The Anker 511 Nano 3 is a small USB charger that delivers 30 watts of power, enough for phones, tablets, and some laptops. It is compact, reliable, safe, and currently available at a discounted price of $12.34 on Amazon Prime Day.
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The Anker 511 Nano 3 charger is very small and lightweight, with folding prongs for easy storage.
It delivers 30 watts of power, which is higher than many chargers its size that only offer 20 watts.
The charger can maintain 30 watts for 30 minutes and 20 watts for an hour without overheating.
It supports four different voltages and a standard called programmable power supply, allowing it to charge many devices quickly.
The charger has a TÜV Rheinland safety certification, meaning it has been tested by a trusted lab for safety.
Its regular price is $19.99 but is discounted to $12.34 during Amazon Prime Day.
It comes in multiple colors like lilac purple, misty blue, and natural green.
The charger is suitable for everyday use and easy to carry in bags, pockets, or car compartments.
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Apple is raising the prices of some MacBooks and iPads around the world because the cost of memory and storage chips has gone up sharply. The increase is linked to high demand for chips used in AI data centers, which is affecting prices across the electronics industry.
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Apple raised prices on certain MacBooks and iPads by up to 20%.
The price increase is due to rising costs for memory and storage chips.
Demand for chips used in artificial intelligence (AI) data centers has surged.
This surge has created a supply and demand imbalance, pushing prices higher.
The MacBook Pro with 1 terabyte of storage rose from $1,699 to $1,999 in the US.
The Neo laptop price in the UK increased from £599 to £699 shortly after launch.
Apple’s CEO Tim Cook said price hikes were “unavoidable” given memory chip issues.
Other companies, like Valve, are also increasing product prices due to higher costs.
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Rockstar Games opened pre-orders for Grand Theft Auto VI, set to release on November 19 for PS5 and Xbox Series S/X. The game will only be available as a digital download at launch, with no physical disc, and will launch as a single-player experience without an updated GTA Online mode.
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Grand Theft Auto VI pre-orders began at midnight, five months before release.
The game price is $80 in the US, £70 in the UK, and €80 in Europe; an Ultimate Edition costs more and includes extra in-game items and stores.
Buyers will receive a Vintage Vice City pack with 1980s-themed clothing and items.
There will be no physical discs at launch; store copies come with download codes instead.
The lack of physical discs helps prevent early leaks and may save manufacturing costs.
GTA VI will initially be a single-player game without the updated multiplayer GTA Online mode.
The game is set in a fictional Florida-like state called Leonida and includes the returning Vice City location.
Rockstar has faced delays, leaks, and legal issues related to firing employees who tried to unionize.
Industry experts expect GTA VI to sell 40 million units in its first year, surpassing GTA V’s first-year sales.
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Apple increased the prices of many of its products, including Macs and iPads, citing higher memory costs. Memory prices have risen due to supply shortages and a shift in focus by chipmakers toward data center needs.
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Apple raised prices on several Mac models by $100 to $1,300.
The entry-level MacBook Neo price went up from $599 to $699.
The iMac price increased from $1,299 to $1,499.
An M5 MacBook Pro price rose from $1,699 to $1,999.
The M3 Ultra Mac Studio, with 96GB memory, saw a $1,300 increase, now costing $5,299.
iPad prices increased by $100 to $200, depending on the model.
Smaller price hikes occurred for Apple TV and HomePod products.
Apple CEO Tim Cook said rising memory costs are causing these unavoidable price increases.
Chipmakers focus more on memory for data centers, reducing supply for consumer devices.
Apple removed a high-memory (512GB) M3 Ultra Mac option from sale in March.
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Samsung announced the Galaxy A27 5G, releasing it in select markets starting July 3. The phone has a bigger, smoother screen, a new Qualcomm processor for better performance, improved software features, and comes in four colors.
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The Galaxy A27 5G has a 6.7-inch Full HD+ Super AMOLED screen with a 120Hz refresh rate.
It uses a Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 3 processor, replacing Samsung’s previous Exynos chip.
The phone offers 6GB or 8GB of RAM and storage options of 128GB or 256GB, with microSD support up to 2TB.
The rear camera setup includes a 50MP main camera, a 5MP ultra-wide, and a 2MP macro lens; the front camera is 12MP.
It has a 5,000mAh battery with 25W fast charging and runs Android 16 with Samsung’s One UI 8.5.
