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Apple’s First Touchscreen MacBook Pro? Ming-Chi Kuo’s OLED Mac Leak Shakes Up Apple’s Playbook

Apple’s First Touchscreen MacBook Pro? Ming-Chi Kuo’s OLED Mac Leak Shakes Up Apple’s Playbook

Latest Leaks: Touchscreen OLED MacBooks on the Horizon Apple’s MacBook Pro line could soon get touch-enabled, OLED displays, marking a radical departure from past models 9To5Mac. According to Ming-Chi Kuo’s latest supply chain insights, Apple’s first touchscreen Mac will arrive in the form of an OLED MacBook Pro. Kuo says this model is slated to go into production in late 2026 9To5Mac. That implies a retail launch either late 2026 or very early 2027, although Apple has not confirmed any of this publicly. Notably, this would be the first time Apple puts a touch-sensitive display in a Mac – a
17 September 2025
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Nintendo Resurrects Its Biggest Flop: Virtual Boy Games Headed to Switch Online in 3D Glory

Nintendo Resurrects Its Biggest Flop: Virtual Boy Games Headed to Switch Online in 3D Glory

The Virtual Boy: A Bold 3D Experiment That Became Nintendo’s Biggest Flop To appreciate why a Virtual Boy comeback is so surprising, it’s important to understand the history of the original 1995 Virtual Boy system – a history marked by ambition, innovation, and rapid failure. The Virtual Boy was conceived by famed Nintendo engineer Gunpei Yokoi (creator of the Game Boy) as an affordable foray into stereoscopic 3D gaming. Codenamed “VR32” during development, it was meant to “totally immerse players into their own private universe,” according to Nintendo’s early promises en.wikipedia.org. The device itself was unlike any console before it:
17 September 2025
AI Chip Boom, Google’s New Tricks, and Hollywood’s Robot Wars – Today’s AI News Roundup

AI Chip Wars: USA vs China vs Taiwan – Inside the Trillion-Dollar Race to 2030

Introduction The race for dominance in AI chips – the specialized processors that power artificial intelligence – has become a core battleground in technology and geopolitics. In 2025, the United States, China, and Taiwan stand as key players, each with a different role: the U.S. is home to the leading chip designers, China is a massive and ambitious consumer and emerging producer, and Taiwan is the manufacturing epicenter. AI chips are not only critical for flashy applications like generative AI (think ChatGPT or image generators) but also for a wave of smart devices and autonomous machines. As a result, nations
17 September 2025
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DJI Mini 5 Pro Takes Flight with a Game‑Changing 1‑Inch Sensor – How It Stacks Up Against the Competition

DJI Mini 5 Pro Takes Flight with a Game‑Changing 1‑Inch Sensor – How It Stacks Up Against the Competition

DJI Mini 5 Pro Overview – A “Pro” Camera in a Mini Drone The DJI Mini 5 Pro marks a milestone for compact drones, packing features previously exclusive to larger models into an ultralight package. Announced in mid-September 2025, the Mini 5 Pro is the first Mini-series drone to incorporate truly professional-grade imaging and safety tech. Its headline feature is the 1-inch CMOS sensor – a size previously only seen on much larger drones like the 595 g DJI Air 2S techradar.com techradar.com. Cramming that into a tiny <250 g airframe was “considered nigh-on impossible just a couple of years
17 September 2025
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DJI Mini 5 Pro Stuns with Next‑Level Features – A Tiny Drone Poised to Beat Them All

DJI Mini 5 Pro Stuns with Next‑Level Features – A Tiny Drone Poised to Beat Them All

DJI Mini 5 Pro: Specifications and New Features DJI’s Mini series has always aimed to deliver big technology in tiny drones – and the Mini 5 Pro takes that to a whole new level. As the successor to 2023’s Mini 4 Pro, it “packs a punch” by upstaging its predecessor on multiple fronts tomsguide.com. The headline upgrade is the 50MP 1-inch image sensor, a leap from the Mini 4 Pro’s 1/1.3-inch sensor tomsguide.com tomsguide.com. This larger sensor can capture more light, yielding cleaner low-light shots and up to 14 stops of dynamic range for high-contrast scenes tomsguide.com dronedj.com. Photos can
17 September 2025
Google’s Shocking AI Contractor Purge: The Real Reason 200 ‘Super Raters’ Were Axed

Google’s Shocking AI Contractor Purge: The Real Reason 200 ‘Super Raters’ Were Axed

