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This green is so nice I can almost forgive the camera bump looking like a spider’s face. | Image: Motorola
This green is so nice I can almost forgive the camera bump looking like a spider’s face. | Image: Motorola

Motorola is trying something it hasn't attempted in the modern smartphone era: to make an all-out flagship slab-style phone.

Previous high-end Edge devices never quite hit the mark, and lacked features that would put it in the highest flagship tiers. The company has had plenty of


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Spotify on a seatback screen on an airplane

United has built a custom, native Spotify app for seatback displays, allowing passengers to log directly in to their personal accounts and stream their own libraries, playlists, and video podcasts while flying 35,000 feet in the air. The new integration is being powered by Starlink's satellite Wi-Fi, which is currently being installed throughout United's entire fleet.

The news marks a


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James Talarico and Elon Musk were locked in a war of words in the lead-up to Tuesday's election.
  • Newly elected Texas senator James Talarico said he's willing to work with Elon Musk.
  • Musk spent over $200 million on Republican candidates in Texas but failed to stop the state turning blue.
  • Talarico previously said he's a "big fan" of Tesla and SpaceX but has been a harsh critic



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Karen Finocchio with her mother, Louise, 19 years after she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
  • Karen Finocchio's mom started to show signs of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 54.
  • Finocchio and her father experienced challenges — as well as beautiful moments — as primary carers.
  • The daughter reflected on things she is happy they did and those she wished they'd done differently

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Discord is finally giving up on Electron, the cross-platform framework that lets developers build desktop apps using web technologies. Electron web apps are notoriously heavy on system resources, and Discord is now moving its desktop app fully to Rust - a modern programming language designed for speed and memory safety.

"We've been early adopters of Rust since 2018 and a lot of our infra


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It was a bad day to be a tech bro.

The 2026 midterms brought a "blue wave," and it landed squarely on a tech community that's spent two years aligning with Republicans. And it wasn't just a public rebuke of the party tech executives have been eager


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An Aer Lingus Airbus A320 flying from Rome to Dublin was subject to one of the threats.
  • A dozen European flights were targeted by bomb threats on Thursday morning.
  • Flights to Ireland, Czechia, and Poland were among those sent the threats.
  • They followed a slew of threats sent on Tuesday, all of which were hoaxes.

A dozen European flights received bomb threats o


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