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• A new Android search experience is in testing
• Results are updated in real time from voice inputs
• There's no indication when the feature may launch

With the rise of generative AI bots, it feels like Google's dominance in web search is under serious threat for the first time in a long time, but Google itself is busy testing new features to help users find information faster.

As spotted by well-known tipster @AssembleDebug (via Android Central), Google is experimenting with a real-time conversational search experience on mobile. You simply chat to Google, and the results change automatically with each input, as you ask follow-up questions or submit new ones.

It's not immediately clear where this demo was found, but given the good track record of this particular leaker, it may well have been discovered hidden in early testing code for Android or the Google app on Android.

You can already search Google using your voice on mobile – just tap the microphone icon rather than typing anything in – but the continuous listening and instant refreshes are new, and make the experience smoother and more natural.

Search is changing

The demo of new conversational search in Google app. It continuosly listens to your voice where you can ask followup questions while performing a search.#Android #Google pic.twitter.com/DgXnMx5DU4November 4, 2024

We're seeing a lot of innovation around web search and information gathering at the moment, from Google and many others. Barely a day goes by without some kind of new tool arriving, most often powered by AI.

The idea of voice as an input method is having something of a renaissance as well. Of course, we've been chatting to our smart speakers and smartphones for years at this point, but generative AI has made the conversations more fluid and more useful.

All of the big names in tech are working towards ways of combining multiple inputs together (known as a multimodal approach), so that voice, video, images, and text can all be combined and used for queries.

This is another move towards that. There's no official word from Google on this yet, and we don't know when (or if) the functionality will appear, but there's no doubt the company's products are going to continue to evolve at a rapid pace.

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• Nokia investigation confirms cyberattack with a third party
• The company says its own data is secure
• It will continue to monitor the situation

Nokia has confirmed a recent data breach did indeed happen, but did not affect its own internal data.

The telecoms giant said it had completed its initial investigation into the incident, confirming that a breach had occured, but that its systems, and data, is intact.

"Our investigation has found no evidence of any of our systems or data being impacted. Our investigations point to a 3rd party security incident, related to a single customized software application," the company told BleepingComputer.

End of life

An infamous data leaker known as IntelBroker recently posted a new ad on an underground forum, advertising a stolen archive apparently containing data from the telco giant.

The archive was taken from a third party, and was said to contain a large collection of Nokia source code, with the hacker claiming to have stolen Nokia software, SSH keys, RSA keys, BitBucket logins, SMTP accounts, webhooks and hardcoded credentials.

IntelBroker claims to have breached a third-party vendor via a SonarQube server. There, they downloaded sensitive files belonging to multiple companies, including Nokia.

“We have found no evidence that this 3rd party incident would in any way endanger critical Nokia systems or data, including source code, customized software, or encryption keys. Our customers are in no way impacted, including their data and networks,” Nokia added.

The source code IntelBroker leaked was for an application that the third-party built, for a client of Nokia’s. It was supposed to work on only one network, and will not work elsewhere, it was added. No Nokia code was found inside, either.

The company concluded its statement by saying it was “closely monitoring” the situation.

IntelBroker is reportedly a Serbian hacker who has been active since October 2022, and has a history of high-profile attacks. More than 80 separate leaks have been posted to online forums by IntelBroker to date, with targets including companies and organizations such as AMD, Apple, Europol and HPE.

Via BleepingComputer

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• Warhammer 40,000: Darktide will release on PS5 in December
• Two editions are up for pre-order now
• The game first launched on PC in 2022, followed by Xbox Series X and S in 2023

Horde survival co-op game Warhammer 40,000 Darktide is finally coming to PlayStation 5, more than two years after it first launched on PC and over a year since its Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S debut.

The game is available to pre-order now and will release on December 3. There are two separate editions to choose from, the regular version which costs $39.99 / £32.99 and the $59.99 / £49.99 Imperial Edition.

