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1+ hour, 7+ min ago (350+ words) Samsung correctly identified exactly where Apple and Meta went wrong in their XR headsets and built the Galaxy XR to avoid those same pitfalls. As a result, a Galaxy XR is half the price of a Vision Pro and is somehow still the better product. Apple and Google approached porting smartphone apps to XR platforms differently, and as a consequence, my Vision Pro has fewer essential apps available than the Galaxy XR will. I find the Vision Pro's killer feature to be content consumption, but a video-watching device without Netflix and Roku is effectively dead-on-arrival. Speaking of content, my Vision Pro is lacking there, too. The stunning movie theater simulation Apple shows off in demos is only available with the Apple TV app, meaning you'll need to watch content purchased through Apple to use it. If I want to watch…...

1+ hour, 17+ min ago (581+ words) Aamir is a qualified accountant and business lawyer who started dabbling with Android phones over a decade ago, thanks to a regretful low-end phone purchase. Since then, he has written news, reviews, tutorials, editorials, and more as a tech journalist for XDA-Developers. He rose through the ranks as a freelance writer, full-time editor, managing editor, and eventually served as the website's Editor-in-Chief in 2021. Aamir specializes in Android, having followed the operating system since its Gingerbread days. After playing around with a fair amount of custom ROMs, kernels, and mods on his Android phones over the years, he now daily drives an iPhone and an Apple Watch in hopes of figuring out why Android OEMs haven't been able to make a few trillion dollars of their own yet. But fret not because you'll likely find a new Android flagship in his…...

1+ hour, 28+ min ago (546+ words) Apple is headed for its best year ever. The tech giant is on track to ship 247.4 million iPhones in 2025, according to new forecasts from research firm IDC. That number beats Apple's previous record from 2021 when the iPhone 13 launched. Back then, the company shipped 236 million units. The 6% year-over-year growth comes from strong demand for the iPhone 17 series. Every region is seeing increased sales, but China stands out as the real winner. Apple's performance in China tells the comeback story. The company ranked first in October and November with over 20% market share, according to IDC's China Monthly Sales data. That lead puts Apple "miles ahead of the competition." IDC revised its Q4 China forecast from 9% growth to 17% year-over-year growth based on these results. The shift is dramatic. IDC originally predicted a 1% decline for Apple in China for 2025. Now the firm expects 3% growth instead. The…...

1+ hour, 42+ min ago (1002+ words) Quantum Zeitgeist is a leading independent news source covering quantum computing breakthroughs, industry developments, and research advances. Established in 2018, we provide daily analysis of quantum technology's impact on computing, cryptography, and scientific innovation. The demand for more efficient and scalable computing drives exploration of reversible logic, a paradigm that preserves information during processing. Negin Mashayekhi, Mohammad Reza Reshadinezhad, and Antonio Rubio, alongside their colleagues, from the University of Isfahan and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, address a critical challenge within this field: the design of fast and cost-effective binary coded decimal (BCD) adders. These adders are essential components in numerous applications, particularly financial and commercial systems where accurate monetary transactions rely on BCD arithmetic. The team presents two novel reversible BCD adder designs, one incorporating a carry-skip technique to significantly reduce processing time, and demonstrates substantial improvements over existing designs,…...

1+ hour, 45+ min ago (540+ words) Don't miss the full list below - and why it's important to upgrade if you're affected APPLE has doomed five more much-loved gadgets owned by millions to the scrapheap. And it includes a popular iPhone model, as well as one of the iPads. The tech giant routinely designates older kit to the dreaded "obsolete" list after so many years. When a product is made obsolete it means the device is beyond repair. Apple has two key end phases for aging products, vintage and'obsolete. A gadget gets classed as vintage when Apple has stopped distributing it for sale more than five and less than seven years ago. Read more about Apple The mind-boggling predictions Back to the Future made from Alexa to Apple Pay The free Apple gift on your iPhone you'd normally pay for & it refreshes monthly It's still possible to…...

1+ hour, 45+ min ago (534+ words) Don't miss the full list below - and why it's important to upgrade if you're affected APPLE has doomed five more much-loved gadgets owned by millions to the scrapheap. And it includes a popular iPhone model, as well as one of the iPads. The tech giant routinely designates older kit to the dreaded "obsolete" list after so many years. When a product is made obsolete it means the device is beyond repair. Apple has two key end phases for aging products, vintage and'obsolete. A gadget gets classed as vintage when Apple has stopped distributing it for sale more than five and less than seven years ago. Read more about Apple The mind-boggling predictions Back to the Future made from Alexa to Apple Pay The free Apple gift on your iPhone you'd normally pay for & it refreshes monthly It's still possible to…...

2+ hour, 7+ min ago (378+ words) Light up, Super Star Believe it or not, the holiday season is almost upon us. Of course, many stores have been setting up the Christmas cheer for months now (this writer was seeing bedecked trees in shop windows back in October), but, as of today, the Nintendo Museum is finally following suit. As shared in a post on the museum's official X account, the lights will be on every night from 4pm JST until close (7pm), and they'll be sticking around in the grounds until the not particularly festive date of 27th April 2026. While it is far from the kind of display we might expect from Disney Land " or, perhaps more accurately, Super Nintendo World " there's enough Mushroom Kingdom flair here that our nerdy Christmas spirits are sufficiently warmed. Worth a trip to Japan? Yep, it's the light display (or however it was…...

2+ hour, 11+ min ago (219+ words) AMD is preparing a range of EPYC Embedded family, such as Venice "Zen 6" series, Fire Range "Zen 5" series & Annapurna lineups. AMD's most recent EPYC Embedded family, the 4005 lineup, is based on the Granite Ridge "Zen 5" family and features up to 16 cores with PCIe Gen5 support. AMD also offered its high-end Embedded "Genoa" lineup with up to 192 "Zen 5" cores, and up to 512 MB of L3 cache with 128 PCIe Gen5 lanes. These lines have been on the market for a while. But it looks like AMD has several additional lineups in the works, as spotted by InstLatX64. As per the new information, three new families have been spotted, which include EPYC Embedded Venice, Embedded 4005 Series, and EPYC Embedded Annapurna. Each of these lineups aims at different segments, so let's get into the details. Lastly, we have the AMD EPYC Embedded Annapurna family, which are said to…...

2+ hour, 26+ min ago (684+ words) People liked Chromebooks right away because they were simple, quick, and easy to use. People in school, work, and business liked them because they didn't need a lot of software or a lot of setup. Over time, Chromebooks have stayed safer than many other laptops, which have had problems with viruses and hackers. Chromebooks use something called threat intelligence to keep users safe from harm. Let's find out how Chromebooks stay safe in today's digital world and how threat intelligence helps with this. A few years ago, the most dangerous things online were just viruses and fake emails. But now, hackers can steal passwords, lock up important files, and ask for money. Some hackers can pretend to be big companies or banks so that they can trick people into sharing their personal information. Devices need to learn from attacks and…...

2+ hour, 41+ min ago (422+ words) Long gone are the days of BlackBerry and Windows Phone. We now live in an era of duality, with your choice of smartphone being between iPhone and the wider world of Android. Whichever you pick, the smartwatches that go with them usually come down on one side of the other. It's an Apple Watch if you have an iPhone, and those wearables won't work on an Android phone. And while Google and Samsung watches play nice with Android, they won't connect to an iPhone. But a smartwatch has just been announced that does reach an olive branch out to the other side, and is confirmed to work no matter what phone you have. The OnePlus Watch Lite is the latest smartwatch from OnePlus, with the company confirming it will launch on December 17 alongside the firm's OnePlus 15R and Pad Go 2 Android…...