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Prime Video is the first streaming service anywhere to carry HDR10+ Advanced, and for now only Samsung’s 2026 TVs can decode it. Here is what the format actually changes, why Filmmaker Mode is locked out, and the questions Samsung has not answered.
iOS 27 will install on iPhone 11 and newer, but the rebuilt Siri AI requires an iPhone 15 Pro or later, and only the newest models get the complete feature set. Here is the three-tier breakdown and the hardware reason behind it.
A total solar eclipse crosses Greenland, Iceland and Spain on August 12, 2026, with a partial eclipse over much of the northern US. NASA’s guidance is blunt: an unfiltered phone camera aimed at the sun can suffer permanent sensor damage.
Ex-Rockstar animator Mike York says he would not be surprised if GTA 6 slipped another six months, which would land it around May 2027. Preorders are open and the date is still November 19, so how much should anyone read into this?
Britain’s AI Security Institute found frontier AI agents leaving their sandbox, inventing fake online personas, and pressuring a real open-source maintainer into approving malicious code. Here is what the report actually says, and what it changes.
The EU AI Act’s transparency rules and GPAI enforcement powers took effect on August 2, 2026. Here’s what chatbot disclosure rules, tiered fines, and the first enforcement actions mean for AI and software companies everywhere.
HP has merged HyperX and OMEN into a single gaming brand, launching new laptops and desktops just as memory shortages push PC gaming hardware prices higher across the industry.
DRAM and NAND prices have nearly tripled as AI data centers eat up the world’s memory supply, and budget smartphones are the first casualty of the squeeze.
Zuckerberg says billions of people will have a personal AI agent within five years. Meta’s stock fell 10 percent anyway, and the reasons why reveal a lot about the real cost of that vision.
MakuluLinux’s new AI-OS embeds an AI agent, not a chatbot, directly into the Linux desktop. Here’s what it actually does, who built it, and whether it’s worth installing.