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• Google is offering repairs or payment for Pixel 7a users affected by a serious battery issue
• Some Pixel 7a users have reported battery swelling severe enough to warp the phone chassis
• Eligibility depends on region and warranty status

Google has stepped up to remedy a major battery swelling issue with some Pixel 7a smartphones, meaning affected users can now claim a free repair or partial refund.

Under the Extended Repair Program for Pixel 7a, users can seek repair or repayment from Google directly.

Recent reports have highlighted the battery expansion issue, which Google describes as including “visible swelling of the device”, the “phone cover bulging or separating from the device”, or the battery “draining significantly faster than usual”.

As we previously covered, swollen batteries present a danger to health and home, as they can be an unpredictable fire risk if left unattended – be sure to check out our guide on how to dispose of an inflated phone battery for more information.

As 9to5Google reports, Google is offering walk-in repairs at centres in the following countries:

• US
• UK
• India
• Germany
• Japan
• Singapore

Additionally, Google is providing a mail-in repair service in the US and India only.

Google is also offering partial refunds to affected Pixel 7a users, depending on territory and warranty coverage: none of the following options are available in the US or India.

In other territories, those still covered by their Pixel 7a’s warranty can claim $456 from Google – that’s cash, not store credit.

And users in said territories who are out of their Pixel 7a’s warranty period can claim either $300 towards another Pixel phone, or $200 in cash.

It’s worth noting that if your Pixel 7a handset exhibits other forms of damage, such as exposure to sharp objects, liquid damage, or damage caused by excessive force, Google may refuse to issue a battery replacement.

The official Extended Repair Program page also notes that Google may charge an additional fee if the phone exhibits out-of-warranty damage like a cracked screen – which we’d guess is because screens typically need to be removed to access the internal components of a smartphone.

The kind of repair program that Google is running isn’t unheard of – some may even call it expected with an issue as serious as battery inflation – but it’s still good to see Google doing the right thing here.

Head to Google’s official registration page to get your repair or refund claim started, and be sure to let us know how you get on in the comments below.

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• Aggreko study finds most data center managers agree sustainability is more important than three years ago
• Battery energy storage systems and future fuels are favorites across the UK&I
• Collaboration with energy suppliers could help tackle some hurdles

One-third of UK data centers managers and over 40% in Ireland cite reducing environmental impact as their top concern, but the reality is that there's still a long way to go.

According to new data from an Aggreko survey, reassuringly, 73% in the UK and 96% in Ireland say sustainability has become more important today than it was three years ago, suggesting data centers might be heading in the right direction.

However, even though attentions have shifted onto sustainability, data center managers are facing a number of barriers preventing them from becoming greener.

Data centers are far from being sustainable

High upfront costs to adopt greener tech were cited by 48% in the UK and 42% in Ireland – a trend that could possible continue to grow as the world's economies continue to battle it out.

Around a quarter of respondents also noted that biofuels are not easily accessible.

Looking ahead, we're likely to see regional differences on a much more local scale. Companies are already exploring exploiting the world's climates to improve sustainability, such as locating data centers in colder regions where cooling puts less stress on the environment, but even the UK and Ireland are preferring slightly different strategies.

In the UK, respondents showd a preference for battery energy storage systems (BESS), allowing them to store harness the power of green energy, but Irish respondents noted a higher preferences for future fuels like hydrogen or biomethanol.

Aggreko also revealed the influencing factors can vary wildly – legislation is the main driver for sustainable options in the UK, but Irish respondents noted a desire to lower carbon emissions.

Looking ahead, Aggreko calls for closer collaboration between data centers companies and energy suppliers.

"It is vital they work together with a trusted and reliable energy supplier that understands the industry’s challenges," Aggreko Global Sector Head for Data Centers Billy Durie said.

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Doom: The Dark Ages drops in May, but you can play the other Doom games to get in the ripping and tearing mood.

Netflix have released a bounty of details for the upcoming fourth season – or Volume 4 as the streamer is calling it – of ambitious anthology Love Death + Robots, and the trailer looks just as wild as we’d expect from one of the best Netflix shows.

Show creator and Deadpool director Tim Miller teases more of what fans have come to love about the series, stating “I’ve given up on figuring out which season might be ‘the best’ because I love all my children, but I am really excited about all the episodes in Volume 4,” and we’re excited too, with the trailer, which you can watch below, promising everything from cute kitties to insane violence.

