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iPhone 18 Pro & Pro Max Review: THIS is What We’ve Been Waiting For! (Video)
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Smartphones, Features, Product Reviews, Videos,
Better battery life. When I polled my YouTube community on the one upgrade they wanted most from a new phone, that answer beat everything else by a mile, and the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max are the first iPhones where I think Apple has delivered it. After a week with the 18 Pro Max, on days when I didn't top it up, I was ending the night in the high 20s to low 30s. That's while hammering it nonstop to prepare this review.
He Worked on AGI Safety at Google DeepMind. Now He Says AI Might Kill Us All.
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Corporate News, Google, Artificial Intelligence,
Bilal Chughtai spent about a year and a half at Google DeepMind working on AGI safety and alignment. He resigned in July. On Monday he said why, publicly, under his own name: "I earnestly believe that AI has the potential to kill us all, and that we might be running out of time to avoid this outcome."
Researchers leaving AI labs with a warning attached is not new this year. Doing it from inside Google's lab is. Chughtai appears to be the first DeepMind employee to quit and say this on the record, which is how a post from a research engineer most people had never heard of ended up in Bloomberg within a day.
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GM Brings CarPlay Back to Its Trucks, and This Time It Shares the Screen
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Google, Transportation,
Three years ago GM decided it was done with phone projection. Today it announced the opposite. Apple CarPlay and Android Auto are coming back to its cars, though they no longer get the whole screen.
The new interface debuts on the 2027 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 and GMC Sierra 1500, with other GM models to follow. CarPlay and Android Auto now run in a window alongside GM's own software, so the map, the trailering readouts and the truck's settings stay visible while your phone's apps do their thing next to them.
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Is the New iPhone Duo Worth It? Our Hands-on Impressions! (Video)
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Smartphones, Videos,
Four of us ran out of the Apple keynote and straight to the iPhone Duo demo tables (Tayllor Lloyd cleared a row of theater seats to get there), then sat down on Geared Up to argue about what we'd just held. Kevin the Tech Ninja, Miles Franklin, Tayllor, and I all walked away liking the folding iPhone. We didn't all walk away sure it's worth $2,000.
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I Tested the iPhone 18 Pro Max: Here’s What You Need to Know (Video)
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Smartphones, Videos,
A few days before Apple's event I polled my channel on what would get you to upgrade your phone, and 45 percent of you said a big jump in battery life. Then Apple got on stage at Apple Park and said the iPhone 18 Pro Max has the best battery life of any iPhone it has ever shipped. So this one deserves your attention, even in a week when the folding iPhone Duo is soaking up most of it. After a day with the 18 Pro and Pro Max, the feature I most wanted to understand is a set of six tiny blades inside the main camera.
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The Roku Pro Series OLED TV Is a Problem for LG and Samsung (Video)
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: HDTV, Product Reviews, Videos,
The same Roku that makes the $30 stick probably plugged into your TV right now has built an actual OLED TV, and the 55-inch Roku Pro Series OLED starts at $999. That's $300 less than LG's cheapest OLED and $500 less than Samsung's. I spent a week with the 65-inch model in my living room to find out whether this is a legit OLED panel or a budget screen wearing OLED marketing like a costume.
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iPhone Duo Hands-On: Apple’s Foldable is Finally Here! (Video)
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Smartphones, Videos,
Apple finally made an iPhone that folds, and after spending a good chunk of the day with the iPhone Duo at Apple Park, the part I keep coming back to is what happens when you open it. You can run two apps side by side, take a selfie with the rear camera while watching the shot on the outer screen, or set the phone down half-folded and let it take the group photo for you. It's the most interesting iPhone I've used in years. It also costs $1,999, so it raises some expensive questions.
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Apple’s iPhone Duo Foldable Costs $1,999, and the Leaks Called Nearly All of It
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Smartphones,
Apple let everyone else spend six years working out folding phones in public. Today it showed its own. The iPhone Duo is a 5.4-inch phone that opens into a 7.6-inch one, it starts at $1,999 for 256GB, pre-orders begin October 16, and it goes on sale October 23.
The leakers earned a victory lap. They had the name, they had the roughly $2,000 price, they had the 256GB floor and the 2TB ceiling. They oversold one thing. Apple Pencil support over USB-C is coming later in 2026, not in the box on launch day.
Apple’s iPhone Duo Foldable Is Real, Starts at $1,999, and Ships October 23
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Smartphones,
The foldable iPhone stopped being a rumor at about 10am Pacific. It's called iPhone Duo, it opens like a passport into a 7.6-inch screen, and it starts at $1,999. Preorders open October 16.
Mark Gurman had the name, the Apple Pencil support and a $2,000 starting price the night before, which we wrote up this morning. He missed by a dollar. What the leaks couldn't tell you is how Apple got a bending screen to survive a pocket, and that is where Apple spent most of its stage time at the "Surprise and Shine" event.
The New Apple Watch Reportedly Listens All Day, Then Recaps Your Life Back to You
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Wearables, Artificial Intelligence,
A watch that listens to your day and then hands it back to you as a tidy summary is either the most useful thing Apple has put on your wrist in years, or the reason you take the thing off. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports it is coming to the Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4, which Apple is expected to show at its Surprise and Shine event at 10AM PT today.
The watch reportedly uses its microphone alongside GPS and its other sensors to pick up what you are doing, then generates a daily recap: what you ate, when you worked out, who you spent time with, and summaries of the conversations you had. Gurman reports the recaps live inside the new Siri app, so you can ask about your own day and get an answer. Apple has confirmed none of this. We find out in a couple of hours how much of it survives contact with an actual keynote.