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Here's a rundown of some of the new tech we could see from big hitters like Samsung, Apple and Google in 2025.

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• From January 4th to 5th, 2025, Apple TV Plus will be free.
• Apple TV Plus will let anyone stream its content.
• Take advantage and watch shows like Severance and Ted Lasso for no cost.

After a few teasers across its social channels, Apple TV Plus has confirmed via Instagram (see post below) that a free weekend of streaming is coming in fast. So whether you want to watch some Ted Lasso, Shrinking, or get caught up on Severance but don’t want to sign up – either as a new customer or a returning one – to Apple TV Plus, this is your chance to watch anything from its entire library for free.

From January 4–5, 2025 – likely a whole 48-hour event – you’ll be able to stream any of the Apple TV Plus original TV shows, movies, and documentaries for free. It’s not just occurring shortly after the holiday season and just four days into 2025, but it’s also right before the much-anticipated season 2 of Severance begins streaming on January 17, 2025.

Further, considering the teasers and free-weekend formal announcement all feature characters from the show, the timing of this free weekend likely isn’t a coincidence. It could serve to build up hype around the show’s return and even encourage folks who haven’t ventured into the halls of ‘Lumen’s’ halls to do so without needing to subscribe.

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While free weekends for streaming services aren’t unheard of, this is the first for Apple TV Plus. The streaming service routinely offers an Apple TV Plus free trial of about seven days, but that requires a sign-up. And the timing comes before a major series return and at a time when there is a boatload of great content to watch on Apple TV Plus.

There is plenty to watch on the service, including Mythic Quest, Schmigadoon!, The Morning Show, Ted Lasso, Slow Horses, and For All Mankind, among many others. You can see TechRadar’s full list of the best Apple TV Plus shows here, which will give you an idea of where to start this upcoming weekend. And when you're done there, make sure to check on our ranking of the best Apple TV Plus movies for more.

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While you can find Apple TV Plus’ vast library of content within the Apple TV app on the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV 4K streaming box, it’s available on other devices, too, and even on the web. Most major streaming OSs, including Roku, Google TV, and FireOS, offer the Apple TV app for easy streaming, and it’s also built into both Samsung and LG TVs.

Apple TV Plus’ free weekend of streaming will kick off on January 4, 2025, and wrap at the end of January 5, 2025. And while we don’t yet know if it’s available in the UK, Australia, and all countries where the service is available, we’ve reached out to Apple to ask and will update this story if we hear back.

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For the first decade of the smartphone industry’s lifetime, progress was absolutely rapid. We went from the iPhone in 2007 to the iPhone X in 2017, with phone makers implementing massive changes to design, performance, and software with each new generation.

However, in the last five or so years this progress has tapered, with phone makers pushing for marginal gains, squeezing the absolute most performance possible out of existing technologies. Again looking at Apple, the jump from the iPhone 13 to iPhone 14 in 2022 felt more like a hop as the latter phone launched with the same camera, design, and chipset as its predecessor.

Indeed, at the start of 2024 we saw a phone market dominated by broadly very similar pieces of hardware – whether you prefer the iPhone 16, Samsung Galaxy S24, or Google Pixel 9, the average flagship sports a powerful processor, roughly 6.2-inch display that looks fantastic, a double or triple rear-camera system that takes great photos, and a long battery life. A plateau had formed.

With phone makers effectively neck-and-neck in terms of hardware, it looked like AI would be the next great decider between brands, with Apple Intelligence and Google Gemini ushering in an era of software rivalry not seen since the early days of iOS versus Android.

However, as the year pushed on, I kept hearing of new hardware technologies popping up time and time again in rumors, or bundled into new flagships from lesser-known phone makers. Now, looking to the new year, I’m confident that we’ll see the phone hardware race reignited in 2025.

A battery boost

The first development that has me truly excited for phone hardware next year is the silicon carbon battery. Though not technically brand new – the first phone with a silicon-based battery was released in 2023 by Honor – this past year has seen the adoption rate of this excellent new technology begin to speed up.

