a widespread push to integrate AI into virtually every level of military decision-making is creating a "slippery slope" in which AI will either be given the power to launch nuclear weapons itself, or the humans with that power will become so reliant on its guidance that they'll do so if it tells them to. Worst of all, they say, is that this is still happening while we still don't quite understand how

Best of IFA 2025 Awards: Android Authority’s top picks from the show

IFA 2025 has brought no shortage of exciting announcements, from bold new smartphones to super-bright projectors, smarter appliances, and even drones that rethink what’s possible. As always, we’ve combed through the show floor in Berlin to find the standouts that truly impressed us. From Lenovo’s OLED gaming handheld to TCL’s eye-friendly phone, Samsung’s latest Fan Edition, and some surprising innovations in audio, charging, and the smart home, here are our picks for the very Best of IFA 2025.

Nintendo wins a $2 million lawsuit against popular Switch modding webstore

Nintendo has just won another major battle in its longstanding war against piracy. Earlier this summer, a US federal court ruled in favor of Nintendo in a lawsuit against Ryan Daly and the Modded Hardware website. The site was known for selling devices that allowed users to get around Nintendo's piracy protections, including the popular MIG Switch flashcart that lets buyers play official Nintendo games without the need for a physical cartridge. Besides requiring Daly to pay $2 million to Nintend

This pettable Poké Ball is a Tamagotchi-style toy with over 150 Pokémon inside and I need it now

Japanese toymaker Takara Tomy is releasing a Poké Ball virtual pet toy so you can fulfill your dreams of carrying your favorite Pokémon around with you everywhere. I don't know how this one slid under my radar when it was announced at the end of August (perhaps because all my attention has been on Tamagotchi Paradise ) but now that I've seen it, I must have it. While it appears to be a Japan-only release, the product page shows it will have an English language option in the menu. Pre-orders are

Meta wears Prada? Why its next-gen AR glasses may be even more fashionable than Ray-Bans

Prada's Linea Rossa glasses are an example of frames that could potentially fiit a lot of technology. Prada | Jason Hiner/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways We expect the 3.0 version of Meta's audio-only Ray-Ban smart glasses at Meta Connect in September with several upgrades. Meta executives have teased that multiple wearables are coming this fall. There are reports that Meta will also launch a new line of AR smart glasses that have a display

Electric bill may be paying for big data centers' energy use

In the race to develop artificial intelligence, large technology companies such as Google and Meta are trying to secure massive amounts of electricity to power new data centers. Electric utilities see the prospect of earning large profits by providing electricity to these power-hungry facilities and are competing for their business by offering discounts not available to average consumers. In our paper Extracting Profits from the Public, we explain how utilities are forcing regular ratepayers to

Requiem for an Exit

Between 1994 and 2004, Frode Oldereid and Thomas Kvam created a series of robotic installations exploring the intersections between technology, ideology, and collective memory. These robots evoked the aesthetics of political mass movements, echoing the fractured language of 20th-century totalitarianisms and its countercultures. Two decades later, the artists revisit these themes in Requiem for an Exit. At the center of the installation stands a towering robotic figure, four meters tall—a skelet

The Creators of ‘Wednesday’ Tease Their Season 3 Plans

The second season of Netflix’s Wednesday came to a close earlier this week, and with season three on the way, creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar have just one objective: “Make it the best season of [the show] we possibly can, and continue digging deeper into our characters,” according to Millar. In a recent Tudum blog, the duo teased some things viewers can expect the third time around. While keeping mum on spoilers, they told audiences to examine season two’s final episode, which lays “a n

49ers vs. Seahawks Livestream: How to Watch NFL Week 1 Online Today

When to watch the 49ers vs. Seahawks Sunday, Sept. 7, at 4:05 p.m. PT (1:05 p.m. ET). Where to watch The 49ers-Seahawks game will air on Fox. After missing the playoffs last year, the 49ers and Seahawks each faced a quarterback question this past offseason. The 49ers decided to stick with Brock Purdy and signed him to a massive five-year extension. The Seahawks went the other route and replaced Geno Smith with Sam Darnold, hoping that his success last season with the Vikings will continue t

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Titans vs. Broncos Livestream: How to Watch NFL Week 1 Online Today

When to watch the Titans vs. Broncos Sunday, Sept. 7, at 2:05 p.m. MT (4:05 p.m. ET, 1:05 p.m. PT). Where to watch The Titans-Broncos game will air on Fox. It's probably a stretch for Titans fans to hope that first overall pick Cam Ward can lead the team to the playoffs in his rookie season, as Bo Nix did last season for the Broncos. Ward will make his first NFL start on Sunday against a Broncos team that won 10 games last year and snuck into the playoffs as the AFC's seventh seed. While B

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Lions vs. Packers Livestream: How to Watch NFL Week 1 Online Today

When to watch the Lions vs. Packers Sunday, Sept. 7, at 4:25 p.m. PT (1:25 p.m. ET). Where to watch The Lions-Packers game will air on CBS. These two NFC North rivals and Super Bowl hopefuls will start the 2025 season facing off at Lambeau Field in Green Bay. The Packers' Super Bowl odds increased last week when the team made the shocking trade with the Dallas Cowboys for superstar edge rusher Micah Parsons. The Lions will have their best pass rusher, Aidan Hutchinson, back in the lineup a

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Texans vs. Rams Livestream: How to Watch NFL Week 1 Online Today

When to watch the Texans vs. Rams Sunday, Sept. 7, at 4:25 p.m. PT (1:25 p.m. ET). Where to watch The Texans-Rams game will air on CBS. Playoff teams from a year ago, the Texans and Rams each won their division with a 10-7 record before advancing as far as the division round of the playoffs. Can they go further this year? The Texans are building around third-year quarterback C.J. Stroud, while the Rams are hoping for one last ride from Matthew Stafford, who is entering his 17th NFL season.

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