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

Samsung’s long-teased Galaxy S25 Edge has arrived, manner 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 maintaining 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, seemingly because of the handset’s measurement constraints.

This makes the S25 Edge the most recent addition to the pattern of fewer cameras, becoming a member of the Pixel 9a, however for a really totally different $1,100. You may take a look at my first impressions and all of the essential specs in my hands-on. Are you keen 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 gadgets on Monday, and the most important visible change is a brand new rainbow-shaded wallpaper in honor of Satisfaction Month. I’m honored. In any other case, it’s a couple of 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 control lead’s bodily properties to grow 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 grow 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 among Apple’s newest design quirks. For over 600 phrases. Apple’s determination to make use of α as a substitute of a in its Word App has acquired him mad.

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

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