Since penning our Oppo Find X8 Pro review, I’ve been daily driving the phone and its 5910mAh battery, which continues to amaze me. Lithium-ion phone batteries are more common at the moment, but as Tom’s Guide notes silicon has a higher energy density, meaning a silicon battery can store more charge in the same amount of space.

What this translates to for a large flagship such as the Find X8 Pro is charging once every two days and leaving the house with 30% charge knowing it’ll see you through an evening. For smaller phones like the iPhone 16, silicon-carbon technology could finally give users truly reliable all-day battery life. Having tried it myself, I reckon it could change the game in 2025.

A powerful performance push

Sticking with internals, 2024 was the first year in a few in which we saw significant gains in the world of chipsets. After a few lackluster generations from both Apple and Qualcomm, we were treated to a push forwards on both sides.

The A18 chipset found in the iPhone 16 boasts 30% faster processing and 40% faster graphics than the A16 found in the iPhone 15. While the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite nearly doubled the performance of the A18 Pro found in the iPhone 16 Pro when our US Mobiles editor Philip Berne ran benchmarks to compare the two.

The first Snapdragon 8 Elite phones are starting to emerge from Chinese phone makers like Xiaomi and Nubia, though I’m especially excited to see what Samsung does with the chipset in the rumored Galaxy S25 Ultra. The world’s most powerful phone with the world’s new most powerful chipset? That’s reason enough to be excited right there.

MediaTek has also emerged as a worthwhile challenger to Apple and Qualcomm, supplying plenty of mid-range and budget phones as well as Chinese flagships. Speaking from experience, the top-end Dimensity 9400 chipset found in the Find X8 Pro absolutely rips – I’ve yet to find a way to slow the thing down. It’s great to have a new competitor in the mix as we head into the new year.

Finally, some decent zooming

There’s plenty to be excited about in terms of photography, too. If rumors are to be believed, 2025 could be the year we see a leading flagship launch with a 1-inch sensor thanks to the rumored Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra. There have been other phones produced with a 1-inch sensor, like the Xiaomi 14 Ultra and Oppo Find X7 Ultra. But these aren’t widely available – a 1-inch sensor camera from Samsung, Apple, or Google would set a very high bar for the entire industry, and no-doubt shake up our list of the best camera phones in the process.

I’m expecting telephoto cameras to get more and more impressive in 2025, too. The iPhone 17 Pro is rumored to ship with a 48MP 5x zoom camera optimized for video – that’s four times the resolution of the 12MP zoom snapper found on the iPhone 16 Pro. Further tips suggest that Samsung has developed a telephoto lens with a brighter aperture to aid with low-light portraits. Some might consider this a niche aspect of phone design, but I’ve long thought that zoom is a crucial part of the phone camera experience and am hyped to see some progress made.

With some of these technologies already available, and others still only existing in the aether of rumors and tip offs, it’ll be up to phone makers to either take up the potential with new models or develop rumored tech into reality. I’m also hoping for further surprises in display tech, sustainability and repairability, and adventurous design choices.

With that all said, one thing remains clear: the stage is set for some exciting phone hardware developments in 2025.

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• A 9th victim has been identified in the Salt Typhoon hack
• No attackers are thought to be lurking on the networks
• The White House wants to go on the 'offensive' against cyber threats

An ongoing assessment of the notorious Salt Typhoon hack has claimed there are no longer any lurking hackers present in the breached networks, and that all networks are now secure. This is the latest development in one of the most far reaching cyber-espionage campaigns in recent memory, which has just claimed its 9th victim, the White House confirmed.

Major telecoms firms like AT&T and Verizon were amongst the victims of the campaign, with over 100,000 routers compromised in just one network, which allowed broad and full access, allowing the attackers to "geolocate millions of individuals, to record phone calls at will."

It’s believed that fewer than 100 individuals were affected personally by the attack, with the group specifically identifying a small number of devices around the Washington DC area, with a goal of identifying and monitoring government targets to collect intelligence.