Perhaps most intriguing though is executive producer David Fincher returning not only to the Love, Death + Robots directors chair (following Vol. 3’s 'Bad Travelling' episode) but to the world of music videos.

While Fincher is best known today as the master of the slightly twisted, always gripping thriller, the Gone Girl filmmaker cut his teeth as part of the MTV generation, directing videos for the likes of Sting, Madonna, Aerosmith and Michael Jackson before making his feature debut with Alien 3.

While Fincher has gone back to the well in recent years, collaborating with artists such as Justin Timberlake and long time composing partner Trent Reznor, the upcoming Love Death + Robots episode 'Can’t Stop' may be his most ambitious short project yet, with Netflix billing it as: “A unique take on the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ legendary 2003 performance at Slane Castle, Ireland, with band members [...] recreated as string-puppets.”

What can we expect from Love, Death + Robots season 4?

While Fincher and Red Hot Chilli Peppers may be hugely exciting, that’s far from all this season has in store, with one of the best streaming services teasing a whole host of new stories.

As always, fans can expect a huge variety of visual styles, genres and global influences, with Miller stating: “One of my biggest joys in making LDR [...] is when artists or directors make choices you would never make. Their ideas, shot choices, angles, sense of timing – whatever – is something foreign to your visual language but also awesome!”

'Close Encounters of the Mini Kind' looks set to deliver an adorable alien apocalypse as it pays tribute to classic 50s sci-fi, while 'Spider Rose', a sequel of sorts to Vol. 3’s cyberpunk horror 'Swarm', will deliver a dose of gory vengeance. Star Wars’ John Boyega lends his voice to '400 Boys', which sees warring post-apocalyptic gangs team up to battle a Kaiju-like threat and comes from Emmy-winning director Robert Valley and comedians Chris Parnell and John Oliver can be heard in 'The Other Large Thing', the tale of a cat with designs on world domination and his web-hacking robot butler sidekick.

Tim Miller directs 'Golgotha', a rare live-action installment in the series starring Rhys Darby as a vicar playing host to an alien emissary who believes a dolphin is the reincarnation of their messiah. Miller also helms 'The Screaming of the Tyrannosaur' which can be summed up as gladiators + dinosaurs, while 'How Zeke Got Religion' follows a WW2 bomber which finds itself up against biblical foes. 'Smart Appliances, Stupid Owners' features the voices of Kevin Hart and Brett Goldstein as overworked and underappreciated household goods, and “For He Can Creep” sees a Georgian Era poet protected by his cat when Satan (Dan Stevens) comes knocking.

We told you Netflix's new installment of Love, Death + Robots looks wild, and you can enjoy every insane moment for yourself when all ten episodes drop on Netflix on May 15.

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Glide is a no-code platform that allows users to create web apps without writing any code. It helps non-programmers build functional and responsive apps by leveraging data from Google Sheets, Airtable, and several other data sources.

In this review, we will examine Glide’s core features, user interface, ease of use, integration and extensibility, deployment and maintenance, pricing, documentation, and its competitive landscape.

Glide: Features

Glide allows you to build apps directly from your existing data. The platforms can connect to your data from various sources, including spreadsheets like Google Sheets, Microsoft Excel, Airtable, data warehouses like BigQuery, relational databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, and cloud databases like Google Cloud SQL.

If you’re starting from scratch, you can also use the platform’s own Glide Tables, or Glide Big Tables if you need an enterprise-scale database.

Best of all, you can use the platform to visually create relationships, and look up values across all your tables. And whenever your data changes in Glide, it instantly syncs directly back to your original data source.

(Image credit: Glide)

To keep your data safe, Glide lets you control who can manage, view, and edit your apps with granular permissions. You can also restrict who can access or download specific rows of data based on an email address.

Another advantage with Glide is that you don’t have to rely on external automation tools. You can instead use Glide Workflows to automate tasks, which comes in handy when you need to manage processes such as sending emails, and data updates.

You can start these workflows from app interactions, schedules, emails, and more. There’s also a Webhook workflow that kicks in when it receives data from external services, such as Stripe, or TypeForm.

The platform also keeps a track of all the workflow runs to help you review their execution, and rectify any errors. That said, you can still use external workflow builders like Zapier and Make, with Glide.

In addition to starting with existing data, you can also create an app from an AI prompt, or from its existing collection of templates. Glide has templates for common business apps including CRMs, customer portals, inventory management systems, sales dashboard, and more.

