Paramount's acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery is on hold

The bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery was won by Paramount Skydance, which forced Netflix to drop out. The deal has however been put on hold by a judge. Twelve US state attorneys general requested a temporary restraining order to block Paramount Skydance from closing the deal, and US District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin of the Northern District of California granted the request. The deal is now effectively on hold for the next 14 days. On August 3, the judge will hold a hearing on the state attorneys general's motion for a preliminary injunction, which would freeze the deal until...

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Apple's 20th anniversary iPhone may offer a 7-inch screen

Apple's iPhone will celebrate its 20th anniversary next year, and the company is rumored to mark the occasion with a major redesign for its iPhone Pro lineup. The upcoming models are likely to go by the iPhone 20 moniker and are said to feature an edge-to-edge quad-curved display and solid-state buttons. Well-known tipster Digital Chat Station has now claimed that Apple is testing a 6.96-inch display, which could make its way to the iPhone 20 Pro Max. Image generated using Gemini AI While that's only 0.06 inches larger than the panel on the current iPhone 17 Pro Max, the tipster...

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European Commission fines AliExpress €550 million for counterfeit goods

The European Commission has today issued a fine of €550 million against the Chinese e-commerce giant AliExpress for failing to "diligently assess and mitigate risks relating to the sale of illegal, unsafe or counterfeit products", according to the official press release. The company was found to be breaching its obligations under the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA). The DSA mandates that online platforms like AliExpress take measures to review potentially illegal products, and AliExpress apparently "overestimated the effectiveness of its system in detecting and removing illegal products"....

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Apple Sports app adds more soccer following the World Cup

The Apple Sports app has received a new update today to version 4.2, which was published a few hours ago. With this update, the app has added support for following the Belgian Pro League, Danish Superliga, Dutch Eredivisie, Japanese J1 League, Polish Ekstraklasa, Scottish Premiership, and the Swiss Super League. The Apple Sports app So, with these additions, soccer fans old and new can keep up with the most important soccer leagues worldwide. The update also adds the ability to see formations across most soccer leagues, so it's easier to visualize the starting lineup for each...

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Samsung unveils tandem OLED display for laptops that can reach 1,600 nits peak brightness

A couple of weeks ago, VESA introduced a new top-level certification for displays called DisplayHDR True Black 1400, which increases the brightness requirement by 40% compared to the previous top standard (you guessed it, it’s up to 1,400 nits now). Samsung just announced that its new OLED display has earned this certification and that it is already supplying panels to laptop manufacturers. The certification requires that black pixels remain at 0.0005 nits or lower while white pixels blast out 1,400 nits at 10% On Pixel Ratio (i.e. 10% of screen pixels are showing white, the rest are...

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 6 details leak, here's what to expect

Qualcomm is working on a new chipset with the model number SM4875, and details about it have now been leaked. This is expected to be called Snapdragon 4 Gen 6, and thus will obviously be the successor to the Snapdragon 4 Gen 5, which was unveiled back in May. The Snapdragon 4 Gen 6 comes with a very similar configuration of its CPU to that of the Snapdragon 4 Gen 5. It uses two Kryo Gold cores and six Kryo Silver cores. Unfortunately the leaked diagram you can see below doesn't show the clock speeds. The Snapdragon 4 Gen 6's GPU is now the Adreno 6 series (compared to the Adreno 4...

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Oppo A7 Pro Max is coming soon with a 10,000mAh battery

A new leak suggests Oppo is gearing up to launch its A7 series of smartphones. The leak also reveals the key specifications of one of the lineup's rumored models, the Oppo A7 Pro Max. Tipster Digital Chat Station shared the alleged specs of the Oppo A7 Pro Max in a post on Weibo. The phone is tipped to be Oppo's first to pack a 10,000mAh battery, corroborating an earlier leak from June. Oppo A6 Pro According to the leak, the Oppo A7 Pro Max will sport a 6.78-inch flat AMOLED display with a 120Hz refresh rate and 1.5K resolution. The smartphone is tipped to be powered by the...

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