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Did Amazon brick your Kindle? The pros and cons of switching to Kobo e-readers.

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BookTokers, Bookstagramers, and the most passionate Kindle users across the internet are fuming this week. On April 7, Amazon notified ...

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip8 CAD-based renders leak showing a familiar design

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Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Z Flip8 has now been outed in some CAD-based renders showing it from a bunch of angles. ...

Intel Presents Its Own Texture Set Neural Compression SDK: Up to 18x Smaller Textures

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At GDC 2026, Intel graphics engineer Marissa Dubois took the stage to present Intel’s version of neural texture compression, very ...

Samsung’s newest display tech could debut on the Pixel 11 first instead of a Galaxy

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And the iPhone 18 Pro won’t be far behind.

Battery recycler Ascend Elements files for bankruptcy

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Ascend Elements said that it will be filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the wake of a canceled government grant ...

Lackluster Foldable Smartphone Sales Are About To Witness A Major Surge As Apple Increases iPhone Fold Display Inventory By 20%

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The foldable smartphone form factor was assumed by many to be the catalyst that succeeds the ‘candy bar’ shape that ...

YouTube Premium gets even more expensive

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YouTube Premium has just become even more expensive in the US. The price hike has already taken effect for new ...

Samsung will fix a Galaxy S25 Ultra camera bug that makes some photos blurry

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An annoying Galaxy S25 Ultra camera bug will be fixed in the One UI 8.5 update.

Epic Games Will Reportedly Launch an Extraction Shooter “Along the Lines of ARC Raiders” With Disney Characters in November 2026

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You might recall that just two short years ago in February 2024, Disney invested $1.5 billion in Fortnite maker Epic ...

TechCrunch is heading to Tokyo — and bringing the Startup Battlefield with it

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SusHi Tech 2026 is zeroing in on four technology domains reshaping society: AI, Robotics, Resilience, and Entertainment. Expect live demos ...

Ghostrunner Makers New First-Person Soulslike Valor Mortis Arrives on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series in Fall 2026

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Valor Mortis is the next game from One More Level, one of the studio’s behind first-person fast-paced cyberpunk sci-fi action ...

Stalking victim sues OpenAI, claims ChatGPT fueled her abuser’s delusions and ignored her warnings

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OpenAI ignored three warnings that a ChatGPT user was dangerous — including its own mass-casualty flag — while he stalked ...

Phone manufacturers reportedly considering pausing high-end Ultra models

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Some phone makers are considering a radical approach to manage skyrocketing memory costs.

Gemini gains the ability to create interactive simulations

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The latest Gemini feature lets Google’s AI generate interactive simulations and models. With this, Gemini can transform your questions and ...

Samsung Resorting To Gimmicks To Inflate The Sales Of Its Newer Flagships Even Though The Galaxy S26 Series Is Doing Fairly Good

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As endearing as Samsung is, it has a weird knack for tarnishing its image by artificially gating some features so ...

A New Metro Game is Now Rumored to Be Revealed Next Week

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So far this week, we’ve heard rumors about a new State of Play event set for next week, on April ...

YouTube Premium and YouTube Music are getting more expensive

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The YouTube Premium individual plan is increasing from $13.99 to $15.99 per month, while the family plan is increasing from ...

France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech

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France’s move to ditch Windows for Linux is its latest effort to reduce its reliance on American tech giants.

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 8 Renders Show A Flip 7 Look-Alike, And An Utter Lack Of Imagination

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Samsung is not breaking the mold with any of its upcoming foldables, barring perhaps the Galaxy Z Fold 8 Wide, ...

Samsung’s upcoming foldables may get this AI feature

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According to a new report, Samsung is going to deliver Scam Detection from the get-go on the upcoming Galaxy Z ...

Amazon CEO Says Chip Business Is ‘On Fire,’ Graviton & Trainium Now Competing At Intel, AMD, And NVIDIA Scale

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Amazon’s CEO, Andy Jassy, issued a letter to shareholders about the company’s custom chip business, and his words showed strong ...

Amazon Gives Players Another Reason Not to Use Amazon Luna by Removing Games and Subscriptions Bought From Third-Party Stores

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Amazon announced more changes to its gaming-focused service, Amazon Luna today, after it re-launched the brand last year with a ...

Apple Is “Materially Ramping SoIC Capacity At TSMC” As It Prepares For Its Baltra ASIC, M5 Pro/Max, M6 Pro/Max Chips, With 60K Capacity-Equivalent Wafers Reserved For 2027

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Apple is beginning to lay the critical groundwork for its next-gen custom chips, including a much-anticipated server chip, dubbed Baltra, ...

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 8 leaked renders show only one change coming this year

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There’s not much new with the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 8 and that’s okay.

RAM And SSDs Sell For Thousands Of Dollars At Micro Center Even As Inventory Remains Full

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Talk about the shortage? Micro Center seems to have plenty of memory and storage drives, but the volatile market keeps ...

Refurbished memory chips in your next brand-new phone. Wait, what?!

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A well-known tipster has something alarming to say.

M5 MacBook Pro Brings An Incredible ‘Price To Performance’ Ratio To The Table As Amazon Slashes $200 From The Total, Bringing It Down To $1,400

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The newest price cut observed by Amazon brings Apple’s 14-inch M5 MacBook Pro closer to an incredibly well-rounded machine that’s easier ...

vivo X300 FE tipped to get a 200mm teleconverter in India

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The vivo X300 FE, which quietly debuted in Russia early last month, is expected to arrive in India in the ...

PSA: If you use the Meta AI app, your friends will find out and it will be embarrassing

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Now that Meta released its Muse Spark model, more people are downloading the Meta AI app. And if you join ...

Last 24 hours: Save up to $500 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass

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This is it. Tonight is your last chance to lock in savings of up to $500 for your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass. These discounts end at ...