Glide also lets you roll AI capabilities like natural language processing, and computer vision into your apps. The platform, very helpfully, also has a set of AI templates that you can customize as per your requirements. The platform is also beta testing a new feature that will help you build custom components that don’t exist in Glide by prompting AI.

Glide: Interface and Ease of Use

When you first sign into Glide, it’ll ask you to create an app using an AI prompt. The platform will then build the app, and suggest ways to improve your app.

As we mentioned earlier, in addition to using the AI prompt, you can also create an app from existing data. In this case, you’ll have to point Glide to your data wherever it resides. It’ll then look through the data, and automatically create an app for you.

In either case, you’ll end up in the Layout editor that’ll help you refine, and fine tune your apps.

(Image credit: Glide)

Here, use the left sidebar to add, and manage screens to your apps, and also add components to the screens. The platform has several different kinds of screens, and each one relates to your data in a different way. There’s a Data tab on the bottom of the sidebar that you can use to quickly view the data for the currently selected screen.

In the middle of the screen you can preview, and interact with your app. You can switch between the mobile, and desktop views, and also view the screen as it would appear to different users.

On the right side of the interface, you can configure each screen and its components, tweak their appearance, and bind them to your data.

From the top of the interface, you can switch out from the Layout editor to tweak other aspects of your app. The Data tab takes you to the Data editor where you can view and edit the data. On the left, it’ll list all the imported and synced tables. From here you can modify your data, add new tables, sync external data sources, and more.

The Workflows tab brings up the Workflow editor, where you can create different types of custom Workflows. You can either create a workflow from scratch, or customize one of the six existing ones. For instance, there’s one that will intercept emails, and use AI to extract data and add them to your tables. Another will automatically respond to an email with AI.

Then there’s the Settings tab from where you can adjust your apps’ name, appearance, and other settings. When you’re done, use the Publish button in the top right corner to make your app public. All apps created with Glide are responsive, which means they look good on both desktops, and smartphones.

Glide: Integration and Extensibility

Glide not only allows you to connect to various data sources, but you can connect multiple data sources to a single Glide app. For instance, you could combine data from a PostgreSQL database with business data stored in Google Sheets.

You can also use Glide to connect your apps to all over 50 useful third-party business tools. For instance, you can get your app to interact with Asana to create, and delete tasks, and projects, or with DocuSign to sign a document, generate content with Google Gemini, and OpenAI, and a lot more.

(Image credit: Glide)

Integrations in Glide can provide different features that can be used in various ways. Depending on the integration, you may need to grant permissions or enter secrets such as an API key. The project has detailed documentation on how to add and configure each of the supported integrations.

Glide: Deployment and Maintenance

Once you’ve created an app, use the Publish button to make it live. As it is with most no-code platforms, by default, all apps are published to a Glide subdomain.

The platform will also generate a QR code that you can scan to access the app from your smartphone. All Glide apps are Progressive Web Apps (PWAs), which means your device will give you the option to install, and use it like a native app.

Once an app is published, you can move it to a custom domain, or unpublish it. By default, all apps will be available to a restricted set of users. However, you can easily make the app accessible to anyone.

(Image credit: Glide)

Also, since Glide apps are basically web-based, any changes you make to the app, or to the data in the connected data source, will automatically be reflected in the app without any manual intervention. This makes maintenance incredibly easy, and ensures that all users have access to the latest version of the app.

Glide: Pricing and Documentation

Glide has a tiered pricing model, starting with a feature-restricted Free tier. For instance, Free users can browse through the list of Free templates, but will need to upgrade to a paid plan to use them.

Paid plans start with the $60/month ($49/month billed annually) Maker plan. You can use this plan to connect your app with Google Sheets, import data from Excel, or CSV files, or use Glide’s own data sources.

The $249/month ($199/month billed annually) Business plan lets you use Airtable, and Excel as additional data sources over the Maker plan. To unlock all of the supported data sources, you’ll have to switch to the Enterprise plan, which is priced according to usage.

Also, remember that each plan also restricts the number of rows you can have in your app, and the list of available features. Furthermore, with the Maker plan you can only make your app available to users who sign in using a public email service, such as Gmail, or an education domain (.edu).

To complicate matters further, each plan has a limited number of updates. These are like credits that you consume to change, and sync data from external sources like Google Sheets, and Airtable. However, these don’t apply if you use Glide’s own data sources.

