The iPhone 18 Pro Max has a clever feature to avoid problems with its larger battery that might become the new normal — here’s what you need to know

Going by teardowns, you’re getting a 5,567mAh battery in eSIM-only models and a 5,391mAh one in versions with a physical SIM card slot. But both of those are over 20 watt-hours (Wh), and that could have been a problem…

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The state of the American advertiser

Yet for marketers, the central challenge is shifting. It is less about finding another place to advertise. It is more about understanding how every investment contributes to the broader business. That is the environment…

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AWS bolts together open source agent harness, says it sips fewer tokens than rivals

The Strands harness, as its name suggests, is built on AWS’ Strands Harness SDK , but is packaged up and ready to roll out of the box, either locally or deployed to work with whatever AI provider a customer prefers. "The…

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Why is there a waitlist for Siri AI in iOS 27?

On iPhone and iPad, the latest updates bring a litany of performance improvements, such as faster app launching and AirDrop transfers, but the headlining feature is undeniably the new Siri AI . Siri AI is a comprehensive…

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Swimmer made of quantum light breaks Newton’s third law

But if you are swimming upstream in a river of quantum light, the normal rules don’t apply. Physicists have demonstrated that breaking Isaac Newton’s third law of motion in such a setting can be useful, leading to new…

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Amazon blocks Meta’s Muse and accuses Perplexity of misleading a court

It blocked Muse, Meta’s new AI assistant, from Amazon.com. It also filed an amended complaint against Perplexity, accusing the company of misleading a federal appeals court. The block came first. People who sent Muse to…

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Two more election defeats pile pressure on German chancellor Friedrich Merz

Following what the German chancellor had called the CDU’s “worst defeat in many years” in Saxony-Anhalt two weeks ago, Merz described the result of Sunday’s Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania election as a “disaster”. His…

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Bot or not? People miss 60% of AI social media bots, research claims

A study by cybersecurity firm Surfshark analyzed 1,722 participants worldwide through a live “Bot or Not” simulation. The findings show that while participants successfully flagged 50.2% of negative, confrontational…

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Microsoft’s official Xbox controller is available for a steal

The deal is on the Xbox Wireless Controller, down to £39.99 from its usual £59.99, a saving of £20 that works out to a third off the recommended retail price for Microsoft’s current-generation official pad . Xbox…

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The challenge ahead for Andy Burnham if he wants a codified UK constitution

It would be a huge departure for the UK, and a major undertaking. But beyond its historic significance, there is another question: how do you make sure the population understands what the constitution does and who it’s…

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