The Imperial Edition includes base game and some additional content, like the Loyalist Pack (which adds four unique class outfits and eight weapon skin patterns), the Mortis Veteran Portrait Frame, the Caducadas Backpack, and 2,500 Aquilas in-game currency. Those who pre-order this more premium version will be able to play six days early, too.

The PS5 version of the game will launch with all major content and improvements that have been added to the other versions since the game’s launch. This means that you will be able to experience the massive recent ‘Unlocked and Loaded’ update, which overhauled the game’s weapon progression systems, right out of the gate.

Time to go Pro?

The Warhammer 40,000 Darktide store page reveals that the game will support vibration and trigger effects on the DualSense Wireless Controller. It also shows that it will be enhanced for the PlayStation 5 Pro, though provides few additional details.

According to PlayStation fan website PSU, the PS5 Pro version will run in glorious 4K at 60fps. There will then be two modes available for regular PS5 owners, a Performance Mode, which will run at 1440p with a 60fps frame rate, and a 4K 30fps Quality Mode.

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• Alien: Romulus is coming to Hulu in November
• However, there's no word about an international release on Disney Plus
• Many of the other Alien titles including the original are already on Disney Plus

Alien: Romulus is heading to Hulu on November 21, so US audiences will soon be able to stream the latest in the sci-fi franchise in the comfort of their own homes. But so far, it only has a US home streaming release and there's no word on when it's coming to other territories.

News of the movie's Hulu release was confirmed on social media, with the 20th Century Studio's X (formerly Twitter) account writing: "#AlienRomulus is streaming only on @Hulu November 21."

Considering other big names in the franchise like Alien, Aliens, and Alien vs Predator are streaming on Disney Plus too, it's no surprise that fans are asking why it hasn't got a wider release across the best streaming services.

Why isn't Alien: Romulus coming to Disney Plus?

Right now, Disney has not confirmed why it's not streaming in the UK and other areas. However, that doesn't mean the movie is definitely not going to stream on Disney Plus in the future, so we'll just have to wait for official confirmation.

This isn't the only surprising news about Alien: Romulus though, as early this year it got a limited VHS release for people who like to keep it retro. Personally, I don't have a VHS player anymore, but it's still a cool collector's item nonetheless!

An underwhelming trailer for Alien: Earth dropped recently too, so this franchise isn't going anywhere any time soon, for better or for worse. Right now, we're not sure if Earth will do enough to make it onto our best Hulu shows, but only time will tell.

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• Leaker claims Intel Battlemage desktop GPUs are arriving in December
• Previous rumors have suggested an early 2025 launch, though
• Intel may want to step up to get ahead of AMD and Nvidia’s CES launches

Intel could spring new budget GPUs on us in the form of the initial 2nd-generation Arc graphics cards, known as Battlemage, as soon as December.

VideoCardz picked up on a fresh rumor about the Battlemage range as aired by regular leaker Golden Pig Upgrade (or GPU – see what they did there?) on Weibo.

We’re told (via a translation) that Battlemage desktop graphics cards are coming next month, and that the leaker’s hope is that they’ll perform “brilliantly” no less. There could be something lost in translation there, perhaps, but very probably this is just a hope rather than a prediction.

It’s a hope we all share, of course, because the low-end of the graphics card market could really use pepping up.

If you’re familiar with the long-standing rumors around Battlemage, you’ll likely recall that the expectation is that Intel will only produce entry-level 2nd-gen Arc GPUs, and nothing above the budget space. Still, if these are killer budget GPUs – fingers crossed – or even just decent ones, they’ll be very welcome.

(Image credit: Future / John Loeffler) Analysis: Heading off AMD and Nvidia at the pass?

As ever, this is just a rumor, and it might come to nothing, but this nugget from the grapevine is backed up by other recent speculation. Previous spillage from Weibo has indicated a Battlemage launch before the end of 2024 (complete with a significant generational uplift, we should note), and Intel is already working on 3rd-gen Celestial graphics. Another rumor VideoCardz points out even suggests a November launch.