In terms of documentation, Glide has enough text and video resources to help you get started with the platform. It’ll teach you how to use the platform’s essential functions such as automations, and workflows. You can take your questions with the platform to Glide’s forum boards, though users on the paid tiers get priority support as well.

Glide: The Competition

There are lots of other no-code platforms, but Glide mainly competes with Softr, which also allows you to build apps from your existing business data.

While it originally started as an interface on top of Airtable, Softr too can now work with popular third-party databases, ranging from simple options like Google Sheets, to relational databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, and more. Glide however offers its own in-house data sources.

When compared to Softr, Glide offers a more robust platform with built-in workflow capabilities, and very handy AI-powered features. But that also gives it a stepper learning curve as compared to Softr.

Then there’s Bubble. Unlike Glide, which helps create data-driven apps for internal use, Bubble is more versatile, and can help create all kinds of SaaS platforms. Also, while Glide can create PWAs, if you want to create native mobile apps, there’s Adalo, which like Bubble can be used to spin up all kinds of business apps.

Glide: Final Verdict

Glide is a good option if you’re looking to quickly build data-driven apps without much effort. The platform combines ease of use with powerful features, which help make it appealing to both beginners and experienced users.

However, Glide has a complex pricing plan, and might turn out to be a little more expensive than its peers, depending on your exact use case.

That said, it has a lot going for it in terms of its seamless integration with popular data sources, intuitive interface, visual editors, and built-in automations, and customization options. These features make Glide a must try option for anyone looking to convert their existing business data into visually appealing PWAs.

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• Photos of PowerColor RX 9070 GRE models have been spotted
• This suggests these graphics cards could arrive soon
• It also seems to refute other recent rumors of a delay to Q4 of 2025 for the GRE versions

Recent buzzing from the GPU grapevine suggested that if AMD does have an RX 9070 GRE planned, this graphics card might be delayed for a long time – but it now appears this may not be the case.

Naturally, this is just a rumor – as is the purported delay of the RX 9070 GRE, and indeed the very existence of such a board – but in this case, we have photographic evidence.

Still, add seasoning as appropriate, but VideoCardz has presented us with some apparent pictures of the PowerColor RX 9070 GRE. There are two models shown – the Red Devil and Reaper – and we get to see the boxes and the graphics cards themselves.

The boards are dead ringers for the same RX 9070 XT models from PowerColor, which is no surprise. The most telling detail in the images, though, comes on the boxes, which have apparent confirmation that this GPU will be loaded with 12GB of video memory.

That’s a lesser amount of VRAM compared to the other RX 9070 models, which are equipped with 16GB. That marries with the previous gossip that this inbound GPU will have 4GB less in the way of VRAM.

VideoCardz furnishes us with further rumored specs for this GPU, which include it having 3,072 Stream Processors (graphics cores), versus 3,584 and 4,096 for the RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT respectively. Clock speeds are likely to be pitched in between those two existing 9070 models, coming in at a 2.8GHz boost or thereabouts.

(Image credit: VideoCardz / PowerColor) Analysis: Q4 launch rumors apparently debunked

With what appears to be photos of finished products out there – assuming this leak is genuine – this seems to indicate that PowerColor is ready for an imminent launch of the RX 9070 GRE.

As mentioned at the outset, it also seemingly refutes another recent rumor that claimed AMD was planning to launch the RX 9070 GRE soon, but then thought better of that idea, and pushed the release timeframe of this graphics card all the way back to the end of 2025 (Q4).

To be fair, I found it difficult to believe that AMD would delay a potential RX 9070 GRE release until October 2025 (or maybe even later) – not unless there were some problems wrapped up in production (and supply quantity of RX 9070 models overall).

Still, we must remember that as VideoCardz points out, this GPU will likely only launch in Asia initially, as with other GRE models. In the past, GRE versions have come to regions outside of Asia given time, and there’s a seemingly good chance of this happening with the 9070 GRE – but we wouldn’t bank on it.

As well as a more affordable version of the RX 9070 in the form of the GRE, there may also be a faster variant too, an ‘Ultimate Navi 48’ GPU, if other rumors pan out. (Navi 48 is the chip that all these 9070 models use).

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Thunkable is a popular cloud-based no-code platform that helps users build mobile apps even without having any prior coding experience. It has gained considerable attention due to its intuitive interface, powerful features, and support for both Android and iOS app development.