White House retribution

The attack has sparked response from the White House, as incoming President Trump has vowed to go on the offensive. Officials claim years of cyberdefense has been ineffective, and Mike Waltz, new national security advisor has warned the US will need to ‘start imposing’ on nation state actors who pose a threat.

Whilst the investigation is ongoing, it seems unlikely that the scale of the intrusion will ever be fully understood, with damage limitation and mitigating follow-on risk now a high priority.

“That’s why we’re looking forward and saying ‘let’s lock down this infrastructure,’ and frankly, let’s hold the Chinese accountable for this,” said Anne Neuberger, Deputy National Security Advisor for cyber and emerging technology.

“From what we’re seeing regarding the level of cybersecurity implemented across the telecom sectors, those networks are not as defensible as they need to be to defend against a well-resourced, capable, offensive cyber actor like China.”

Via Reuters

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With 2024 coming to a close, I’m looking back on everything that happened with 4K Blu-ray over the past year. Needless to say, it’s been a year of ups and downs. We’ve seen some excellent releases, especially from independent distributors. We’ve also seen brands and retailers exit the 4K Blu-ray market, whether it’s selling discs or players.

As one of TechRadar’s TV reviewers, the best 4K Blu-ray players and discs are crucial for testing the best TVs as they provide not only the best picture quality thanks to a higher bitrate than streaming but also better-quality audio for testing a TV’s built-in speakers and the best soundbars.

But 2024 really has been a rollercoaster year for us 4K Blu-ray fans. There have been reports of increasing disc sales from major UK retailers, and then elsewhere you read that the state of physical media is in decline and it’s all very doom and gloom. So what did happen in the world of 4K Blu-ray in 2024?

Disney and Best Buy sabotage, plus a Sony savior

Without Sony, movies like Deadpool & Wolverine wouldn't have made it to 4K Blu-ray (Image credit: Future)

In two of the major news stories for 4K Blu-ray, Best Buy decided to stop stocking 4K Blu-ray discs and then Disney announced its decision to cease 4K Blu-ray releases. Still, 4K Blu-ray remained alive and well thanks to the efforts of smaller distributors like The Criterion Collection and Arrow Video, both of which released superb remasters and gorgeous special editions of classic movies. I bought The Warriors from Arrow Video US and it’s an incredible release.

But, these small companies can’t be expected to do all the work and whatever you think of Disney’s current filmography, its back catalog is vast and it owns production companies like Fox. Plenty of critic- and audience-lauded movies, such as All of Us Strangers, would miss out on being presented in the best quality, starving home theater fans of a 4K Blu-ray release.

However, an unexpected savior appeared when Sony agreed to take over distribution rights for Disney’s physical media. This meant that movies and TV shows from Disney, Marvel, Fox and others would now get physical releases. It was some much-needed good news for the world of 4K Blu-ray.

Retailers and brands come and go

Panasonic is one of the few remaining brands offering mid-range 4K Blu-ray players (Image credit: Future)

Disney and Best Buy weren’t the only major brands to pull out from 4K Blu-ray, with another blow dealt as recently as December when LG announced it was discontinuing production of 4K Blu-ray players. That leaves Panasonic and Sony as the only remaining mainstream brands providing ‘new’, budget and mid-range Blu-ray players (Oppo and Samsung pulled out of the 4K Blu-ray player market in 2018 and 2019 respectively, and remaining brands like Magentar and Reavon are aimed at the premium end of the market). While some players are still available on the second-hard marketplace, you can expect stock to become increasingly scarce.

Despite more woes, some retailers have decided to get on the 4K Blu-ray train. For example, US retailers Fred Meyers and GameStop announced they would stock 4K Blu-ray discs back in May, providing more outlets for 4K Blu-ray fans to get movies.

