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Apple showcased the iPhone 18 Pro’s new camera by releasing a 35‑second “Shot on iPhone” ad that doubles as a K‑Pop music video for Rose’s track “New Trick.” The video highlights the phone’s 48‑MP main camera with a variable‑aperture lens, emphasizing improved low‑light performance and depth‑of‑field. Apple unveiled the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max on September 9, opened preorders on September 12, and began shipping units on September 18. The ad underscores the device’s photographic capabilities through a pop‑culture lens. [...]

Remedy Entertainment’s new title, Control Resonant, includes an Easter‑egg tribute to late filmmaker David Lynch, whose surrealist style influenced Remedy’s earlier games Control and Alan Wake 2. The tribute appears as a marquee in an in‑game theater that reads “NOW PLAYING: FIX YOUR HEART OR DIE,” echoing a line from Twin Peaks: The Return. The phrase, originally delivered by Lynch’s character Gordon Cole, has become a rallying cry for transgender rights. The homage underscores Remedy’s long‑standing admiration for Lynch’s work and [...]

Riverlane announced the opening of its U.S. headquarters in Maryland’s Discovery District, College Park, adjacent to the University of Maryland. The new facility will host executive offices, laboratories, and customer integration spaces to support the company’s North American expansion and research collaborations with U.S. government and commercial partners. The move places Riverlane within the Mid‑Atlantic quantum corridor, near the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science, the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, and major hardware providers. The [...]

ABZ Innovation has opened a new manufacturing plant in Szentendre, Hungary, quadrupling its floor space and positioning the company to triple production by 2026. The expansion follows a €7 million funding round led by Vsquared Ventures, Day One Capital, and Assembly Ventures. ABZ produces heavy‑duty drones for agriculture and industry, operating in more than 40 countries. The new facility will accommodate larger platform ranges, increase assembly and testing capacity, and support a growing distributor network. The company emphasizes [...]

Apple omitted the iPhone Duo’s wallpapers from iOS 27, but included them in Xcode 27.1 beta’s iPhone simulator, enabling users to download the device’s official light and dark mode images. The iPhone Duo, Apple’s first foldable phone, features dunes and mountain range artwork. Earlier this month, Apple released iOS 27.0 RC with wallpapers for the iPhone 18 Pro, but not for the Duo. The beta now supplies four Duo wallpapers—two for each mode—available for download and full‑resolution use. [...]

Researchers at Delft University of Technology have equipped a sub‑100‑gram drone with a pair of rodent‑inspired artificial whiskers that provide real‑time tactile feedback. Each whisker contains three miniature pressure sensors at its base, detecting minute deflections, vibrations, and pressure changes when the whisker contacts a surface. An onboard processing pipeline, using only 34 kilobytes of memory, filters out propeller turbulence to deliver millimeter‑precision depth data. Flight tests showed the drone navigating pitch‑black enclosures, mapping unknown rooms, and [...]

Honor announced a 25.3% year‑over‑year increase in Android tablet shipments in Q2 2026, according to an IDC report covering the EMEA market. The region’s overall tablet market fell 10.5% YoY to 5.9 million units, yet Honor’s MagicPad 4, featuring a new OLED display and 5,320 Hz PWM dimming, drove the brand’s growth. Samsung remains the market leader, while Xiaomi saw only 3.4% growth. Honor’s performance underscores its expanding presence beyond smartphones.

At the Xcelerated Compute event in London, industry leaders highlighted the AI networking bottleneck as a critical issue, attributing it to a mismatch between rapid AI demand and the slow pace of fiber and equipment deployment. Ciena’s Joe Marsella noted the industry’s unprecedented speed of decision‑making, creating scarcity and stressing the need for deliberate planning in fiber build and equipment manufacturing. Vodafone Business’s Andy Linham explained that the shift to software‑defined, modular networks offers flexibility, but also [...]