Fresh iPhone 17 and iPhone Air owners are already asking the same thing. If battery is the only reason to spend more, do the new iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max actually earn the upgrade. Tech Chap tried to answer that by running those two new Pros against last year’s 17, 17 Pro, 17 Pro Max, and the thin iPhone Air until every phone died, then he ran the whole thing a second time with a Galaxy S26 Ultra in the mix.
Super Valid Designs spent two months on a ski lift because mice had moved into the chicken coop and ordinary traps only opened a revolving door. Catch one batch and another arrives. Live relocation felt like a better bet than a pile of snap traps, so the plan became a pair of jobs in one machine: baited gondolas that work as traps, then a cable line that carries those cars 250 feet down a hill and dumps the passengers into brush without anyone walking the route every night.
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Apple just put Active Noise Cancellation, Adaptive Audio, and stem volume swipes into the open ear pair that costs $149, and that price is the whole story. AirPods 5 with Wireless Charging Case arrived in stores on September 18 at the same starting money Apple used for AirPods 4 two years ago, except ANC is now standard instead of a $50 upcharge. You still get the familiar short stem and the same 4.3 gram bud that rests in the bowl of the ear with no silicone tip. A redesigned multiport acoustic layout and next generation Adaptive EQ are meant to add depth and detail across a wider range of ear shapes, while Personalized Spatial Audio with dynamic head tracking keeps music, movies, and games moving with your head.
Two weeks, eight-ish cities, and one pre-production Slate pickup rolling from Indiana toward California with no script and no spare day to get ready. Slate Auto framed the You Asked For It Tour as a working road trip rather than a victory lap. Followers sent tasks by comment and direct message. The crew took the next one that landed, loaded the truck, and left.
Dr Semiconductor already had working DRAM cells from a class 100 cleanroom built inside a home backyard shed. Packaging those silicon chips onto a circuit board was the next problem, because silicon is opaque and lining up pads by eye is a guessing game. Gallium nitride grown on sapphire is transparent, already contains the layers that make blue light, and happens to be the same material used in commercial LEDs. A two-inch epiwafer costs about $160 and lasts a long time once you dice it.