iPhone 5 Black Diamond ($15 million): Crafted from 135 grams of solid 24-carat gold, the iPhone 5 Black Diamond, priced at $15 million, underwent a meticulous nine-week construction process. Its frame features 600 pristine white diamonds, with an additional 53 adorning the Apple logo on the rear. Noteworthy is the use of sapphire in the…

Google Pixel 8 broke cover back in October last year. Six months later, while its price has not dipped spectacularly in this period, its performance has improved, thanks to several updates. It is no spec monster even now, and it faces a lot of competition from 2024 flagships from the likes of Samsung, OnePlus and…

Platform engineering is becoming a compelling concept for enterprises, as they’re devoting increasingly large amounts of resources into cloud-native application development. It doesn’t matter if you’re using your own Kubernetes instances in your data centers, or working with managed environments in public clouds, you’re going to need to understand how they’re operating, taking advantage of…

Teenagers’ unpredictable moods are being deciphered thanks to wearable technology developed by a local university. The new gadgets can decode the meanings behind scowls, smirks and eye rolls, say researchers from King’s College London. Their research has been published in the journal Frontiers amid hopes it could foster better relationships between parents and teens. The…

In some ways I wish my smartphone was more like the Rabbit R1. Instead of digging through dozens of different apps to get stuff done, you can just use your voice to bark commands and have AI agents do everything for you. That’s the promise of the R1, but does it live up to the…

Too Long; Didn’t Read The Humane AI pin debacle is making waves as consumers reject the device as not living up to their standards – or even the hype. The Apple Newton, Nintendo Virtual Boy, Microsoft Zune, and Sony Betamax are just some of the many examples of technologies that didn’t quite make it.

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If there’s one overarching takeaway from last night’s Rabbit R1 launch event, it’s this: Hardware can be fun again. After a decade of unquestioned smartphone dominance, there is, once again, excitement to be found in consumer electronics. The wisdom and longevity of any individual product or form factor — while important — can be set…

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Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET The Rabbit R1 first generated attention at CES in January of this year as a kitschy little AI assistant that isn’t intended to outright replace your phone but to help you use it more efficiently. The Rabbit wants to do away with apps, and instead use its “Large Action Model” to train “rabbits”…