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Apple is going to unveil iOS 19 in just about two months at its June WWDC event, and rumors suggest that it's going to bring a big change to the iPhone's design. It's been described as the most notable design overhaul since iOS 7, so it should be an exciting update. We've rounded up everything we've heard so far about the design changes coming to ‌iOS 19‌... View the full article

OPHANIM combines everyday tech with high-end scientific imaging capability Antimatter detection is now possible using repurposed smartphone camera tech Gigapixel device could reveal fine details of particle collisions instantly At CERN’s Antimatter Factory, the AEgIS collaboration is exploring a novel approach to detecting one of nature’s rarest phenomena: antiproton annihilation. eeNews reports the team, led by Professor Christoph Hugenschmidt from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), has developed an experimental detector using sensors originally designed for mobile phone cameras. Instead of creating a new sensor system from scratch, the researchers repurposed sixt…

AMD's Dragon Range Refresh CPU family has had more details revealed thanks to a new Asus listing on a Chinese retailer. View the full article

8849 Tank 4 offers a large 11,600mAh battery for endurance Supports triple rear cameras including night vision 8849 Tank 4 supports 66W fast charging and 25W reverse charging The rugged smartphone market is evolving, with many brands now integrating large batteries and even portable projectors into their devices. Chinese brand 8849 is known for such devices, having previously released models like the 8499 Tank 2 Pro and Tank 3 Pro. The company has now announced the 8849 Tank 4, a business smartphone that features a 100-lumen 720p DLP projector. It supports laser-assisted auto-focus up to 4 meters, micro-laser ranging, night vision camera, and an RGB camping light... View …

Ulefone Armor 30 Pro combines ruggedness with productivity A triple-camera setup in a rugged smartphone isn't that common 64MP camera and a 4W speaker reflect a shift in what rugged smartphones aim to offer The best rugged smartphones often focus on strength and battery life, but in recent years, they’ve started to include features such as portable projectors and even dual displays. The Ulefone Armor 30 Pro is a dual-screen rugged device featuring a 6.95-inch FHD+ main display with a 120Hz refresh rate. On the rear, it sports a 3.4-inch secondary screen with a 960x412 resolution, protected by Gorilla Glass. While the displays can’t be operated independently, both run on A…

U.S. President Donald Trump "absolutely" believes that Apple could manufacture its iPhones and other devices in the United States, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said today during a media briefing. Leavitt was asked whether Trump thought that iPhone manufacturing is the kind of technology that could move to the U.S. "Absolutely, he believes we have the labor, we have the workforce, we have the resources to do it," she replied, also referencing the $500 billion investment in the U.S. that Apple announced earlier this year. "And as you know, Apple has invested $500 billion here in the United States, so if Apple didn't think the United States could do it, they probably w…

Great sound, amazing battery life, and an outstanding price. The SoundPeats Space headphones are available for just $29 in this deal. View the full article

You can get more out of Windows 11 with helpful tips, the latest news and insightful features. View the full article

The UALink Consortium has finalized the UALink 1.0 specification, enabling tapeouts of chips that support a high-speed, low-latency, industry-standard interconnect for AI and HPC accelerators in rack scale solutions. View the full article

Kioxia has completed the development of its next-generation PCIe 5.0 optical-based SSD. The new technology is being made for next-generation 'green' data centers that will be compatible with optical-based storage devices. View the full article

Everyone in the company is expected to use AI effectively. View the full article

The development of the FreeDOS marches onwards with an updated FreeCOM, Install program, and HTML Help system in version 1.4. View the full article

Ubuntu 25.04 brings several performance enhancements for AMD's EPYC Turin processors, providing 14% higher average performance and reaching up to 75% in some workloads. View the full article

A recent interview with Nintendo's Nate Bihldorff confirms that the new console will not utilize Hall effect sensors in its Switch 2 controllers, a sore spot for Switch's stick-drift sufferers. View the full article

A new lawsuit alleges that Google is spying on school children and harvesting their data to create profiles, due to the mandated use of Google hardware and software. View the full article

Google is making use of aggressive noncompete clauses and extended notice periods, leaving employees who wish to change track in limbo, claims former GoogDeepMinder Nando de Freitas. View the full article

Corsair’s Frame 4000D promises modularity, but does it deliver otherwise? We test it with Intel’s i9-14900K and Ocypus fans to determine if it performs well. View the full article

IBM's next-generation z17 mainframe combines the high-performance Telum II processor and accelerators to deliver secure transaction processing and advanced AI capabilities for mission-critical enterprise workloads. View the full article

Galax's RTX 5090D Hall Of Fame edition GPU has been making a splash at HWBot, seemingly breaking every world record in sight. View the full article

The cheapest Framework Laptop 13s powered by a Core Ultra 5 125H or Ryzen 5 7640U becomes temporarily unavailable in the U.S. View the full article

FMC and Neumonda develop non-volatile FeRAM products, revive memory production in Germany. View the full article

High-profile asset management firm Bernstein has published findings showing that around 60% of Nvidia's AI datacenters will completely avoid the recent wave of tariffs levelled by the U.S. View the full article

To avoid a new 10% U.S. import tax, Apple rushed five planeloads of iPhones, PCs, and other devices from India to the U.S. in late March, buying time to assess the impact of the tariff policy. View the full article

