Apple's new texture and grain controls for stylizing photos will be more limited on older phones than initially expected. A confusingly worded press release from Apple indicated that the new features, announced alongside the iPhone 18 and 18 Pro earlier this month, would be "available" on older devices like the iPhone 16 and iPhone Air that "support the latest generation of Photographic Styles." But it turns out that "available" didn't mean that older iPhone models would have full access to those new features.Making texture adjustments to enhance or smooth a subject's skin and adding film grain will only be an option when those phones …Read the full story at The Verge.

The 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 and 8 Elite Gen 6 share most of their specs in common. | Image: Qualcomm Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6, this year joined by the 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 too. The company describes both new phone chips as flagships, and the spec differences are relatively minor, mostly limited to improved AI processing, video capture, and gaming performance on the Extreme model.Both Gen 6 chips are built on a 2nm process, and share much in common, including their modems, display specs, security features, GPS, and memory and storage support. Qualcomm no longer publishes detailed breakdowns of the cores across its silicon, but the CPU details given are identical, with two big cores at up to 5GHz and six performa …Read the full story at The Verge.

The importance of using a quality power supply is obvious to even new PC builders. It's the component that protects your expensive hardware from potentially devastating electrical shenanigans. What's way less obvious is the underlying make-up of the wires running from the PSU to the motherboard. These wires follow a standard established before some of you were even born.

An early look at the first set of Googlebooks The Android-powered Googlebooks are coming soon, with familiar brands and specs that rival Windows Copilot machines. For anyone eager to get their hands on any the new laptops, there’s a preorder perk you may want to know about lasting until October 25th, 2026.When you add a Googlebook to your cart at Best Buy, a pair of Pixel Buds 2A in hazel will be added for free. You can preorder now, with some systems shipping as early as October 5th, 2026. If you’re curious about the new machines, my colleague Antonio G. Di Benedetto got to spend some time with the laptops and shared his thoughts.There are a number of qualifying Googlebooks available at the retailer, including options from Acer, Lenovo, Asus, HP, and Dell. There’s a dedicated category page for the new genre of laptop in case you want to peruse the lineup. The least expensive model is the Acer Googlebook 14, which starts at $899 and features an Intel Core 5 Ultra, 16GB of LPDDR5X memory, and 512GB of storage. We also compared the specifications and features for each machine, in case you’re having trouble deciding.Read our Googlebook hands-on.

When I bought the 8GB variant of the Raspberry Pi 5 at launch, I got it pretty close to its official price tag, and it’s the one I use the most to benchmark random distros and unsupported emulators. Unfortunately, if I were to buy the same single-board computer today, I’d probably have to pay close to $200 (and even more, once you toss the active cooler and storage accessories into the equation),

My media library is a highly curated experience set up to meet my precise needs. I download, organize, and add movies and TV shows to the library, and Jellyfin handles playback across devices. Over time, I've given close friends and family members access to this library, which has, unfortunately, created its own set of problems.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is mostly known for its global dominance over petroleum production and oil reserves - not necessarily cars and auto manufacturing, and certainly not electric vehicle production. So it was a little surprising on Monday when a Saudi startup called Ceer unveiled a pair of hyper-angular, spaceship-like EVs, with plans to launch an additional five models by 2030.The Exobot (yes, that's the real name) sedan and SUV are expected to go on sale in Saudi Arabia starting in 2027. The ultra-futuristic designs scream Tron, Blade Runner, and every other sci-fi movie you've seen - and then some. The gullwing doors are ripped s …Read the full story at The Verge.

If you use motion sensors for the lights in your home, you've probably experienced being plunged into total darkness because your motion sensor assumes the room is empty when you're sitting still or resting. Traditional passive infrared sensors aren't presence sensors; they are motion detectors, meaning they look for shifting infrared heat signatures. If you aren't actively moving, you become invisible.

You couldn’t accuse Motorola of designing a boring phone. | Image: Motorola Motorola is the first company to announce a phone running Qualcomm's top-end Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chip. The Signature 27 looks set to be Motorola's most advanced flagship in some years, though we're still waiting for the full specs, price, and release date.Any prospective buyers will first have to get over the design, which seems guaranteed to earn mixed reception. The aluminum phone has a thin body, available in either black (sorry, "Pantone coal smoke") or green ("Pantone capulet olive"), with a woven tactical texture on one and a "feather-inspired" finish on the other. Either way, it slopes upwards into what Motorola calls a …Read the full story at The Verge.

Qualcomm is shaking up its flagship mobile lineup in 2026 with two top-tier mobile chips: the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6.

Rabbit, the company behind the underwhelming R1 device, is rolling out a standalone AI agent that you don't need its hardware to use, as reported earlier by Wired. The startup says its new OS3 "agentic operating system" runs in the cloud but operates locally across Windows, Mac, and Linux devices.According to Rabbit, you can add up to five devices to one account, along with your preferred AI models. OS3 will automatically determine the devices, files, apps, and AI models it needs to complete a task. You can also access OS3 through its dedicated desktop site, a paired messaging app like Telegram or iMessage, as well as on Rabbit's R1 device …Read the full story at The Verge.

Nearly every guide for Obsidian out there assumes you're there to take notes, which is fair enough, it is a markdown editor after all. But once you've been in the app for a while, you realize the note-taking becomes the least interesting thing about it, and dare I even say the least useful thing about it. Given that the vault is just a regular folder with plain text files, JSON files, and perhaps a couple of image files on your disk, you have complete freedom to create any setup you want and because Obsidian just reads the folder, whatever setup you build shows up inside the app itself too, creating the perfect workflow loop…