Flowtica Verso notetaker puts an e-paper screen on the back of your phone

At its heart, the Flowtica Verso is an AI voice recorder. It’s made of aluminum and weighs 98 grams, and has a 259 ...
MIT Technology Review

Kids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know why

People have been talking to each other for at least 100,000 years, as best we can tell. And in all that time, there has been only one thing in the world that could learn a human language to perfect ...
CNBC

For young Americans, the workplace is the new phoneless frontier. 'It allows us to hyper focus on the task at hand,' says employer

When Ronin Segrest, 17, began working at Ocean Oasis Water Park and Beach Club in Wildwood, New Jersey, in the summer of 2025, he'd long been looking forward to becoming a lifeguard. He just didn't ...
Business Insider

Parents are spending up to $19,000 on summer camps that ban their kids' phones

Emma Bobson spends four to six hours a day on her phone. At 13 years old, the middle schooler from Long Island, New York scrolls through TikTok searching shopping hauls, FaceTimes her friends to ...
Chicago Reader

The original pay-as-you-go phones

In 1901, the Chicago Telephone Company ran a newspaper ad promoting a technology it said would make its service available to “every resident of Chicago”: home pay phones. Known as nickel-in-the-slot ...
TechRepublic

Honor Launches Robot Phone in China With a 200MP Moving Camera

Honor’s Robot Phone features a 200-megapixel camera mounted on a motorized gimbal above the rear camera array. Image: HONOR Honor’s Robot Phone pairs a 200MP moving gimbal camera with flagship Android ...
CNET

Honor Has Radically Reinvented the Phone for the Robot Age. I Played With It, and It’s Wild

I attended the launch of Honor's Robot Phone in China. I'm so glad this bold device is actually going on sale. I played with the Robot Phone in China at its official launch. Katie Collins/CNET When ...
Seattle Times

Tech tip: Getting your phone’s dictionary to learn your favorite words

Your smartphone has a dictionary of the words you use. An iPhone remembers your frequently typed words, and you’ll see them in the predictive text portion of the keyboard. Android phones have ...
Yahoo

34,000 texts found on Fauci’s COVID-era phone, Sen. Johnson says

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (NewsNation) — A copy of Dr. Anthony Fauci's pandemic-era cellphone was handed over to a key investigative panel to uncover more ...
Android Authority

Google Messages makes one-handed use much easier with new rollout

Google Messages is expanding its server-side rollout of the floating context menu and selective text copying to more beta users. The redesigned floating menu places actions like Reply, Copy, Edit, ...
TechCrunch

ChatGPT brings unlimited text chats to free users

OpenAI is removing limits on text-based chats for all users on ChatGPT, which recently crossed the 1 billion weekly user mark, the company announced today. The new GPT-5.6 Luna model will power this ...
TheStreet

T-Mobile changes how customers can finance phone upgrades

T-Mobile is changing how customers finance new devices after previously saying it would scale back free phone deals and device subsidies. During an earnings call in February, T-Mobile CEO Srini ...