The phone has an IP64 dust and splash resistance rating, lower than the previous model’s IP67.
Samsung promises six years of software updates and security patches for this phone.
The Galaxy A27 5G is priced from £319 for the 128GB version and £379 for 256GB.
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Russian authorities used phone-hacking tools made by the Israeli company Cellebrite on a political prisoner months after Cellebrite said it stopped working with Russia. An investigation found that these tools helped Russian officials get private information from the prisoner's phone to build criminal cases and track contacts.
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Russian authorities used Cellebrite’s phone-hacking tools on Andrei Pivovarov, a Russian political prisoner.
Cellebrite announced it had ended contracts with Russia months before the hacking took place.
The tools allowed Russian officials to access messages and contacts on apps like WhatsApp and Viber.
Information taken from Pivovarov’s phone was used in legal cases and to target his contacts.
Citizen Lab, a research group, confirmed with high confidence Cellebrite’s tools were used.
Cellebrite claims it aims to avoid misuse and highlights differences from other spyware companies.
Human rights investigators found Cellebrite did not deactivate the tools already sold to Russia.
Cellebrite holds rights to deactivate devices sold but has not done so with equipment in Russia.
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Astronomers discovered two giant planets that are extremely light, with densities lower than cotton candy. These planets orbit a star 1,110 light-years away and are the largest known planets with such low density.
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The two planets are called "super-puffs" because they are very large but very light.
They orbit a star in the southern sky constellation called Volans, or "flying fish."
The planets have densities similar to shaving foam, much lighter than Jupiter, which is 35 times denser.
One planet takes 139 days and the other 232 days to circle their star.
They are likely made mainly of hydrogen and helium gases.
NASA's TESS satellite detected these planets, and future observations by the Webb Space Telescope will study their composition.
Super-puffs are rare; fewer than 40 are known among over 6,300 planets found outside our solar system.
Understanding these planets helps scientists learn how giant planets form in space.
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IBM announced a new chip technology that could make computer chips run 50% faster and use much less power. The new design stacks transistors in layers, which is a big change from current chip designs, but the technology will take about five years to be ready for production.
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IBM’s new technology is called "0.7-nanometer" and packs nearly 100 billion transistors on a chip the size of a fingernail.
This is almost twice as many transistors as current 2-nanometer chips made by companies like TSMC.
Smaller nanometer numbers mean more transistors can fit on a chip, leading to faster and more powerful computing.
The new chip design uses a three-dimensional structure called "nanostack," stacking transistor layers to improve performance and energy efficiency.
The chip could deliver up to 50% better performance or 70% better energy efficiency compared to IBM’s 2-nanometer chips.
IBM’s new chips also improve SRAM memory by 40%, which is important for faster short-term data access in devices.
IBM expects the technology to be ready for manufacturing in about five years but does not produce chips itself.
IBM licenses its designs to other companies, like Japan’s Rapidus, for chip production.
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Fanatics Sportsbook will be the first U.S. sports betting company to work with ProhiBet Bad Actors. This system uses artificial intelligence (AI) and investigation methods to find and identify people who send abusive messages to athletes on social media.
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Fanatics Sportsbook is a sports betting company in the U.S.
It is partnering with ProhiBet Bad Actors, a tool to fight online abuse.
ProhiBet Bad Actors uses artificial intelligence to spot abusive behavior on social media.
The system also uses investigative techniques to identify the people responsible.
This partnership aims to stop harassment and protect athletes from online abuse.
Fanatics Sportsbook will ban bettors who harass athletes.
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IBM has created a new design for computer chips that fits nearly 100 billion tiny switches called transistors on a chip the size of a fingernail. This chip technology uses a 0.7 nanometer scale, smaller than the current standard of 2 nanometers, aiming to improve chip power and energy use, but it may take several years before it is ready for use.
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IBM's new chip design uses a scale of about 0.7 nanometers, smaller than the current 2-nanometer chips on the market.
The prototype chip has nearly 100 billion transistors on a tiny silicon surface about the size of a fingernail.
Testing shows the new chip is 50% faster and 70% more energy efficient than IBM’s 2-nanometer chip.
The design stacks transistors in layers, like a tall building instead of spreading them flat, to fit more on a small chip.
This approach is called NanoStack and was described as a major step forward by IBM’s research director.
Transistors are the tiny switches that control electrical signals and determine how powerful and efficient a chip is.
