Startups & Ventures

🍏 iPhone Gets Pro Camera Controls

In the Photos app, users can adjust aperture, shutter speed, white balance, and focus.

Styles now work directly with image characteristics, rather than acting as simple filters. Photographers had been waiting for this for years.

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🍏 iPhone Duo packs two screens

The foldable has a 7.6-inch inner display, 80% larger than the iPhone 18 Pro’s, plus a 5.4-inch outer screen. Custom iOS 27 adapts to folding.

Its front camera hides under the display. It has a 48-megapixel main camera, 2x telephoto lens, A20 Pro, Touch ID and Apple Pencil.

Two apps can run at once, even partly folded. The largest iPhone battery lasts 24 hours across both screens. Price: $1,999. Sales start October 23.

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🍏 iPhone 18 Pro, dark cherry

John Ternus showed the iPhone 18 Pro first. It comes in 4 colors, including dark cherry.

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🚘 Bentley Gives Its EV a V8 Voice

Bentley’s first electric car, the Torcal, debuts at the end of the month. The pre-production crossover uses the electric Porsche Cayenne platform and gets a synthetic engine note based on the V8 from the Turbo R of the eighties.

The sound was recorded with a drummer and mixed like a track. Bentley also tuned the pedal response for the gradual power delivery of a torquey V8, including the small imperfections found in a real combustion engine.

Output is expected to exceed 800 hp and 949 Nm. The car weighs about 2720 kg, targets more than 595 km of range, and supports 400 kW charging, reaching 80% from 10% in under 20 minutes.

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😺 Astra Clears All 48 Robot Levels

An OpenAI developer shared that Astra completed all 48 levels of the browser game “I’m Not a Robot.”

The game starts with a checkbox, then raises the difficulty with image recognition, crosswords, drawing, parking, math, and keyboard rhythm. The CAPTCHA gets less routine with every level.

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🤖 OpenAI Updates ChatGPT Images

The new ChatGPT Images 2.5 keeps people’s appearance from reference images more accurately, edits specific details with greater precision, and generates images up to 50% faster. It can replace one object or the background while preserving the rest of the composition. Sequential edits also stay more consistent.

ChatGPT now includes Sketch, where users can draw a rough room or clothing layout, add a description, and generate an image from it. Developers get GPT-Image-2.5 Flare for speed and bulk generation, plus Sunburst for detailed work. The update is available across ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex.

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🏮 Xiaomi unveils 1,461-km hybrid crossover

The 5-seat Skynomad N70 uses a petrol generator. The top version has all-wheel drive, 416 hp, a 505-km battery range, and reaches 100 km/h in 5.5 seconds.

Prices in China start at $31.3k. First deliveries begin in October.

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