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President Trump's rival advisors Peter Navarro and Elon Musk are in a war of words over whether Tesla relies on imported parts. Musk has the facts on his side.

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• This new Bloomin8 E-Ink Canvas frame comes in several sizes and lasts for a year on a charge
• You could easily place one on your wall and have it rotate through shared images via an app upload or through an SD card
• These screens also fit into a popular IKEA frame

Digital photo frames are eye-catching pieces of technology for the home, but they come with challenges like power cables and the need for constant connection to the cloud.

What if you could place digital images throughout your home – on every wall – and none of them needed wires or full-time internet connectivity? That would be the new Bloomin8 E-Ink Canvas from Arpobot.

Unveiled in a Kickstarter program this week, the new full-color E-Ink displays are designed to fit inside some standard art and photography frames, including the RÖDALM series from IKEA.

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Based on E-Ink's Spectra6 technology, the Bloomin8 rechargeable displays support full color and 200ppi of resolution. More importantly, they can hold an image indefinitely, which means you only need power to change the display image. A Bloomin8 E-Ink Canvas can operate, according to Arpobot, for up to a year on charge.

It's a rare consumer use for the all-color Spectra6 panel, which E-Ink has traditionally pitched for commercial use (think advertising displays). But it's certainly not the only one.

Bloomin8 will compete with the PocketBook InkPoster we saw at CES 2025. It also uses E-Ink Spectra6 technology, and its accompanying app offers a vast library of images.

When we wrote about it in January, there was no mention of AI image generation. We also don't know about their ability to support IKEA frames.

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Images can be sideloaded through the Bloomin8's integrated SD slot, which I know is a rather retro function. In the years before connected devices, many of the original photo frames relied on SD cards for their photo libraries. However, Bloomin8 also accepts image updates from its dedicated app on your smartphone (iOS or Android).

Even so, since it's not connected to the cloud and doesn't need the Internet for its photos, the Bloomin8 E-Ink Canvas does not draw power while displaying an image. That's the benefit of E-Ink; once the image is drawn, it stays visible on the display even without additional power.

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The matte images we've seen thus far look quite good, though it does take a few moments for the E-Ink to fully resolve and saturate the image. It's also worth remembering that E-Ink is a reflective technology and, like a painting or a photo, is only illuminated if you cast light on it. We don't yet know how well the imagery will hold up in all lighting situations.

If you don't have any art or photos you want to use or have something completely else in mind, the Bloomin8 app can generate AI imagery that you can upload to one of the canvases.

The Bloomin8 panels come in three sizes: 7.3 inches ($167), 133 inches ($349), and 28.5 inches ($999), which means you have many options for mixing up your living room photo collage wall. These are all Kickstarter prices, and retail will be more expensive.

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U.S. Judge Trevor N. McFadden rules the White House cannot deny the Associated Press access to news events because the wire service continues to use "Gulf of Mexico" rather than "Gulf of America".

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• Apple TV+ has a new limited-time deal that's an excellent savings
• Whether you're new or returning, there's a good chance you can get three months of streaming for just $2.99 a month
• The deal arrives shortly after Severance wrapped and before Your Friends & Neighbors premieres

While it’s not as good as the promotion Apple TV+ kicked off 2025 with, this one is likely as close as we’ll get. Better yet, it applies to both new and returning subscribers who meet the qualifications.

Right now, you can get three months of Apple TV+ for just $2.99 a month, totaling $8.97, to experience all the films and TV shows on the platform, such as Severance, Ted Lasso, and The Studio.

You’ll need to act pretty quickly, though, to score this deal. Apple’s making this latest promotion live today – April 8, 2025 – through the end of the day on April 24, 2025. You’re also not eligible for the deal if you’re eligible for three months of the service, meaning you recently bought an Apple device or your Apple TV+ is billed through a wireless carrier like AT&T, T-Mobile, or Verizon.

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Yes, there are specific requirements, but if you meet them, you’ll score access to a growing library of content for a pretty great price. Basically, you’ll need to have just not been a subscriber to the service within the last month or so, reading between the lines.

With the Apple TV+ subscription, you get access to TV shows, movies, and documentaries, including all of the titles on our list of the best Apple TV+ shows to watch. Additionally, you’ll be able to stream select Major League Soccer games that are available for all users and Major League Baseball games at the end of the week, thanks to ‘Friday Night Baseball.’

Right now, we’re in the midst of The Studio, starring Seth Rogen and a laundry list of other celebrities. It’s a show that piqued my interest and that of my TechRadar colleagues. Additionally, Your Friends & Neighbors with Jon Hamm premieres on April 11. Still, you’ll also find other shows available with all episodes like The Morning Show, Silo, Mythic Quest, Ted Lasso, and countless others.

Apple TV+ is, you guessed it, easily accessible on Apple devices like the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV 4K through the Apple TV app. Still, it’s also available on Android and countless streaming players and smart TVs.

So, if you haven’t subscribed to Apple TV+ in quite some time or want to see what the hype about Severance or Ted Lasso is about, it’s an excellent time to give one of the best streaming services a try. You can score the $2.99 a month for three months subscription here.

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A new report from a left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities finds that upcoming changes to Social Security will amount to a "45-mile trip for some 6 million seniors."

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It's been 25 years since measles was officially "eliminated" from the United States.

That's a technical term. In public health, it means measles has not had a steady twelve month spread.

Right now there are measles cases in several states The biggest number of cases are in West Texas where two kids have died.

