Apple announced the company's first device with a folding screen today, the iPhone Duo, but that's where the firsts end. The Duo is not only far from the first foldable on the market thanks to the efforts of Samsung and Google, but it's also not the first product to be called the Duo. Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs popularized the saying "good artists copy, great artists steal," but will the iPhone Duo's folding screen, which features a custom nano-texture display material to help minimize the visibility of its crease, be enough to make us forget these other Duos that have come before it? Only time, or how aggressively Apple plans to market i …Read the full story at The Verge.

I was using Wi-Fi for far more than I should have. If a device could connect wirelessly, I usually let it, even when it sat in the same place every single day. My desktop, Apple TV, NAS, game console, and other important devices were all using the airtime for no good reason. Then I stopped treating Wi-Fi as the default.

Open AI CEO Sam Altman speaks during the G20 Innovation Ministerial. | (Photo by Matt RAMEY / AFP via Getty Images) OpenAI's announcement Tuesday that it has solved one of mathematics' legendary Millennium Prize problems should have been a moment of triumph. The result is both an undeniable achievement and a striking demonstration of just how rapidly AI is transforming mathematics. But before it was even formally announced, the breakthrough had been complicated by the unusual circumstances that prompted OpenAI to pursue the problem: After hearing other researchers were making progress, it seems to have thrown its considerable resources into a last-minute effort to beat them to the punch. The ensuing controversy has surfaced allegations of scooping, spying …Read the full story at The Verge.

The Amazon Fire HD 10 is a bestselling tablet for several reasons. It isn't for everyone, but the price will surely turn heads if you've been thinking about buying a new Android tablet. Amazon is now discounting the Fire HD 10 to just $77, which is 50% off its usual retail price of $155.

Black is back. | Photo: Nilay Patel / The Verge Apple has seen reason: It has a black model in the iPhone Pro lineup again. Last year, Apple went bold with its colors for the iPhone 17 Pro, offering a flashy orange, a shiny silver, and a dark blue. Don't get me wrong, they looked nice. But there was no black (or dark gray) for the first time since the start of the iPhone Pro lineup, which Apple first introduced in September 2019 with the iPhone 11 Pro and Pro Max.I care about this because I always buy the black phone. I learned my lesson with the iPhone 6: I got it in gold to mix things up and came to regret it. I don't need something flashy - I need a phone that blends into the backg …Read the full story at The Verge.

When streaming media services and devices became popular, Roku was my first choice. Even with the ability to sideload other apps on Fire TV devices, I stuck with Roku boxes and sticks since they were straightforward to use, my apps synced, and I was used to the experience.

Matt Mullenweg, the CEO of WordPress.com owner Automattic, has been placed on a paid leave of absence, as reported earlier by 404 Media. In an internal message by the outlet, Mullenweg claims Automattic chief financial officer Mark Davies "conspired" with board members to place him on leave."They voted to put me on a paid leave of absence. I voted against that," Mullenweg wrote, referring to Davies, along with Automattic board members Ann Dunwoody, Toni Schneider, and Sue Decker, 404 Media reports. Mullenweg, who also co-founded WordPress.org, has headed up Automattic since 2014. In 2024, Mullenweg waged a public pressure campaign agains …Read the full story at The Verge.

New AirPods Pro with cameras were thankfully not announced at the September Apple event. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge September Apple events are always a swirl of information and new, exciting products, and today's was no different. Apple announced its first foldable, the iPhone Duo, alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max; active noise cancellation (ANC) is now on the cheapest AirPods model, the AirPods 5; and a Siri Recap feature comes to the Watch Series 12 and Watch Ultra 4. But missing were the AirPods Pro with cameras that have been rumored throughout the year and, according to Mark Gurman at Bloomberg, are delayed until 2027. I'm happy about that and I hope we never get them.I have too many concerns about a company - any company - putting cameras a …Read the full story at The Verge.

Suno's new v6 AI music model is its first made with support from the record industry. Suno's Jack Brody told The Verge that v6 was "trained from the ground up, with a new set of data that does not include the same data that our previous models were trained on." The data includes content licensed from partners Warner Music Group, BMG, and Believe, as well as "user data." It's unclear whether that means v6 training data is completely free of dubiously obtained content.One of the big changes in v6 is that there are actually three different models: v6, v6-wild, and v6-mini. Mini is the model available for free to all. It's focused on fast, res …Read the full story at The Verge.

For years, Google Photos was the place where I kept my entire photo collection. It was one of those apps I rarely thought about because it simply worked in the background. Eventually, though, I decided I wanted a different approach and started looking for a way to manage my photos on my own terms. That led me to Immich. The switch was easier than I expected, and after using it for years, I’ve found that I don't really miss most of what I left behind. But there is one Google Photos feature I didn't realize I would notice until it was gone.

Claude Code can inspect a repository, read and edit files, run terminal commands, and check whether its changes actually work. The model plays a huge role here, of course, but much of the experience comes from the workflow built around it. I wanted to see whether I could recreate that workflow while keeping the model on my own computer. I combined Qwen 3.5 with LM Studio and Hermes Agent. I’m running the 14B model, so it’s nowhere near as good as Claude, but this setup brought me pretty close to what I had in mind, with a few limitations, of course.

Paying more for a new phone seems almost unavoidable after Apple's event today. The new iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max start at $1,199 and $1,299, respectively - a $100 price hike over their predecessors. You can't dodge the price hike by opting for an older iPhone, either, because Apple raised prices on those by $100, too. And it's not just Apple. This year, the $100 price hike has been a trend across the industry. Google and Samsung followed the same formula as Apple when they each launched new phones over the past few months. The Pixel 11 starts at $899, up from $799 for last year's Pixel 10. The Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra launched at $2,099, $1 …Read the full story at The Verge.