In this review, we’ll analyze various aspects of Thunkable, including its features, interface and ease of use, integration and extensibility, deployment and maintenance, pricing, documentation, and competition.

Thunkable: Features

Thunkable offers a wide range of features that cater to the needs of different users, from beginners to more advanced builders.

One of Thunkable's biggest strengths is its ability to build apps for both Android phones and iOS devices, and tablets, at the same time. Users can create apps that work across both platforms without needing to write platform-specific code.

Thunkable's core strength lies in its intuitive drag-and-drop interface. The platform also offers a large collection of pre-built components to cover a wide range of functionalities. Users can easily add essential user interface components like buttons, sliders, as well as media components, sensors, and more, to their apps, with a simple drag-and-drop.

(Image credit: Thunkable)

This visual approach helps make the platform highly intuitive, particularly for those with little or no coding experience. While it doesn’t offer templates as many of its peers, there are also sample apps that you can remix and customize to meet your requirements.

Another wonderful feature is Thunkable’s Scratch-inspired block-based programming system, that you can use to define your app’s logic. You create logic by dragging and connecting blocks to create event handlers, control flow, and perform actions. This makes programming easier and more accessible.

Another interesting feature is Thunkable’s ability to let you infuse Artificial Intelligence (AI) into your apps for things like image and voice recognition. The platform can also integrate with OpenAI for adding generative AI functionality to your apps.

Thunkable: Interface and Ease of Use

Thunkable's interface is clean and intuitive, which makes it fairly user-friendly and accessible to beginners. As we’ve said before, the platform's drag-and-drop system makes it easy to design and build apps without any coding knowledge.

Thunkable’s interface is broadly divided into two tabs, namely Design, and Blocks.

You use the Design tab to create the UI of your app by dragging elements like buttons, labels, switches, and such to the canvas. You can also customize each element's properties, such as color, size, and layout, to match your app's branding and requirements.

Each app can have multiple screens, and each screen has its own Design tab. This allows you to create different views or pages within your app, each with its own layout and components.

The Blocks tab is where you add the logic and functionality to the app. Again, you just drag and drop to connect code blocks to define the app's behavior, which can be everything from reacting to a button press, and handling user input, to accessing device’s sensors, and interacting with external services.

(Image credit: Thunkable)

Similarly, the other sections, particularly, Data, Assets, and Cloud Variables, help you easily manage various aspects of your app's data and resources. There’s also the Settings section where you define different details of your app, such as its name, default layout, some important Android and iOS publishing settings, and more.

Thunkable also provides a couple of mechanisms to test and preview your apps. There’s the Web Preview that you can use to test the app from within the browser itself. Then there’s the Live App that can help test your apps in your mobile phone. Any changes you make to the app are reflected instantly in the device.

Thunkable: Integration and Extensibility

Thunkable offers a wide range of integrations with popular services and tools, such as Google Maps, Stripe, Firebase, Airtable, Google Sheets, Xano, RevenueCat (for in-app purchases, and subscriptions), and more.

The platform also allows you to connect your app to any Application Programming Interface (API). You can also use it to connect to a database, or integrate with external data sources, including Google Sheets, and Airtable, to store and manage data within your app.

There’s also the Web Viewer component that allows you to display websites in your apps. More importantly though you can use this component to run HTML and JavaScript commands. This flexibility enables you to extend the platform's capabilities and customize apps beyond the platform’s built-in capabilities.

Thunkable also integrates with Figma, a popular web-based design tool that offers more design versatility. You can compose the interface for your app in Figma, and then import it into Thunkable.

Thunkable: Deployment and Maintenance

Thunkable also helps simplify the deployment and maintenance process for all mobile apps you create with the platform. Once an app is ready, you can easily publish it to the Google Play Store and Apple App Store directly from Thunkable.

Remember though, the Apple and Android app publishing processes are quite different. For instance, to publish with Apple, you first complete the process in the Thunkable publishing wizard, and the app file is sent directly to your Apple TestFlight.

On the other hand, to publish with Android, you receive an email from Thunkable with your app's Android App Bundle (AAB) file, which you download and then submit to the Google Play Store for review.

(Image credit: Thunkable)

You’ll still have to do some running around to register, and submit the app to the relevant app store. However, Thunkable provides step-by-step guidance to help you submit new apps and subsequent updates. This helps streamline the otherwise complex app submission process, especially for first timers.

