This is what the Asus ROG Phone 10 and ROG Phone 10 Pro could have been‎

Asus launched the ROG Phone 9 and the ROG Phone 9 Pro in 2024, and has since decided to stop releasing new phones. So there has been no ROG Phone 10, and there probably never will be. However, thanks to some leaked firmware, we now know what we could have expected had the ROG Phone 10 and ROG Phone 10 Pro actually launched. Unsurprisingly, both would have been powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset, paired with 5G connectivity, UFS 4.0 storage, and LPDDR5X RAM. Wi-Fi 7 was supported too. The ROG Phone 10 Pro would have had a 50MP main camera using OmniVision’s OV50Q...

Samsung unveils AI-powered Health Assistant‎

Today Samsung has announced the Health Assistant, which it bills as the "first fully integrated AI-powered personal health assistant". It is now available in beta for eligible US users of Samsung Health. Samsung promises that the Health Assistant will help you achieve your health and wellness goals by combining important health data with insights that empower you to ask questions about your health and "gain access to rich, personalized health guidance and recommendations". Health Assistant connects your health information from Samsung Health's "five pillars of wellness" - sleep,...

Google launches Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber‎

Today Google is launching its newest Gemini models. Gemini 3.6 Flash is described by the company as its "workhorse model that delivers better coding, knowledge work, and multimodal performance". It's supposed to be more efficient and better quality than its predecessor. Google boasts that customers "have found it particularly capable at multimodal tasks like document parsing, chart and data analysis, and report drafting". Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is "designed for both low-latency tasks and tasks where high throughput is critical for developer workflows, like agentic search and document...

Apple Upgrade program is coming next week with up to 36-month payment plans‎

According to a new report from Bloomberg, Apple is planning to launch a new device leasing program in partnership with Klarna. It will be called Apple Upgrade and will require a soft credit check. It will apparently work like a subscription, with iPhone and Apple Watch leases running for 24 months and iPad and Mac leases running for 36 months. The Apple Watch SE, the base iPad, the iPhone 16, and the MacBook Neo will be excluded from the program. You will be able to pay off the device early and upgrade early to a new model, as well as decide whether to return or keep the device at the end...

Xiaomi Redmi Note 15 Pro 4G review‎

Paramount's acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery is on hold‎

The bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery was won by Paramount Skydance, which forced Netflix to drop out. The deal has however been put on hold by a judge. Twelve US state attorneys general requested a temporary restraining order to block Paramount Skydance from closing the deal, and US District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin of the Northern District of California granted the request. The deal is now effectively on hold for the next 14 days. On August 3, the judge will hold a hearing on the state attorneys general's motion for a preliminary injunction, which would freeze the deal until...