From the dial-up days to the era of AI-assisted browsing, Opera’s interactive experience takes users through key milestones that helped shape the web over the past three decades.

If you’re reading this on your iPhone, you may want to switch to a computer for this one. Opera’s is a fun new website that feels like a throwback to the Flash era, packed with animations and keyboard-driven interactivity.

You interact with the site by holding or tapping the space bar, depending on

In a recent statement to Brazil’s competition watchdog, Apple leaned on an increasingly familiar argument as it pushed back against pressure to further open up the iPhone’s NFC access. Here are the details.

Last year, Brazil’s central bank (Banco Central) and banking lobby group Febraban asked CADE, the country’s competition watchdog, to investigate whether Apple was unfairly limiting third-party payment providers’ access to the iPhone’s NFC compared to its own services.

In response, Apple sent CADE a

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In a joint status report with Michael Ramacciotti’s legal team, Apple also disclosed new details about its efforts to depose Jon Prosser as part of the iOS 26 leak case. Here are the details.

Last July, Apple sued Jon Prosser and Michael Ramacciotti, accusing them of misappropriating trade secrets and violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act over the leak.

In a nutshell, Apple alleges that Ramacciotti broke into the development iPhone of Ethan Lipnik (who was later fired from Apple) earlier in the year, and held

After adding image generation to Duck.ai late last year, DuckDuckGo is now rolling out image editing capabilities for its private AI chatbot. Here’s how it works.

DuckDuckGo today that Duck.ai, its private chatbot interface, can now edit images based on user prompts, for free, with no account needed. However, DuckDuckGo subscribers get higher daily limits.

With the feature, users can now select New Image from the side menu, and either click the Start with an image button or simply drag an image

Benjamin and Chance discuss all the new features in iOS 26.4, which turned out to be a pretty packed release, even with the Siri features missing in action. Also, Apple confirms a product event for March 4, with rumors of new Macs and more in the air. Finally, Bloomberg reports Apple is advancing work on a suite of new AI devices, including glasses and a clip-on pendant.

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According to a report from , survivors of the catastrophic avalanche near Lake Tahoe this week used Emergency SOS via satellite on iPhone to stay in contact with first responders.

It’s the latest example of the life-saving impact of Apple’s Emergency SOS and satellite features on iPhone and Apple Watch.

Don O’Keefe, Chief of Law Enforcement for the California Office of Emergency Services, says that the six survivors of the avalanche used Emergency SOS via satellite to stay in touch with the Nevada County Sheriff’s Office

Foldables opened the door to a whole new world of smartphones just a few years ago, but somehow the entire Android market has settled into just two form factors – clamshell flip phones and book-style devices that just open up to double the width of a normal smartphone screen. As the inevitable “iPhone Fold” approaches, though, it seems Apple is looking to revive a form factor that Android brands, including Google Pixel, once tried, but failed to keep around, and there’s a clear reason why that

iOS 27 will reportedly come with changes to the iPhone’s interface. Those changes aren’t expected to be as major as iOS 26, but they could still reveal a lot about Apple’s priorities under new design leadership.

Over the weekend, Mark Gurman’s Power On newsletter offered an update on iOS 27 development.

After mentioning AI and bug fixes as big priorities for Apple, Gurman added :

Apple also is planning some tweaks to the interface, though nothing as extensive as last year’