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Apple’s new iPhone Air contains more recycled titanium than any of its predecessors, the company announced at the Tuesday Keynote. It’s using 80 percent recycled titanium. The phone as a whole is made with 35 percent recycled material by weight, compared to 30 percent recycled material for the iPhone 17.The company’s latest lineup of watches also boast higher proportions of recycled content. Both the Apple Watch Ultra 3 and Apple Watch SE 3 are made up of 40 percent recycled content, with 100 percent recycled cobalt in the battery. The Ultra 3 case is made with 100 percent recycled titanium,…
The most notable change to the look of the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max are on their backs. The two-tone matte and glossy glass is still there, but now the camera bar is extended across the back of the phone. There’s also a glass panel inset on the back. This was a bit of a surprise for me picking it up, as it wasn’t as noticeable in some of the product shots shown during the event. But you can see and feel the difference in person. It’s a nice, two-tone look. And seeing Apple stick with bold colors is…
At today’s Apple event, the iPhone 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max made their grand debut. If you’re anything like me, the first thing you’ll notice is the enormous, horizontal camera bar across the back. Subtle it is not, but I actually don’t mind. Beneath the surface are some rather decent camera upgrades. The design gets a big makeover this year, ditching titanium for a half-glass, half-aluminium rear panel. Ceramic Shield makes its way to the rear back panel, which is 4x stronger than the previous glass back panels. The Apple logo’s also been shunted down a bit to accommodate…
Apple has announced the iPhone 17, the latest edition of its standard model iPhone.The iPhone 17‘s predecessor saw some big changes last year. The iPhone 16 adopted the Action Button, which had previously been exclusive to the Pro line; it reintroduced the vertical dual-camera arrangement, which had last been seen on the iPhone 12; and it added the Camera Control button, which also debuted on the iPhone 16 Pro.Apple also heavily pushed the iPhone 16’s AI capabilities. But in the end, many of its flagship Apple Intelligence features didn’t ship. That didn’t seem to hurt the launch, though, with the…
Apple rolled out both the Watch Series 11 and the new Apple Watch SE 3 at its “Awe Dropping” event today. While neither gets a huge design overhaul, there are still plenty of useful new features under the hood. The Series 11 keeps the familiar design from the Series 10, with the larger display. The display is now 2x tougher than the display on the Series 10, thanks to a new coating on the display. Inside, there’s a new modem for slightly faster connectivity and better battery efficiency – making 5G now available on the smartwatch. This year’s big new…
It’s time for another “awe dropping” Apple event. The company is expected to announce the iPhone 17 today, alongside some new Apple Watches and perhaps the AirPods Pro 3.We got a glimpse of some software at WWDC 2025, but today is all about the new hardware, baby. We’re anticipating the usual — the iPhone 17 and 17 Pro, new colors, camera upgrades, and quite possibly an iPhone 17 Air if the rumors pan out. The fall is usually when Apple also struts out a new Apple Watch, and based on previous upgrade timelines, it’s likely we’re due for an Ultra…
In the AI era, we are moving faster than ever, building world-class technology that changes how people live and work, and how organizations everywhere operate. If you reflect on our history, the most meaningful breakthroughs happen when we build on each other’s ideas together, in real time.We’ve looked at how our teams work best, and the data is clear: when people work together in person more often, they thrive — they are more energized, empowered, and they deliver stronger results. As we build the AI products that will define this era, we need the kind of energy and momentum that…
Plenty of camera gear brands use the QD (Quick Detach) mounting system. It’s tried and tested – and not just by photographers. Law enforcement, the military, and even NASA use QD to keep their kit within easy reach. British brand 3 Legged Thing is no stranger to it either, having sold QD-compatible L-brackets for years. But now it’s branching out into straps and harnesses, with a comfort-focused twist. The new Axis range all have 4-axis QD buckles, which let you customise the fit depending on your body shape. Instead of a “one size fits all” approach (which rarely does fit…
Google has added support for 1080p resolution and vertical video formats to its Veo 3 AI video generator. According to the announcement on Google’s developer blog, both Veo 3 and Veo 3 Fast — a faster, and more affordable version of the video model that produces lower-quality results — now allow users to generate videos in a 9:16 aspect ratio that’s better suited for content displayed on mobile devices and social media apps.The blog says that vertical video support can be enabled by setting the aspectRatio parameter in API requests to 9:16, meaning this feature is specific to developers who…
Apple’s upcoming iPhone 17 is at the top of my list of the best upcoming phones and it’s coming later today. But I’m not certain that’s what it’ll be called. Back in June after WWDC 2025, I wrote that Apple’s next line-up of iPhones might drop the numbering entirely. Instead, we might see a naming scheme similar to that of Macs or iPads, where the year or chip denote each iPhone. I was purely basing this on the new naming scheme for iOS 26 and all of Apple’s other software releases. It seems like a tall order for Apple to revamp…
Canon seems to be riding the TikTok digicam resurgence and is rereleasing a mid-2010s point-and-shoot — the PowerShot Elph 360 HS A. It’s mostly the same camera as the original Elph 360 HS, first launched in the very different world of 2016 and recently anointed the darling pocket camera of celebrities like Kendall Jenner and Dua Lipa.Now, in 2025, the “A” version of the PowerShot still has the same 20.2-megapixel CMOS sensor, Digic IV Plus processor, 12x optical zoom, 1080p video, and USB Mini port of the nine-year-old throwback. (Nope, no USB-C.) But the new model now costs $379 instead…
When Google launched the Pixel 10 line last month, it gave as much attention to its AI-enabled software tricks as it did the hardware upgrades. But now, less than two weeks after the Pixel 10 series hit store shelves, its already pulled one of those AI features: Daily Hub, which collects the weather and your day’s calendar events, and recommends online content you might want to read, watch, or listen to.In fairness to Google, Daily Hub was only ever in a “public preview,” rather than a full release, but that hadn’t stopped the company from advertising the phones with it.…