Month: January 2025
Emilia Pérez’s record-breaking Oscar nominations lead isn’t something I predicted for the Netflix dark comedy
The announcement of the 2025 Oscar nominees marks the countdown to the biggest and most respected awards ceremony in entertainment, and although I had a strong idea of which new movies would be nominated (thanks to the 2025 Golden Globe awards) that’s not saying that I wasn’t left bewildered beyond…
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Samsung’s thin, big, boring AI phones
Samsung’s new phones will almost certainly be the most popular Android phones of 2025. They’ll probably also be among the best Android phones of 2025. And yet the Unpacked event this week felt like one of the most boring phone launches… ever. Are we entering a new phase of the…
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PayPal fined by New York for cybersecurity failures
PayPal has been fined $2 million for cybersecurity failures New York State Department of Financial Services fine follows a 2022 data breach DFS says PayPal failed to properly train workers on security practices Regulators in New York have issued a $2 million fine to financial service giant PayPal over cybersecurity…
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Microsoft is closing its British flagship store in London
Microsoft says it’s shutting down its UK “experience center” in London next month, nearly six years after it first opened as a 21,000-square-foot Microsoft store. “To better align with its focus on digital growth, Microsoft has decided to exit the lease at the Microsoft Experience Centre in London early,” says…
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Curvy sides, flat edges: The Galaxy S25 and the arbitrary shape of smartphones
This year, Samsung unified the design language of its S-series flagships, making the S25, S25+ and the S25 Ultra look and feel the same (barring the camera). The curving sides of the S24 Ultra are finally gone, replaced with the solid, squared-off lines seen on the cheaper Galaxy S handsets.…
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The Morning After: Everything Samsung announced this week (and future devices teased)
Welcome to a new newsletter, with a bit of a new direction. While our mid-week edition tackles news specifics, this end-of-the-week missive combines the biggest news with more context, more things to read and watch, recommendations, easter eggs, inside baseball and stuff that interests our readers, alongside the breaking news,…
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