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3+ hour, 34+ min ago (314+ words) Pre-orders start on December 4 The OnePlus 15 is already available in much of the world, but thanks to the recent government shutdown in the US, the phone's launch was delayed there, as it was unable to get certified by the FCC (Federal Communications Commission). Now though, the shutdown has ended, and the OnePlus 15 is about to go up for pre-order. You'll be able to pre-order the phone from tomorrow (December 4) at 8am PT / 11am ET. The company hasn't said exactly when the OnePlus 15 will ship, but in a reply to the announcement on its X account, OnePlus claimed that "this drop is imminent." The phone starts at $899.99, for which you'll get a version with 256GB of storage and 12GB of RAM. Or, for $999.99, you can get one with 512GB of storage and 16GB of RAM. That's not cheap, but if you pre-order the OnePlus 15, you'll also get…...

5+ hour, 28+ min ago (128+ words) Sony has launched the PlayStation Store End of Year 2025 sale, bringing thousands of discounted items. Starting with the 2026 season, the publisher is removing the guaranteed revenue for league teams, historically set at $500,000 per year. A decision pushed by massive operating costs and top players being paid extreme salaries, which can exceed $400,000 per year. As a result, teams fear that operating at too great a loss will force them to revise their ambitions. Today, the Winter 2025 Edition of the Indie Live Expo aired, and it included plenty of reveals and world premieres. Happy Thanksgiving to those that celebrate it. The Epic Games Store continues their giving ways with another free title for your library. "We give thanks" lol may the lord open...

5+ hour, 43+ min ago (317+ words) Magnifier's most powerful feature uses the MacBook's machine learning capabilities to identify, display and format text that your camera captures. This works with text your camera can see in the room around you, and things it captures via macOS' Desk View feature. For example, to view documents on your desk: Click on the Camera section in Magnifier's menu bar and then select your Desk View camera from the dropdown menu. Click on the Reader icon (a simple illustration of a document) near the top-right of your Magnifier window. Click on the sidebar menu icon to access settings to format text. Apple gives you options to change the color, font and background of text Magnifier identifies, among other customization options. If you'd prefer to capture faraway text, you can position a webcam or iPhone camera facing away from you and swap…...

7+ hour, 43+ 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…...

7+ hour, 53+ 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…...

8+ hour, 4+ 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…...

8+ hour, 19+ 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,…...

8+ hour, 21+ 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…...

8+ hour, 21+ 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…...

8+ hour, 44+ 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…...