This $300 Minimalist Flip Phone Could Help You Avoid Scrolling and AI
Credit: The Light Phone, Inc. If you’re annoyed by the drive to constantly look at your smartphone but aren’t ready to switch to a “dumbphone,” here’s an in-between option: the Light Flip phone. Launched by the makers of the Light Phone on Tuesday, this minimalist clamshell phone targets people who want a device with navigation, […]
Apple art director shares sketches and prototypes of Lil’ Finder Guy
Sofia Coelho, the art director who led the visual design and concept for Lil’ Finder Guy, has shared a rare behind-the-scenes look at how the MacBook Neo campaign’s mascot came to be. Here are the details. ’Measuring exactly one apple tall’ In a post shared today on LinkedIn, Apple art director Sofia Coelho shared an […]
‘Bigger, brighter and lighter’: It was love at first use with the 3rd-generation Amazon Kindle Scribe (2025), but its height and price make it unwieldy
Why you can trust TechRadar We spend hours testing every product or service we review, so you can be sure you’re buying the best. Find out more about how we test. Amazon Kindle Scribe (2025): Two-minute review I’ve used the 2024 release of the Kindle Scribe (2nd generation) for two years and I’ve loved every […]
Microsoft launches new in-house AI models it says cut costs up to 89% versus OpenAI
Microsoft AI released two new in-house models into public preview on Wednesday — MAI-Image-2.5-Pro, its highest-fidelity image generator to date, and MAI-Voice-2-Flash, a speech model built for high-volume enterprise workloads — while publishing production data that amounts to the company’s most aggressive argument yet that it can power its own products without leaning on OpenAI’s […]
Pickleball comedy ‘The Dink’ premieres on Apple TV
Apple TV subscribers can now watch ‘The Dink,’ the platform’s new star-studded sports comedy produced by Ben Stiller. Watch the trailer below. ’The Dink’ premieres on Apple TV ‘The Dink’ is now available to stream on Apple TV, starring Jake Johnson (Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed), Mary Steenburgen (Step Brothers), Ed Harris (The Abyss), Chloe Fineman (Home […]
Galaxy Z Flip 8 vs. Motorola Razr Ultra (2026): Samsung’s flip phone is cheaper, but is it better?
Flip phones have quietly become one of the most competitive corners of the smartphone market. It provides buyers with a satisfying folding snap, reducing the footprint to half the original size, and that’s the entire point. Motorola never really left the format after reviving the Razr name, while Samsung has spent generations treating the Flip […]
Agentic coding goes hands-free as OpenAI brings GPT-Live’s full duplex voice control to Codex and ChatGPT on the desktop
Two weeks after debuting its more naturalistic GPT-Live audio AI model with full-duplex capabilities (listening and speaking at the same time), OpenAI is bringing it directly into developer workflows. The company announced that GPT-Live now powers the ChatGPT desktop application on macOS and Windows, integrating directly with agentic systems like Codex and ChatGPT Work (which […]
Ford Is Channeling Its Model-T History To Build Its $30K Slate Truck Rival
Along with the Mustang, its iconic blue oval logo, and the F-Series truck, Ford is largely known for inventing the moving assembly line in 1913. This allowed workers to remain in place and build the vehicle as it moved down a conveyor belt, allowing the Model T to be […]
US Treasury Threatens Sanctions on China, Claims Its AI Firms Distilled Anthropic’s Fable Model
Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent at the NATO Summit on July 8, 2026. Credit: NurPhoto The US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has warned China that economic sanctions are on the table for what he describes as “IP theft.” He claims that Chinese AI developer Moonshot used improper techniques to train its Kimi K3 AI […]
Black Forest Labs launches FLUX 3 capable of generating images and 20-second video with audio — but in limited release to start
Black Forest Labs (BFL) is expanding its FLUX family beyond image generation with today’s launch of FLUX 3, a multimodal frontier model trained to understand and generate images, or combined audio/video clips up to 20 seconds from a single prompt — and to extend the same underlying architecture to robotic vision and actions. The Freiburg, […]