Microsoft is deploying the monthly patch for Windows 11 24H2 today It’ll arrive with useful fixes, including the cure for a weird File Explorer bug A couple of problems with wake-from-sleep functionality have also been resolved, but Microsoft has taken some time to implement these fixes Microsoft pushes out its monthly round of updates later today (likely imminently), and the patch for Windows 11 version 24H2 is set to come with some important fixes... View the full article

CalDigit today announced the upcoming launch of two new Thunderbolt 5 docks, the TS5 and the TS5 Plus. Both docks support transfer speeds of up to 80Gb/s with a speed boost feature when paired with Apple's Thunderbolt 5 Macs... This article, "CalDigit Launches New Thunderbolt 5 Docks" first appeared on MacRumors.com View the full article

If you've recently got one of Apple's new M4 Macs, or if you're simply looking to upgrade your desk setup, we have a selection of useful Mac accessories that you might want to take a look at. This article, "Useful Mac Accessories to Check Out" first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums View the full article

Galax's latest GeForce RTX 5090D graphics cards feature a magnetic, removable shroud. View the full article

Asus’ ProArt PA32UCDM is a precision reference OLED monitor that’s pro-gamer ready. It’s a 32-inch QD-OLED with 4K resolution, 240 Hz, Adaptive-Sync, HDR10, Dolby Vision, 1,000 nits, wide gamut color and all metal construction. View the full article

Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders have had quite an interesting start to life after the console was fully revealed last week at the Switch 2 Direct presentation. The headline news is that Switch 2 pre-orders are appearing at some non-Nintendo UK retailers - though stock and availability have been fluctuating at best - and the even bigger news is that US Switch 2 pre-orders are delayed indefinitely due to tariff uncertainty... View the full article

Linux 6.15 resolves Turbostat's incompatibility with high core count systems, now supporting up to 8,192 cores. View the full article

Taiwan's stock market suffered its worst-ever single-day drop after the U.S. announced a 32% tariff on Taiwanese goods and signaled potential duties on semiconductors, triggering panic selling of TSMC and Foxconn. View the full article

Git was founded 20 years ago today by Linux Tarvalds and Junio Hamano who continues to maintain the project today. View the full article

But the triumphant social media post gets a Community Note. View the full article

Expand the storage of your gaming handheld or laptop with this 2TB SSD deal on a small form-factor M.2 2230 WD Black SN770M, on sale for only $177 at Amazon. View the full article

A member of the PCGH community flashed an RX 9070 XT vBIOS onto his RX 9070, reporting a 15-20% performance bump with boost clocks exceeding 3 GHz. View the full article

China's latest export restrictions on Scandium and Dysprosium threaten to disrupt global supply chains for major tech players, but also emphasize potential weaknesses of its anti-sanctions approach. View the full article

Apple CEO Tim Cook's prefers uability of the Logitech MX Master 3 over the company's own Magic Mouse that has elegant design. View the full article

Microsoft admitted to publishing the wrong price increases on April 1 They were rectified on April 4 and documentation is now up-to-date The 5% price hike only affects monthly subscriptions Microsoft has acknowledged and apologized after publishing the wrong prices for a number of its most popular software products... View the full article

An Nvidia engineer pushed a fix to the Linux kernel, improving performance on Radeon GPUs by correcting the same bug he had introduced. View the full article

Sovol revisits the Core XY printer with a pint-sized powerhouse. View the full article

Here's another leaked look at the iPhone 17 Air It could be significantly thinner than the iPhone 17 Pro Max Four iPhones are expected in September If you're counting down the days, you'll know we're about 150 days or so away from the launch of the iPhone 17 series, and a freshly leaked image of two dummy units gives us an idea of the difference in thickness between two of these phones… View the full article

GPMI will make it simpler to set up high-end entertainment and streaming systems. View the full article

The Samsung Galaxy AI Book4 Edge laptop is available today at Amazon for its lowest price to date — $695 instead of its usual $899. View the full article

Enthusiasts can expect up to 10% higher performance with a Ryzen 9950X3D using direct-die cooling. Or just run it at stock clocks but much cooler. View the full article

The Lian Li EG1000 Platinum ATX 3.1 PSU blends striking design with solid power delivery, offering modularity and performance for enthusiasts, but its unique shape may limit compatibility in standard builds. View the full article

Nvidia's PhysX and Flow technologies are now open-source under the BSD-3 license, including the GPU acceleration kernels. View the full article

A Redditor's $2,900 RTX 5090 was struck by a melted connector, also damaging their 1000W power supply. View the full article

Ansys Fluent leveraged 1,024 AMD Instinct MI250X GPUs to 25X supercharge its CFD simulation. View the full article

As a 10-year Apple Watch veteran, I've only really taken notice of Garmin in the last six months or so in my role as one of TechRadar's fitness and wearables experts. Since the turn of the year, there has been an awful lot of negativity around Garmin for a variety of reasons: a global outage that saw devices rendered unusable for well over a day, users upset about older, premium models being left out in the software cold, and more recently the controversial Garmin Connect+ subscription service… View the full article

Arm says Neoverse powers nearly half of 2025 hyperscaler compute shipments AI growth makes power-efficiency essential for hyperscale data centers AWS, Google, Microsoft are leading shift from x86 to Arm infrastructure Arm says its Neoverse platform is becoming the architecture of choice for the cloud, as the likes of AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and others drive a broader shift away from x86 in the data center... View the full article