All that said, there’s been a consistent thread of rumors previously that the next-gen Arc graphics cards may not emerge until early 2025.

It's possible that Intel could be stepping things up, though, and aiming to launch in December to carve out its own publicity with less headwinds – rather than having to compete with the noise made by AMD and Nvidia, whose next-gen launches are coming at CES 2025 if the rumor mill is right. Why wait until early 2025, if you can get in first, and hype up Battlemage more effectively that way?

That could mean a paper launch, possibly – with not much stock available – but we’re getting ahead of ourselves here. Even in that scenario, it’ll still be very interesting to see what Intel has planned for Battlemage, because as noted, the budget sector of the GPU market is in dire need of rejuvenation.

Nvidia is not making an effort in the lower-end space at all, and AMD’s purported budget RDNA 3 offerings – the RX 7400 and 7300 – have yet to turn up either (and look very unlikely to at this point).

We could really use more good budget GPU options at the most affordable end of the market – the RX 6600 is looking a bit tired, and over relied upon, at this point – so let’s hope that the most recent mutterings on an earlier launch of Battlemage are on the money.

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As part of our small appliances coverage on TechRadar, we review dozens of different vacuum cleaners each year. Our first vacuum review was published in 2015, and as of October 2024, we'd published 187 reviews.

As well as providing you with all the information you'll ever need about each individual product, these reviews are what we use to put together our rankings of the best vacuum cleaners and the best robot vacuums, alongside secondary guides such as the best cordless vacuums or the best cheap robot vacuums.

Some of these vacuums are tested by members of our team, and for those we can't do ourselves, we use a small pool of experienced reviewers. In order to make this testing fair, and provide you with useful results, we have a strict reviewing protocol. Here's exactly how we test vacuums at TechRadar.

How we test vacuum cleaners Suction

These tests measure how well the vacuum picks up debris of different kinds, on different types of flooring. Equipment required:

• Hard floor
• Carpet or a carpet-like rug
• Masking tape
• Flour
• Cookie crumbs
• Oats

Before running the suction tests, vacuum the area where you'll be testing so it's as clean as possible. Then, using masking tape, mark out an area 1.2m by 1.2m.

Fine debris test

Create a mixture of cookie crumbs (blitzed in a food processor) and flour. Sprinkle 20g of this mixture over the marked-out area. Vacuum on the lowest setting, ensuring that you don't go over any section more than once. Assess how much of the fine dust the vacuum cleaner has picked up. If it hasn't collected all of the debris, repeat at a higher setting, as required until all the dust is gone.

Repeat for hard floor and carpet.

(Image credit: Future)

Large debris test

Repeat as above, but with 30g of oats. Note if the vacuum pings around the oats, moving them out of its suction path. Repeat for hard floor and carpet.

(Image credit: Future)

As part of these tests, take note of how close you can maneuver the floorhead to the edges of the masked area, and if the vacuum will pick up debris close to this border. Comment on your findings.

Hair tests

Assess how well the vacuum can remove hair from both carpet and hard flooring. Ideally, test both long (human) hair and short (pet) hair.

Does this hair become caught around the brushroll, or is it whisked straight into the bin? If the former, how easy is it to remove?

If there are extra attachments designed specifically for hair, put these to the test and comment on your findings.

Battery

If the model on test is cordless, we want to test how long it lasts on one charge. Charge the vacuum to full power. Then run it continuously on its lowest power mode, timing how long it lasts until the battery is completely flat. Repeat for each power option. Record how long it takes to fully recharge the vacuum, from a flat battery.

(Image credit: Future) Usability

These are less standardized tests designed to gain a more complete picture of the usability of a vacuum.