Thunkable: Pricing and Documentation

Thunkable offers a tiered pricing structure, including a free tier with limited features, and paid tiers with more advanced capabilities. The free tier is suitable to explore, and experiment with the platform, while the paid tiers are necessary if you want to deploy your apps.

Premium plans are priced on a monthly or annual basis. The Builder plan costs $59/month or $37/month billed annually, and can be used to put custom branding, and publish one app each on the Apple or Google app stores.

If you want to publish multiple apps, you’ll need to switch to the Advanced plan that costs $189/month or $99/month billed annually. In addition to unlimited apps, this plan will also let you roll in in-app payments, and ads in your apps.

Thunkable provides comprehensive documentation, including text and video tutorials, to help users get started and make the most of the platform. The documentation covers everything from the basics of app creation to advanced integration, database management, and app deployment.

Thunkable also maintains an active community forum where users can share projects, ask questions, and get help from other users.

Thunkable: The Competition

Thunkable faces competition from several other no-code platforms that also cater to mobile app development, particularly Adalo, which too primarily focuses on mobile apps, and offers a similarly intuitive drag-and-drop interface.

One area where Adalo scores over Thunkable is in terms of the number of third-party integrations. Thunkable, on the other hand, is good for defining more advanced backend capabilities. This means you can build more versatile apps with Thunkable, while Adalo is easier to get started with.

However, Thunkable’s lack of templates can be an issue for first timers, though of course they can remix one of the demo apps to get a rolling start. And although both platforms don't let you publish mobile apps on the free plan, Thunkable’s free plan is more restrictive than Adalo's.

Thunkable: Final Verdict

Thunkable has everything you need to build and roll out mobile apps without coding. It’s both easy to use and offers advanced functionalities to experienced campaigners. The drag-and-drop interface, pre-built components, and the Scratch-inspired logic system makes it a good option for both beginners and intermediate users.

That said, as with any platform, there is a learning curve when it comes to more complex functionality. For example, while the drag-and-drop interface simplifies app design, integrating third-party APIs, creating, and managing complex database structures, or building advanced app logic might require a bit of time to master.

Also, while the block-based logic system is relatively easy to learn, it can make it quite cumbersome to define complex app logic, especially when working on larger projects.

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Subtitles and the best streaming services are a match made in heaven: Netflix says that nearly half of its viewing hours in the US happen with subtitles and captions on, and I can confirm that where my kids are concerned, it's closer to 100%.

That's great, but Netflix has identified a way to make it more useful for many viewers when watching one of the best Netflix movies or best Netflix shows: subtitles that only show the spoken dialogue.

The existing and very useful subtitle features aren't going away. Rather, Netflix is just adding an extra option.

How Netflix's new subtitles will work

At the moment, the subtitles you get on Netflix are designed for people who are deaf or hard of hearing. And that means the subtitles are for everything – so they'll tell you if a phone is ringing, or if there are spooky sounds, or if there's an explosion.

Those subtitles are of course staying, because they're very important.

But subtitles can also be useful even if you don't have hearing issues: think of the completely incomprehensible Bane in The Dark Knight Rises.

Some characters are hard to hear, and some movies' and shows' sound mixes don't always make speech as loud as some of us would like.

Turning on the subtitles to avoid the "what did she say?" moments is handy for that, but it does mean we can get a lot of detail we don't need. Think "(dramatic music plays)" or "(telephone rings)".

From today, you'll see a new option in the subtitles menu. It'll only be available in You season 5 today, and it's only for the English language options. But it'll soon be much more widely available and will make its way to other languages too.

Now, when you go to Subtitles you'll see two options for English language subtitles: English, and English (CC). English is purely for the spoken dialogue, and English (CC) gives you the whole shebang.

[Audience applauds].

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The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 could be Samsung’s most high-end and expensive phone of 2025 – topping even the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra and the yet-to-be-released Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge.

So, if you’re planning to buy it, we hope you’ve been saving – though you should still have a little time yet, with the Galaxy Z Fold 7 probably not launching until July.

If you’re wondering exactly how much you’ll need to save, though, we’re here to help. Below, we’ve detailed what we expect the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 to cost, based on a combination of leaks, past form, and educated guesses.

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 price predictions

Before we get to our Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 price predictions, it’s worth knowing how much the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 costs, since it’s unlikely – though not impossible – that the Galaxy Z Fold 7 will be any cheaper than that.

The chart below details the full pricing for every Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 configuration, but the most important detail is the starting price, which comes in at $1,899.99 / £1,799 / AU$2,749.

