News 18 October 2025 - 21 October 2025

Brambles Shares Up, U.S. Pallet Outlook Still in Focus
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Brambles Shares Up, U.S. Pallet Outlook Still in Focus

Brambles shares climbed in the latest session, doing better than the weaker local market as investors watched for signs the pallet-pooling company was addressing its U.S. repair delays. Brambles ended Wednesday at A$19.36, gaining 15 cents, or 0.8%. Shares fell to A$18.81 at the session low. The CHEP owner remains down 15.8% for the year. The S&P/ASX 200 closed 0.21% lower at 8,785.10.
July 9, 2026
OnePlus 15 teased: Mammoth 7,300mAh battery & 120W charging, Oct 27 launch & new purple color
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OnePlus 15 teased: Mammoth 7,300mAh battery & 120W charging, Oct 27 launch & new purple color

OnePlus has highlighted that the new battery and charging suite are aimed at gamers and power users. As Android Central explains, OnePlus’ marketing touts the 7,300mAh cell as part of its “Glacier Battery” tech to enable longer gaming sessions. The company states the pack is “designed to enhance its ‘ultra-high-frame-rate gaming’ experience” androidcentral.com. In its own Weibo teaser OnePlus described the OnePlus 15 as “designed for ultra-high-frame-rate gaming” with the 7,300 mAh cell and “120W Super Flash Charge” 9to5google.com. In short, the OnePlus 15 looks to set new endurance benchmarks. Hadlee Simons at Android Authority calls the jump to 7,300 mAh a “significant upgrade” over the 6,000 mAh OnePlus 13 battery, and even a “gigantic upgrade” over most rivals androidauthority.com.
October 21, 2025
Apple Stock Rockets to Record High as iPhone 17 Demand Explodes
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Apple Stock Rockets to Record High as iPhone 17 Demand Explodes

Early data confirm that iPhone 17 demand is unusually strong. In China, the iPhone 17 base model is “very compelling to consumers, offering great value for money,” Counterpoint Research’s Mengmeng Zhang tells analysts macrumors.com. She notes that Chinese buyers nearly doubled unit sales of the new $799 iPhone 17 during the equivalent 10-day launch window macrumors.com. In the U.S., AppleInsider reports that carriers have increased subsidies by about $100, effectively making the premium iPhone 17 Pro Max a more affordable upgrade. That helped drive the Pro Max to “lead early demand” stateside appleinsider.com. Altogether, Counterpoint finds the iPhone 17 lineup “far outpaces” last year’s models. Its report shows combined sales in the U.S. and China were about 14% higher than
October 21, 2025
Amazon AWS Cloud Crash Paralyzes Global Internet – Millions Left Stranded
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Amazon AWS Cloud Crash Paralyzes Global Internet – Millions Left Stranded

Amazon’s status updates detail the outage timeline. The company reported that between 11:49pm PT on Oct.19 and 2:24am Oct.20 it saw “increased error rates” in US-EAST-1 aboutamazon.com. Engineers identified a Domain Name System failure for the DynamoDB service and mitigated it by about 2:24am aboutamazon.com. In plain terms, many AWS applications lost the “phonebook entries” that tell them where to find their data. AWS Staff later explained that after fixing the DNS issue, services began recovering immediately, but some internal systems still lagged. They throttled certain operations to help everything stabilize. By early afternoon, Amazon said “all AWS services returned to normal operations” aboutamazon.com. Cybersecurity analysts note this was a configuration glitch, not a hack. Professor Oli Buckley of Loughborough
October 21, 2025
Technology News 21.10.2025
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Technology News 21.10.2025

ENDEDLive coverage has endedEnded: October 22, 2025, 12:02 AM EDT Ezee Fiber to Begin Three-Week Santa Fe Construction for High-Speed Internet Expansion October 21, 2025, 11:56 PM EDT. A Houston-based fiber internet provider, Ezee Fiber, is expanding into Santa Fe with a three-week construction project aimed at delivering high-speed connectivity to portions of Districts 1 and 2 by Thanksgiving. The plan, part of a multiphase expansion, was outlined at a La Fonda press conference with officials from the city and the New Mexico Office of Broadband Access and Expansion. City capital projects manager Sean Moody called it a very big
October 21, 2025
Huawei Mate X7 Leak: Ultra-Thin 7.95″ Foldable with 50MP Cameras & Kirin 9030 – Could It Dethrone Samsung?
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Huawei Mate X7 Leak: Ultra-Thin 7.95″ Foldable with 50MP Cameras & Kirin 9030 – Could It Dethrone Samsung?