Google’s AI Layoffs: Official “Ramp-Down” vs. Worker Allegations Late this summer, Google terminated the contracts of over 200 people who had been working to enhance the company’s artificial intelligence products, including the much-anticipated Gemini AI model and Google’s new AI-generated search summaries (known as AI Overviews) wired.com wired.com. The cuts were sudden and executed in at least two rounds, with many contractors reporting they were locked out of work accounts without warning ndtv.com. When some workers asked why they were being let go, they were told it was due to a “ramp-down” of the project – a vague explanation that
17 September 2025
Engineer Turns Disposable Vape into Blazing-Fast Web Server with Only 24KB Memory

Engineer Turns Disposable Vape into Blazing-Fast Web Server with Only 24KB Memory

Unlikely Web Server: A Vape Pen’s Hidden Computing Power Disposable vape pens are usually seen as trash once the nicotine runs out, but inside they often hide surprisingly capable electronics. Bogdan Ionescu – an engineer and hobbyist known as “BogdanTheGeek” – discovered this when he cracked open some “fancier” vape models. Instead of the typical mystery “blob” IC, he found a marked chip from Puya (a Chinese chipmaker) Tomshardware. It turned out to be a Puya PY32F002B microcontroller: a tiny Arm Cortex-M0+ running at 24 MHz with 24 KB of flash storage and 3 KB of RAM Tomshardware. These specs are not stellar
17 September 2025
Spotify vs Apple Music vs YouTube Music – The 2025 Streaming Showdown (Pricing, Quality, AI & More)

YouTube Music’s Exclusive Fan Perks vs Spotify, Apple & More – A New Era of Superfan Rewards?

YouTube Music’s New Tools to Reward Superfans YouTube Music just announced a trio of new features aimed at bringing artists and fans closer together. Unveiled at YouTube’s “Made On” event in mid-September 2025, these tools mark a significant push to deepen artist-fan connections on the platform techcrunch.com. Here’s what’s new on YouTube Music: These features follow on the heels of YouTube Music’s 10th anniversary updates in August 2025, which added more social and interactive elements. The service introduced collaborative “Taste Match” playlists (combining friends’ music tastes, similar to Spotify’s Blend), badges for listeners (like “First to Watch” or “Top Listener”),
17 September 2025
Quantum Breakthrough: UK Startup Unveils First Quantum Computer Built with Standard Silicon Chips

Quantum Breakthrough: UK Startup Unveils First Quantum Computer Built with Standard Silicon Chips

Background: A Quantum Computer Built on Everyday Silicon Quantum Motion’s announcement represents a significant first in quantum computing: a functioning quantum computer built entirely using conventional silicon chips instead of the esoteric hardware typical of quantum labs. The London-based startup – a 2017 spinout of University College London and Oxford University – was founded by professors John Morton and Simon Benjamin specifically to pursue CMOS-based quantum processors datacenterdynamics.com. After several years of research and prototyping, the company unveiled its breakthrough system on September 15, 2025, as part of a UK government-backed initiative to commercialize scalable quantum hardware tomshardware.com. The new
17 September 2025
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3D-Printed Ghost Guns Won’t Stay Anonymous: How Digital Fingerprints Could Track Every Part

3D-Printed Ghost Guns Won’t Stay Anonymous: How Digital Fingerprints Could Track Every Part

Introduction: Ghost Guns and Digital Fingerprints 3D printing has opened the door to amazing innovations – custom tools, spare parts, even artistic creations – but it also has a dark side. In recent years, hobbyist 3D printers have been used to produce unregistered, untraceable firearms known as ghost guns. These DIY weapons lack serial numbers and skirt traditional gun regulations, making them appealing to criminals. A chilling example came in late 2024, when a ghost gun was implicated in the murder of a healthcare executive engineering.washu.edu engineering.washu.edu. This incident underscored why law enforcement is anxious about ghost guns: they’re effectively
17 September 2025
Intel Core Ultra 3 205 vs Core i3-14100 & Ryzen 5: Arrow Lake’s Budget Beast Redefines Entry-Level CPUs

Intel Core Ultra 3 205 vs Core i3-14100 & Ryzen 5: Arrow Lake’s Budget Beast Redefines Entry-Level CPUs

<br> Architecture & Specs: Arrow Lake’s Core Ultra 3 Goes Hybrid Intel’s Core Ultra 3 205 represents a major architectural step up for Intel’s budget tier, introducing the hybrid core design and silicon innovations of the Arrow Lake-S generation into an entry-level CPU. It packs 8 total cores (12 threads) in a 4P + 4E configuration – a first for the “Core i3/Ultra 3” class which was previously limited to 4 cores. The four Performance cores are based on Intel’s latest “Lion Cove” microarchitecture (successor to Raptor Cove), while the four Efficiency cores use the new “Skymont” design, both fabricated
17 September 2025
AMD’s Secret CPU Launch Shakes Up the Market: Four New Ryzen Chips Take Aim at Intel

