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Honor says its ‘Robot phone’ with moving camera can dance to music | TechCrunch
Honor first teased its “Robot phone” with a movable camera arm earlier this year. Ahead of the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, the Chinese company provided more details about the device, including how the robot can respond to different situations without commands. The company said that it is planning to launch this device in the second half of this …
Read More »Honor launches its new slim foldable Magic V6 with a 6,600 mAh battery | TechCrunch
Honor launched its new foldable, the Honor Magic V6, with a massive 6,600 mAh battery and a new sturdy hinge ahead of the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona. The Chinese company has been obsessed with proving that it makes the thinnest foldables. This year’s version is 4mm thick when unfolded and 8.75 mm thick when folded. Compared to last …
Read More »A closer look at Honor’s Robot Phone
While Honor has already made plenty of product announcements, with tablets, foldables and more, its most interesting device at MWC 2026 is the Robot Phone — and maybe the humanoid robot that came alongside it. After briefly showing off a model at CES, Honor isn’t quite ready to launch its Robot Phone. However, we got more specs, tech demos and …
Read More »Anthropic’s Claude rises to No. 1 in the App Store following Pentagon dispute | TechCrunch
Anthropic’s chatbot Claude seems to have benefited from the attention around the company’s fraught negotiations with the Pentagon. As first reported by CNBC, Claude has been rising to the top of the free app rankings in Apple’s US App Store. On Saturday evening, it overtook OpenAI’s ChatGPT to claim the number one spot, a position that it still held on …
Read More »SaaS in, SaaS out: Here’s what’s driving the SaaSpocalypse | TechCrunch
One day not long ago, a founder texted his investor with an update: he was replacing his entire customer service team with Claude Code, an AI tool that can write and deploy software on its own. To Lex Zhao, an investor at One Way Ventures, the message indicated something bigger — the moment when companies like Salesforce stopped being the …
Read More »Honor’s Magic V6 doesn’t have a new rabbit to pull out of its hat
Honor launched the in August 2025 and yet its successor is being announced just seven months later. Speak to Honor’s representatives, and you can imply that it’s racing to push the envelope against both its real competition (Samsung) and its anticipated one (Apple). With so little time between launches, you’ll be unsurprised to learn that little has changed. The only …
Read More »How to share your location via satellite on iPhone
Apple’s satellite features are designed for situations where cellular and Wi-Fi coverage are unavailable. In supported regions, compatible iPhone 14 or later models can connect directly to a satellite to send messages, access Emergency SOS and share location data. Location sharing via satellite is particularly useful when traveling in remote areas, hiking or driving through regions with limited network coverage. …
Read More »The trap Anthropic built for itself | TechCrunch
Friday afternoon, just as this interview was getting underway, a news alert flashed across my computer screen: the Trump administration was severing ties with Anthropic, the San Francisco AI company founded in 2021 by Dario Amodei and other former OpenAI researchers who left over safety concerns. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had invoked a national security law — one designed to …
Read More »Why did Netflix back down from its deal to acquire Warner Bros.? | TechCrunch
Netflix stunned the entertainment world this week when it declined to raise its bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, setting the stage for Paramount Skydance to win ownership of the Hollywood studio. At the time, Netflix co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters said they were being financially disciplined. Now reporting in Bloomberg offers more details about why Netflix executives backed down …
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