Leaked renders suggest the Mate X7 will come in five finishes: Feather Black, White, Silver, Cyan and Purple huaweicentral.com. As HuaweiCentral notes, the color palette is “elegant” and matches the Mate 80 line. In handsets, Huawei appears to be continuing its trend of ultra-slim engineering – Gizchina describes the X7 as an “ultra-thin book-style foldable” gizchina.com. The Mate X6 was already renowned for its slim profile, and leaks say the X7 chassis will be even sleeker, with a reworked camera island and back panel huaweicentral.com gizchina.com. Despite the thin build, Huawei also boasts “high-grade” water resistance should be on tap gizmochina.com gizchina.com, potentially reaching IPX8-equivalent. The inner display is tipped to be nearly 8 inches – specifically 7.95″ 2K LTPO
October 20, 2025
This Magnetic Game Controller Snaps to Your Phone and Slides Out to Let You Play Anywhere
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This Magnetic Game Controller Snaps to Your Phone and Slides Out to Let You Play Anywhere

The MCON started as a student’s hobby project and became a viral sensation. 19-year-old Josh King originally 3D‑printed a slider gamepad prototype in his parents’ basement, frustrated by the lack of integrated controllers for modern phones theouterhaven.net. His video demonstrations garnered huge online support, but rising costs stalled production. Eventually King partnered with Dale Backus, founder of phone accessory maker Ohsnap, to turn the concept into a manufactured product theouterhaven.net. They launched a Kickstarter in early 2025 that raised roughly $1.75 million from about 16,000 backers androidauthority.com – making it one of the most successful mobile controller campaigns ever. As King himself says, “It has been an incredible journey evolving MCON from my initial 3D prototype to the masterfully engineered
October 20, 2025
Apple’s iPhone 17 Hits Record Demand – Sales Soar, Stocks Rally (Foldable Hype Builds!)
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Apple’s iPhone 17 Hits Record Demand – Sales Soar, Stocks Rally (Foldable Hype Builds!)

Apple’s blockbuster iPhone 17 launch appears to have jump-started the company’s smartphone sales. Counterpoint’s data suggest the new models are significantly outpacing the previous generation in key markets m.economictimes.com. Industry analysts say this reflects a sharper upgrade cycle driven by the 17’s major improvements. Indeed, the basic iPhone 17 now offers “a better chip, improved display, higher base storage, [and] selfie camera upgrade – all for the same price as last year’s iPhone 16,” as Mengmeng Zhang notes m.economictimes.com. These upgrades – once exclusive to the pricier Pro models – have clearly resonated with customers, forcing Apple to ramp up production quickly reuters.com. Investor sentiment has swung strongly positive. In mid-October, after seeing the early sales data, analysts from JPMorgan
October 20, 2025
Honor’s Magic8 Series Unveiled: 200MP AI Zoom Camera, YOYO AI Button & Smart Shopping Tools
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Honor’s Magic8 Series Unveiled: 200MP AI Zoom Camera, YOYO AI Button & Smart Shopping Tools

Honor’s CEO Li Jian framed the Magic8 launch as ushering in a new “AI phone era.” He noted that the smartphone revolution began with the iPhone and now Honor aims to lead the next wave huaweicentral.com. Indeed, Honor brands the Magic8 as “the first self-evolving AI smartphone” honor.com. The company introduced a host of AI innovations: a next-gen YOYO AI agent that can anticipate tasks, and a dedicated AI Button on the phone’s side for instant access to services honor.com. Long-pressing the new AI Button starts a “YOYO Video Call,” letting users point the camera at an object or scene and hear an immediate description honor.com. A double-press still snaps a photo, and a single tap can be set to
October 20, 2025
Technology News 20.10.2025
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Technology News 20.10.2025