So, that’s probably the least you’ll have to pay for the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7, but might you have to pay more?

Well, it’s entirely possible Samsung will raise the price, but so far, the one Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 price leak suggests it will cost the same in most markets. However, the source specifically says “same prices again in most markets”, so it sounds like some regions may still see a price increase.

We’d also take this leak with a pinch of salt, as the source doesn’t yet have much of a track record. So, until more sources weigh in, we can’t be overly confident of this claim.

There’s reason to think Samsung might raise the price, too, since with Trump’s tariffs in play, the production cost will probably have increased.

The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 (Image credit: Lance Ulanoff / Future)

On the other hand, the starting price of the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 is already higher than the $1,799.99 / £1,749 / AU$2,599 Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5, and the company might be reluctant to increase prices two years in a row.

So, for now, we’re guessing that prices will probably remain the same in a lot of places, since that’s what the one leak so far says – but we absolutely can’t rule out a price increase, and even if some regions stay the same, others may not.

The only thing we are fairly confident about is that the price of the Galaxy Z Fold 7 won’t be any lower than that of last year's model, since that would be a hard feat to achieve in the current economic climate.

The good news, though, is that you might get quite a lot for your money. For the last few generations, Samsung has been quite conservative with its Z Fold upgrades, but this trend could change with the Galaxy Z Fold 7.

Leaks suggest, for example, that the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 will have a new 200MP main camera, an upgraded under-display camera, bigger screens, a thinner body, a smaller crease, a powerful Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset, better dust resistance, and a larger vapor chamber. So, almost every aspect of the phone might be improved compared to the Galaxy Z Fold 6.

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• A lightweight Deep Research is rolling out to free-tier users
• It’s based on the ChatGPT 4o-mini model
• Plus users will also get access to it after they hit their usage limits

It’s the news that all ChatGPT free users have been waiting for: Deep Research is finally coming to the free tier of ChatGPT. However, the new version of the popular research tool is not quite the same as the one currently enjoyed by Pro, Plus, Teams and Enterprise users.

The new Deep Research, which is rolling out to all free-tier users starting from today, is described by OpenAI as ‘lightweight’. It's powered by a version of ChatGPT o4-mini in contrast to the existing Deep Research, which is powered by a version of ChatGPT-o3.

OpenAI describes the new lightweight Deep Research as “nearly as intelligent as the Deep Research people already know and love, while being significantly cheaper to serve.”

In a tweet on the subject OpenAI shared a graph showing accuracy rates for the new lightweight Deep Research compared to the original Deep Research and the o3 model.

The bad news is that free-tier users are going to be restricted to five uses per month, so don’t click the Deep Research button (when you get it) unless you really need to use it.

A graph showing the accuracy of the new lightweight 4o-mini model compared to the original Deep Research, which uses a version of the o3 model. (Image credit: OpenAI) Expanding usage limits for Plus users

At the same time OpenAI says it's expanding its usage limits for Deep Research for existing Plus and Teams users. However, it appears that after your 10 monthly uses have been used up the ‘expansion’ is achieved by giving you access to the lightweight version instead.

After usage limits on the original ChatGPT Deep Research have been reached people will automatically switch to the lightweight version of Deep Research and gain a further 15 uses a month, leading to some ChatGPT users on X accusing the company of being poor value compared to Google’s Gemini, which allows up to 20 uses per day for its Deep Research tool on its Advanced plan and 10 per month for free Gemini users.

ChatGPT Pro users get 125 Deep Research uses a month, with an additional 125 lightweight uses a month, while Enterprise users simply get 10 uses of the original Deep Research a month.

Using Deep Research

To use Deep Research you simply select the 'Deep research' button while using ChatGPT.

Deep Research has agentic qualities, meaning you can give it a task and it will continue researching for you, under its own steam, until it has completed the task, producing a full report complete with citations.

Reports can take several minutes to generate, and involve searching the web for sources, which makes Deep Research most suited to answering complex questions, rather than the usual back and forth chats that people have with AI chatbots.

I've found that Deep Research works best for subjects like literature reviews, market research, or for helping me make big life decisions like deciding where to live.

The news comes hot on the heels of the announcement that ChatGPT Plus, Teams and Enterprise users are getting expanded usage limits, with 100 minutes of ChatGPT-o3 usage per week and 300 minutes of ChatGPT o4-mini per day.

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