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Samsung’s dual-hinge foldable is looking like a beast for productivity in new animations leak

AssembleDebug / Android Authority TL;DR A leak has provided a bevy of new animations showing off Samsung’s dual-hinge device. These animations focus on the foldable’s productivity features and multitasking capabilities. One of the clips suggests that the phone could have a camera with 100x digital zoom. There have been a few leaks, rumors, and vague confirmations, but most of what’s known about Samsung’s “Galaxy Trifold” has come from leaked official-looking animations. The last batch of ani

A brief history of threads and threading

The original 128K Mac from 1984 came with a single Motorola 68000 processor running at 8 MHz that could only run one app at a time. Yet today’s Macs come with multiple CPU cores that can comfortably run several substantial apps simultaneously, while running a Time Machine backup and other tasks in the background. This brief history outlines the journey between them. A processor with a single core and no support for multi-tasking runs one sequence of instructions at a time. When those call for a

Wiggling into Correlation

Jeff Kaufman shared some data around contra dance attendance as a function of requirements on wearing surgical masks. He compares this data to survey data, which is a useful way to validate in both directions. I found the plot compelling for a different reason – depending on how we look at it, we can draw wildly different conclusions from it. On the one hand, if we draw boxes around consecutive pairs of dances, it’s fairly obvious that mask-optional dances are more popular. Tickmarks at the top

Meta introduces new tools to help identify scam messages on WhatsApp

It seems scarcely a week goes by now without receiving at least one job scam message on either iMessage or WhatsApp. Meta has now introduced two new tools to help you identify scams, whether they arrive as individual messages or as posts to group chats … Scams are big business Scamming is big business these days, and it’s common for messages to originate from organized criminal gangs using huge banks of smartphones to send hundreds of thousands of messages per day. Meta has teams of people t

iPadOS 26 preview: The rare software update that makes (most) old hardware feel new

The Mac and the iPad are different devices that do different things. This has been the line from Apple executives, from its initial introduction to the advent of touchscreen PCs to just last month when Apple’s Craig Federighi talked to us about iPadOS 26’s new multitasking features. But it sometimes feels like this internal commitment to keeping the devices separate has held the iPad back as its hardware has become more capable. A mouse cursor? Sure, we’ll add it, after a few years of insisting

Move over Open Canvas, this could be the best way to multitask on a foldable

TL;DR vivo’s upcoming X Fold 5 features a new multitasking system called “Atomic Workbench” capable of running up to five active apps simultaneously. “Atomic Workbench” enables one dominant app view while keeping others minimized but live, improving upon OnePlus’ Open Canvas approach with a better layout for engaging more apps. The vivo X Fold 5 launches on June 25 in China. OnePlus pioneered the Open Canvas feature with the OnePlus Open foldable, allowing users to open three apps simultaneou