4K Blu-ray in 2025

My 4K Blu-ray obsession accelerated in 2024, with the best purchase being this stunning 4K Blu-ray Special Edition of The Warriors from Arrow Video. Who knows what I'll add in 2025? (Image credit: Future)

So, what’s the outlook for 4K Blu-ray in 2025? Honestly, I'm hopeful. Here at TechRadar, we’ve noticed an appetite for 4K Blu-ray info, with more readers getting in touch and more eyes on any 4K Blu-ray-related news. So much so that we’ve launched the Blu-ray Bounty, where we look at great 4K Blu-ray releases each month, with our first edition showcasing Double Indemnity, Power of the Dog and Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.

Spending more time with 4K Blu-ray has also fuelled my obsession. Along with The Warriors, I’ve recently added The Crow, The Dark Knight Trilogy and The Lord of the Rings to my collection, among many others that would take too long to list!

But, that’s the state of Blu-ray for us here at TechRadar. What about the wider world? Again, signs point to a minor revolution. That may sound exaggerated, but with the best streaming services like Netflix, Prime Video and Disney Plus constantly raising prices people are going to get fed up. Prime Video not only added ads for all users unless you paid $2.99 / £2.99 to go ad-free in January 2024 but it’s set to add even more ads in 2025. This is just one example of streaming services squeezing the pennies out of people, with Netflix also kicking people off its cheapest ad-free tier, forcing an upgrade or a cancellation. I’d list more cases from 2024, but we’d be here all day.

Another frustration I’ve found is the constant hot potato that these streaming services play with movies and TV shows. Too many times have I gone to watch a favorite or a classic that’s caught my eye one month to find next month it’s gone. With discs, you own the content and it’s there to watch. I’ll be keeping an eye to see how many other people get fed up with this in 2025 and opt to trust in good ol’ physical media.

Final thoughts

I'll be testing the best 4K Blu-ray releases as much as I can in 2025, so expect more Blu-ray Bounty! (Image credit: Future)

4K Blu-ray and physical media in general has faced a year of highs and lows in 2024 and while I’m hopeful for its future in 2025, I know there is still uncertainty. Physical media sales overall remain on the decline and despite rising prices, streaming services are still the main way people watch movies and TV shows.

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• An attack on FreshClick has exposed customer payment details and more
• The extension is used by Zagg’s ecommerce provider, BigCommerce
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Zagg has notified affected customers of a data breach that put highly sensitive information at risk, including payment card details.

In a letter dated December 26, 2024 (via the Office of the Maine Attorney General), the company confirmed a 12-day-long attack between October 26 and November 7, which it became aware of one day later on November 8.

The problem stems from an attack on FreshClick, a third-party application used by Zagg’s ecommerce software platform provider BigCommerce.

Zagg confirms cyberattack

“We learned that an unknown actor injected into the FreshClick app malicious code that was designed to scrape credit card data entered as part of the checkout process for certain ZAGG.com customer transactions between October 26, 2024 and November 7, 2024," the company confirmed.

Names, shipping and billing addresses, and payment card information could be at risk as a result.

In recognition of the severity of the attack, Zagg is giving affected customers 12 months’ access to credit monitoring through Experian. It’s also urging customers to monitor their financial accounts, place fraud alerts and consider credit freezes to prevent identity theft.

BigCommerce said (via Bleeping Computer): “Acting in the best interest of our customers and their shoppers, we immediately uninstalled the app in their stores, which removed any compromised APIs and malicious code.”

Basic internet hygiene principles like being cautious about sharing certain information and following potentially malicious links go a long way to protecting consumers against potential attacks, however when an attack affects a third-party service such as this, there’s very little that consumers can do, highlighting the widespread risks of online activity.

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• Infinity Nikki Version 1.1 is out now
• It introduces new limited-time events, plus a fresh Mira Journey battle pass
• You can also claim free log in rewards

Magical fashionistas rejoice, cause cozy open-world dress-up adventure Infinity Nikki has received its first major update.

The Version 1.1, or ‘Shooting Star Season’ update, introduces a wide range of new events with some great rewards. This includes the ‘Star-Kissed Wishes’ event, which allows you to earn Diamonds and the exclusive ‘Memory's Stardust’ earrings sketch. There’s also the limited-time ‘Celestial Wishes’ Resonance event, with the five-star ‘Wings of Wishes’ and four-star ‘Starfall Radiance’ outfits up for grabs.

