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Consumer Tech Apple Is Building AI Servers in Texas. That Matters More Than the Mac. Consumer Tech The Pixel Watch 5 Reports Your Blood Pressure and Insulin Resistance. It Measures Neither. Consumer Tech Apple Built a Second AI Model to Get Into China. It Is the First Foreigner Allowed One. Consumer Tech Gemini Reached a Billion People. Google Did Not Say How Many Pay. Consumer Tech ChatGPT Just Went Unlimited for Free Users. Read the Word "Text" Carefully. Consumer Tech Wetherspoon Did Not Ban Smart Glasses. It Banned Filming With Them. Consumer Tech Apple Is Building AI Servers in Texas. That Matters More Than the Mac. Consumer Tech The Pixel Watch 5 Reports Your Blood Pressure and Insulin Resistance. It Measures Neither. Consumer Tech Apple Built a Second AI Model to Get Into China. It Is the First Foreigner Allowed One. Consumer Tech Gemini Reached a Billion People. Google Did Not Say How Many Pay. Consumer Tech ChatGPT Just Went Unlimited for Free Users. Read the Word "Text" Carefully. Consumer Tech Wetherspoon Did Not Ban Smart Glasses. It Banned Filming With Them.

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A robotic arm on a manufacturing line, illustrating a report on Apple opening an advanced manufacturing centre in Houston.

Consumer Tech 8 min

Apple Is Building AI Servers in Texas. That Matters More Than the Mac.

Apple opened an Advanced Manufacturing Center in Houston with the Commerce Secretary in attendance. It is already shippi...

Amelia Wong

Pub. 16 Aug

A digital blood pressure monitor, the clinical instrument the Pixel Watch 5 estimates a trend for rather than replaces.

Consumer Tech 8 min

The Pixel Watch 5 Reports Your Blood Pressure and Insulin Resistance. It Measures Neither.

Google's new watch estimates blood pressure and insulin resistance from pulse, motion and sleep, returning a monthly tre...

Amelia Wong

Pub. 15 Aug

The Shanghai skyline at night, its towers lit against a dark sky above the river

Consumer Tech 7 min

Apple Built a Second AI Model to Get Into China. It Is the First Foreigner Allowed One.

The Cyberspace Administration has registered a generative AI service Apple built itself, with Alibaba alongside rather t...

Amelia Wong

Pub. 14 Aug

A hand holding a smartphone displaying a voice assistant listening screen, with a coffee cup blurred in the background

Consumer Tech 8 min

Gemini Reached a Billion People. Google Did Not Say How Many Pay.

Google's assistant crossed a billion monthly actives on 11 August. The composition is more interesting than the total: a...

Amelia Wong

Pub. 13 Aug

Seen over a shoulder, two hands hold a phone with a message thread open and the on-screen keyboard raised — illustrative of the text conversations whose limits have been lifted.

Consumer Tech 7 min

ChatGPT Just Went Unlimited for Free Users. Read the Word "Text" Carefully.

The message cap is gone for typing, a better model is behind it, and file uploads, images and voice all keep their limit...

Amelia Wong

Pub. 11 Aug

A pair of unbranded dark glasses folded on a wooden surface — illustrative; camera glasses are built to be indistinguishable from ordinary eyewear.

Consumer Tech 6 min

Wetherspoon Did Not Ban Smart Glasses. It Banned Filming With Them.

More than 800 pubs, and the rule is about the recording rather than the device. That distinction is more durable than th...

Amelia Wong

Pub. 11 Aug

A professional video camera and lenses arranged on a studio desk — illustrating the creators who must now clear double the threshold to earn.

Consumer Tech 5 min

YouTube Is Doubling What a New Creator Must Earn Before Earning

From February 2027, new applicants need 8,000 watch hours or 20 million Shorts views, double the current bars. The quiet...

Amelia Wong

Pub. 11 Aug

Mobile phone with no face detected message on lock screen on a textured fabric surface.

Consumer Tech 8 min

Singpass Now Has Passkeys. Four in Five Scams Do Not Steal Your Password

Singpass began supporting passkeys on 1 July. They remove credential theft entirely — and 81.8 per cent of Singapore sca...

Amelia Wong

Pub. 5 Aug

A lone memory module on an otherwise empty steel shelf in a dark warehouse — illustrating the supply squeeze pushing up phone prices.

Consumer Tech 6 min

RAM Went From $2.80 a Gigabyte to $12. Google's Next Phone Costs More and Carries Less of It

Google has confirmed price rises across the Pixel range, blaming memory costs. Leaked specifications point the other way...

Amelia Wong

Pub. 1 Aug

The Galaxy Z Flip8, Z Fold8 Ultra and Z Fold8 held in three hands, from Samsung’s launch imagery

Consumer Tech 7 min

Samsung's Galaxy Z8 Line-Up: the Fold8 Is Not the Fold7's Successor, and That Changes What You Pay

The Fold8 opens S$200 below last year's Fold7 — because it is a new shape, not the replacement. We put both generations...

Amelia Wong

Pub. 26 Jul

Consumer Tech News

Apple Is Building AI Servers in Texas. That Matters More Than the Mac.

The Pixel Watch 5 Reports Your Blood Pressure and Insulin Resistance. It Measures Neither.

Apple Built a Second AI Model to Get Into China. It Is the First Foreigner Allowed One.

Gemini Reached a Billion People. Google Did Not Say How Many Pay.

ChatGPT Just Went Unlimited for Free Users. Read the Word "Text" Carefully.

Wetherspoon Did Not Ban Smart Glasses. It Banned Filming With Them.

YouTube Is Doubling What a New Creator Must Earn Before Earning

Singpass Now Has Passkeys. Four in Five Scams Do Not Steal Your Password

RAM Went From $2.80 a Gigabyte to $12. Google's Next Phone Costs More and Carries Less of It

Samsung's Galaxy Z8 Line-Up: the Fold8 Is Not the Fold7's Successor, and That Changes What You Pay