Anyone already carrying a capable iPhone faces a simple calculation when Apple’s first folding model arrives. The iPhone Duo opens to a 7.6-inch panel and starts at $1,999, while a basic 11-inch iPad with the A16 chip will set you back just $399 (was $449). That gap alone explains why many people with a working phone in their pocket simply add the tablet and skip the foldable.
Google’s DeepMind just opened the next chapter in world models with Genie 4, a system that generates explorable environments on the fly and keeps them coherent while you move through them. You start with a text prompt or a reference image, and the model produces the scene pixel by pixel as you navigate. Standard keyboard controls let you walk or fly around while the world responds in the moment.
Polish YouTuber Kuba Klawiter bought a retail iPhone Duo with his own money and opened a livestream so viewers could take turns folding and unfolding it by hand. Volunteers rotated every hour. The plan called for a million cycles or the first clear failure, whichever arrived sooner. For the first fifty thousand folds the phone stayed in a relatively clean room and showed no real trouble. The hinge moved smoothly, the outer screen stayed intact, and the inner display continued to light up without lines or dead pixels.
Fujifilm revealed the Instax Mini Evo 2 as a hybrid instant camera that pairs digital capture with printing on classic mini film, letting users review shots and print only the ones they want while keeping digital copies of everything. Available at the end of November for $289.95 in black only, it upgrades the original model with a larger sensor, a much bigger rear display, and two new shooting tools that expand how people frame and record moments. The body keeps the retro silver-and-black look with textured panels, analog-style dials, and a film-advance lever for printing, so the hands-on feel stays familiar even as the back changes completely.
Apple introduced the 14-inch MacBook Pro with the M6 chip on October 27, placing a 2-nanometer processor inside the same portable aluminum body that has defined the line for years. The M6 uses a 12-core CPU that includes what Apple calls the world’s fastest CPU core, paired with a 12-core GPU that embeds a Neural Accelerator in every graphics core. A dual 16-core Neural Engine handles the AI work, while unified memory starts at 16GB and can be ordered up to 32GB, with bandwidth reaching 170GB per second on the higher configurations.