iPhone Duo or Galaxy Z Fold 8? 53 grams and a long wait decide it
Apple's first foldable and Samsung's new passport-style Fold share a 7.6-inch screen and almost the same price. Weight, toughness and waiting times split them.
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1Password for Agents puts your phone between AI and your bank
Meta's Muse, OpenAI's Dots and Anthropic's Claude Duet can ask 1Password to sign them in. You approve each request on your phone and the bot never sees the password.
AI
Claude Duet wants to run your workday while your phone is off
Anthropic's new AI agent reads your connected apps, sends a morning brief and does tasks in the background. Here's who can get it and where it stops.
Gaming
Xbox cloud gaming pricing: 24 cents an hour, if you buy big
Microsoft now sells cloud play by the hour, no Game Pass needed, just as subscribers get monthly caps. Here's which pack or plan makes sense for how you play.
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Barclays AI job cuts: 5,000 roles go, and coders are on the list
The UK bank says AI is making staff more productive, so it needs fewer of them, even as quarterly profit climbs 12% to £2.3 billion.
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Meta stock is splitting in two: why your new shares won’t vote
Meta will hand every shareholder a free non-voting share in January 2027 to fund its AI spending, after a record quarter dented by a $9.89 billion teen safety charge.
Tech Policy
Epic beats Apple in Australia: open iPhones and capped fees
A 235-page court order forces Apple to allow other app stores, website downloads and cheaper payments, and Fortnite is already back on Australian iPhones.
Gaming
BioWare shut down after 31 years: EA scraps Mass Effect 5 too
EA is closing the Edmonton studio behind Mass Effect, Dragon Age and Knights of the Old Republic, about 50 jobs go, and a new Mass Effect is cancelled.
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Move data to a new iPhone: 4 ways and what gets left behind
Whether you're upgrading from an old iPhone or leaving Android, here's the quickest way to copy everything over, plus the files that won't make the trip.
How-To & Tips
Amazon Prime FTC refund: who gets up to $200 and how to spot fakes
Millions of Prime members can get money back automatically. Here's how to tell if you qualify, how payments arrive and the deadline you can't miss.
Gaming
Xbox Project Helix price could hit $1,800, and Game Pass may split
Microsoft reportedly expects its next Xbox to cost $1,200 to $1,800 unless it eats some of the cost, with a new handheld arriving a year earlier.
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iPhone Duo availability: thin Friday stock and a January wait
Apple confirms some walk-in iPhone Duo units on launch day, but not everywhere. Plus, Pencil support lands sooner than expected and Reachability is on the way.
iPhone Duo crease: early units show a soft, wrinkling screen
Apple's $1,999 foldable hides its crease well, but videos from early units show the strip over the hinge dips and wrinkles under a finger. Here's what buyers should check.
iPhone made in USA? Nearly 100 parts now are, but not the phone
Apple is putting up to $100 million into a Pennsylvania titanium maker for the foldable iPhone Duo. Here's which parts are American-made and what that changes.
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Gemini Minecraft run: 605 deaths before AI slew the Ender Dragon
Four Gemini 4 Argon agents split the work, shared notes and finally killed the Ender Dragon. The bill, and the fine print, tell you more than the win.
Character.AI could shut down as Disney walks off with its engineers
Court filings show Disney wanted the chatbot startup's deal done through bankruptcy. Here's what Disney gets, who keeps the legal risk, and what it means for users.
Anthropic public benefit fund could pay AI-hit workers, Musk scoffs
The Claude maker wants to put 5% of its stock into a fund that could pay people hit by AI job losses. Here's how it works and what's still missing.
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SpaceX earnings: renting AI computers now outearns Starlink
SpaceX's latest quarter as a public company was powered less by rockets than by data centers, while Starlink grew by chasing cheaper plans abroad.
SpaceX Tesla merger: the vote that could still stop Musk
Both boards have set up independent committees to study a deal worth trillions, and SpaceX stock jumped. One Tesla rule makes it far from certain.
Salesforce buys Braze for $5.66B: the firm behind your app alerts
Braze powers the personalized pushes and emails from apps like Venmo, Instacart and Canva. Salesforce is paying a 58% premium to own that moment of contact.
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PHP vulnerability PHP2Shell: why sites went dark and what to do
Two critical PHP flaws let attackers take over web servers without logging in. Patches are out, but millions of sites still need them.
SafePay ransomware: FBI warns of gang tied to Conduent breach
US, UK and German agencies say SafePay has hit at least 600 organizations since 2024. It steals data, wipes backups and even phones victims to pressure them.
eMudhra certificate keys were guessable: one was the number 4
Eight security certificates trusted by Chrome, Safari and Firefox had keys anyone could work out in seconds. Your browser is already protected. Some other software isn't.