Both outfits grant unique effects. Wearing the full ‘Wings of Wishes’ set allows you to float around gracefully on the wings of a paper crane, while wearing the full ‘Starfall Radiance' set fills the sky with beautiful shooting stars.

The ‘Into a Starry Night’ event will also be unlocked, letting you complete tasks in order to claim the free three-star ‘Path of Starlight’ outfit. This is on top of the ‘Adventures under the Stars’, ‘Let’s Touch Shooting Stars!’, and ‘Take the Bait, Pink Ribbon Eel!’ events, which will each offer their own rewards.

New check-in bonuses will be available too, with those who log in for a total of seven days receiving 10 Revelation Crystal.

As you might expect, the update brings a handful of new quests. Notable additions include the ‘Call of Beginnings’ Interlude Chapter, which rewards you with a sketch for the five-star ‘Silvergale’s Arial’ Miracle Outfit free of charge. A new Mira Journey battle pass has been enabled, letting you level up through a fresh series of rewards.

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Reacher season 3: key information

- Set to debut on Prime Video next February
- First trailer released in early December
- Based on Lee Child’s seventh Reacher book, which is titled 'Persuader'
- Alan Ritchson and Maria Sten returning from previous seasons
- New supporting cast revealed
- Plot synopsis detailed by Amazon
- Season 4 is already in the works

Ready to rock and roll with Reacher season 3? You're in luck. Indeed, we don't have to wait much longer for a show that's been dubbed “peak Dad TV” by numerous observers to return to our screeners.

Why? Because Reacher's latest season will make its Prime Video debut on February 20, 2025. At the time that this article is going live, then, the hit Amazon series is less than two months away from making its comeback. Before it does, you'll want the latest news and rumors about Reacher season 3, including its full release schedule, cast details, early story teases, and more. Good job we've put in the hard yards and rounded all of that up for you, then, eh?

Major spoilers follow for Reacher's previous two seasons. Potential cast and plot spoilers also follow for the forthcoming season, too.

Reacher season 3 release date

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Reacher season 3 will officially makes its bow on Prime Video, aka one of the world's best streaming services, on February 20, 2025. The announcement was made during Amazon's CCXP Brazil panel in early December, with Ritchson taking to the stage to unveil Reacher season 3's release date and trailer (more on the latter shortly).

Like the action show's second season, this chapter will launch with a three-episode premiere. New entries will air weekly until the season finale on March 27 after it debuts.

Reacher season 3 trailer

Reacher season 3's full trailer hasn't dropped online yet, but a 30-second teaser received its world premiere at CCXP Brazil. Typically, it showed off plenty of explosive action, the return of Reacher's most trustworthy ally in Maria Sten's Frances Neagley, and introduced us to a towering new henchman who's not only taller than the eponymous hero, but also the one individual who's been able to properly know Reacher to the ground with a single punch.

Reacher season 3 confirmed cast

Alan Ritchson returns to take names and kick butt as the titular character (Image credit: Prime Video)

Possible spoilers follow for Reacher season 3.

Here's the confirmed cast list for Reacher season 3 so far:

• Alan Ritchson as Jack Reacher
• Maria Sten as Frances Neagley
• Olivier Richters as Paulie
• Anthony Michael Hall as Zachary Beck
• Sonya Cassidy as Susan Duffy
• Brian Tee as Quinn
• Johnny Berchtold as Richard Beck
• Robert Montesinos as Guillermo Villanueva
• Daniel David Stewart as Steven Elliot

Ritchson and Sten reprise their roles from Reacher's previous seasons, but there are plenty of new faces joining them for the show's next outing.

The *ahem* biggest news is that Dutch bodybuilder Olivier Richters, who stands at over seven foot, is playing an absolute colossus going by the name of Paulie. He was seen briefly in season 3's first trailer as the individual who gives Reacher a taste of his own medicine from a brute force viewpoint.