ENDEDLive coverage has endedEnded: October 21, 2025, 12:00 AM EDT Opera Neon: The AI-powered browser with three bots and a $19.90/month experiment October 20, 2025, 11:56 PM EDT. Opera's Neon blends AI assistants into a browser: Chat, Do, and Make collaborate to tackle tasks while you surf. The trio can summarize pages, click around the web, or build tools in a sandbox, but the experience is chaotic and sometimes flawed. Neon charges $19.90/month and includes a built-in VPN and ad blocker, plus a Cards system of prewritten prompts. It's ambitious but feels more like a quirky intern than a polished
October 20, 2025
Apple’s iPhone 17: Unbelievable Speed, Stunning Cameras and Crazy Sales Stats
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Apple’s iPhone 17: Unbelievable Speed, Stunning Cameras and Crazy Sales Stats

Apple unveiled the iPhone 17 series at a September 2025 event, and it represents the company’s biggest upgrade to the non-Pro model in years. For the first time, the base iPhone 17 gets a 120 Hz OLED display, matching the Pro models tomsguide.com. Scrolling and animations are noticeably smoother – Velasco of Tom’s Guide says once you go 120 Hz “you really can’t go back” to anything slower tomsguide.com. Under the hood, both the new A19 and A19 Pro chips power these phones. Apple’s press release bills A19 Pro as “the most powerful and efficient chip for iPhone yet,” enabling “next-level gaming, camera systems, and Apple Intelligence” apple.com. The Pro phones even include an internal vapor chamber built into the
October 19, 2025
Alphabet’s Verily Unveils ‘Verily Me’: Free AI Health App Turns Your Medical Records into Personalized Doctor Advice
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Alphabet’s Verily Unveils ‘Verily Me’: Free AI Health App Turns Your Medical Records into Personalized Doctor Advice

Background and outlook. Verily Me marks the Alphabet group’s latest consumer push in digital health. Verily was founded in 2015 as a precision-health/AI arm of Google and has a track record in medical devices and research. This is its first app aimed directly at everyday patients. The launch follows broader industry trends of using AI to mine patient data: health records are now considered “crude oil” fueling the AI revolution in healthcare statnews.com, and companies are racing to give consumers more control and insights from their data. While Verily Me offers free advice, it also benefits Verily’s long-term goals. By encouraging users to share records and join Lifelong, Verily gains de-identified real-world data that can be sold to drug companies
October 19, 2025
Your Phone’s Default Apps Are Spying on You — Here’s How to Reclaim Your Privacy
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Your Phone’s Default Apps Are Spying on You — Here’s How to Reclaim Your Privacy

Smartphone users often assume that the apps pre-installed on Android or iPhone respect their privacy. In reality, built-in apps from Google and Apple collect vast amounts of data by design. Cybersecurity researchers and privacy advocates have repeatedly warned that default phone tools spy on you. For example, a 2025 study by Trinity College Dublin found that Google’s Play Store and Play Services quietly drop advertising “cookies” and device identifiers on Android phones without user consent tcd.ie. On iPhones, Aalto University’s Janne Lindqvist reports that apps like Safari, Siri and even FaceTime keep gathering information in the background – “because these apps are glued to the platform, getting rid of them is virtually impossible” nasdaq.com. In short, default apps often leak
October 19, 2025
Samsung Wallet’s New Tap-to-Transfer Feature Leaves Google Wallet in the Dust
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Samsung Wallet’s New Tap-to-Transfer Feature Leaves Google Wallet in the Dust

In the smartphone era, digital wallets are replacing traditional ones. Android users have two big options: Google Wallet and Samsung Wallet. Both apps can store credit/debit cards, tickets, loyalty cards and even government IDs bgr.com pulse.mk.co.kr. But recent updates highlight a growing feature war. Samsung has rolled out new capabilities that some experts say outshine what Google offers, while Google continues to refine its own wallet features. This report digs into the latest news, expert comments and real-world examples. Samsung introduced a peer-to-peer “Tap to Transfer” payment feature in mid-2025. This NFC-based function lets you tap two Galaxy phones to instantly send money using a Visa or Mastercard debit card stored in Samsung Wallet fintechnews.am fintechmagazine.com. Users do not need
October 19, 2025
Technology News 19.10.2025
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Technology News 19.10.2025

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October 19, 2025
AppLovin Under Fire: Shuts Down “Array” After Allegations of Secret App Installs
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AppLovin Under Fire: Shuts Down “Array” After Allegations of Secret App Installs