AMD’s Secret CPU Launch Shakes Up the Market: Four New Ryzen Chips Take Aim at Intel

The Four New Ryzen CPUs at a Glance AMD’s new CPUs cover a surprisingly wide range of the Ryzen family. Below is a quick rundown of each chip’s key specifications and what makes it unique: In summary, AMD’s four new chips include two Zen 5 models aimed at delivering high performance per core at lower cost (by stripping out the iGPU), one unusual Zen 4 chip that repurposes a partially defective die for entry-level use, and one last gasp of Zen 3 for the ultra-budget segment. This mix shows AMD is leaving no stone unturned in its product lineup –
17 September 2025
Nvidia’s Unreleased GTX 2080 Ti Prototype – A More Powerful Turing Flagship That Never Launched

Nvidia’s Unreleased GTX 2080 Ti Prototype – A More Powerful Turing Flagship That Never Launched

Background: The RTX 2080 Ti and Turing’s Debut Nvidia launched the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti in September 2018 as the flagship of its then-new Turing architecture. Priced around $1,199 at launch, the RTX 2080 Ti was the first consumer GPU to introduce real-time ray tracing and AI DLSS features, marking a major technological leap in graphics. According to Tom’s Hardware, it “was the flagship offering at that moment, bringing ray tracing to the masses for the first time” Tomshardware. The card featured 11 GB of GDDR6 VRAM and delivered the highest gaming performance of its generation, well ahead of any
17 September 2025
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Japan’s $300 Million Undersea Cable Gamble: Inside the Global Race to Secure the Internet’s Lifelines

Japan’s $300 Million Undersea Cable Gamble: Inside the Global Race to Secure the Internet’s Lifelines

Japan’s Bold Move: Subsidizing Cable-Laying Ships Japan’s decision to bankroll NEC’s purchase of undersea cable vessels signals a major policy shift to protect the nation’s digital lifelines. According to officials, Tokyo is prepared to front hundreds of millions of dollars so that NEC – Asia’s biggest undersea cable installer – can acquire ocean-going cable-laying ships of its own Tomshardware Lightreading. Each such ship is a massive specialized vessel (costing about $300 million apiece) equipped to carry and slowly spool out thousands of kilometers of fiber-optic cable across ocean floors. Until now, NEC has owned zero of these, relying instead on leasing
17 September 2025
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Belgium’s Space Boom: From Small Nation to Satellite Powerhouse

Belgium’s Space Boom: From Small Nation to Satellite Powerhouse

Key Facts at a Glance Historical Evolution: From Early Collaborator to ESA Pillar Belgium’s journey in space began in the 1960s, making it one of the earliest European nations involved in space endeavors Belgium. In 1962 the government formed Belgospace, an industry-academia forum to coordinate Belgium’s participation in Europe’s first space organizations (ELDO for launchers and ESRO for science satellites) Switchtospace. Belgium became a founding member of ESA in 1975 and embraced a multilateral approach – recognizing that pooling resources was the way for a small country to achieve big goals in space Belgium. Over decades, Belgium honed specific strengths
17 September 2025
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Mars Life Clue, Deadly Heat & Tech Breakthroughs – Science News Roundup (Sept 16–17, 2025)

Mars Life Clue, Deadly Heat & Tech Breakthroughs – Science News Roundup (Sept 16–17, 2025)

Sources Medicine & Health: UC San Diego Health (press release via ScienceDaily) sciencedaily.com sciencedaily.com; ScienceDaily (Sep 16) sciencedaily.com; SciTechDaily scitechdaily.com scitechdaily.com.Space & Astronomy: Imperial College London (press release via ScienceDaily) sciencedaily.com sciencedaily.com; Symmetry Magazine (Fermilab/SLAC) symmetrymagazine.org symmetrymagazine.org; Sci.News sci.news sci.news.Climate & Environment: The Guardian theguardian.com theguardian.com; UNC Chapel Hill (press release via SciTechDaily) scitechdaily.com scitechdaily.com; Florida Atlantic University (press release via SciTechDaily) scitechdaily.com scitechdaily.com.Physics: Symmetry Magazine symmetrymagazine.org symmetrymagazine.org; Sci.News sci.news.Technology: University of Florida (press release via SciTechDaily) scitechdaily.com scitechdaily.com.Other: Sci.News sci.news sci.news; Sci.News sci.news.
17 September 2025
Rare Meteor Shower, Auroras & Planetary Spectacles: Skywatch Alert (Sept 17–18, 2025)

