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iPhone owners hit 87% loyalty rate this year, Android-to-iPhone switching drops to 12%
Posted on Saturday July 18, 2026
According to the latest survey by analysts at Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP), the share of iPhone owners who upgraded from another iPhone, as opposed to those switching over from Android, rose this year. The figures suggest Apple users are at least satisfied enough to stick with iOS, while a...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Spotify is deleting millions of AI-generated music tracks to fend off spammers
Posted on Friday July 17, 2026
Spotify's Sam Duboff recently revealed that the platform was forced to remove 75 million AI-generated tracks in 2025 alone. As Spotify's senior director and global head of marketing, policy, and music business, Duboff believes that AI has not introduced any entirely new tactics for spam operations. However, he also argues...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Chinese memory maker CXMT's output has grown from 40,000 to 720,000 wafers in a few years, and it's closing in on Micron
Posted on Friday July 17, 2026
According to a new report from Citrini Research, ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) is growing much faster than expected. The Chinese memory and IDM manufacturer is expected to produce between 350,000 and 375,000 DRAM wafers per month by the end of 2026. In 2020, CXMT had a capacity of 40,000 WPM...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
OnePlus confirms exit from US and European markets, will replace OxygenOS with ColorOS
Posted on Friday July 17, 2026
OnePlus also assured existing users that it will honor all warranty coverage and that eligible devices will be repaired through its authorized service centers in accordance with its standard warranty and support obligations. Eligible OnePlus devices will also continue receiving Android updates and security patches under the company's existing software...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Japan's first national AI factory will use 27,500 GPUs across 382 Vera Rubin racks
Posted on Friday July 17, 2026
In total, the project calls for 27,500 Rubin GPUs and 13,750 Vera CPUs connected through Spectrum-X Ethernet networking. The system is designed to handle the training of trillion-parameter models as capacity ramps up.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Apple's OLED iPad mini could arrive this October, kicking off a major iPad overhaul
Posted on Friday July 17, 2026
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports that Apple is aiming to release a revised iPad mini with an OLED display by October. Meanwhile, a new version of the standard iPad is expected to launch in the first quarter of 2027, followed by an OLED-equipped iPad Air and a new iPad Pro in...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
The EU is forcing Google to give rival AI assistants the same access as Gemini on Android
Posted on Friday July 17, 2026
The stakes are high. Android powers about 60% of smartphones in the European Union, and AI companies see those devices as the primary gateway for turning chatbots into everyday assistants. The deeper a service is integrated into a device – reading the screen, handling messages, and interacting with other apps...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
This Lenovo laptop is the first to use inkjet-printed OLED, a technology that could make OLED screens cheaper
Posted on Friday July 17, 2026
Lenovo's R9000P laptop, the world's first to feature an IJP OLED screen, is now available in China, starting at around $1,300. It remains unclear when the laptop or any other IJP OLED model might appear globally, but the device raises hopes that the technology will soon lead to cheaper OLED...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Over 4,500 Google workers demand layoff protections as Alphabet's value hits $4.3 trillion
Posted on Friday July 17, 2026
Like many other companies invested in the AI boom, Google is enjoying plenty of success right now. Parent company Alphabet's latest quarter produced $109.9 billion in revenue, up 22%, while operating income rose 30% to $39.7 billion. It's also the third-largest company in the world by market cap with a $4.3 trillion valuation.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
A Doom developer says Microsoft "destroyed an immense amount of value" at id Software
Posted on Friday July 17, 2026
In an interview with Game Developer, the unnamed developer, who was one of the 3,200 Xbox employees fired by Microsoft earlier this month, criticized Redmond for announcing the job cuts a day before the launch of the new Doom DLC. The layoffs accounted for 20% of the total staff at...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »