Back in August, insiders claimed that the Exynos 2700 beat Qualcomm’s next flagship chips in internal testing. Those Snapdragons have since become official, and Samsung has reportedly put its upcoming chip up against them once again. The Exynos 2700 is expected to power at least some models in the Galaxy S27 series, which should arrive…
A hunt for a runaway thief turns into a fight for survival in upcoming Apple TV thriller “Sacrament.” The Apple TV logo Apple Original Films is developing “Sacrament,” a thriller starring “F1” actor Damson Idris. Jonathan Levine is attached to direct, while Idris will also produce. As Deadline notes, the film follows two Chicago cops-turned-contractors,…
Chance Miller, 9to5Mac: Here is Apple’s full statement: The response to iPhone Duo from early users has been incredibly positive, and we are seeing exciting things from developers who are rapidly updating their apps to take advantage of its unique form factor. We are aware of an issue impacting the inner display on a small…
Now that you have implemented Android AppFunctions, how to conditionally make them available? What a cool droid. Generated with Gemini Nano Banana. If you haven’t yet played around with adding Android AppFunctions to your app, check out my blog post to get started, and get testing! Just note, as of writing this article (October 2026), the…
Material You fundamentally changed how Android apps look and feel. Instead of enforcing a fixed brand palette, apps can now adapt their UI colors dynamically based on the user’s wallpaper, system theme, and preferences — while still preserving brand identity and accessibility. This article explains how Material You (Material 3) works today, how dynamic color actually behaves…
A FinTech mobile platform is not just a mobile app connected to a backend. It is a distributed trust system. The mobile app sits in the least trusted environment. The backend owns business truth. The platform layer decides how traffic is admitted, observed, throttled, audited, and recovered. Security cannot live only in the mobile app, scalability…
Authentication in a mobile application is often described as a simple sequence: the user logs in, receives a token, and sends that token with subsequent API requests. That explanation is technically correct but architecturally incomplete. A production mobile session spans several independently changing systems: A mobile application that may remain installed for years An access credential with…
Deepgram for ears, a small LLM with tools for the brain, a native audio engine for the mouth. How a kiosk takes a full order by voice, and why the echo canceller lost. You know this one. You pull up to the drive-thru speaker. It crackles. “Welcome, what can I get you?” You order a burger,…
Political campaign texts are relentless ahead of Election Day, with fundraising appeals piling up in Messages. One iPhone setting can silence their alerts without forcing you to block each unfamiliar number. Political texts plague everyone Blocking a number doesn’t help much when the next fundraising appeal arrives from a different one. Political fundraising groups even…
The iPhone Duo now supports the Apple Pencil (USB-C). It’s been just six weeks since iOS and iPadOS 27 were released, but Apple just introduced version 27.2, which packs a surprisingly long list of new features, some of which were first announced back in June at WWDC, while others support the iPhone Duo. Let’s take…