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Apple is working on a custom battery design that will be developed in-house, according to a report. The iPhone maker is said to be looking to increase the battery life of its products by changing the composition of its batteries. South Korean news publication ET News reports that Apple's rumoured battery technology improvements aren't expected to make their way to the company's products for the next couple of years, suggesting the development of the purported battery improvements is not at an advanced stage.According to…

The song originally appeared on the singer's recent LP, That! Feels Good! Jessie Ware has surprised fans with a new version of her song, “Freak Me Now.” The single, produced by Stuart Price, originally appeared on Ware’s album That! Feels Good! and is a collaboration with electronic pop singer Róisín Murphy. The pair will release a music video for the track, directed by Sophia Muller and Theo James, on Friday. “It is a huge honor to have the queen of disco, Róisín Murphy on ‘Freak…

iPhone 15 Pro Max is expected to debut in the second half of 2023 as the successor to the iPhone 14 Pro Max. Unlike previous Pro iPhone models, the company is tipped to equip this year's top-of-the-line flagship phone with a periscope camera. A new leak speculates that in order to make room for the periscope lens, which improves the zoom capability of the telephoto camera, the Cupertino company plans to rearrange the rear camera layout on the larger iPhone 15 Pro Max.Tipster Unknownz21 (Twitter: @URedditor) claims that…

Microsoft started testing a new Xbox Home UI last year that will be released in 2023, but fans haven’t been impressed with the aging tiled interface that does nothing to show off the dynamic backgrounds and wallpapers available on the console. The new Xbox Home UI started to feel like a giant Xbox Game Pass ad, and now Microsoft is acknowledging that it feels a little crowded.“We heard from you that the changes to the top of Home did not leave enough space for you to enjoy your backgrounds and that it felt crowded,” says…

Details about Qualcomm's next-gen flagship SoC have begun trickling in, months ahead of its expected debut. The upcoming Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC is said to feature a restructured CPU cluster layout, and will most likely support only 64-bit computing, removing all 32-bit support. The chip is said to be codenamed either Lanai or Pineapple, and is expected to be launched in late 2023, possibly during Qualcomm's annual Summit in Hawaii. If the company's past launches are anything to go by, then we'll probably also see debut of…

Shield operators are getting a big change in Rainbow Six Siege, with a rework arriving in the Year 8, Season 4 operation. It will be the biggest change to shield operators since the game’s launch, and NME spoke to Siege creative director Alex Karpazis at the Six Invitational to find out what’s changing. Karpazis points to shields as one of the standout features of Siege and something that really differentiated it at launch, but said that while the fantasy is about a super powerful force shaping the battlefield around…

The Oppo Find X5 Pro built on the design of its predecessor, the Find X3 Pro (reminder: there was no X4), with a smooth, uninterrupted back panel. The vanilla Find X5 used a separate element for the camera bump in order to stick as close as possible to the design language within its budget. Those may be the last examples of said design language, at least judging by the look of the vanilla Oppo Find X6. We haven’t seen anything official yet, but Evan Blass’ track record speaks for itself. The camera island is back and…

Adobe Inc on Tuesday said it has reworked several of its tools for creating three-dimensional content to make them work well on Apple Inc computers that use the iPhone maker's proprietary "M" series chips. Adobe has long been a major player providing software in creative fields like photography, graphic design and film. But Adobe has been working to build out more tools for making the three-dimensional worlds and objects used in video games and, increasingly, the so-called metaverse, where companies like Meta Platforms…