Apple says iPhone 18 Pro Max phones that lost service on AT&T must be replaced because software cannot reactivate them. Its iOS 27.0.1 release and a new AT&T carrier settings file are meant only to keep working phones from failing.
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AT&T texted iPhone 18 Pro Max owners to install iOS 27.0.1 immediately, warning that some phones may be unable to complete calls, including to 911. Teams managing those phones can install it for the fixes Apple documented while keeping the cellular fault logged as unresolved.
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Meta VR Glasses go on sale in Spring 2027 at $1,300 with the densest display the company has shipped, a horizontal view 40 degrees narrower than Quest 3's, and no controllers included in the box.
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AT&T is texting affected iPhone 18 Pro Max owners to install iOS 27.0.1 because some phones may be unable to complete calls, texts or data, including to 911. Teams issuing the phones should install it before moving any eSIM, the setup step tied to some failures.
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Nuvacore is designing a significant part of its WarpCore data-center CPU before choosing between Arm, RISC-V and x86. The startup gets to make the instruction-set decision later, though whichever one it picks still has to shape the front end and parts of the rest of the core.
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Microsoft is shipping its new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop without the Copilot+ PC name, though their 80 TOPS NPUs double the label's 40 TOPS requirement. Buyers who shopped by the badge now have to check NPU, memory and storage specs themselves.
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Qualcomm renewed its global patent license with Apple from April 1, 2027, and neither company disclosed the terms. Apple's C-series modems are pushing Qualcomm chips out of iPhones, but the patent payments sit on a separate contract that keeps running.
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Microsoft has stopped calling new PCs Copilot+ even when they clear the old bar of a 40 TOPS NPU and 16GB of RAM, Surface CVP Brett Ostrum said. Buying specs that used the name as shorthand for that hardware now have to state the NPU and memory figures themselves.
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Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2 adds camera support, an NPU Qualcomm says has up to twice the AI capability of the last part, and the first micro-power Wi-Fi 6E in a headphone chip, so a bud can reach a service on its own.
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The second-generation tablet moves to Qualcomm's six-core Snapdragon X2 Plus with a cellular option and a brighter screen, and it now starts at $1,150. The keyboard and Slim Pen are still sold separately.
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Reuters says Samsung lifted SF4, SF5 and 8nm prices in July as TSMC's advanced nodes filled up, with Chinese customers paying the most. Analysts now see the loss-making foundry breaking even.
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Meta's $1,299.99 VR Glasses weigh about 100 grams with the computing in a tethered puck, and they do not ship until spring 2027. A $149.99 FDA-cleared hearing aid activation arrives this year.
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Contract assemblers have warned of increases above 15% on Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell systems shipping from early next year. Every AI capacity budget written before that is now short.
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Memory tagging and secure element maturity, not brand, now set the qualifying list; the first Motorola devices land in 2027, priced above a Pixel line that starts at $900.
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Qualcomm's Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2 chip lets earbuds and other wearables host apps and act on voice requests without a smartphone connection. Its always-on assistant also profiles the wearer's surroundings from audio and, on camera buds, video, at a battery cost Qualcomm has not quantified.
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The iPhone 18 Pro can apply the Cinematic look to video that was shot plain, which takes a choice off the shot list, while the aperture Apple sold on stage mostly picks itself unless you go into Pro mode.
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Meta's VR glasses weigh 100 grams to the Quest 3's 515 and run the full Quest catalog off a phone-sized compute puck, Gizmodo reports. XR teams keep their Quest apps but now have to design for a 70-degree field of view and for input by hand and eye.
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Valve opened Steam Frame reservations at $1,059, and its engineers say standalone play runs the same SteamOS as the Deck on a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, with Proton and PC streaming absorbing the compatibility work.
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The Wall Street Journal puts the price above $300 million for software that replaces a phone's tuned camera pipeline with one network trained per module, already shipping in Honor's 600 series. OpenAI's optics decisions now come first.
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Qualcomm launched two 2nm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 phone chips in Maui and pitched them for on-device AI agents, with an NPU up to 35% faster. The standard chip's NPU gains 14%, so agents meant for the widest set of phones get the smaller jump.
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