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iPhone Fold rumors: Everything we know so far Feb 04, 2026

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We're tracking all of the rumors about Apple's foldable phone, including when it could launch and possible price.

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An AI powered mobile app to integrate your family's health data, the next gen X-Box will arrive in 2027, and Apple just made Xcode better for vibe coding Feb 04, 2026

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-he Luffu mobile app "uses AI quietly in the background" to collect and organize family health information. But the definition of family isn't limited to parents raising children. The company sees its tool as especially valuable for caregivers in their 40s and 50s who may be managing the needs of both aging parents and kids. It even tracks pets' health habits.

-Microsoft could launch the next-generation Xbox console sometime in 2027.

-Apple has just released Xcode 26.3, and it's a big step forward in terms of the company's support of coding agents.

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Apple is already thinking about its second foldable iPhone Feb 03, 2026

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The latest Power On newsletter from Bloomberg hints at an Apple competitor to Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip series.

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X's Paris HQ raided by French prosecutors, Firefox will soon offer a way to block all of its generative AI features, and a developer turned Wikipedia into a social media-style feed Feb 03, 2026

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-The searches are part of an investigation that has been ongoing for nearly a year over the functioning of X’s algorithms that are “likely to have distorted the operation of an automated data processing system,” investigators said at the time.

-On February 24, or possibly earlier, Mozilla will roll out Firefox 148, which will include an AI controls section in the desktop browser settings. From here, you’ll be able to block current and future generative AI features, or only enable select tools.

-Developer Lyra Rebane created Xikipedia, a social media-style feed of Wikipedia entries. The web app algorithmically displays info from Simple Wikipedia

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SpaceX wants to launch a constellation of a million satellites to power AI needs Feb 02, 2026

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In a recent filing, Elon Musk's aerospace company requested to build an "orbital data center" that relies on solar power.

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NASA used Claude to plot a route for Perseverance on Mars, Apple now lets you build a new Mac exactly the way you want, and Indonesia lifted its ban on Grok Feb 02, 2026

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-In December, Perseverance successfully completed a route through a section of the Jezero crater plotted by Anthropic's Claude chatbot, marking the first time NASA has used a large language model to plot a course for the car-sized robot.

-You now select each spec of your new Mac device when purchasing through the website. As first spotted by MacWorld, Apple updated its online configuration tool for purchasing a Mac.

-Grok is once again available in Indonesia, after the country lifted its ban on the AI chatbot that was seen generating millions of sexualized deepfakes, thousands of which included children.

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Honda vehicles used to proactively report road safety issues in nation-first pilot Jan 30, 2026

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The project covered 3,000 miles of road in Ohio.

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Amazon discovered a 'high volume' of CSAM in its AI training data but isn't saying where it came from ... and more Tech News Jan 30, 2026

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-The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children said it received more than 1 million reports of AI-related child sexual abuse material (CSAM) last year.

-A few major publications have begun blocking the nonprofit Internet Archives access to their content based on concerns that AI companies' bots are using the Internet Archive's collections to indirectly scrape their articles.

-The Chinese government has given DeepSeek its approval to purchase NVIDIA’s H200 AI chips.

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Google brings its Nano Banana image generator to Chrome Jan 29, 2026

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The company is also previewing a new auto browse feature.

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Tesla killing off its Model S and X cars to make robots, Mark Zuckerberg says Reality Labs will (eventually) stop losing so much money, and Patreon creators have to switch to subscription billing by November Jan 29, 2026

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-Tesla will “basically stop the production” of its Model S and X electric vehicles next quarter. So says CEO Elon Musk, who made that announcement at the automaker’s earnings call for the 2025 fiscal year. You can still buy the vehicles as long as there are units to be sold, and Tesla promises to support them for as long as people have them.

-Mark Zuckerberg says there's an end in sight to Reality Labs' years of multibillion-dollar losses following the company's layoffs to the metaverse division earlier this year.

-Patreon creators will need to make some changes soon, thanks to Apple. On Wednesday, Patreon said Apple has renewed its requirement that all Patreon creators must move to subscription billing.

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