Matt Mullenweg, the CEO of WordPress.com owner Automattic, has been placed on a paid leave of absence, as reported earlier by 404 Media . In an internal message by the outlet, Mullenweg claims Automattic chief financial officer Mark Davies “conspired” with board members to place him on leave.
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Last 90 daysApple announced the company’s first device with a folding screen today, the iPhone Duo , but that’s where the firsts end. The Duo is not only far from the first foldable on the market thanks to the efforts of Samsung and Google , but it’s also not the first product to be called the Duo.
Apple has seen reason: It has a black model in the iPhone Pro lineup again. Last year, Apple went bold with its colors for the iPhone 17 Pro, offering a flashy orange, a shiny silver, and a dark blue.
September Apple events are always a swirl of information and new, exciting products, and today’s was no different. Apple announced its first foldable, the iPhone Duo, alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max; active noise cancellation (ANC) is now on the cheapest AirPods model, the AirPods 5; and a Siri Recap feature comes to the Watch Series 12 and Watch…
A nearly identical exploit kit that targets critical vulnerabilities in both Chromium-based browsers and older versions of Windows is being actively used by at least four hacking groups, some of which have ties to the Chinese government. Researchers from security firm Proofpoint said Wednesday that BlueMoon, the name they gave to the kit, chains three…
Paul Christiano, an influential AI researcher focused on keeping AI systems aligned with human interests and under human control, is joining the OpenAI Foundation board, the frontier lab said Wednesday. “I now believe there is a meaningful risk that rapid acceleration in AI capabilities leads to catastrophic and irreversible loss of control in the very…
Massachusetts became the latest state to force data centers to bring their own power, but this time there’s a twist. A new state mandate would require developers building data centers larger than 25 megawatts to provide clean power or pay into a ratepayer protection fund.
OpenAI’s announcement Tuesday that it has solved one of mathematics’ legendary Millennium Prize problems should have been a moment of triumph. The result is both an undeniable achievement and a striking demonstration of just how rapidly AI is transforming mathematics .
Suno’s new v6 AI music model is its first made with support from the record industry. Suno’s Jack Brody told The Verge that v6 was “trained from the ground up, with a new set of data that does not include the same data that our previous models were trained on.” The data includes content licensed from partners Warner Music Group , BMG , and Believe , as…
Paying more for a new phone seems almost unavoidable after Apple’s event today. The new iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max start at $1,199 and $1,299, respectively — a $100 price hike over their predecessors.
Apple is trying to get consumers to accept, and even welcome, a new reality: Your tech is always listening. At Wednesday’s Surprise and Shine event , where the company introduced its new hardware lineup, the real surprise turned out not to be the foldable iPhone , but how the privacy-sensitive tech giant has decided its watches will now be able to process…
Starting MSRP $399 (Aluminum) / $699 (Titanium) / $899 (Ceramic) $399 (GPS) / $499 (5G) $799 $799 Sizes 42mm / 46mm 42mm / 46mm 49mm 49mm Case material Aluminum or titanium or ceramic Aluminum or titanium Titanium Titanium Weight (Grams) 42mm: 32.2 (aluminum GPS) / 31.5 (aluminum 5G) / 36.5 (titanium) / 41.7-42.8 (ceramic) 42mm: 30.3 (aluminum GPS) / 29.7…
The S11 chip in Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 includes a Secure Exclave: a hardware-isolated compartment built into the silicon to process sensor data separately from the rest of the system. Data that is processed and analyzed in the Secure Exclave cannot be accessed by watchOS, apps, the user, or Apple.
We’ve just gotten our hands on the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max at Apple Park following the company’s “Surprise and shine” presentation. The new phones look quite similar to the previous iPhone 17 Pro lineup, keeping the same general design, aluminum body, and screen sizes.
Apple is launching a new way to prove that the picture you took isn’t manipulated by AI. A new feature, called “Reference Image,” will arrive with the iPhone 18 Pro lineup later this month and is supposed to use the device’s new camera sensor to “sign every pixel it sees.” The iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max will only authenticate photos when placed into…
Apple has just announced its first foldable iPhone, the iPhone Duo. The new phone has a 5.4-inch outer screen and a 7.6-inch inner screen, two back cameras, Touch ID for authentication, an IP68 rating, and all sorts of slick software tricks to make iOS feel more at home on the new device.
Duo, Apple’s long-awaited foldable phone announced at the company’s Surprise and Shine event on Wednesday, contains a number of surprises, including a critical hinge that was designed and built with the help of AI and 3D printing. The new phone represents Apple’s first entry into the foldable phone genre — a category of devices that has seen significant…
Apple on Wednesday unveiled its latest iPhones and Apple Watches at its first fall event under newly appointed CEO John Ternus. The main event was the tech giant’s highly anticipated first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo .
In a world awash in AI slop, Apple wants you to trust what gets captured on its iPhones. The company announced Wednesday during its Surprise and Shine event that it is introducing Apple Reference Image, a feature it says can prove whether an image taken with the iPhone 18 Pro is authentic.
Alongside the new Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4, Apple on Wednesday introduced a redesigned Apple Health app that takes advantage of Apple Intelligence to make better sense of your health data. The changes deliver a new Insights tab that includes a summary of the most timely information, plus personalized guidance, assessments, a new “readiness” score,…
Apple just wrapped up its first iPhone launch event with CEO John Ternus at the helm, and it did not disappoint. We got a look at Apple’s long-rumored foldable iPhone Duo, along with the next generation of AirPods and the Apple Watch.
Following Apple’s “Surprise and shine” event that saw the announcement of the iPhone Duo and the iPhone 18 Pro , the company increased the price on all of its last-gen iPhones that are still available for purchase. The iPhone 16 sold for $699 just last week, and now it’s up to $799.
The first foldable iPhone is finally here, and following its announcement, we got the chance to try the phone for ourselves. We’ve long been told that Apple would make a foldable iPhone once the tech was good enough — has it been worth the wait?
Operating system at launch iOS 18 iOS 26 iOS 27 iOS 27 Apple Intelligence support Yes Yes Yes Yes Display 6.3-inch (2622 x 1206) OLED 6.3-inch (2622 x 1206) OLED 6.3-inch (2622 x 1206) OLED 6.9-inch (2868 x 1320) OLED Display refresh rate 120Hz 120Hz 120Hz 120Hz Peak brightness 2,000 nits 3,000 nits 3,000 nits 3,000 nits Minimum brightness 1 nit 1 nit 1…