Apple shipped a record 14 million iPhones in India in 2025 and gained market share.

Jan. 20–23 recap: Code went corporeal as Big Tech bet on bodies, and your weekend chores suddenly look negotiable.

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Jan. 20–23 recap: Code went corporeal as Big Tech bet on bodies, and your weekend chores suddenly look negotiable.

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Samsung appears to have leaked a built-in privacy display for the Galaxy S26 Ultra, hinting at a hardware-based feature designed to block side-angle viewing.

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Samsung appears to have leaked a built-in privacy display for the Galaxy S26 Ultra, hinting at a hardware-based feature designed to block side-angle viewing.

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Apple Watch now supports glucose monitoring via CGMs like Dexcom G7, while Apple continues long-term work on non-invasive blood sugar tracking.

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Sony’s LinkBuds Clip are clip-on, open-ear wireless earbuds with Voice Boost, leakage reduction, DSEE upscaling, and up to 37 hours of battery.

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Apple Watch now supports glucose monitoring via CGMs like Dexcom G7, while Apple continues long-term work on non-invasive blood sugar tracking.

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Ring says the new feature will identify if video edits have been made, even if they're minor.

Sony’s LinkBuds Clip are clip-on, open-ear wireless earbuds with Voice Boost, leakage reduction, DSEE upscaling, and up to 37 hours of battery.

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Apple is reportedly developing an AI-powered wearable pin with cameras and microphones, but its purpose, privacy impact, and launch remain uncertain.

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Apple is reportedly developing an AI-powered wearable pin with cameras and microphones, but its purpose, privacy impact, and launch remain uncertain.

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Apple plans a two-stage Siri overhaul, culminating in a chatbot-style assistant in September powered by a custom Google Gemini model, Bloomberg reports.

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Neurophos is taking a crack at solving the AI industry's power efficiency problem with an optical chip that uses a composite material to do the math required in AI inferencing tasks.

Apple plans a two-stage Siri overhaul, culminating in a chatbot-style assistant in September powered by a custom Google Gemini model, Bloomberg reports.

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One of the good things about simulating circuits is that you can easily change component values trivially. In the real world, you might use a potentiometer or a pot to provide an adjustable value. However, as [Ralph] discovered, there’s no pot component in LTSpice. At first, he cobbled up a fake pot with two resistors, one representing the top terminal to the wiper, and the other one representing the wiper to the bottom terminal. Check it out in the video below.

At first, [Ralph] just set values for the two halves manually, making sure not to set either resistor to zero so as not to merge the nets. However, as you might guess, you can make the values parameters and then step them. 

By using .step you can alter one of the resistor values. Then you can use a formula to compute the other resistor since the sum of the two resistors has to add up to the pot’s total value. That is, a 10K pot will have the two resistors always add up to 10K.

Of course, you could do this without the .step and simply change one value to automatically compute both resistors if you prefer.

We’ve done our own tutorials with .step and parameters if you want a little more context. You can even use this idea to make your own custom pot component.

Should this wearable materialize, it could be released as early as 2027, according to a report on the device.

From leadership changes at legacy semiconductor companies to wishy washy policy around chip exports, a lot happened last year.

Google’s hands-free voice search on Android is getting a major UI overhaul, replacing the bodyless face with a microphone, “Ask Anything,” and a colored arc.

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Google’s hands-free voice search on Android is getting a major UI overhaul, replacing the bodyless face with a microphone, “Ask Anything,” and a colored arc.

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