A quarter of a century after measles was officially eliminated in the US, the disease is once again spreading in West Texas, New Mexico and there are cases in several other states. What can be done to get the virus under control?

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The Internal Revenue Service reached a deal to share tax information about some immigrants without legal status, marking a major change in how tax records can be used.

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• OPHANIM combines everyday tech with high-end scientific imaging capability
• Antimatter detection is now possible using repurposed smartphone camera tech
• Gigapixel device could reveal fine details of particle collisions instantly

At CERN’s Antimatter Factory, the AEgIS collaboration is exploring a novel approach to detecting one of nature’s rarest phenomena: antiproton annihilation.

eeNews reports the team, led by Professor Christoph Hugenschmidt from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), has developed an experimental detector using sensors originally designed for mobile phone cameras.

Instead of creating a new sensor system from scratch, the researchers repurposed sixty 64-megapixel mobile camera sensors to form a 3.84-gigapixel array called OPHANIM, short for Optical Photon and Antimatter Imager. This composite detector can observe where antiprotons collide with matter, annihilating in a flash of energy.

From mobile phones to antimatter research

“For AEgIS to work, we need a detector with incredibly high spatial resolution, and mobile camera sensors have pixels smaller than 1 micrometer,” explains Francesco Guatieri, Principal Investigator at TUM.

To adapt the sensors for scientific use, the team had to employ intensive micro-engineering to remove the camera sensors of layers meant for mobile phone electronics.

“We had to strip away the first layers of the sensors, which are made to deal with the advanced integrated electronics of mobile phones,” says Guatieri. This process enabled the sensors to directly capture the light patterns associated with annihilation events.

Despite their origins, the mobile sensors do not compromise performance. In fact, the new detector offers a 35-fold improvement in real-time resolution over earlier methods.

“Previously, photographic plates were the only option, but they lacked real-time capabilities,” Guatieri adds.

“Our solution, demonstrated for antiprotons and directly applicable to antihydrogen, combines photographic-plate-level resolution, real-time diagnostics, self-calibration and a good particle collection surface, all in one device.”

The OPHANIM detector allows researchers to observe annihilation events in real time with a resolution of about 0.6 micrometres, fine enough to distinguish between different particles created during the process.

"This is a game-changing technology for the observation of the tiny shifts due to gravity in an antihydrogen beam travelling horizontally, and it can also find broader applications in experiments where high position resolution is crucial, or to develop high-resolution trackers," says AEgIS spokesperson Dr. Ruggero Caravita.

"This extraordinary resolution enables us also to distinguish between different annihilation fragments, paving the way for new research on low-energy antiparticle annihilation in materials."

The implications of this work extend beyond antimatter research. OPHANIM’s ability to track particles with such precision could benefit a wide range of experiments, all while offering a low-cost model built from existing consumer technology.

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President Trump is boasting about the wheeling and dealing he's doing to cut deals on steep new tariffs. But for weeks, his aides have insisted that tariffs were not a bargaining chip.

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Following Israel declaring an end to the ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza last month, the Israeli military has called in reservists to return to war. However, this time fewer reserve troops are answering that call to go back into Gaza. Our correspondent in Tel Aviv talked to three officers who commanded troops in Gaza and who have become frustrated with military strategy.

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Trump's trade representative Jamieson Greer told Senators that President Trump's tariffs prompted more than 50 countries to reach out to negotiate trade deals. But Greer declined to give a timeline.

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• 8849 Tank 4 offers a large 11,600mAh battery for endurance
• Supports triple rear cameras including night vision
• 8849 Tank 4 supports 66W fast charging and 25W reverse charging

The rugged smartphone market is evolving, with many brands now integrating large batteries and even portable projectors into their devices.

Chinese brand 8849 is known for such devices, having previously released models like the 8499 Tank 2 Pro and Tank 3 Pro.

The company has now announced the 8849 Tank 4, a business smartphone that features a 100-lumen 720p DLP projector. It supports laser-assisted auto-focus up to 4 meters, micro-laser ranging, night vision camera, and an RGB camping light.

Projector phones are carving a niche

The 8849 Tank 4 sports a 6.78-inch AMOLED screen with a resolution of 1200 x 2650 and a 120Hz refresh rate. Measuring 174.3 x 85.4 x 23.9 mm and weighing 538g, it is only slightly smaller than the best rugged tablets on the market.

This phone is powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 7300 chip, paired with 12GB or 16GB of RAM and 256GB or 512GB of internal storage, expandable via TF card.

It houses an 11,600mAh battery, which is about half the capacity of the Tank 3 Pro, but still large for daily use. The device also supports 66W wired fast charging. While it lacks wireless charging, it compensates with 25W reverse charging via its Type-C 2.0 port.

For photography, the phone is equipped with a triple rear camera setup, including a 50MP Sony main sensor, a 64MP OmniVision night vision camera with infrared fill lights, and an 8MP 3x zoom lens.

Like other rugged smartphones, this device supports IP68 water and dust resistance. Connectivity includes Wi-Fi 6, dual SIM support, and compatibility with GSM to 5G NR networks, offering download speeds of up to 2.34Gbps.

Samsung once dabbled in the projector phone category with the Galaxy Beam released over a decade ago. However, the company ultimately exited the space due to high costs and limited adoption at the time.

Nevertheless, with new offerings like the 8849 Tank 4, as well as similar products like Oukitel WP100 Titan and Doogee V Max Play, projector phones may be poised for a comeback.

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