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A new leak details the OnePlus 16, featuring a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro, a 6.78-inch LIPO display, and a 9,000 mAh battery, but it will not be available outside of China.

Chinese memory firm CXMT debuted on the Shanghai stock exchange with a $484 billion valuation, as its shares surged 466 percent amid a global memory shortage.

Samsung plans to expand its use of silicon-carbon batteries, which offer higher energy density, to more Galaxy smartphones after their debut in the Galaxy Z Fold 8 series.

A leaked report details Samsung's entire 2027 Galaxy flagship lineup, revealing eight devices, including four traditional phones and four foldables, with the return of a TriFold model.

Vaccine hesitancy persists due to storytelling and complex social factors, not just a lack of scientific information or education.
Cleaning solar panels yields a 2%-5% increase in power output, resulting in a £60-£150 yearly gain.

Enigma raises $70 million to develop intuitive interfaces for human-robot interactions.

Snapchat now lets users share what they're listening to in real time via a new Snap Map feature called Now Playing.
AI companies are shredding rare books to scan and use for training data.

Encord and Zander Labs are experimenting with using brain wave data, collected from human operators, to train AI models for physical robots, aiming to improve performance and address the scarcity of real-world physical training data.
PGSimCity offers an early, unreviewed prototype of a working model for the PostgreSQL engine, visualizing how the database loads city code using JavaScript and WebGL2.
Vercel's new Scriptc compiles TypeScript directly into small, fast native executables, eliminating the need for a JavaScript engine like Node or V8 in the binary.
A US citizen faces charges after his GrapheneOS phone wiped during an airport search, raising concerns about criminalizing privacy tools and constitutional rights at borders.
A teacher chose Forth, a stack-oriented concatenative language, to introduce middle and high school students to programming, prioritizing fundamental concepts and avoiding complex syntax.

The film "Champagne and Bullets," written, directed, and starring John De Hart, is described as a "so bad it's good" cult classic due to its bizarre plot, awkward performances, and gratuitous content.

Apple has reportedly delayed the launch of its smart glasses to mid-2027, allowing the company to address privacy concerns and emphasize features like on-device processing and the absence of facial recognition.
Researchers now use large language models to automate proof efforts in dependently-typed languages like Lean and Coq.

Google has teased Gemini 4, its next generation model, with a larger base model to compete at the frontier level.
FFmpeg simulates cassette tape audio profiles with various settings and tape types.

Apple TV's Neuromancer series, based on William Gibson's novel, debuts January 22, 2027, with Callum Taylor starring as Case.

Debates over Chinese AI models have reignited concerns about American competitiveness.

Apple is focusing on privacy features for its upcoming smart glasses.
Google's recent financial disclosures reveal a substantial investment, holding $94.1 billion in SpaceX stock, which translates to an approximate 6% ownership stake in the private aerospace company.
The Go team's new analysis framework provides a modular static analysis API, enabling developers to create and integrate checkers for Go code that can share information across packages.