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Valve has put Achievement Sets in the Steam client beta, splitting base-game and DLC achievements into separate sets. Each game needs a developer update first; Valve's list of supporting games, as The Verge printed it, has 17 titles.
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Opera relaunched Air with no Speed Dials and notifications off by default, plus a built-in sound player and break exercises. Opera says the browser has no less utility than others, so the change is in what shows up first.
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Apple's Get Ready tool opened October 12 so iPhone Duo buyers can pick model, color, storage and carrier before pre-orders start October 16. Engadget warns that waiting for the window could delay delivery of a phone that ships October 23.
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Apple's iPhone Duo costs $1,999 and has no telephoto lens or variable aperture, Engadget reports. Whether its outer-screen camera modes make up for that depends on what the buyer actually shoots.
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Apple's $1,999 iPhone Duo and Xiaomi's 10,999-yuan 18 Fold use the same 7.6-inch and 5.4-inch screens, Engadget's spec comparison shows. Engadget says they part ways on cameras, software, price and availability, and that neither phone has had an in-depth review yet.
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OpenAI's Dots agents are unavailable at launch to Pro subscribers in the EU, the UK and four other European countries. Engadget reports Business Premium customers get them wherever ChatGPT is offered, so the gap sits with Pro.
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OpenAI's cheapest individual plan for a Dot costs $100 a month, five times Meta's $20 Muse Power tier, Engadget reports. Training defaults and regional limits differ too, and those are the settings a rollout owner answers for.
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Apple's iOS 27 Siri can read content from any app that lets Spotlight index it, and users can block each app with a single toggle. For app teams, a Spotlight setting now also decides what an assistant can read back to users.
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Google has launched Motion Assist, its answer to Apple's 2024 Vehicle Motion Cues, for Android 17 phones. Because auto-start may not notice a moving car, Google recommends a Quick Settings tile, so plan any rollout around the tile.
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Freckle's $199 phone for kids aged 7 to 13 has no app store or open web and only calls contacts parents approve. Its map, walkie-talkie and tap-to-pay make the case against a cellular watch mainly where children already walk on their own.
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Engadget's hands-on calls Ember's third-generation Mug 3 a tough sell at $150. Its heater keeps a long drink hot from a full battery, so the purchase depends on how the owner charges it and how much they need the app.
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Used GPUs with plenty of VRAM keep 40 to 60 percent of their value while RTX 50-series prices climb as much as 39 percent, Engadget reports. For a team planning a refresh, the old card's sale price belongs in the budget, though few models sell above list.
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Engadget's reviewer spent part of a WhatsApp call with one of Meta's new holographic avatars before working out it was not a live person. Early access opens this fall on the VR glasses and the Ray-Ban Display frames.
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Discord's revised policy defaults every account to teen settings, and an internal model estimates age from tenure, device and activity, with face scans and ID uploads held back for the accounts it cannot classify.
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Autonomous vehicle safety cases rest on crash comparisons with human drivers, but exclusive OSHA data reported by TechCrunch carries a second injury count: the sprains and whiplash logged by the test drivers training the cars.
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A maxed 256GB Mac Studio has gone from $7,499 to $11,299 in 18 months, and the reported rise in LPDDR5X prices explains under a third of that. Anyone refreshing a local-inference box needs both numbers.
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Apple's iOS 27 Handoff feature puts one phone number on two iPhones. It works only where the carrier has implemented it, and so far T-Mobile in the US and Telekom in Germany are the only two that have said yes.
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Engadget says SpaceXAI's agent signs into Gmail, LinkedIn and Salesforce and acts for the user, with eligibility running through six individual paid tiers. The only brake described is a human-approval setting.
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The AP30 Music Boy, a Game Boy-styled hi-res player from HIDIZS, took HK$3,954,885 in pledges on a HK$40,000 target. The device sold as a break from the phone also reads e-books and plays Snake.
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Sony and UMG argue that a licensed retrain does not clear what Suno's older models left behind in user preference data and distilled behavior. A Massachusetts federal court now has to rule on that.
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