As promised, we’re again to regular. Don’t even take into consideration shopping for Kindles or subscribing to a brand new streaming service till Black Friday 2026.
As an alternative, let’s discuss a brand new Samsung foldable with much more folds. The Galaxy Z TriFold is breaking cowl and can launch in Korea and different choose nations (learn: not the US) on December 12.
Not like the early trifold from Huawei, the smartphone has an inward-folding show meant to guard the broader most important show, 10 inches broad. The quilt display screen is 6.5 inches when folded, whereas your complete TriFold is 12.9mm when collapsed and three.9mm at its thinnest when unfolded.
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That may appear a bit chunky within the face of super-thin smartphones, nevertheless it’s a lot thinner than Samsung’s first Z Fold (17.1mm), again in 2019. Arguably, it’s a 10-inch pill (with the suitable display screen ratio) crammed right into a smartphone kind issue.
The telephone runs on a customized Snapdragon 8 chip, with a 5,600 mAh three-cell battery and assist for 45W super-fast charging. Just like the Z Fold 7, the rear digicam lineup features a 12-megapixel ultra-wide lens, a 200MP wide-angle lens and a 10MP telephoto lens.
Intrigued? Samsung says the TriFold will likely be obtainable within the US and elsewhere within the first quarter of 2026. The corporate hasn’t stipulated pricing but, nevertheless it might be .
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You must nonetheless be capable to solid to older Chromecast or Google Solid gadgets.
Struggled to solid Stranger Issues over the lengthy weekend? It wasn’t you — and it most likely wasn’t your TV’s fault both. Netflix is ending assist for casting from cell gadgets to many TVs. In accordance with a assist web page noticed by Android Authority, “Netflix now not helps casting reveals from a cell system to most TVs and TV-streaming gadgets. You’ll want to make use of the distant that got here together with your TV or TV-streaming system to navigate Netflix.” The corporate beforehand eliminated AirPlay assist in 2019 on account of “technical limitations.”
Embattled exec John Giannandrea is leaving the corporate.
Apple has employed AI researcher Amar Subramanya, a longtime Google exec, pulling him away from Microsoft to push its AI efforts ahead. Subramanya, who Apple describes as a “famend AI researcher,” spent 16 years at Google, the place he was head of engineering for Gemini. The corporate additionally introduced that present AI exec, John Giannandrea, will retire in 2026.
Giannandrea has shouldered a lot of the blame for the delays in delivering the next-generation model of Siri. He joined Apple in 2018 after a stint at Google that included VP of search. Whereas his hiring was seen as a significant coup for Apple on the time, the corporate has didn’t ship its extra personalised AI-centric model of Siri, previewed earlier final 12 months. Not earlier this 12 months: final 12 months.
Free customers can generate two pictures per day.
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Google has introduced that free customers can at the moment generate two pictures per day, down from three beforehand, on its Nano Bana Professional picture generator. “Picture technology and enhancing is in excessive demand,” the corporate writes. “Limits could change ceaselessly and can reset each day.”
That is as a result of new mannequin being an enormous enchancment on what got here earlier than. The textual content rendering portion is considerably improved and may even render legible textual content on prime of an present picture. It might probably additionally mix a number of parts right into a single composition, supporting as much as 14 pictures without delay. Google can also be limiting free Gemini 3 Professional use.
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