AppLovin, a fast-growing adtech firm known for marketing mobile games, quietly pulled the plug on Array, its on-device app distribution tool. According to PocketGamer and Bloomberg, an AppLovin spokesperson confirmed that Array was discontinued “last quarter” because the product simply wasn’t economically viable pocketgamer.biz bloomberg.com. In practice, Array had been used by partners such as Samsung and T-Mobile to recommend apps to users and let them install with a single tap adweek.com pocketgamer.biz. The service worked by pre-loading app suggestions on new phones or in ads, so users could skip going through the Play Store. AppLovin’s executives even called Array a significant revenue driver in prior months. But by mid-2025 the company declared the feature a flop and “shut down”
October 18, 2025
ChatGPT App’s Meteoric Rise Stalls: Downloads Dip and Daily Usage Tumbles as Rivals Surge
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ChatGPT App’s Meteoric Rise Stalls: Downloads Dip and Daily Usage Tumbles as Rivals Surge

ChatGPT’s mobile app — which rocketed to the top of iOS and Android charts after its 2023 launch — now shows signs of peaking. According to Apptopia, global download growth “slowed after April” of 2025 and has flattened in recent months techcrunch.com techcrunch.com. In practical terms, October 2025 downloads were tracking ~8% below September’s level techcrunch.com. At the same time, daily engagement metrics are easing. Apptopia finds U.S. users are spending significantly less time in the app than before. Average time per active user has fallen 22.5% since July, and average sessions per user have dropped 20.7% techcrunch.com. In other words, Americans are using ChatGPT less frequently and for shorter periods each day. These trends coincide with reports that total
October 18, 2025
Pixel 10 Pro vs iPhone 17 Pro: The Shocking Camera Zoom Showdown
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Pixel 10 Pro vs iPhone 17 Pro: The Shocking Camera Zoom Showdown

Apple and Google have taken different paths. Apple boosted every camera on the iPhone 17 lineup: the base model finally gets a 48MP main shooter with a new Ultra Wide also at 48MP, plus an 18MP selfie moneycontrol.com. The iPhone 17 Pro adds a 48MP telephoto that yields 8× “lossless” zoom theguardian.com, along with improved image processing that makes low-light shots brighter and more detailed. By contrast, the Pixel 10 Pro retains Google’s previous camera hardware but leans on its new Tensor G5 AI chip for big zooms. Using “Pro Res Zoom,” it can reach 100× digital zoom t-mobile.com. In real-world tests, reviewers note the trade-off. At everyday distances, the iPhone 17 Pro often produces more pleasing shots. Ryan Haines
October 18, 2025
Samsung AXES Galaxy S26 Edge as ‘Plus’ Model Returns to Lineup
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Samsung AXES Galaxy S26 Edge as ‘Plus’ Model Returns to Lineup

Samsung’s experiment with ultra-slim “Edge” flagships has largely failed. The Galaxy S25 Edge – just 5.88 mm thick and marketed as a rival to Apple’s new iPhone Air – drew critical notice for its design but tanked commercially. According to Korean reports, it managed only ~190,000 sales in its first month and just 1.31 million total by August 9to5google.com. By contrast, the normal S25 Ultra sold over 12 million units in that period. In other words, the Edge tanked. Tech analysts point to its compromises: it chopped battery capacity down to 3,900 mAh and carried a premium price despite being, in effect, a mid-tier model tomsguide.com. These trade-offs apparently weren’t worth it for consumers. The flop is widely cited as
October 18, 2025
Technology News 18.10.2025
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Technology News 18.10.2025

ENDEDLive coverage has endedEnded: October 19, 2025, 12:02 AM EDT 5 Clever Ways to Reuse an Old Laptop (Security System, Gaming, and More) October 18, 2025, 11:58 PM EDT. Transform an aging laptop into a useful tool rather than letting it gather dust. Even if it's slow, it can serve a new purpose-from a home security station to a retro gaming rig. A popular starting point is building a security system: leverage the webcam, install software like Agent DVR (the open-source successor to iSpy) on Windows, Linux, or macOS, and access feeds remotely without reconfiguring your router. Other open-source options
October 18, 2025
Technology News 17.10.2025
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Technology News 17.10.2025

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October 18, 2025
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