Rare Meteor Shower, Auroras & Planetary Spectacles: Skywatch Alert (Sept 17–18, 2025)

Key Facts Below is your full skywatching guide for the nights of September 17–18, 2025, with details on each phenomenon and tips for viewing. Clear skies! Meteor Showers: Slow Shooting Stars of September Chi Cygnids – a Rare 5-Year Meteor Shower: The headline event is the chi Cygnid meteor shower, a newly confirmed minor shower that appears to produce enhanced activity roughly every five years earthsky.org foxweather.com. First noticed after an outburst in 2015, the Chi Cygnids have shown bumps in meteor counts in 2010, 2015, 2020, and now 2025 earthsky.org. NASA/SETI astronomer Peter Jenniskens and colleagues detected increased meteors
17 September 2025
Rocket Launch Frenzy, Solar Surprises & Space Race Showdowns: 48 Hours of Space News (Sept 16–17, 2025)

Rocket Launch Frenzy, Solar Surprises & Space Race Showdowns: 48 Hours of Space News (Sept 16–17, 2025)

Rapid-Fire Rocket Launches and Satellite Deployments SpaceX’s Starlink blitz: SpaceX continued its high-frequency launch campaign, highlighting how routine orbital deployment has become. On Wednesday, Sept. 17, a Falcon 9 rocket lifted 24 Starlink V2 Mini satellites into a polar low-Earth orbit from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California spaceflightnow.com. Liftoff occurred at 8:43 am PDT (15:43 UTC), and about eight minutes later the veteran booster (B1088 on its 10th flight) landed on the drone ship Of Course I Still Love You spaceflightnow.com spaceflightnow.com. This “Starlink Group 17-12” mission was SpaceX’s 83rd Starlink launch of 2025, pushing the year’s Starlink satellite tally above 2,000 deployed so
17 September 2025
Tech Shockwaves: Slimmest iPhone, TikTok’s Lifeline & Space Glitches – Major Tech News (Sept 16–17, 2025)

Tech Shockwaves: Slimmest iPhone, TikTok’s Lifeline & Space Glitches – Major Tech News (Sept 16–17, 2025)

Key Facts Consumer Electronics: Slim Phones and Smart Glasses Apple’s Thinnest iPhone Yet: Apple’s fall product event introduced the iPhone Air, a dramatically slimmed-down iPhone that Apple billed as its biggest design shake-up in eight years reuters.com reuters.com. At just 5.6 mm thick, the iPhone Air is thinner than even its rival Samsung’s 5.8 mm Galaxy S25 Edge reuters.com. Inside the razor-thin chassis, Apple managed to fit its latest A19 Pro processor and claimed “all-day” battery life reuters.com reuters.com. The device carries a single rear camera (a trade-off to achieve the ultra-thin design) and uses an eSIM-only approach – something analysts warned
17 September 2025
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MediaTek’s 2nm Superchip Breaks Cover – Taking on Apple, Qualcomm & Samsung in the Next-Gen SoC Race

MediaTek’s 2nm Superchip Breaks Cover – Taking on Apple, Qualcomm & Samsung in the Next-Gen SoC Race

MediaTek’s First 2nm Flagship SoC – A New Milestone MediaTek’s announcement marks a major milestone: its first flagship chip built on TSMC’s new 2nm process has been successfully taped out (design finalized) as of September 2025. This makes MediaTek one of the very first companies to adopt TSMC’s 2nm node, alongside industry giants. The chip is expected to enter volume production by late 2026, aligning with TSMC’s roadmap for 2nm mass production. According to MediaTek, the development highlights the company’s long-term partnership with TSMC and its ability to deploy bleeding-edge semiconductor technology across diverse applications. Notably, TSMC’s 2nm (N2) technology
16 September 2025
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Stock Market Today

IHC stock price holds near 400 dirhams after Abu Dhabi group flags phishing emails

IHC stock price holds near 400 dirhams after Abu Dhabi group flags phishing emails

7 February 2026
Abu Dhabi, Feb 8, 2026, 01:14 (GST) — Market closed. International Holding Company PJSC (IHC.AD) warned investors about phishing emails and online approaches using the company’s name and branding, an Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange disclosure showed, after its shares ended Friday unchanged at 399.60 dirhams. (ADX) The notice landed into a market that is trading headlines again. UAE stocks closed slightly higher on Friday as investors tracked Iran-U.S. negotiations on Tehran’s nuclear programme and moves in oil prices. (Reuters) That matters because the bigger tone has been “risk on”, but it has been brittle. A few lines out of Muscat,
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