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Ultrahuman is branching out – the smart ring company just unveiled the Ultrahuman Photon, a red light therapy device, which is currently on pre-order. You can visit the official site and reserve a unit for $249 – that’s less than half of what a typical red light therapy device costs, says the company. You can read more about red light therapy over at Scientific American and Nature. It has been found to assist with post-exercise comfort and muscle recovery as well as improving skin health. The Ultrahuman Photon emits two wavelengths of red light (660nm and 850nm) The Photon has 12...

Omdia just shared its analysis on the US smartphone market in Q1 2026 and things are not looking great. The overall market shrank 3% year-over-year to 33.4 million units. Firstly, the Q1 2026 decline comes after smartphone manufacturers accelerated an inventory build-up in Q1 2025 in anticipation of the upcoming import tariffs imposed by the Trump Administration. Secondly, the smartphone market is starting to feel the pressure from ever-rising memory chip prices, and there's a significant slowdown in smartphone purchases. Additionally, delayed smartphone launches contributed to a...

Earlier this year, MediaTek unveiled the Dimensity 8500, a 4nm (TSMC N4P) chipset with all-big CPU cores (eight Cortex-A725) and a Mali-G720 MC8 GPU. Now the company is refreshing that chip as the Dimensity 8550. The key addition here is the LLM Booster and support for Google’s Gemini Nano V3, which is designed to run on your phone. This new version of the chip still uses the NPU 880. The rest is the same. The CPU has its top Cortex-A725 core running at up to 3.4GHz. This core is equipped with 1MB of L2 cache. The second cluster is three A725s at up to 3.2GHz, each with 512KB of L2...

Shortly after Huawei brought to light its new scaling law called Tao Scaling Law and its LogicFolding architecture, the company held a keynote at the Phoenix Bay Area Finance Forum and Financial Summit in Shenzhen, promising to bring a much more powerful, next-generation Kirin chipset that will power the upcoming Mate 90 lineup. The chip in question is said to be the first mobile chip for the company built on the LogicFolding architecture, and will be able to compete with 3nm chips. Interestingly, the spokesperson didn't exactly say that the next Kirin chip will be 3nm, but instead...

According to a new report, Apple is actively developing a new anti-theft feature for iPhones that could protect the device in situations where it is snatched from a user. The report claims that the new anti-snatch feature will allow an iPhone to automatically lock itself if it detects a sudden snatching motion. Theft Detection Lock feature on Android Apple’s upcoming feature is said to work similarly to Android’s existing Theft Detection Lock feature. The report states that the feature will rely on the iPhone’s accelerometer to detect sudden movements associated with snatching. If...

Crisis averted – Samsung workers approved a new pay deal that will see 10.5% of the company’s semiconductor operating profit be distributed as special bonuses towards workers in Samsung’s chip businesses. Here’s the quick backstory. Samsung was facing the biggest worker strike in its history after employees in Device Solutions (memory, chipsets and fabs) became unhappy with the size of bonuses they were receiving compared to their peers at rival SK Hynix. The government stepped in and the workers union suspended the planned 18-day strike while negotiations took place between May 22 and...

Xiaomi will unveil the 17T series smartphones on May 28 during a global launch event, which will begin at 12 PM UTC. The event will also be streamed live, and you can follow it with us by tuning to its YouTube stream below. The 17T series includes two smartphones - 17T and 17T Pro. Xiaomi hasn't detailed the spec sheets of both smartphones, but it has revealed their designs and confirmed their processors and battery capacities. The Xiaomi 17T will come with the Dimensity 8500 Ultra chip and a 6,500 mAh battery, while the Xiaomi 17T Pro will have the Dimensity 9500 SoC and a 7,000...

A week on after its unveiling, the RedMagic 11S Pro is going global. But unlike the Chinese launch, which saw three phones, the global markets are getting just one - the RedMagic 11S Pro. Here's a look at the phone and its liquid cooling in action on TikTok! Coming in two finishes - Nightfreeze (Black transparent) and Subzero (Silver transparent), the global 11S Pro differs only slightly from its China-bound peers - it has a 7,500mAh battery with 80W wired and wireless charging. The Chinese 11S Pro has an 8,000mAh battery with 80W wired charging (no wireless), while the 11S Pro+ has a...

33.0 million smartphones were shipped in Europe (excluding Russia) in the first three months of 2026, reports Omdia. This is an increase of 2% compared to the first quarter last year, but there is trouble brewing ahead, say the analysts. 33 million smartphones were shipped in Europe in Q1 2026 First, the good news. Samsung retook its #1 spot with 12.6 million smartphones (+3%). Shipments were weaker as the Galaxy S26, S26+ and S26 Ultra flagships launched later than usual this year. The Galaxy A57 and A37 were delayed as well. However, the Galaxy A16 4G proved to be quite...

Recent leaks surrounding the upcoming Honor Magic9 suggest that the phone could feature a 6.36-inch display and a large 8,000mAh battery. Now, a fresh leak has revealed additional details about the compact smartphone. Tipster Digital Chat Station is back with another leak, this time claiming that the Honor Magic9 will be powered by the 3nm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset. Interestingly, its predecessor, the Honor Magic8, uses the same SoC. Honor Magic8 Back in March, the same tipster had claimed that the handset would feature a 200MP primary rear camera, a 50MP ultrawide sensor,...