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Experiments at San Diego’s DIII-D National Fusion Facility have demonstrated that a new plasma configuration could help increase the stability of tokamak fusion reactors and inform future designs. Nuclear fusion holds the promise of virtually limitless energy with a low-carbon impact, and new discoveries are helping to speed its development from theoretical to real-world applications. A report by Interesting Engineering …

iOS 26’s new Liquid Glass interface has been criticized for making some content illegible in certain circumstances, and now the UI design is reportedly causing another unusual visual problem for some users. Liquid Glass adds subtle glowing effects to the corners of app icons, creating a dynamic glass-like appearance with depth and parallax effects. However, as noted by Gizmodo, this …

Ahead of its formal debut in the near future, Xiaomi is showing off the new Xiaomi 17 Pro, which has an iPhone-like camera bar on the back, but uses that real estate for a rear display. In a post on Weibo, Xiaomi shares a brief video that shows the Xiaomi 17 Pro. At first, the phone is shown with a …

A few days ago, a leak about Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy S26 Ultra revealed the phone’s design. Well, today we have a photo showing one of the cases for the phone, and it gives us a closer look at the device. On X, @UniverseIce has posted a picture showing the Galaxy S26 Ultra in a case. The tipster didn’t say if …

Apple’s iOS 26 software update for iPhones is available Monday to people who have an iPhone 11, iPhone SE 2, and later. iOS 26’s marquee feature is Apple’s Liquid Glass design, which includes elements on screen that resembled a “glassy” look. Other features include a call screening assistant, a new gaming and preview app, in-app translation across the system, and …

Liquid Glass is a neat party trick. The new design system, which was built for nearly all of Apple’s products and is rolling out this week, is built on the idea that interfaces should be three-dimensional: in the world of Liquid Glass, buttons and menus sit on top of whatever you’re doing or looking at, changing color and refracting digital …

Apple today released macOS Tahoe 26, the newest version of the macOS operating system designed to run on the Mac. macOS Tahoe is a free update that can be downloaded today on compatible Macs. macOS Tahoe can run on all Apple silicon Macs, as well as the 2019 16-inch MacBook Pro, the 2020 13-inch ‌MacBook Pro‌, the 2020 and later …

Apple Pitches a Return to Its Design Roots, Six Years After Jony Ive’s Exit  Bloomberg.com Everything Apple announced at its big event: iPhone Air, iPhone 17, new Apple Watches and more  CNN Apple’s ‘Plateau’ Event  spyglass.org Apple’s September 2025 Event: All the Small Things (Bento Box Version)  MacStories Why you’ll want to have two tabs open to watch the iPhone 17 event  9to5Mac Source link

Barrier-grid animations (also called scanimations) are a thing most people would recognize on sight, even if they didn’t know what they were called. Move a set of opaque strips over a pattern, and watch as different slices of that image are alternately hidden and revealed, resulting in a simple animation. The tricky part is designing the whole thing — but …

Tim Cook and Apple’s Design Team Explain the ‘Shockingly Thin’ iPhone Air  The Wall Street Journal iPhone Air  Apple Apple Starts Getting Customers Used to the Idea of $2,000 iPhones  Bloomberg.com Xfinity Mobile, Comcast Business Mobile to Offer the New iPhone 17, iPhone Air, iPhone 17 Pro, and iPhone 17 Pro Max  Comcast Corporation The iPhone Air is Apple’s attempt to make smartphones exciting …