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    Nothing is teasing the Phone 4B.

    Days after confirming there won’t be a new budget CMF-branded phone because of RAMageddon, Nothing has started teasing… a new budget Nothing-branded phone. We’re not sure how the economics work there, but it certainly looks like the Phone 4B is on the way, presumably cheaper than the midrange Phone 4A.

    Sony’s Xperia 1 VIII is still a phone for the fans

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    A new look and an upgraded telephoto aren’t enough to make this a mainstream contender.

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    The CoD SSD.

    SanDisk has a new 8TB PS5 drive, which will cost you a mere $2,959.99 (thanks, RAM crisis!). But that might not be enough for every game.

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    And the worst part is that Call of Duty still won’t fit

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    The Trump phone just got its first full review.

    We’ve had unboxings, hands-ons, and teardowns, but Bloomberg is the first publication to give the T1 Phone a detailed review. It might be kinder than you expect — Verge alumnus Chris Welch admits the specs aren’t bad — but still reaches the obvious conclusion: “It’s easy to find a better phone than this.”

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    Grok is our first line of defense.

    The Justice Department argues that xAI’s Mississippi data center should be allowed to pollute the air because it’s “critical” for military operations, which honestly explains a lot.

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    How are we going to keep losing the war against Iran without Grok?

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    Android foldables are getting new gamepad controls.

    Pixel foldables get the new feature first, which is being added to Android 17 alongside native controller remapping, but only rolls out “in the coming months.” We’ve seen control options like this in other foldables before, but it’s welcome to see Google bake it into the OS.

    Google hasn’t said how customizable the bottom-screen controls will be.
    Google hasn’t said how customizable the bottom-screen controls will be.
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    Vivo’s next foldable will support its add-on telephoto.

    The X Fold 6 doesn’t launch until later this month, but we already know it’ll be compatible with the X300 Ultra’s 200mm telephoto lens. It’ll have a meaty camera of its own too, with a 200-megapixel, 1/1.4-inch main camera and a 50-megapixel, 1/1.95-inch telephoto.

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    Fox execs will do anything but go to therapy.

    Like buying Roku, for example.

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    The masculine urge to fold companies into progressively dumber conglomerates

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