iPhone survives fall from ill-fated Alaska Airlines flight

If you pay attention to world news, then you probably know about Alaska Airlines flight 1282. While climbing to its cruising altitude on a US domestic flight between Portland, Oregon, and Ontario, California, a panel in the fuselage of the Boeing 737 Max 9 plane simply blew off causing a loss of cabin pressure and a lot of things simply being thrown out into the air. One of those things was an iPhone that was recovered by Seanathan Bates, a game designer and .NET application developer. He found it on the side of a road while taking a walk, and then of course proceeded to hand it over to...

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Watch the Asus ROG Phone 8 launch event live

CES 2024 is starting and we are about to see the official debut of Asus' ROG Phone 8 smartphone series, which promises the latest and greatest from Qualcomm, more gaming-oriented features and a new design. The event will kick off on January 8 at 11 PM CET and it's going to be an exciting one. Asus' ROG Phone lineup has perhaps the most polished gaming Android products with a big accessory ecosystem and the best support for high refresh rate gaming. As is usually the case, the device will come in two variants - Pro and non-Pro. As per the rumors so far, the Pro variant will finally...

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Oppo's HyperTone Image Engine coming to Find N, Reno 11 series with update

Oppo's all-new HyperTone Image Engine is a cool new feature of the newly unveiled Find X7 Ultra flagship, but it's also coming to Oppo's other camera-centric devices eventually. Oppo announced that HyperTone will come to other product lines - the Oppo Find N3 and N3 Flip, and the upcoming Reno11 Pro - via an update. Oppo clarified that some features are hardware-dependent, but the core algorithms, photography characteristics, and style will all transcend to the other Oppo phones. Oppo Hasselblad HyperTone camera system details The HyperTone engine brings AI denoising in RAW...

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