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In February, Amazon announced two other new hires in Hall and Cassidy. The former is playing Zachary Beck, aka "a formidable and successful businessman, Beck is a widow and single father of a 20-year-old son, Richard. He is the owner of a rug import company that Reacher and his cohorts suspect is a cover for a more nefarious operation". Cassidy, meanwhile, will portray Agent Susan Duffy, "an extremely intelligent and tough DEA agent from Boston with a sharp and sarcastic sense of humour."

One month later, Amazon MGM Studios confirmed four more actors had landed roles. Tee will play Quinn, a "physically imposing and intimidating Lieutenant Colonel in the army, who Reacher investigated ten years ago when he sold military secrets to hostile nations". Berchtold is on board as Richard Beck, the only son of Zachary, who we’re told is a "sensitive and artistic college student."

Elsewhere, Montesinos will star as Villanueva, a DEA agent on the verge of retirement. Villanueva is Duffy's mentor and described as "paunchy with bad knees and a good natured sense of humour, he really loves and cares about Duffy even though they bust each other's chops all the time". Lastly, Stewart will play Steven Elliot, a clean-cut rookie DEA agent, who is "lovable, fresh-faced, new to the job and still learning."

Reacher season 3 story synopsis and rumors

Frances Neagley will, once again, aid Jack Reacher throughout this season (Image credit: Prime Video)

Mild spoilers follow for Reacher season 3's plot.

Here's the official story synopsis for season 3: "In the third season of the action-packed series, Reacher hurtles into the dark heart of a vast criminal enterprise when trying to rescue an undercover DEA informant whose time is running out. There he finds a world of secrecy and violence – and confronts some unfinished business from his own past."

The forthcoming season is based on 'Persuader', the seventh book in Lee Child’s global best-selling book series. And, based on what Ritchson told ComicBook.com, this season could be one of his most personal stories yet. "There's a lot of classic Reacher stories which are just adventures that he gets sucked into in a big way," the man mountain actor said. "We get to enjoy Reacher in a new world. It may not have anything to do with family [or] with his past – he's just living that adventure out and that's kind of the direction that we've gone and it seems to really be working."

Elaborating further on what fans can expect from the threequel, Ritchson told Collider: "Things get pretty dangerous. Things get – and I mean this, I would never lead you astray – there's been a little tiny something in each season where I've been like, 'I wish we could do that better.'

"Season 3 is by far the best season we've ever made," he continued. "Start to finish, this is high octane action, this is peak TV, and I cannot wait for everyone to watch this. I don't want to ruin it for you. In 'Persuader', Reacher has to go undercover, and he's gotta do some heavy lifting, both to stay alive and to find someone he's looking for. Things get quite dangerous. But he also comes across his most formidable foe yet in Paulie."

Sounds like the titular roamer is in for a rough ride, then! February 2025 can't come soon enough.

Has Prime Video said anything about Reacher season 4 yet?

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It has – in fact, Amazon MGM Studios confirmed it has greenlit Reacher season 4 in October. Not only that, but the e-commerce giant's entertainment division also announced a spin-off project, which will center on Sten's Neagley.

"Reacher has become a phenomenon that continues to resonate with our global customers beyond our wildest expectations and we are thrilled to bring the series back for an additional season," Vernon Sanders, head of television, Amazon MGM Studios, said in a Prime Video statement. "We are looking forward to more action and adventure from the immensely talented team behind the series including Nick Santora, Alan Ritchson, Lee Child, Skydance, and CBS Studios."

Considering there are 28 (!) books in Lee Child's Reacher novel series, there's still plenty of source material for the series to draw from. Given how popular Reacher continues to be – season 1 was an unexpectedly massive hit, while its sequel was the most-streamed Amazon TV Original of 2023 – as well, its massive audience isn't like to get tired of seeing Ritchson beat up more goons in the years ahead. Don't expect Reacher season 4 to be the show's last installment, then.

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