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Apple's iPhone 18 Pro shares nearly identical dimensions, weight and 6.3-inch OLED displays with last year's 17 Pro, but adds a variable aperture camera for exposure control, a slightly smaller Dynamic Island supporting three Live Activities, and a redesigned vapor cooling chamber. It costs roughly $100 more than the 17 Pro and drops the orange color option available on the prior model.
Apple's iPhone 18 Pro physically shrinks the Dynamic Island by moving some Face ID components under the display, freeing up extra screen space. That space is now used to show more detail in a second Live Activity, such as a timer's remaining time instead of just an icon, while the device can also run three Live Activities at once, up from two.
A comparison of Apple's iPhone 18 Pro and 17 Pro finds the two devices nearly identical apart from new color options, including a Burgundy shade and a returning black finish. The newer model is slightly heavier and features a smaller Dynamic Island, made possible by an infrared sensor hidden under the display, but otherwise shares the same design and functionality as its predecessor.
Apple's rumored foldable device, the iPhone Duo, runs a modified version of iOS built around its dual-screen hinge design. It supports side-by-side app use on the inner display, a relocated status bar, and hinge-aware layouts that shift keyboards and controls depending on how the phone is folded.
Weibo leaker Digital Chat Station claims Apple's iPhone 20 Pro and Pro Max, expected next year for the anniversary refresh, will feature bigger displays than the iPhone 18 Pro line—6.41 inches and 6.96 inches respectively. The leak also describes a borderless quad-curved glass design with a hole-punch cutout and a smaller Dynamic Island, echoing earlier Bloomberg reporting on a glass-front-and-back build with a metal band.
A blog post examines how Nix's dynamic derivations feature fundamentally changes the nature of its build graph, shifting Nix from an 'applicative' system—where every build step is known in advance—to a 'monadic' one, where the graph can be constructed as the build itself progresses. The author revisits earlier writing on the topic after noticing renewed interest, including talks at NixCon 2026 and a new tool called cargo-dyndrv.
Prusa Research and Bondtech have released the INDX, a toolchanging system that can print up to eight colors or materials using slim, moving-part-free toolheads mounted on Prusa's CORE One platform. The system ships pre-installed on new CORE One+ Gen 2 printers or as a $749 conversion kit for existing CORE One owners, and Bondtech also sells it separately as a DIY kit for other open-source printers.
Testing from Polling Rate Test shows Microsoft's Xbox controllers report input at roughly the same 125Hz rate whether connected via USB cable or the proprietary Xbox Wireless Adapter, translating to about eight milliseconds of potential delay in either case. Bluetooth connections, by contrast, add an extra four to eight milliseconds of lag, varying with interference from nearby wireless devices.
A CNET reviewer who used the iPhone 17 Pro Max extensively while traveling says the newly unveiled iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max address key frustrations. The updated Dynamic Island can now display three live activities at once instead of two, and the phones feature a redesigned vapor chamber along with camera improvements aimed at competing with Android flagships.
A developer released an experimental utility called NvpwrControl on GitHub that lets owners of NVIDIA RTX 50-series gaming laptops manually raise their GPU's power limit beyond factory settings. According to VideoCardz, the tool can push the RTX 5090 Laptop GPU's ceiling up to 225W, roughly 40W above its stock maximum with Dynamic Boost.
A traveler returning from a trip through France, Spain and Portugal reports that Dynamic Currency Conversion, the practice of letting merchants bill purchases in a tourist's home currency instead of the local one, has become harder to avoid. Many payment terminals now default to charging in dollars automatically, often without a clear prompt asking the customer to choose, making it easy to unknowingly accept a worse exchange rate.
Researchers are developing AI-powered radio systems that can flexibly share spectrum frequencies in real time rather than relying on fixed allocations. This dynamic sharing approach would let devices like phones, satellites, and radar systems use the same frequency bands without interfering with one another, easing pressure on an increasingly crowded resource.