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Honor held a big event in China where it unveiled the Porsche Design Magic6 RSR and Magic6 Ultimate smartphones. Alongside these, the brand also introduced two new wearables, dubbed Honor Watch GS 4 and Honor Band 9. Honor Watch GS 4 Let's talk about the Honor Watch GS 4 first. The smartwatch packs a 1.43" circular AMOLED screen of 466x466-pixel resolution and 326 ppi pixel density. It supports 8,000+ watchfaces and you can also create your own by uploading a picture from the connected device's album. The Honor Watch…

A cryptographic tag developed at MIT uses terahertz waves to authenticate items by recognizing the unique pattern of microscopic metal particles that are mixed into the glue that sticks the tag to the item’s surface. Credit: Jose-Luis Olivares, MIT. Chip courtesy of the researchersMIT engineers developed a tag that can reveal with near-perfect accuracy whether an item is real or fake. The key is in the glue on the back of the tag.A few years ago, MIT researchers invented a cryptographic ID tag that is several times…

Tags on chips and a global registry of their locations can reduce the risks of AI espionage by hostile nations, experts say. The proposals were made in a new report on AI safety, which calls for a stronger regulation of hardware. Three Cambridge University institutes co-led the study paper, alongside OpenAI and the GovAI research community. They fear that governments are overlooking the dangers of compute, which could trigger disasters. Without tighter protections, they warn that AI could…

This week’s unpacked event brought Samsung’s latest flagships – the Galaxy S24 trio. You can check out our hands-on review for an introduction to the new features and hardware upgrades. And if you’re curious what all those AI features are all about, watch these videos. The Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra is a rethink on how the long telephoto lens should work – instead of a fixed 10x lens, Samsung went for 5x magnification and a high resolution 50MP sensor that offers high quality zoom between 5x and 10x. And more, it enables…

The Samsung Galaxy S24 series arrive to prove that AI is the future, but one simple upgrade matters more in the here and now – all three S24 phones have LTPO displays with 1-120Hz variable refresh rate. The Ultra phones had that already, but this is a long awaited upgrade for people who prefer the vanilla and plus models. The Samsung Galaxy S24+ gets another upgrade – QHD+ resolution. This on a flat 6.7” display brings the experience quite close to the Ultra at a lower price point. The phone is roughly the same size as…

Samsung Galaxy A54 5G and Galaxy A34 5G are currently available at discounted rates in India. Samsung is offering an instant discount of Rs. 3,500 for customers purchasing the Galaxy A series smartphones. Additionally, buyers using Axis Bank credit or debit cards can avail of another Rs. 2,000 cashback. Both Galaxy A54 5G and Galaxy A34 5G have IP67-certified build and feature triple rear camera units. The mid-range 5G smartphones feature full-HD+ Super AMOLED display with 120Hz refresh rate and are backed by a 5,000mAh…

vivo's iQOO has added two new members to its Neo smartphone lineup - iQOO Neo9 and iQOO Neo9 Pro. The iQOO Neo9 Pro is powered by the Dimensity 9300 SoC, runs Android 14-based OriginOS 4, and comes with up to 16GB LPDDR5X RAM and 1TB of UFS 4.0 storage. The smartphone also has a Q1 chip at the helm to improve the gaming experience by offering a stable frame rate. Additionally, it has a VC liquid cooling chamber of 6043mm² and a double-layer capillary power pump to help with heat dissipation for sustained performance.…

Huawei announced the nova 12 Ultra and nova 12 Pro today with physical variable aperture cameras and satellite connectivity. Alongside, the Chinese brand also unveiled the more affordable nova 12 and nova 12 Lite. The Huawei nova 12 packs a 6.7" 120Hz OLED display of 2,412x1,084 pixels with a fingerprint reader underneath for biometric authentication and a centered punch-hole for the 60MP ultrawide selfie camera (100˚ FOV). It also supports 1B colors and has a P3 wide color gamut. Around the back, it features an…

Last week, Meta finally rolled out , its microblogging Instagram offshoot, and users are taking advantage of a design quirk for a bit of dumb fun. Threads’ “topic tags” are a lot like hashtags, but not entirely the same. For one, there’s no hash (#). They’re also able to contain spaces, meaning the tags can read like normal phrases rather than a bunch of words smashed together, as has long been the norm on Twitter/X and the like. Just like normal hashtags, though, they’ll be highlighted in blue and link out to other posts…

Samsung Galaxy S24 series is not yet officially confirmed by the South Korean tech brand, even though leaks and renders have been in abundance. The flagship lineup expected to include the vanilla Galaxy S24, Galaxy S24+, and Galaxy S24 Ultra models is expected to go official in January next year. Samsung is anticipated to keep the prices of the Galaxy S24 series the same as its Galaxy S23 series. Additionally, a new leak reiterated the existence of the emergency satellite texting feature in the Galaxy S24 lineup.As per a…