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Amazfit has launched the Balance Ultra, a new flagship smartwatch meant for users who track their workouts closely but may not always pay the same attention to recovery. Recovery is one of the most important parts of training, because poor sleep, high stress, and badly timed rest days can directly affect progress. The new smartwatch aims to make that easier to track by combining workout data with sleep, stress, heart rate, HRV, blood oxygen, breathing, and recovery metrics through the Zepp App. Can it help users train smarter instead of just harder? The Balance Ultra is built around Amazfit’s Hybrid…

The Apple Watch already has one of the best displays on any smartwatch, but the company is reportedly working on something that could make it meaningfully better.  According to industry sources cited by The Elec, LG Display is currently developing and validating a new display backplane technology. It is called high-mobility oxide, or HMO, and the company is making it on its sixth-generation OLED production lines.  How does HMO matter for Apple Watch battery life? Every OLED display needs a backplane, which is the layer of transistors that controls each pixel.  The current gold standard for Apple Watch panels is…

Summer and science fiction have always been a natural pairing. The season is synonymous with blockbuster entertainment, and sci-fi continues to be one of the best genres for delivering larger-than-life action, ambitious storytelling, and unforgettable worlds. Whether you’re in the mood for futuristic adventures, mind-bending concepts, or spectacular visual effects, there’s no shortage of great options on Netflix. The streaming service’s sci-fi library is constantly evolving, with a mix of modern hits, acclaimed originals, and crowd-pleasing adventures available to watch. If you’re looking for something exciting to stream during the hottest months of the year, these are the Netflix sci-fi…

For the past two years, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X series has largely been confined to notebooks. The chips delivered impressive battery life and surprisingly competitive performance, but they never got the chance to challenge compact desktop machines like Apple’s Mac mini or even the more powerful Mac Studio. The Ascent QN10 changes that. Packing the 18-core Snapdragon X2 Elite processor alongside Qualcomm’s integrated Adreno GPU, the tiny desktop also becomes the world’s first mini PC to offer 80 TOPS of AI performance through its dedicated Hexagon NPU. So, ASUS is introducing a new form factor for Qualcomm’s most powerful PC silicon.…

Apple TV‘s hit sci-fi series is back, and the new Silo season 3 trailer makes it clear that the show is finally ready to answer its biggest question: how did the world end? The 10-episode third season premieres on July 3, with new episodes dropping every Friday through September 4. And if this trailer is anything to go by, the wait has been worth it. Juliette is back, but she’s not quite herself Rebecca Ferguson’s Juliette survived the incinerator at the end of season 2, but she didn’t walk away unscathed. She’s lost all her memories, and that’s where things…

When hackers break into your computer, one of the first things they do is delete or lock your files and vanish. By the time you realize something is wrong, the damage is often permanent. A researcher at Florida International University has found a way to change that, and the solution is built right into your storage drive. Understanding where your deleted files actually go When you delete a file, it does not disappear immediately. It sits in a kind of digital purgatory, existing in fragments on your drive before being permanently wiped to free up space. If a hacker encrypted…

Yes, advancements in AI help people from different walks of life, but they have some cons. One of the most exploited con has been AI voice cloning. Over the years, it has reached the point where most people can no longer tell a deepfake voice from a real one.  Scammers already know this, and they’ve been spoofing users’ contacts, cloning their voice, and committing financial frauds for quite some time. Android’s new fake call detection is designed to stop that exact scenario before it costs you. How does fake call detection actually work? Fake call detection is an industry-first feature.…

Hollywood’s complicated romance with artificial intelligence just got a whole lot more interesting. Martin Scorsese, the 83-year-old director behind Goodfellas, Raging Bull, and The Departed, has signed on as a partner and adviser to Black Forest Labs, a fast-growing AI image generation startup. As reported by the New York Times, Scorsese used the company’s technology during preproduction for a new film and released a video from his New York office explaining his enthusiasm. For an industry that only three years ago went on strike partly over AI protections, this is a remarkable turn of events. Scorsese is using AI but…

Instagram has a well-documented problem with how it treats teenage users, and Meta is finally taking a more concrete step to address it. The company announced it is testing a new feature on Instagram designed to stop teens from being repeatedly served the same type of content in Explore, Feed, and Reels. The announcement is part of a broader global rollout of tightened teen account protections across Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger. The evidence against Instagram’s algorithm has been building for years Researchers set up fake teen profiles on Instagram and found that liking just one fitness-related post was enough to…

What started as another Minecraft modding campaign has turned into one of the more disturbing malware stories tied to gaming communities this year. Security researchers at McAfee have uncovered a large-scale malware operation called “WeedHack” that reportedly infected more than 116,000 devices, primarily targeting Minecraft players through fake mods, cheats, cracked software, and community tools. But unlike many traditional malware campaigns focused purely on stealing passwords or crypto wallets, this one appears to have crossed into harassment, cyberbullying, and invasive surveillance. According to McAfee’s research, the campaign was allegedly operated by a teenager and relied heavily on Discord, Minecraft communities,…