Making chips smaller and stacking transistors in 3D helps keep improving performance even as traditional chip shrinking faces limits.
Challenges with 3D chips include managing heat and ensuring layers don’t interfere with how transistors switch off.
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IBM has developed a new chip design called the "nanostack" architecture that can fit nearly 100 billion transistors on a chip the size of a fingernail. This design, called the world’s first sub-1 nanometer chip technology, promises much better computing power and energy efficiency for artificial intelligence (AI) data centers.
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IBM’s new chip can hold almost 100 billion transistors on a tiny chip about the size of a fingernail.
The chip uses a sub-1 nanometer (0.7 nanometer) technology, which is called the 7 angstrom node.
The "nanostack" technology stacks transistors vertically to pack more into the same space.
Each transistor is made of three nanosheets, each about 5 nanometers thick, separated by 9 nanometers.
IBM says this chip design can improve computer performance by 50% or increase energy efficiency by 70% compared to their previous 2-nanometer chips.
The new design also offers a 40% improvement in memory scaling for SRAM, important for AI tasks.
These advancements were presented at the 2025 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits in Japan.
The improvements could help overcome physical limits that have made shrinking chip features more difficult in recent years.
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Tech companies like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Nvidia are addressing concerns about their data centers’ water use as part of the growing AI industry. They are promoting efforts to reduce and manage water consumption, such as recycling water and using new cooling methods. Public worries about water and energy use are influencing policies and debates worldwide.
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Major tech companies are working to explain and reduce water use in AI data centers.
Google, Amazon, and Microsoft have water replenishment projects and use recycled water for cooling.
Nvidia says its new technology can greatly reduce water concerns.
About 70% of U.S. people oppose data centers in their communities mainly due to water and energy use.
Virginia lawmakers are moving to restrict water-heavy cooling methods in data centers.
Data centers use less water overall than many other big industries.
Experts warn that local water use matters most, especially in drought areas.
Water cooling uses less electricity than air cooling, but uses more water, creating a tradeoff.
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AI tools called Codex are being used more for doing tasks automatically at work and home. While most people still talk to chatbots, some users are increasingly letting these AI agents handle complex jobs like managing calendars and writing code.
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Codex is an AI platform by OpenAI designed to perform work tasks automatically.
OpenAI employees use Codex for nearly all their AI tasks, while outside groups and individuals use it less.
The share of non-OpenAI organizations using Codex rose from almost zero in August 2025 to about 17% in early 2026.
Among individual Codex users, many delegate work equal to over 30 minutes to more than eight hours of human work.
Non-developers (people who don't code professionally) are the fastest-growing users of Codex, though coding remains the main use.
Since early 2026, agents like Codex have started managing desktop files, calendars, browsers, and running scripts for users.
Less than 1% of daily active users on ChatGPT or Codex plans currently use Codex.
Users report that AI agents reduce mental effort, helping them start tasks sooner and worry less about unfamiliar work.
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Rockstar Games will release Grand Theft Auto 6 (GTA 6) on November 19, 2026, for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S. The game features two playable characters, including the series’ first female protagonist, and is set in a fictional version of Florida called Leonida, with the city Vice City returning.
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GTA 6 will launch on November 19, 2026, after two previous delays.
Players can pre-order the game starting June 25, 2026, with pre-loading available from November 12.
The game will cost £69.99 in the UK and $79.99 in the US; an ultimate edition costs more and includes extra in-game items.
Physical editions will include a digital download code instead of a disc.
The game is planned for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S; no PC or Nintendo Switch 2 versions have been announced.
GTA 6 will feature two main playable characters: Lucia (the first female lead in the series) and Jason.
The story involves a crime adventure set in Leonida, Rockstar’s version of Florida, with Vice City as the main city.
Development costs are estimated to exceed $1 billion, possibly making it the most expensive game ever made.
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The Scouts have introduced new badges for 14- to 18-year-olds focused on digital skills like content creation, digital communication, and online safety. These badges reflect young people's desire to learn about AI and digital life and aim to teach responsible use of technology.
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Nearly 3,000 teenagers helped shape the new Explorer Scout badges.
The badges cover how digital communities influence opinion and how to create positive online content.
One badge focuses on understanding digital footprints and the impact of social media.
Another badge requires designing safety resources to manage online risks.
The Scout program has not been updated in nearly 25 years.
The changes address current digital challenges and future skills, including AI understanding.
