Photo credit: The Tide Chart | OnLeaks
Fresh official-looking renders of Google’s next smartwatch have appeared online this morning, and they show the Pixel Watch 5 looking every bit as polished as the phones set to join it later this summer. The images come courtesy of longtime leaker OnLeaks working with a new site called The Tide Chart, and they lay out the full color lineup in clean, high-resolution detail that feels ready for a product page.
Marc Porat sat with a red notebook in 1989, drawing what no one else could see. A little rectangular piece of glass with a touch screen, phone, fax, messages, video, games, ticket purchases, and apps delivered over the air. He named it the Pocket Crystal. It would feel like a piece of jewelry you carried every day, something with the comfort of a seashell and the pull of a crystal. At Apple, where he worked, the idea landed with John Sculley. Resources stayed scarce. So in May 1990 the project left Cupertino and became its own company. Bill Atkinson and Andy Hertzfeld, two of the original Macintosh wizards, signed on. General Magic was born.
iOS 27 public beta rolled out this afternoon and the rebuilt Siri is the reason most people will install it on day one. After years of half-steps and delays, Apple has delivered a version that actually reaches into your email, messages, calendar, and the stuff on your screen to get things done without forcing you to open half a dozen apps first.
SpaceX just released a new documentary that drops straight into the control rooms and launch site during the final stretch before its biggest rocket flew again. Titled Critical Path, the 34-minute film follows engineers at Starbase in Texas through the intense days leading up to Flight 12 on May 22. It is the second episode in their ongoing series and stays tightly focused on the real work required to get the first Version 3 Starship and Super Heavy off the ground.
Every phone forces a daily choice between screens optimized for different tasks. Standard color displays handle photos, video, and apps with ease but can strain eyes during long reading sessions and consume more power. E Ink panels reverse those strengths and weaknesses. They deliver paper-like text that stays readable in bright sunlight and sip battery life during hours of books or notes. Hisense built the A10 to remove that forced trade-off.