The Redmi K series is consistently pushing the envelope in terms of specs, and the just-announced Redmi K90 Max is the latest example. It arrives with a flagship chipset, a built-in cooling fan and a generous 8,500mAh Si-C battery with 100W charging. Redmi K90 Max The K90 Max brings MediaTek’s flagship Dimensity 9500 chipset, armed … Read More “Redmi K90 Max arrives with Dimensity 9500, cooling fan and 8,500mAh Si-C battery with 100W charging” »
Brady Snyder / Android Authority TL;DR The repairable revolution is gaining momentum, with Fairphone shipments surging 42% in 2025 and revenue climbing to €73.3 million. A staggering 78% of Fairphone 6 buyers are first-time customers, proving the modular movement is rapidly outgrowing its niche origins. Fairphone is proving the revolution is financially viable by turning … Read More “The repairable smartphone revolution is finally picking up speed” »
For 2026, Sony is coming out with a new TV backlight, which it’s been working on for several years. The company claims its True RGB technology will let its TVs produce “purer color, greater brightness, and the largest color volume ever achieved in Sony’s home TV history.” Using individually controlled red, green and blue LEDs, … Read More “Is Sony’s True RGB Backlight Tech the Future of TV?” »
While Ars didn’t get to test it in a real-world situation, the Smart Suction Go felt very solid; we couldn’t dislodge it with just our hands. Allen Sports also makes a related, albeit smaller, product, the Smart Suction Snap Camera Mount ($70), which, as the name suggests, is for the person who wants to mount … Read More “Our favorite gear at Sea Otter Classic wasn’t the bikes—it was the accessories” »
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Welcome to Wallpaper Wednesday! In this weekly roundup, we’ll give you a handful of Android wallpapers you can download and use on your phone, tablet, or even your laptop/PC. The images will come from folks here at Android Authority as well as our readers. All are free to use and come … Read More “Wallpaper Wednesday: Android wallpapers 2026-04-22” »
Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today’s Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today’s Mini Crossword features some Earth Day-specific clues. Read on for all the answers. And if you could use some hints and … Read More “Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Answers for April 22” »
Something I didn’t understand for a while is that the process of turning row-oriented data into column-oriented data isn’t a totally bespoke, foreign concept in the realm of databases. It’s still of the relational abstraction. Or can be. As an example, say we have this data: data = [ { “name”: “Smudge”, “colour”: “black” }, … Read More “Columnar Storage is Normalization • Buttondown” »
Introduction and specs Oppo’s top-tier Find X series flagship finally goes global. The Oppo Find X9 Ultra steps onto the global arena and helps nurture a growing Ultra competition, and it does so at a crucial moment – right when vivo’s X300 Ultra is also about to launch globally. The Find X9 Ultra is also … Read More “Oppo Find X9 Ultra review” »
Lil Katz / Android Authority TL;DR Anker is introducing its Thus chip for on-device AI. Thus utilizes a compute-in-memory architecture to minimize power requirements. The first Thus-powered earbuds will debut next month, but Anker plans to get Thus into a whole lot more products. To listen to some of the most vocal AI proponents, these … Read More “Anker launches new Thus chip for powerful on-wearable AI” »
Apple CEO Tim Cook (left) and Steve Jobs (right) at an event in 2007. James Martin/CNET Fifteen years ago, Apple’s last leadership transition was more somber. For years, off and on, Tim Cook had been stepping in to take on more of Apple’s day-to-day operations as the ailing then-CEO Steve Jobs went on successive medical … Read More “Tim Cook to Step Down After 15 Years as Apple CEO” »