Scouts will update badge guidance if the government enacts social media restrictions for teens under 16.
Young Scouts said they are not learning enough about positive uses of AI in school.
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A UK company called VolcanoTech has developed a low-cost sensor to detect volcanic eruptions by measuring sulphur dioxide gas levels. Their device uses a modified smartphone camera and a small computer to monitor volcanic gases, making early warnings more affordable for communities at risk.
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Rising magma releases sulphur dioxide gas, which can signal a volcanic eruption.
VolcanoTech created a device called Pi-cam that uses a smartphone camera altered to see ultraviolet light.
The Pi-cam measures the brightness of this ultraviolet light to detect sulphur dioxide levels.
The system uses a Raspberry Pi, a small and inexpensive computer, to analyze the data.
Their sensor networks cost much less than traditional volcanic gas detection systems.
VolcanoTech’s sensors are already installed in Ecuador, Chile, Mexico, and Indonesia.
There are plans to install sensors in Costa Rica and Argentina soon.
Such affordable sensor networks could improve monitoring of both air quality and volcanic activity worldwide.
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US AI company Anthropic has accused Chinese tech firm Alibaba of illegally copying its Claude AI model’s abilities by making millions of fake interactions. Anthropic says this copying method, called "distillation attacks," helps rivals steal and reuse their AI technology, and it asked the US government to take action against such practices.
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Anthropic alleges Alibaba-linked groups made nearly 29 million fake exchanges with its Claude AI using thousands of fraudulent accounts.
This activity is called "distillation attacks," where answers from a powerful AI are used to train a weaker AI.
The attacks targeted Claude’s best features, like handling complex tasks and decision-making skills.
Anthropic believes these attacks give Chinese companies free access to US AI advancements.
The company sent a letter on June 10 to US Senators Tim Scott and Elizabeth Warren about these concerns.
The US Department of Defense claims Alibaba and other Chinese firms have ties to the Chinese military, which Alibaba denies.
Alibaba recently sued the US government to remove its name from a Pentagon blacklist.
Other US AI firms like OpenAI have also accused Chinese groups of stealing AI technology through similar attacks.
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China’s government-backed SpaceSail project is building a satellite internet system to compete with Elon Musk’s Starlink. SpaceSail has launched about 200 satellites so far and plans to expand its network to over 15,000 satellites to provide global broadband internet.
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SpaceSail is run by Shanghai Spacecom Satellite Technology (SSST), funded by the Chinese government and related organizations.
The project aims to offer high-speed, secure internet worldwide and support national security and overseas Chinese interests.
SpaceSail first launched satellites in August 2024 and has since sent up multiple groups, reaching around 200 satellites in orbit.
It plans to start commercial services soon, such as tracking ships at sea, and expand to 648 satellites by the end of 2026.
The ultimate goal is to have more than 15,000 satellites for full global coverage, with over 10,000 satellites expected by 2030.
Starlink currently operates over 10,400 satellites and serves more than 12 million users in 160 countries.
SpaceSail targets regions where Starlink has faced political or regulatory challenges.
SpaceSail also faces competition in China from SatNet, another state-owned company developing a similar satellite internet network.
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The United States is leading an international agreement called the Pax Silica Accord. This agreement aims to reduce dependence on China for important materials used in making advanced computer chips that power AI technology.
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The Pax Silica Accord is an international agreement focused on artificial intelligence supply chains.
It targets essential materials needed to make high-end computer chips.
These chips are important for running advanced AI models.
The goal is to reduce the West’s reliance on China for these materials.
The effort is led by the United States.
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The new Grand Theft Auto VI game will cost $80 at launch, higher than most current big-budget ("AAA") games that usually cost $70. The physical version will not have a disc but a download code, and the more expensive "Ultimate Edition" will include extra in-game items and cost $99. The game will release its single-player mode first, with online features coming later.
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Grand Theft Auto VI (GTA6) will launch on November 19 for PlayStation and Xbox consoles.
The physical copy will be a box with a download code, not a disc.
Base price for the game is $80, above the usual $70 for big AAA games.
The "Ultimate Edition" costs $99 and includes exclusive vehicles, weapons, clothes, and other story-related items.
The game will release its single-player mode first; multiplayer and online features will come later.
Analysts have expected GTA6 to be priced higher than previous games due to its size and development cost.
The game will likely have additional income from subscriptions and in-game purchases after launch.
A PC version will be released later but does not have a confirmed date yet.
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