Use the vacuum as a main vacuum for a couple of weeks, being sure to test out all the supplied attachments as well as any special features specific to that vacuum. Consider questions like:

• How comfortable is the vacuum to use?
• Is it intuitive to put together, swap attachments and so on?
• How easy is it to maneuver?
• Can the floorhead reach into tight spots?
• How easy is the bin to empty?
• Are the attachments useful?

(Image credit: Future) How we test robot vacuum cleaners Suction

The suction tests are designed to assess the robot's vacuum cleaning performance. Equipment needed:

• Hard floor
• Carpet
• Oats
• Cookie crumbs
• Flour

Start by vacuuming both the hard floor and the carpet you'll be using to ensure it's as clean as possible.

Fine debris test
Create a mixture of cookie crumbs (blitzed in a food processor) and flour. Sprinkle 20g of this mixture on carpeted floor, covering roughly an area the size of a square meter.

Start the vacuum on the lowest power setting. Assess how much of the fine dust the vacuum collects. If it hasn't pick up all of it, repeat on increasingly more powerful settings.

Repeat this test on hard flooring.

(Image credit: Future)

Large debris test
Repeat the test above, on both hard floors and carpet, but using oats rather than the fine crumb mixture. Pay particular attention to whether the design of the robot vacuum causes oats to be pinged out of the suction path.

(Image credit: TechRadar)

Hair test

Assess how well the robot vacuum pulls up hair from both carpeted floor and hard flooring. Ideally, test both long (human) hair and short (pet) hair. Does this hair become caught on the brushroll(s) or side brush, or is it directed straight into the onboard bin? If the former, how easy is it to remove?

(Image credit: Future) Mopping

Nowadays, many robot vacuums include mopping capabilities. If this is the case, run a series of tests to measure how well these work. We want to see how effective the robot vacuum is with new, wet spills, as well as sticky, stubborn stains on hard floors. Equipment required:

• Hard flooring
• Fruit juice
• Tomato ketchup

Spill a small amount of fruit juice onto the floor and set the robot vacuum to clean the area. How does it handle it – does it push the liquid around or lift it? Does it require multiple passes to clear the juice from the floor?

(Image credit: Future)

Next, spread a small amount of tomato ketchup on the floor, and leave it dry. Set the robovac off on a cleaning cycle and see if the mop lifts it. Run on the standard setting first, and if the mess isn't cleaned, try a more intensive setting.

(Image credit: Future) Object avoidance

These tests are designed to assess how effective the robot vacuum is at identifying and avoiding objects. Equipment required:

• Shoe
• Charge cable
• Sock (dark or light to match your floor)
• Fake dog poop (optional extra)

Place a sock, shoe, charge cable and (optionally) fake dog poop on the floor, with plenty of room around each object. Set the robovac off on a clean and monitor how well it avoids and/or identifies each object. Run this test twice. Record your findings.

Additionally, monitor how well the robovac deals with obstacles during everyday cleans. Note if, for example, it regularly becomes tangled in cables and needs to be rescued manually.

Usability and features

To gain a general overview of the usability and effectiveness of the robot vacuum, use it as your main vacuum for two weeks. During this time, test any special features – voice control, onboard cameras and extending side brushes, for example – as well as fully exploring the companion app.

(Image credit: Future)

During this review period, consider questions like:

• How easy is the robot vacuum to set up and control?
• How much control do you have over settings?
• How accurate is the product's mapping of your home?
• How well does it deal with edges?
• Is any smart home integration effective?
• How noisy is it in use?
• What maintenance is required, and is this straightforward?
• Can the robovac reliably clear room thresholds?

• A Leica projector with Bauhaus-inspired design
• 4K resolution and 3,000 ANSI Lumens
• Screen size from 65 to 300 inches

Leica has launched a new premium home theater projector, the Leica Cine Play 1. The laser projector delivers 4K resolution at up to 300 inches, and the RGB laser promises a service life of over 25,000 hours.

