Author: Trendici
When I first heard whispers about the Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold, I immediately felt conflicted. On one hand it felt like the natural evolution of bi-fold phones like the Z Fold 7. But on the other, all this fancy tech comes with an even higher price — around $2,500 based on current conversion rates from Korean won — not to mention the added bulk you get from a third folding panel. So even as someone who has used a foldable as my daily driver for almost a decade straight, it felt like Samsung’s latest high-end phone was going backwards in…
Today marks 2026’s first new batch of Game Pass games, and while there have certainly been more exciting lineups, there’s still a few games here worth looking forward to. Today, you can play the enhanced edition of Little Nightmares, which gives a graphical boost to the 2017 puzzle platformer as well as Brews & Bastards, a twin-stick dungeon crawler starring a cast of drunken heroes.Tomorrow, Game Pass Premium subscribers will also gain access to a handful of titles that were previously locked to the Ultimate tier, including Atomfall, Lost in Random, Rematch, and Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine – Master Crafted…
President Volodymyr Zelensky has reshuffled the leadership of Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU), replacing influential Vasyl Malyuk and nominating Maj-Gen Yevhenii Khmara as acting head.The SBU is primarily concerned with internal security and counter-intelligence and, since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, it has also played a prominent role in assassinations and sabotage attacks deep inside Russia.Malyuk, who had run the SBU since 2022, gained a reputation for overseeing successful operations against Russia and for purging the SBU from alleged Russian double agents.The latest reshuffles are the latest in a long series made by Zelensky since the start of…
The prime minister has drawn a series of sharp dividing lines with Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, in an attempt to begin reviving Labour’s and his own political fortunes in the new year.Sir Keir Starmer told his political cabinet he wanted to make clear to voters that the choice was between his party “renewing the country” and Reform, who he accused of feeding on “grievance, decline and division”.Labour and the PM’s own personal ratings have plummeted in opinion polls since the party’s landslide victory in the 2024 general election.Reform has consistently led the polls, and is hoping to make further gains…
A Strasbourg supporters group has attacked the “humiliating” loss of Liam Rosenior after owners BlueCo moved the manager to Chelsea. The negatives of club football were put on display once again as Chelsea were able to appoint Strasbourg boss Rosenior with little fuss given the two clubs are owned by the same company but while the focus will be on how the London club, the French outfit have left the prospect of their season being upended. It is not the first example of transfer between the clubs. Ben Chilwell joined Strasbourg on a free in the summer while Mamadou Sarr…
Afeela, the electric car brand set up by Sony and Honda, will follow up its debut saloon model with a new SUV in 2028. The company revealed a prototype for its Lucid Gravity rival at CES in Las Vegas last night (6 January) and said it’s planned for launch in the US in 2028. The SUV is said to “build on the core concept of Afeela 1” – the sleek EV saloon that has just entered production at Honda’s Ohio factory – but offer “greater spatial flexibility and accessibility” in a bid to widen the brand’s target market. Afeela confirmed plans for…
Image: Sam Grozyan/Unsplash Apple is reportedly preparing to shatter its decade-long tradition by skipping the launch of a standard iPhone 18 this year. For the first time since the iPhone 4s era, the tech giant is expected to move away from its predictable September “everything at once” release cycle. While the high-end Pro models are still on track for their usual fall debut, those holding out for the base iPhone 18 will likely have to wait until the spring of 2027. For years, Apple fans have set their watches by the company’s fall event. However, MacRumors reports that this “pattern is expected to…
Though the New Year has barely begun, it is worth considering what we know from a government legislative, regulatory and policy perspective, what’s coming and, indeed, what it appears is not. Let’s take artificial intelligence (AI) first. The UK government still seems implacably opposed to bringing forward any cross-sector, comprehensive AI legislation. Its one-liner in the 2024 King’s Speech said the government “will seek to establish the appropriate legislation to place requirements on those working to develop the most powerful artificial intelligence models.” That seemed sparing at the time, and now seems extraordinarily overblown. AI growth Ironically though, while…
CES 2026 officially opens today, but much of the show’s biggest announcements already landed during Monday’s press conferences and early events. AI was everywhere, chipmakers dominated the schedule and a handful of brands used the pre-show window to quietly drop meaningful hardware updates.Below are the biggest announcements and trends from January 5, plus a few standout hands-ons from Pepcom and CES Unveiled.LG doubles down on AILG’s CLOiD robot. (LG)LG’s World Premiere keynote leaned hard into its vision of “Affectionate Intelligence,” with AI positioned as the connective tissue across TVs, appliances and even robotics. While most of the hardware was announced…
‘We need Greenland from the standpoint of national security,’ Trump saysSix European allies have rallied to support Denmark following renewed insistence by the US that it must have control over Greenland.”Greenland belongs to its people, and only Denmark and Greenland can decide on matters concerning their relations,” the leaders of the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, and Denmark said in a joint statement.On Sunday, Donald Trump said the US “needed” Greenland – a semi-autonomous region of fellow Nato member Denmark – for security reasons. He has refused to rule out the use of force to take control of the…