Samsung’s Galaxy S25 Edge is $1,100 and skinny

Samsung’s long-teased Galaxy S25 Edge has arrived, method forward of the rumored iPhone Air. It’s a really S25-looking system, however the firm is pitching it as a design-centric addition to its, let’s admit, bulging S25 household. The S25 Edge’s physique is 5.8 millimeters (0.22 inches) thick if we ignore the digicam bump like everybody else does. Granted, it’s not an enormous bump.

Samsung says it engineered the lenses to be considerably thinner than these on the S25 Extremely whereas preserving the identical 200-megapixel digicam sensor. And there are solely two cameras on the again this time. Gasp! Sadly, Samsung has gone for an ultrawide secondary shooter quite than a telephoto, probably because of the handset’s dimension constraints.

This makes the S25 Edge the newest addition to the development of fewer cameras, becoming a member of the Pixel 9a, however for a really completely different $1,100. You possibly can try my first impressions and all of the essential specs in my hands-on. Are you prepared to deal with doable battery life decreases and fewer zoom in your smartphone digicam?

— Mat Smith

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Apple pushed iOS 18.5 to units on Monday, and the largest visible change is a brand new rainbow-shaded wallpaper in honor of Satisfaction Month. I’m honored. In any other case, it’s just a few minor tweaks and bug fixes.

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All you want is a Massive Hadron Collider.

Scientists with the European Group for Nuclear Analysis, higher generally known as CERN, have transformed lead into gold utilizing the Massive Hadron Collider (LHC). Not like the examples of transmutation we see in anime popular culture, scientists smashed subatomic particles collectively at ridiculously excessive speeds to govern lead’s bodily properties to turn out to be gold. Briefly. Lead atoms solely have three extra protons than gold atoms. The LHC causes the lead atoms to drop simply sufficient protons to turn out to be a gold atom for a fraction of a second — earlier than instantly fragmenting right into a bunch of particles.

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That’s a, not α.

That is the place Deputy Editor Nathan Ingraham decries one in every of Apple’s newest design quirks. For over 600 phrases. Apple’s resolution to make use of α as an alternative of a in its Notice App has acquired him mad.

We’ve reached out to verify if he’s OK.

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