This is a bright projector with up to 3,000 ANSI Lumens, and the zoom range from the Leica Summicron lens is 65-300 inches. The projector includes Leica's proprietary image processing technology which, according to the firm, "employs special image optimization algorithms to ensure particularly natural colour rendition, finely nuanced colour gradation and an outstanding contrast ratio."

(Image credit: Leica) Leica Cine Play 1: audio features, connectivity and price

In addition to the visual features there are two 15-watt speakers. The Cine Play 1 also supports DTS Virtual:X for use in a wider 3D surround sound system.

There's Apple AirPlay, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and multiple wired ports: HDMI, USB and Ethernet. And it comes with the VIDAA streaming system with the usual selection of streaming apps, voice control and smart home integration – it sounds like a smarter option among the best 4K projectors, and it definitely looks smart.

The Leica Cine Play 1 is available from Leica for a recommended price of $3,795 / £2,950 / AU$5,990). The optional floor stand is $495 / £335 / AU$790.

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• Sennheiser Momentum 4 will be issued to Lufthansa first class flyers 'for the duration of the flight'
• Amazon's running a great Black Friday deal for UK buyers
• US buyers might want to wait for Black Friday

Sennheiser's Momentum 4 Wireless Headphones are among the best wireless headphones you can buy, gaining the full five stars in our review. And now they're taking to the skies – but you don't need to be a high flier to enjoy a pair thanks to a newly discovered huge discount (in the UK, that is).

Let's talk about the skies first. Sennheiser has teamed up with Lufthansa for an in-flight collaboration. Travelers in the newest Lufthansa Allegris First Class suites (see main image. Pretty swish, no?) will be offered a special Lufthansa-branded edition of the Momentum 4 Wireless to use "for the duration of the flight". (Boo!)

They're well suited to flight: battery life is up to 60 hours, more than enough to travel the globe, and their noise cancellation makes light work of engine thrum. But don't worry if your travel budget doesn't quite stretch that far, because we've also spotted a really big discount for those of us in the UK. Hopefully similar discounts are coming to the US too – check our best Black Friday headphones deals for top discounts where you are.

Sennheiser Momentum 4 Wireless' best-ever Black Friday discount

Amazon UK is currently selling the Momentum 4 for £199, which is the cheapest we've ever seen them. The lowest these headphones have ever been is just shy of £245 late last year, so it's a top deal on first-class cans, quite literally.

Things aren't quite so cheap over at Amazon US, where the lowest price we've seen is $219 and the usual price tends to be around $250. Right now they're sitting at $289.98, so perhaps a swathe of Black Friday deals is incoming…

This is the lowest price we've seen yet and an excellent deal on Sennheiser's best wireless headphones for UK buyers: the cheapest they'd been before now is £219, and that was ages ago. This is a massive saving on not just the RRP but on the usual selling price too.View Deal

You might want to hang on for Black Friday here, because while this deal is a significant saving on the RRP we've seen Amazon and other US retailers offer the MOMENTUM 4 for even less.View Deal

These splendid over-ears were released in August 2022 and their relative age (the world of wireless listening gear moves at a startling pace, doesn't it?) is the only reason you might think twice on them.

For sound, comfort and feature set they're incredibly good – one great perk is ‘Sound Zones’. You can create up to 20 profiles (think office, train, gym, home and so on) featuring specific EQ and noise isolation levels – which will magically activate or deactivate when you enter or leave a specific 'zone' wearing the Momentum 4 Wireless. Want max ANC and a bass injection to kick in as soon as you get within throwing distance of the train station? Want to dip into office chatter – but don't want to fiddle with the app (good though it is) at your desk? Sound Zones will make it happen.

Elsewhere you're getting Bluetooth 5.2 with multipoint pairing, aptX and aptX Adaptive higher-resolution audio support (if your file is good enough), Sennheiser's splendid Sidetone tech, which makes your own voice easier to hear during calls, a 'Sound Check', which involves listening to your favorite music to help you create custom presets, and Adaptive ANC, which includes a slider to tweak how much extraneous noise you want to shut out. All in all, they're still excellent in 2024.

