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I couldn’t believe it. Surely Dbrand had to have seen this coming. There must be a plan B, right?“There is no further plan. We fucked this one up,” Dbrand CEO Adam Ijaz now tells me.He says Dbrand will now have to destroy every single cube it manufactured, and it won’t even get to throw them in an incinerator for thematically appropriate fun.Here’s the good news: I took up-close-and-personal photos of the (likely) copyright-infringing gadget for posterity on June 19th, before the lawyers struck. You can wistfully imagine what could have been, or use them as an outlet for your schadenfreude…

Getty is planning to axe its $3.7 billion merger agreement with Shutterstock after a UK regulator imposed restrictions that would prevent part of Shutterstock’s business from being included in the deal. The move comes despite the US Department of Justice granting the deal “unconditional antitrust clearance” in February.In an SEC filing published on Tuesday in the US, Getty said it is “not required to accept” approval conditions outlined by the UK Competition and Markets Authority in May that require Shutterstock to sell its global editorial business, including the Backgrid and Splash paparazzi agencies.Those conditions have proved unappealing enough for Getty…

If you have a newer Apple phone in your pocket, you’ve got a bunch of excellent cameras in easy reach. They’re superb for stills, but also take fantastic video footage, and iPhone Action Mode is a big reason why. Action Mode was introduced in the iPhone 14 series, and is meant to prevent your vids from being ruined by shaky hands. The digital image stabilisation tech helps keep those otherwise blurry frames from Saturday night looking clean and crisp – which may not be a good thing, depending on what you got up to. To get smoother shots, follow our…

One thing nobody tells you about getting older is that you’ll start to get excited about new cleaning products. I don’t mean that you’ll look forward to restocking your cupboards with bottles of bleach (although the day you discover Bar Keepers Friend is a momentous one), rather that you’ll take almost as much joy from unboxing a new cleaning gadget as you would from getting a new phone. That explains the small buzz I felt when I first saw the Philips OneUp 5000. I’d always thought that the concept of mopping was pretty flawed – am I not just pushing…

Okay, so the Apple iPad Mini 8 technically doesn’t officially exist. But we all know it’s coming. After all, Apple isn’t the type to rest on its laurels when it comes to refreshes, and tablets are no exception. Nothing has been officially announced, of course, but there are enough whispers, rumours, and analyst insights to paint a reasonably clear picture of what to expect. Here’s everything we know so far about the iPad Mini 8. Oh, and all the images in this article are of the current-generation iPad Mini 7. We haven’t got a super-secret Apple prototype or anything. Honest.…

Pokémon turns 30 this year, and Casio’s marking the occasion in the best way (in my opinion) possible: a chunky, colourful G-Shock. The G-Shock x Pokémon GA-110PKM-7A watch is out today, and it’s packed fully of fun little Pokémon easter eggs. Casio’s taken the classic GA-110 case and dressed it in red, blue, and green. That’s the same colour palette from Pokémon’s original 1996 Gameboy release (I had Blue). It’s a clever bit of nostalgia. Those three colours are burned into the brain of anyone who grew up with a Game Boy Colour. The fun continues at 9 o’clock, where…

Would you pay $20 a month for access to AI hardware you already own? That appears to be one of Meta’s next bets. This week, it quietly announced that your glasses’ Conversation Focus feature will soon be limited to three hours of use per month, unless you pay for a $19.99 Meta One Premium subscription.In a help article, the company insists that it won’t require a subscription to use your glasses, period; it’s merely erecting a “rate limit” for certain AI features. Even premium subscribers will only get 15 hours of Conversation Focus per month under that “rate limit,” it…

LG has announced the StanbyME 2 Max – a 32-inch, battery powered touchscreen tablet that can be transported around on wheels. The whopping great tablet on a stick is larger than the 27-inch iteration released previously and is designed for viewing media content via the same webOS software featured on LG’s brilliant televisions. It supports phone mirroring for easy casting of content and there’s also a specific app launcher built for this product. The display supports up to 4K resolution and 60Hz refresh rate and Dolby Vision HDR. The built-in battery can last for 4.5 hours before you’ll need to…

With not long to go until Samsung’s next-gen foldable phones get their official debut, the firm has released a series of social media sneak peeks that essentially confirm what the rumour mill has been saying for months: the Galaxy Z Fold 8 is going wide. Samsung’s teaser videos show rectangular chocolate bars, pizza slices and Korean Dalgona candy being cut down to size, going from tall and skinny to shorter and wider. The old shape is reminiscent of the Galaxy Z Fold7, while the new one is what leakers predict is on the cards for its successor. We should reportedly…