Apple may use liquid metal to create essential components, such as hinges, for its anticipated foldable iPhone, according to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo from TF International Securities. The premium device will allegedly debut with a titanium alloy design and a price range expected between $2,000 and $2,500.

Kuo suggests the company would use a die-casting process to produce hinges, aiming to boost durability, enhance screen flatness, and minimize crease marks on a projected 7.8-inch inner display. While Apple has used liquid metal for minor parts like SIM ejector pins in the past, Kuo predicts its application in hinges would mark a substantial shift to mechanically critical components. Dongguan EonTec is poised to benefit significantly if it becomes Apple’s exclusive supplier of liquid metal. By late 2024, EonTec had reportedly shipped over 10 million central shafts—hinge elements made from this material—hinting at its readiness for such a role.

Apple doesn’t shy away from courting stars for its TV+ shows and movies, but the next show releasing—The Studio—takes the Hollywood showcase to a whole new level with its stacked cast and cameos. Here’s who you can expect to see pop up in Apple’s next big show when it arrives in mere days.

If you receive a lot of email, and most people do, then sometimes it can be a challenge to pull up a particular old missive in your inbox. Google has decided that the solution must be more artificial intelligence. Today, the company announced that it is rolling out an update that uses AI to assess inbox search queries to account for recency, frequent contacts and most-clicked emails. The ”most relevant” search feature is rolling out globally to personal accounts, while business accounts will get it at an unspecified future date.

Just as it did with Sweden, Signal is refusing to stay in a territory that undermines its encryption strategy, arguing that a backdoor in France would undermine protections for users worldwide.

Meta’s Threads is finally allowing users to change their default feed in the app, in a move that addresses what has long been one of the most frustrating parts of the service. With the update, users will be able to make the “following” feed or a custom feed the default view in the app rather than Threads’ sometimes chaotic “for you” feed.

Mark Zuckerberg said that Meta would test the feature way back in November, but the company has said little about it since. Now that it’s official, the change could help address criticism that Threads isn’t as useful for following real-time events because it pushes users to the “for you” algorithmic feed, which often surfaces older posts with many replies rather than newer posts from followed accounts.

Anthropic announced this week a major update for Claude, its AI chatbot. The platform can now search for results on the web in real time to provide up-to-date information, making it even more useful for research.

Claude can now search the web in real time

As detailed in a blog post, Claude now has access “to the latest events and information,” which improves the accuracy of tasks that benefit from more recent data. Until now, Claude relied on large language models that were updated from time to time, so the chatbot had no knowledge of recent events.