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A new phenomenon is reportedly causing confiscated iPhones to reboot on their own and send signals to nearby handsets to do the same – and we don’t know yet if it’s a bug or an intentional feature.

According to a report by 404 Media, law enforcement officers in the US have noticed and warned of an issue whereby iPhones reboot by themselves, in turn becoming much harder to unlock without the original user’s input.

The report says that some officers based in Detroit have hypothesized that the rebooting could stem from a new security feature added in iOS 18, though this is purely conjecture.

The iPhones documented appear to reboot a day or so after being disconnected from cellular service, or after a day of inactivity.

The crux of the issue is how iPhones handle security and unlocking, as there are two main states that an iPhone can occupy when it comes to day-to-day security.

The first is known as Before First Unlock (BFU), which offers much less information and requires a passcode to disengage. 

The second is After First Unlock (AFU), which displays more information on the lock screen, can be disabled with biometrics like Face ID, and, as this report implies, is easier for law enforcement to break into if necessary.

Rebooting an iPhone returns it to the BFU stage, making it substantially harder to access by force.

An iPhone in the AFU state (Image credit: Future )

• US law enforcement officials are reporting that confiscated iPhones are rebooting automatically
• This makes the phones harder to access, and may be a security feature or bug
• Apple has not commented on the situation

What’s more, the report seemingly claims that the rebooted iPhones send wireless signals to nearby handsets that are still in the AFU state to trigger a reboot, though the technical specifics of how this would work aren’t exactly clear yet.

Apple is well-known for its strict approach to user privacy, and has continually refused to allow the FBI to create a backdoor into the iPhone. And as much as this new rebooting phenomenon may hinder law enforcement, it tracks that criminals and thieves would find it harder to unlock stolen phones, too.

However, as Android Authority notes, this report is down to the interpretations of law enforcement officers, and iOS 18 already has a small list of known rebooting glitches. It could be that the reporting officers have simply misunderstood a glitch affecting multiple confiscated iPhone handsets.

Apple has yet to comment on this issue, so be sure to check in with our iPhone coverage for the latest official updates.

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Not long ago OnePlus unveiled the OnePlus 13 with a 6,000mAh battery – that’s bigger either than the OnePlus 12’s battery or basically any other mainstream handset’s. But the company could have something even bigger planned.

According to leaker Digital Chat Station (via 91Mobiles), an upcoming mid-range OnePlus phone could have a 7,000mAh battery. They don’t name this phone, but the mention of it being mid-range means it won’t be the OnePlus 14.

To give you an idea of how big a 7,000mAh battery would be though, the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra has a 5,000mAh one, the iPhone 16 Pro Max has a 4,685mAh one, and even one of the best gaming phones like the Asus ROG Phone 8 Pro only has a 5,500mAh one.

Not the biggest, but much bigger than most

The Doogee V Max has a 22,000mAh battery (Image credit: Mark Pickavance)

It’s not completely unheard of to put a 7,000mAh battery in a phone – in fact there’s even a smartphone with a 22,000mAh battery. But it’s extremely rare to find a phone with a battery of above 6,000mAh, and those that exist tend to be niche devices, which a OnePlus phone probably wouldn’t be.

And while we might not see OnePlus start putting 7,000mAh batteries in all its phones, it does seem the company is interested in using large batteries in general. The OnePlus 13’s battery is huge, and Digital Chat Station claims in this same leak that the upcoming OnePlus Ace 5 series will have batteries of up to 6,500mAh.

Based on past form those phones probably won’t be available in many places outside China, at least under that name, but one of the Ace 5 models could launch globally as the OnePlus 13R, possibly in early 2025.

So if typical smartphone battery capacities just aren’t cutting it for you, there could soon be some much larger alternatives from OnePlus.

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