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The foldable iPhone is here. It still faces a big question: Will shoppers pay $1,999 (and as much as $3,199) for one?Apple unveiled the long-awaited iPhone Duo on Wednesday during its “Surprise and Shine” event. The book-style foldable opens to a 7.6-inch inner display and has a 5.4-inch outer screen,…
Consulting firms moved quickly to make AI part of employees’ working lives. Now they are confronting the cost of using it at scale.One of McKinsey’s strategies for managing rising costs isn’t to cap consultants’ use of AI but to let them know when they’re using too much.The firm tracks consumption…
Getting fired after a reorganization at his firm wasn’t ideal, but Marty Yabrow and his wife, Angie, wanted to make the best of it, so in 2024 they booked a three-city trip to Europe. Then, one morning while Marty was filling out a planning spreadsheet with hotels and restaurants, Angie…
Pawel Szydlowski was spooked after he saw videos of people using smart glasses to record and identify unsuspecting strangers.So the 30-year-old Polish software developer created an app that he says can detect nearby smart glasses and estimate their distance.”There’s a need for such an application,” he told Business Insider.The app,…
President Donald Trump promised every adult US citizen a $5,000 payment if Republicans win both chambers of Congress in November, dangling a cash incentive as he urged supporters to treat the midterm elections like another presidential race.Speaking at the Republican Party’s midterm convention in Dallas on Wednesday, Trump unveiled what…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s corporate jet was threatened by a drone as he prepared to fly from Moldova to Oslo, according to Norway’s prime minister.”His plane was almost hit by a drone as it took off in Moldova. That’s his reality,” Jonas Gahr Støre told local broadcaster NRK on Wednesday.Støre…
For the first time in 15 years, a new CEO took the stage at Apple’s big fall event. Taking a page out of Steve Jobs’ book, John Ternus announced “one more thing” — Apple’s first foldable phone.Ternus, a “product guy” who previously led Apple’s hardware team, took over for Tim…
Anthropic has a new blog post that shows yet another way its AI model, Claude, misbehaved in ways that the company didn’t anticipate.And to help condense its nearly 16,000-word report, the company created a cute little robot figurine to help visualize Claude’s so-called “recklessness.”In the blog post published Wednesday, Anthropic…
Apple’s new iPhone 18 model offers better battery life, camera capabilities, and performance than its predecessor, the company said. It comes in four colors: black, silver, glacier, and burgundy.Available in two models, the Pro and Pro Max, the devices can be preordered on September 12, with availability beginning September 18.In…
The threat of Russian drones is keeping Ukrainian troops stuck near the front for longer stretches and forcing the military to think more about how it delivers medical care to soldiers who can’t easily leave.For one Ukrainian military unit that specializes in front-line casualty evacuation, the lesson is that battlefield…
