Brian X. Chen
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- Sep 10, 2026
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Foldable phones are unpopular. Why is Apple selling one? (opens the original)
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The company has unveiled a new iPhone that will cost more than $4000 in New Zealand. Here are the economics behind that price tag. Apple this week unveiled an iPhone that unfolds like a book to expand its screen size and closes up to fit in your pocket. It’s the biggest physical change to the iPhone’s design in nearly two decades. But even though they’ve been around for years, foldable phones aren’t particularly popular. They’re expensive, awkward and not as durable as regular smartphones. So wh
Slop detector works well on text. (But on images, much less so) (opens the original)
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Artificial intelligence detectors may expose online slop, but fake images remain harder to catch. Photo / 123rf Pangram excels at distinguishing chatbot-generated words from human writing. But it’s not reliable for spotting artificial images. Recently, as I was scrolling through my phone, I realised I was suffering from a new kind of fatigue: slop-induced burnout. Almost all the posts I was reading on social media were riddled with bullet points, emojis and em dashes. They clearly looked like th
This techy music box for kids is enriching without being addictive (opens the original)
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When Ben Drury was shopping for his newborn at a department store in London, he saw something that made him grimace: A stroller that was on display had a holder for an iPad to keep an infant occupied. “I remember having this visceral reaction against that, saying, ‘No way, this is really bad,’” he said. In that moment, Drury wondered whether there was a technology product he could create that was enriching for children but not addictive. That was 12 years ago. Around the same time, Drury, a digi
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