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Light made a flip phone — it’s colorful and it’s cheap
Kaiwei Tang helped create the iconic Motorola Razr over 20 years ago. Now, 10 years into building Light, the startup behind the minimalist smartphone alternative Light Phone, he’s as surprised as anyone that his customers are begging for a flip phone. “We’ve been interviewing young people that use flip phones for a few years,” Tang told TechCrunch, describing a pattern his team kept running into: Gen Z users love their flip phones but say…
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Actualité : Hors de contrôle : OpenAI débranche son IA la plus puissante après son évasion d’un bac à sable
© Shuttershock - OpenAI a dû suspendre l'accès à un modèle d'IA interne après qu'il a contourné ses restrictions de sécurité de manière autonome. Le 20 juillet, OpenAI a publié un retour d'expérience détaillé sur un incident impliquant l'un de ses modèles internes les plus avancés, celui-là même qui avait réfuté la conjecture d'Erdős sur les distances unitaires. Conçu pour travailler de manière autonome sur de longues périodes, ce modèle a exploité une faille…
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Comment un simple branchement d’écran illustre un vieux problème de Windows
L'important, c'est le choix Des propriétaires de moniteurs LG ont constaté qu’après un simple branchement de l’écran, Windows installe silencieusement une application nommée LG Monitor App Installer. Sa seule mission semble être de proposer un essai de l’antivirus McAfee. Le processus détourne une capacité du système à simplifier l’installation des composants et périphériques. Depuis environ trois semaines, des propriétaires de moniteurs LG (essentiellement la gamme UltraGear) constatent qu’après un simple branchement de l’écran, l’application…
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Samsung Health’s new assistant wants to help make sense of your health data
Credit: Andy Walker / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung has announced the launch of Health Assistant. The new assistant is designed to help users reach their health and wellness goals by providing insights based on information from Samsung Health’s five core pillars of wellness. The AI-powered personal assistant is currently available in beta for eligible US users. Health apps provide all kinds of data points you can use to improve your life. However, it can…
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iPhone 18 Rumor Reality Check: 20 Claims Ranked by Likelihood
Apple's iPhone 18 Pro models and its first foldable iPhone are less than two months away from being unveiled, with the standard iPhone 18, iPhone 18e, and iPhone Air 2 expected to follow in spring 2027 as part of the company's new split-launch strategy. We've looked back at everything we know so far, and ranked the most consistent rumors, followed by the more speculative ones. Solid Rumors iPhone Air 2 With Two Cameras –…
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Update to Galaxy S26 Ultra Privacy Display lets you hide picture-in-picture videos
An update to One UI 9 makes clever use of the Galaxy S26 Ultra’s Privacy Display. Picture-in-picture videos from apps like YouTube now get to use Privacy Display filtering while playing on the Galaxy S26 Ultra’s homescreen. Even if the initial hype has died down, the Galaxy S26 Ultra’s display is really cool. With something called Privacy Display, individual parts of the display can be filtered so that only one user can see. It…
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Score the A16 iPad for Its Best Price Since June's Hike
Amazon this week is taking $50 off Wi-Fi models of Apple's 11th generation iPad. Prices start at $399.00 for the 128GB Wi-Fi iPad, down from $449.00. This is now the best price we've seen on the iPad since Apple's price hikes in June. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Amazon. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us keep the site running. Additionally,…
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New Samsung Galaxy Buds with a fresh design will skip Unpacked, but here’s when to expect them
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. We exclusively revealed the existence of Samsung’s Galaxy Buds Able back in April. Since then, follow-up leaks have revealed what they may look like, suggesting a clip-based open-ear design for the earbuds. With Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked less than a day away, one may have thought these earbuds might appear there. A new report suggests otherwise. Citing anonymous sources, South Korean publication ET…
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Leak reveals what to expect from Samsung’s smart glasses at Unpacked tomorrow
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. While we already got a sneak peek at Samsung’s Galaxy Glasses renders, a new leak now sheds light on the actual hardware specs powering Samsung’s upcoming smart glasses, built in partnership with Google, Warby Parker, and Gentle Monster. According to a WinFuture report, Samsung will unveil new details about its smart glasses tomorrow at Samsung Unpacked, where it will launch its new…
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« Un climat de crise assez marqué » : Toyota n’a plus les mêmes certitudes
Recevez tous les soirs un résumé de l’actu importante avec Le Récap’ Toyota reste de loin le premier groupe automobile mondial. L’avance confortable sur ses concurrents n’empêche toutefois pas le constructeur japonais d’être confronté à des difficultés. Pendant que la Chine transformait son industrie automobile à une vitesse fulgurante et que Tesla imposait ses standards logiciels, Toyota observait le virage de l’électrique (et du logiciel) avec une certaine condescendance. Fort de sa domination sur…
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Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra : la mise à jour One UI 9 améliore l’écran de confidentialité
L'écran de confidentialité du Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra gère désormais mieux le mode Picture in Picture (PiP) grâce à la mise à jour One UI 9. L'une des grandes nouveautés introduites par Samsung avec son Galaxy S26 Ultra est la fonction d'écran de confidentialité (Privacy Display). Celle-ci permet d'occulter l'affichage depuis la plupart des angles de vision, si bien qu'on ne peut voir le contenu à l'écran que lorsqu'on est bien face à lui.…
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When your vehicle outlives its cloud: What happens next?
Do you use your vehicle’s app to pre‑cool the cabin on a scorching day, confirm the doors are locked from bed, or have the car automatically call for help when the airbags go off? Savor those connected, cloud‑based conveniences while you can—the clock is already ticking on their obsolescence. In a few short years, you may be driving today’s vehicle without many of the features you currently enjoy. “Connected services”—cloud-based and networked features that…
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La justice accepte qu’Anthropic paie 1,5 milliard pour solder l’affaire des livres piratés
Un chèque record pour éviter une facture bien plus salée C’est tout simplement le dédommagement le plus élevé jamais obtenu dans une affaire de droits d’auteur, s’est réjoui l’avocat de plusieurs auteurs, après l’approbation définitive d’un accord avec Anthropic. La somme fait effectivement tourner les têtes : 1,5 milliard de dollars. Malgré tout, le labo s’en sort bien. Pour s’éviter un procès potentiellement embarrassant et encore plus coûteux, Anthropic avait dégainé le carnet de…
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Vous n’oublierez plus les widgets de vos applis grâce à cette nouveauté du Play Store
Les widgets simplifient l'accès aux applications sans même les ouvrir. Trop souvent, ils restent oubliés au fond du menu de personnalisation. Google prépare une nouveauté du Play Store pour les remettre sous les yeux de tous. Personnaliser son écran d'accueil sur un mobile est devenu un jeu d'enfant. Chacun peut choisir son fond d'écran, agencer ses icônes ou glisser des raccourcis interactifs pour accéder à une information en un coup d'œil. Ces petits blocs…
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Apps & Logiciels
Apps targeted at US troops contain Chinese and Russian code
A recent examination of hundreds of mobile apps marketed toward US military personnel found more than one in eight contained software built by companies in China, Russia, or other foreign nations, raising fresh concerns that adversary governments could harvest data revealing where service members live, work, and deploy. According to researchers at Purdue University, the US Military Academy at West Point, and Florida International University, one popular app used by service members to rate…
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The 'stunning, behemoth' Galaxy Tab S10 Ultra just scored a $350 discount during Best Buy's Black Friday in July sale
Sometimes the best way to swing a tablet deal is to go with a last-gen option, especially if you're looking at devices in the premium price range. As one example, Best Buy has knocked $350 off the price of the Samsung Galaxy Tab S10 Ultra, bringing it down to just $850. While the newer Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra is the best premium Android tablet there is today, the S10 Ultra sports relatively similar specs,…
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Apps & Logiciels
Build intelligent Android apps: On-device inference
Posted by Caren Chang, Developer Relations Engineer, Android Developer Relations Welcome back to the blog post series "Build intelligent Android apps" where we take a basic Android app and transform it into a personalized, intelligent, and agentic experience. In our previous post we introduced Jetpacker, the demo app we'll use throughout this series. In this blog post, we will share how you can use Gemini Nano through ML Kit’s Prompt API to build intelligent…
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Build intelligent Android apps: Introduction to Jetpacker
Posted by Jolanda Verhoef, Senior Developer Relations Engineer, Android Developer Relations Building GenAI features in your app usually means navigating through various models, APIs and architecture choices: Execution location: Where does your model run? On device, in the cloud, or both? Complexity: How complex is your setup? Are you doing a single inference call or do you need a more agentic flow? In-app or Android System: Should your feature be built into your Android…
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Build intelligent Android apps: Integrate into Android’s intelligence system using AppFunctions
Posted by Ben Weiss, Senior Developer Relations Engineer, Android Developer Relations Welcome back to the blog post series "Build intelligent Android apps" where we take a basic Android app and transform it into a personalized, intelligent, and agentic experience. In our previous post, we explored how to leverage Firebase AI Logic to build cloud-hosted and hybrid AI features. Traditional mobile UIs excel at focused, hands-on tasks, and the Android intelligence system is introducing complementary…
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Halliday’s smart glasses want to fix your meetings before they go off the rails
What you need to know Halliday G2 uses the company's new Meeting Flow feature to provide real-time prompts and context as conversations happen. Meeting Flow helps you stay engaged without reaching for your phone, offering live captions, translations, instant recaps, contextual research, and confidence-rated answers through the glasses. The AI spots topic drift, flags unclear decisions, identifies incomplete action items, and generates structured summaries with transcripts after meetings. Most AI meeting assistants have become…
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Build intelligent Android apps: Cloud and hybrid inference
Posted by Thomas Ezan, Jolanda Verhoef, Caren Chang, Senior Developer Relations Engineers, Android Developer Relations Welcome back to the blog post series "Build intelligent Android apps" where we take a basic Android app and transform it into a personalized, intelligent, and agentic experience. In our previous post we explored how to build intelligent on-device features using Gemini Nano through ML Kit's Prompt API. In this post, we will look at how you can leverage…
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Quand les mots s’en mêlent : aidez Donald Trump à trouver le message caché de Mythos !
Trump qui peut Cet été, Next vous propose des mini-jeux. Le premier est un mot mêlé où vous devez aider Donald Trump à trouver un message que Mythos essaie de lui faire passer en douce… Problème, il n’y arrive pas. Et, si le message était de la plus haute importance ? Il y a 45 mots à trouver avant de faire apparaitre le message caché. Ils peuvent être en long, en large, en travers…
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Expect 2027 iPhones to cost more as TSMC increases chip prices
Apple will have to pay more for its iPhone and Mac chips from 2027 onwards, as long-term supply chain partner TSMC is upping its base prices by as much as 10%. Apple is already trying to mitigate the memory market's pricing spikes to reduce its costs, but it's not the only component price problem on its hands. It faces having to pay TSMC even more for the all-important processors too. According to Nikkei on…
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The Download: Chinese AI divides the White House, and a record copyright payout
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. China’s AI models have Trump’s AI world at war with itself Last weekend, several current and former advisers to President Donald Trump on AI publicly lobbed insults at the country’s leading AI companies. David Sacks branded Anthropic’s models “lobotomized” and “woke.” Emil Michael, a top Pentagon official, called OpenAI’s new…
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