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Vodafone SuperMobile is a new 5G+ tier coming to the mobile network which will have a premium price. SuperMobile will give you enhanced performance (up to 600 GB) for high-bandwidth activities like streaming, live TV and gaming. It’ll be up to 4x faster than Vodafone’s standard plans, it seems. Contract Vodafone customers can now experience Vodafone SuperMobile for £3 per month more than full-speed Xtra plans, £8 more on SIM-only 100mbps plans, £4 more on handset 100mbps plans, and as a rolling monthly add-on for £12. It’s available on compatible airtime plans and devices and will mean you can get…
Vodafone is launching a streaming TV service which you can get as part of a bundle alongside your phone deal. It brings together live TV and streaming services including Netflix, HBO Max as well as Amazon Prime Video and compatibility with apps through the Google Play Store. We don’t yet know how well the system will work with other non-partner services – will they be fully integrated with the interface, for example? And crucially we also don’t know how much Vodafone TV will cost for either new or existing subscribers, which is a huge issue when trying to compare it…
US District Court Judge Leonie Brinkema declined the Justice Department’s request to make Google sell off parts of its ad tech business, accepting milder remedies to restore competition to markets it illegally monopolized for years.Brinkema said she would adopt most of the behavioral changes proposed by the parties, with some modifications. But those won’t become public until the parties meet to work out any additional proposed revisions and to review the judge’s opinion for confidential information that must be redacted. They could include proposals like restricting Google from using self-preferencing ad auction tactics or letting third-party ad tech tools access…
Amazon is trying to combat impersonation scams with a new feature that allows you to use its AI assistant to determine whether an email, text message, or phone call actually came from the company. With the update, you can ask Alexa for Shopping about a message you received, and it will use AI to compare it “against a record of every message Amazon has sent,” while also analyzing its contents, formatting, and the sender.As noted by Amazon, the assistant will only confirm that a message is real if it’s “completely certain.” An example shared by Amazon shows a customer asking,…
Camera-equipped smart glasses could be the subject of tighter restrictions in Norway as lawmakers consider regulating the use of devices like Meta’s specs, which have been fairly or unfairly-dubbed ‘pervert glasses‘. Norway’s digital minister digital minister Karianne Tung says (via The Local) there’s a “clear trend toward combining artificial intelligence with cameras and microphones built into glasses, headphones, hats and other objects we use in everyday life. We must prevent this equipment from being used to monitor other people in public places.” Those features are already causing consternation among privacy advocates, due to the propensity of users to film members…
Google launched Gemini 3.8 Flash, arriving just a few weeks after its predecessor. The company claims the new model “works harder” than Gemini 3.7 Flash by performing more reasoning steps on complex tasks and “calling tools iteratively.” It has the same introductory pricing as 3.7 Flash, $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens, but could still end up costing users more. Google warns that “the model might use more tokens to maximize performance, especially at higher effort levels.” Developers can keep using Gemini 3.7 Flash if they want to minimize token usage.Gemini 3.8 Flash’s launch was…
Nintendo has announced a surprising update for its classic-bordering-on-retro Mario Kart 8 Deluxe game, but you’ll need the Switch 2 games console to access it. The most notable change in Version 4.0.0 forms the support for a split screen mode for up to eight players that are available both on the console’s built-in display and in docked mode. Naturally, you’ll need enough controllers to satisfy everyone, but it’s a cracking upgrade for a game that first launched on the Wii U in 2014 and carried over onto the Switch in Deluxe form as a launch title in 2017. It’s a…
1Password faced immediate backlash from customers this week over a $300,000 pledge in support of a Linux distro created by David Heinemeier Hansson, who has regularly published overtly racist blog posts that include comments calling for deportation of ethnic minorities in Europe. The popular password manager is now a “distinguished corporate patron” of Omacom, the nonprofit foundation that oversees a popular Linux distribution known as Omarchy.One viral blog post declared that 1Password “Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe” because of the donation. Others on social media asked for suggestions for alternative password managers so they would not support the funding…
Google has revealed a significant quintet of features coming as part of its September 2026 Android feature drop for smartphones, including a new Gemini feature that’ll help ensure you never lose an important item again. In a post on the Google blog, the company said users could now ask Gemini to remember where they placed an important item, at the time they place it there. Google says it’s designed for items you wouldn’t normally bestow with a tracker tag. Those items will appear in a new ‘remembered items’ tab. In a blog post, Google said: “For things you don’t put…
OpenAI is on the cusp of releasing its most powerful AI model yet, Astra, following weeks of delays to shore up safety protocols after its agents attacked real targets during testing. As details about the model trickle out, researchers are warning it “may be the single worst development for AI security/safety to date.”Shortly after OpenAI said on Tuesday that it had delayed Astra’s release to work on safety issues, The Information reported that Astra shows far less of its “thinking” than other frontier AI models, sparking concern it could be dangerously hard to monitor.Most top AI systems today are built…
Huawei’s wearable division continues to expand faster than my waistline after another failed diet, with no fewer than three new models announced this week. As well as an all-rounder smartwatch and a fitness-focused GPS sports watch, the firm has also updated its millions-selling, health-monitoring Watch D. They’ll be coming to Europe and the UK later this month (but, as ever, not the USA). Here’s a rundown of what to expect – and why it’s the Watch D3 I’ll most want to wear. This’ll set pulses racing The original Watch D looked like something you’d only find in a doctor’s surgery,…
AirPods are some of the best headphones money can buy, but are AirPods with cameras a step too far? In an age of Meta pervert glasses, your answer might be yes. But, to borrow a much-worn phrase from Meta’s own Facebook, it’s complicated. Apple can avoid the meta pervert glasses trap by taking a privacy-first (and perverts-last) approach to wearable tech with cameras. But will it? And will that be enough? Rumours about AirPods with cameras have done the rounds for years. In 2024, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo claimed Apple was working on AirPods with infrared camera modules. Rather than being…