Samsung is rolling out another subscription giveaway to Galaxy phone owners. Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg © 2025 Bloomberg Finance LP Google gifted Pixel 9 users with a free year-long subscription to its newly enhanced AI One Pro last month. With the launch of the Fold 7, Samsung made a similar free offer that flew under the radar. This story was updated …
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Everybody stay calm. You’re about to read about landlords and the prospect of paying rent. Don’t worry, there probably aren’t any landlords in the room right now. There are, however, new landlords in Cyberpunk 2077, should you choose to install this mod that introduces a whole bunch of expanded mechanics and details when it comes to cyberflats. It’s called Eviction …
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Windows 11 comes with its own screen capture app, the Snipping Tool. It’s perfectly serviceable for its purpose, but ShareX is better in just about every way. Like the Snipping Tool, ShareX supports various image capture methods. You can capture the entire screen, a specific window, or a certain region among other areas, as well as record videos. But what …
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Last week, Samsung announced that it will open the Android 16-based One UI 8 Beta Program for the Galaxy S24, Galaxy S24+, and the Galaxy S24 Ultra this week (between 11 August 2025 and 17 August 2025). Well, the brand is now rolling out a software update to the three devices. Is it the update we have all been waiting …
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We need an affordable MacBook, now more than ever. It’s time to face the fact that today’s headlining laptop chips are overkill for what most folk need a computer for. If the majority of internet users are browsing the internet on phones that cost $200 or $400 less than the cheapest MacBook Air, it only makes sense to put a …
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OpenAI’s latest model, GPT-5 is the company’s most powerful model to date. With increased memory, update reasoning capabilities and multimodal upgrades, the model is better at sustaining complex conversations and tackling tougher questions. Gemini 2.5 Pro is Google’s most advanced AI model and is designed to rival ChatGPT in reasoning, coding and multimodal tasks. With the release of ChatGPT-5, I …
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Apple is gearing up for a new investment in the smart home that’s coming soon, and according to changes in the latest tvOS 26 beta, it seems part of that may be the replacing of the HomeKit brand with a fresh, unified name. ‘Apple Home’ looks set to be the new branding for smart home products and technology Rumors last …
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Let’s be honest, how many play a real-time strategy game for its campaign? Me. I do. It’s like a practice mode before you head into a pub stomp or, in my case, face off against the AI because I’m getting old and I can’t click nearly as fast as my StarCraft 2 days. Thankfully, Broken Arrow is a bit more …
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Hello, and welcome to Decoder! This is Casey Newton, founder and editor of Platformer and cohost of the Hard Fork podcast. This is the second episode of my productivity-focused Decoder series that I’m doing while Nilay is out on parental leave. Today, I’m talking with Notion cofounder and CEO Ivan Zhao. I’ve followed Notion for quite some time now — …
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It’s not hard to find knockoff hardware imitating name-brand electronics. Still, this one takes the cake. Sonny Dickson shares photos of an alleged iPhone 17 Pro clone running a version of Android that is skinned to look like iPhone software. Well, the old iPhone software, I guess. The actual iPhone 17 Pro will run iOS 26, of course, which is …
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