ICYMI: the week's 7 biggest tech stories from Kindle Colorsoft yellowing woes to our PS5 Pro review

1. We’ve tested nan PS5 Pro

The PS5 Pro is present and it’s a awesome console that offers an fantabulous gaming acquisition for PlayStation 5 games and besides proves nan wizardry of PSSR is terrific - but its value tag and deficiency of included disc thrust really are hefty stings successful its tail.

The graphical advancements offered by nan PS5 Pro beautifully blend ace precocious levels of fidelity pinch fluid and soft framework rates astatine nan aforesaid time, and from our testing, tin tangibly elevate nan acquisition of playing games. The other spec uplifts – specified arsenic Wi-Fi 7, an other 2TB of storage, arsenic good arsenic boosts to non-enhanced PS5 and PS4 games – thief to information retired a premium package for those who want to beryllium astatine nan bleeding separator of console tech and desire nan astir performant console going.

For galore gamers, caller aliases existent PS5 users, it’s a spot of a difficult waste arsenic nan advancements are not genuinely transformational; but if you’re a PlayStation enthusiast and ever want to get nan astir retired of capacity modes and graphics modes together past you will not beryllium disappointed by nan PS5 Pro.

• Read more: PS5 Pro review: a high-performing enthusiast console

2. And we reviewed nan caller M4 Macs

We’ve besides been testing nan brand-new M4-powered Macs from Apple. We were impressed by nan caller MacBook Pro and Apple iMac successful our Apple iMac 24-inch review, calling it nan “best all-in-one machine you tin purchase” a truth helped by its caller much affordable price. Meanwhile our Apple MacBook Pro 14-inch review branded nan laptop “a pro-grade portable that impresses successful each area.”

It’s nary astonishment past that some of those computers were awarded four-and-a-half prima scores, but nan champion of nan bunch is nan five-star Mac mini.

Per our Managing Editor of Core Tech Matt Hanson successful our Apple Mac mini review, “Apple has made what was already nan champion mini shape facet PC moreover amended acknowledgment to a much compact design, and it packs nan caller M4 and M4 Pro chips – each while offering unthinkable worth for money arsenic well. I can't urge this Mac enough.”

• Read more: Apple Mac mini (M4, 2024) review: smaller, faster, better

3. Leaked Samsung S25 Ultra benchmark is incredible

Apple has agelong maintained bragging authorities complete Samsung erstwhile it comes to nan sheer under-the-hood powerfulness of its smartphones, but 2025 could spot a momentum displacement successful favour of nan Android manufacturer. According to a caller report, nan Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra could beryllium moreover much powerful than nan iPhone 16 Pro Max, pinch nan upcoming Android flagship having performed exceptionally good successful early benchmark tests.

We’re each but definite that nan Galaxy S25 Ultra will usage Qualcomm’s caller Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset nether nan hood, and fixed that nan likes of Xiaomi, OnePlus, and Honor person already confirmed that their respective flagships will usage nan aforesaid platform, nan early looks highly agleam for Android fans.

• Read more: Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra could beryllium nan astir powerful telephone connected nan planet

4. iOS 18.2 beta showed america awesome Apple Intelligence upgrades

Apple Intelligence landed pinch iOS 18.1 but it isn’t rather arsenic spectacular arsenic everyone hoped it would beryllium – arsenic immoderate of its astir breathtaking features are presently unavailable. That could alteration soon, arsenic nan iOS 18.2 update beta is giving america a sensation of these missing features.

Genmoji allows users to create a civilization emoji and we’ve already fallen successful love, ChatGPT has been baked into Siri though it’ll person restrictions for free users, and Image Playground offers a much modular replacement to nan best AI image generators.

Beyond AI 18.2 will bring caller camera power tools, easier sharing of mislaid point accusation done nan Find My service, and nan first hints of Siri getting abilities to understand what’s connected screen.

• Read more: Apple is adding 3 much useful upgrades to your iPhone pinch iOS 18.2

5. Google leaked its Jarvis AI

Google’s AI supplier that searches Chrome connected your behalf was accidentally leaked by nan institution itself earlier this week. Jarvis AI popped up successful Chrome’s hold shop and was quickly removed, but it shines a ray connected nan beingness of an automated web browser that Google says is “a adjuvant companion that surfs nan web pinch you.”

Codenamed Jarvis, nan AI supplier is expected to motorboat successful December and will beryllium capable to surf nan web, bargain products, and moreover book flights connected your behalf. As companies effort to continuously innovate successful nan AI space, agents are expected to look much and much complete nan adjacent fewer months. Google’s Jarvis sounds incredibly promising, while different companies for illustration Anthropic person already released an automated supplier to developers. Rumors besides hint astatine AI-juggernaut OpenAI entering nan mix, though we don’t person immoderate accusation connected what a ChatGPT AI supplier could look like.

If you’re excited astatine nan imaginable of AI doing mundane web browsing connected your behalf, you mightiness not person agelong to hold pinch Jarvis conscionable astir nan corner.

• Read more: Google accidentally leaks its AI supplier that browses nan web

6. Amazon’s colour Kindle sewage disconnected to a unsmooth start

We sewage our hands connected nan Kindle Colorsoft – awarding it four-and-a-half stars successful our review – but we and others noticed that complete clip it started to create a frustrating yellowish tint astatine nan bottommost of its display.

Not each Colorsoft seems to beryllium affected, and successful our lawsuit nan yellowing was not very noticeable, but that hasn’t prevented nan shop page from being flooded pinch antagonistic reviews – pinch Amazon moreover calling those antagonistic reviewers to study much astir nan discoloration problem.

Amazon is still trying to instrumentality immoderate hardware aliases package hole it needs to, but if you already person a yellowed Colorsoft, nan institution has said it will connection you a refund aliases a replacement device.

• Read more: The Kindle Colorsoft faces shipping delays

7. DJI unveiled its cheapest-ever FPV goggles

DJI unveiled nan Goggles N3, its cheapest-ever FPV (First Person View) goggles for immersive drone flight. They are little than half nan value of nan Goggles 3, and look for illustration an fantabulous pairing pinch nan Neo, DJI's cheapest-ever 4K drone pinch aggregate formation power options, including FPV.

In fact, DJI has made a caller DJI Neo Motion Fly More Combo which includes nan Goggles N3 positive further batteries and charging hub, each for little than nan pricier Goggles 3 alone.

Low value doesn't mean debased value – nan Goggles N3 battalion a crisp 1080p surface pinch an immersive 54-degree section of view, and tin execute aerial acrobatics specified arsenic flips and rolls pinch a tilt of your head. They besides boast DJI's latest O4 transmission, negligible 31ms latency and neat augmented reality features. At half nan value of nan Avata 2 pinch goggles, this caller pairing opens up nan adrenaline-fuelled world of FPV formation to a full caller audience.

• Read more: DJI’s caller inexpensive goggles make nan Neo much affordable for immersive flying