Dominic Preston

YouTuber Tim Pan put the new Apple foldable through a total of 11,500 folds, a thousand of which were in freezing conditions. Like Joanna Stern , he found the hinge holds up well, but like any other foldable, the crease gets a lot more visible (and a bit more even after only 500), matte display or not.

Some Android users are reporting receiving a Google Play system update dated “1 January 2027,” which really seems to be getting ahead of itself. Sadly, all my Android phones are still stuck on September 2026, which now feels entirely old fashioned.

The court-ordered change takes effect from March 1st 2027, following similar rulings in the EU Japan , and Brazil . Apple will have to let Fortnite back in the App Store too — one of the last holdouts after a global return — and allow developers to offer alternative payment methods. Apple told it plans to appeal.

The New York Times reports that tech giants are “painting gray concrete and gray steel with more gray,” leading to an unexpected boom for paint manufacturers. Gravel producers and wiring companies are also enjoying an uptick, “creating a long tail of unlikely winners.”

Oppo's Find X10 Pro Max benefits more from sensor size, dynamic range, and excellent software than sheer resolution.

16 pts The Find X10 Pro Max's design is still camera-centric, but less extreme than most Ultra phones. Oppo's Find X10 Pro Max is the first phone with a triple 200-megapixel camera, which you're likely to see as either a masterful feat of engineering or a load of hyped-up marketing nonsense. The truth is somewhere…

Our collective reviews of every Googlebook at launch: very good laptops hobbled by beta-level software.

And no, you haven't forgotten about a line of Intel-made Roombas . It requested permission to make hardware changes to the “Automatic Guided Vehicles” it's used in semiconductor facilities for two decades. It says replacing the machines could take years, and there are no domestic alternatives. The FCC agreed, giving it permission to update its bots for the next year.

Its previous patent dispute saw Ultrahuman blocked from the US market for almost a year . Now Oura alleges the Ultrahuman Ring Pro violates another two of its patents, including one only issued to Oura this week , and wants it taken off sale. For now at least, that hasn't happened yet.

Alongside laying off 1,000 employees , Netflix has fired the heads of its film and content divisions this month. We've already explained the company can't fire its way out of a slump that's now hitting its engagement metrics , but Bloomberg recounts just why co-CEO Ted Sarandos thinks otherwise, and how he got here in the first place.