For anyone storing photos, work files or backups on a drive, the practical question is not rated lifespan but whether a second copy exists. Hard drives usually last for years; SSDs consume write endurance and report what remains; microSD cards for constant recording come in endurance versions. None gives a scheduled failure date. Your latest … Read more
Cleaning a phone, notebook or keyboard looks simple until fingerprints, grease and crumbs sit on a finish you want intact or moisture reaches a port. Apple and Samsung share a route: switch off, wipe with a barely damp microfiber cloth, and for disinfection put 70% isopropyl alcohol on the cloth, not the device. Bleach, glass … Read more
Smartphones warm up, and manufacturers say so without hedging. In most cases that heat is the byproduct of ordinary work rather than evidence of a fault. The distinction that matters is between a device that gets warm under load and one that fires off repeated temperature warnings, heats up while sitting idle, develops a scorching … Read more
OLED burn-in is often discussed as a binary defect, but it is better understood as a slow, usage-dependent form of wear. Each pixel emits its own light, so pixels that repeatedly render the same bright element can age faster than their neighbours. The practical questions are which habits raise the risk and which protections genuinely … Read more
Emergency satellite messaging is no longer limited to rugged specialist devices. In Spain, owners of an iPhone 14 or later and a Google Pixel 9 or later—except the Pixel 9a—can send text messages to emergency services over satellite when cellular and Wi-Fi coverage fail. It is not a voice call or a normal chat. It … Read more
Samsung’s Galaxy S23 family is one software generation away from retirement, while the Galaxy Watch 5 faces an even tighter horizon. Based on the timelines that follow from Samsung’s own published policy, the phone should receive One UI 9 on top of Android 17 as its final major platform upgrade, with security patches stretching into … Read more
Samsung has published the end-of-support calendar for the Galaxy hardware still inside its update pipeline, drawing a firm line under two of its most widely used product families. The Galaxy S23, Galaxy S23+ and Galaxy S23 Ultra will keep receiving software through February 2027, while the Galaxy Watch 5 and Galaxy Watch 5 Pro — … Read more
Samsung’s Android 17 generation has moved past its flagship debut and into a full fleet-wide rollout. One UI 9, which first shipped on the Galaxy Z Fold 8 family, is now reaching a steadily widening pool of Galaxy phones and tablets — and the gap between devices that make the cut and those that don’t … Read more
Nous Research, the lab behind the open-source Hermes agent, has closed a $90 million Series B at a $1.5 billion valuation — a final figure that landed above the roughly $75 million discussed while negotiations were still in progress. Announced on October 7, 2026, the round was led by Robot Ventures, with Nvidia, Union Square … Read more
Mistral has unveiled Mistral Large 4, a one-trillion-parameter multimodal model nicknamed “Le Chonk” — the French lab’s most ambitious bid yet to plant a European flag at the AI frontier, and its loudest argument for open weights. It is live in public preview now, but the full checkpoint stays behind a guarded endpoint, with the … Read more