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We first wrote about the GPD Duo back in June 2024, and while GPD is best known for producing compact gaming laptops and handheld gaming consoles, the Duo is a full-sized laptop with a twist - it features dual 13.3-inch OLED screens that fold upwards for increased productivity.

Marketed as a “13.3-inch Dual Screen Productivity Laptop for Engineers,” the Duo is now available for backing on Indiegogo. The twin screens have a 2.8K resolution, a 60Hz refresh rate, and 10-point touch capability, offering a total of 18 inches of display space.

The second screen can fold 360 degrees, transforming the laptop into a tablet-like device if that’s what you prefer, and you can independently turn off the second display to save battery life.

Graphics boost

The laptop is powered by AMD’s Ryzen 9 HX370 or Ryzen 7 8840U processors, with configurations ranging from 16GB to 64GB of LPDDR5x RAM and storage options of 512GB, 2TB, or 4TB SSDs. Users can further expand the storage to 16TB (8TB + 8TB).

Pricing starts at $1270 for the 8840U version with 16GB RAM and 512GB storage, while the top-tier model with HX370, 64GB RAM, and 2TB storage costs $1860. It is expected to ship in November 2024.

In terms of ports, the Duo has USB-A, USB-C (10Gbps), USB4, HDMI 2.1, and a high-speed OcuLink port that supports an external GPD G1 graphics card (or, presumably, any compatible alternatives) to boost graphical performance. Additional features include a 2.5G Ethernet port, dual speakers with DTS support, a 4096-level pressure-sensitive stylus, and wireless connectivity via Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3.

The 80Wh battery offers up to 14 hours of usage, and 100W PD fast charging can recharge half the battery in just 30 minutes.

Despite GPD’s strong reputation for delivering innovative devices, backing crowdfunded projects always carries risks such as shipping delays and potential changes to product specifications, so bear that in mind. The Duo has already found an audience though. At the time of writing, and with well over a month still to go, it has received $215,874 in pledges, well over the project's flexible goal of $2,574.

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Make no mistake about it – there is nothing quite like seeing your favorite band or artist live. Part of that could be it being your first show, or it might be your first chance to hear cuts off their latest album – or, if you’re like me, to hear the chance to belt out Born to Run with 50,000 others.

Either way, Apple wants to replicate that experience a bit, albeit in terms of the setlist. Apple Music now has a new tool for musicians and bands to let them create playlists of their setlists and show them off in the app.

Simply put, the next big thing in pop, a folk artist, or country singer, among other genre types, can turn a set list into a playlist available in Apple Music. It’s giving a bit of the power back to the artists. Still, you might see Apple Music’s editorial team creating playlists themed around anything, including recent tour stops – I remember this appearing for the Jonas Brothers.

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In a shared guide titled 'Promote your shows with Set Lists' on the Apple Music for Artists site, Apple suggests connecting your Apple Music Artists account with concert-info website Bandsintown so that it can automatically sync upcoming show dates. When creating a playlist, you can choose a new setlist option and even specify the type of show – part of a tour, residency, or one-off concert. After this, you can link it to an event with Bandsintown, as it will pull in that list, or if you haven’t connected, you can manually enter a date – but it must be “a date that is no earlier than one day in the future.”

Using the tool, artists or bands will be able to create playlists of previous shows and future ones. The latter could be useful for tours with similar setlists, but either way, an artist can update the playlists after the fact with a pretty simple interface.

Unlike services like Nugs.net, which artists like Phish, Dead & Co, and Bruce Springsteen, among many others, use, these won’t necessarily be live cuts, but rather the studio version or whatever track is available on Apple Music.

There’s a good chance you might be on one side of the fence with this, either loving or hating the idea of your artist posting setlists as playlists. To one degree, you'll know what you’re getting, and if the artist is one that mixes it up or does a surprise song nightly, you can track the tour's performances with easily accessible audio like Setlist.FM. Of course, there is also the spoiler-alert issue.

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TechRadar’s Mark Wilson is a regular gig-goer, and he told me that setlist playlists sound the equivalent of getting a big movie spoiler. "Part of the appeal of seeing live music for me is the element of surprise," he adds. "will I hear some classic deep cuts for the first time in years, or will the artist obstinately play the new album front to back? I’d rather find that out in real time rather than the day before in Apple Music."

The playlists aren’t just a general flavor of what you might hear at an upcoming concert either – Apple says artists can make playlists for every show they’re doing on a tour. I recently had to tell a friend to stop showing me Setlist.fm during gig because it was accurately predicting not just each song, but the exact running order too.

Perhaps the playlists will help build anticipation for some fans. But one of my favorite musical memories was watching Radiohead release the handbrake for the first time in a decade and play songs from their first three albums – if Set List playlists had been around then, it wouldn’t have been quite as spine-tingling.

I tend to agree with Mark's take, as it could ruin some of the moment, especially if you’re catching the middle of a tour that has been mostly the same. For example, if the artist just posts one setlist or if they’re going nightly, it could be a nearly play-by-play approach to the show. On the other hand, though, if I’d already seen the show, it might be nice to see the evolution of the tour… though that might result in gig-envy.

Either way, get ready to see these appear in Apple Music on the artist’s or band’s profile soon enough – and if you’re spoiler-weary, simply don’t tap to view the playlist.

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In June 2023, AMD launched its EPYC “Bergamo” 9754 server-grade processor from the EPYC 9004 series, a powerhouse featuring 128 Zen 4c cores and 256 threads, with a base clock speed of 2.25 GHz and a maximum boost clock of up to 3.1 GHz.

At the time of release, the EPYC 9754 had a suggested retail price of $11,900, which is still the listed price on AMD’s website.

Just weeks after its launch, however, we found it selling in the US for well under $9,500 from retailers like Wiredzone and Tech-America, which seemed to be the standard asking price. If you thought you were getting a bargain back then, wait until you see how much you can buy it for now. On eBay, you’ll find the processor listed for just $3,525 - a discount of 70.38% off the official price.

Buyer beware

There are several listings for the “brand new” processor on eBay, and while the main ones are priced at $3,525, it’s available for a few dollars more from other sellers. All of the listings have one thing in common - the processors are coming from China with free international shipping.

For your money, you’ll get the processor without a box, although in some listings you can request the original packaging if needed. So, where are these processors coming from, and why are they being sold so cheaply? We reached out to a few eBay sellers but (unsurprisingly) haven’t heard back yet.

The obvious answer is likely going to be due to a variety of factors, such as gray market sourcing, surplus inventory, or sellers attempting to offload stock quickly. If you’re tempted to put in an order for a cut-price EPYC 9754, be warned that purchasing from these sources may come with risks like limited or non-existent warranties, potential counterfeiting, and (of course) little-to-no support.

The EPYC 9754 boasts 256MB of L3 cache, a default TDP of 360W, and supports a configurable TDP (cTDP) range between 320W and 400W.

The CPU is designed for SP5 sockets and supports both single- and dual-socket configurations, making it ideal for high-performance server applications. Aimed at cloud-native workloads, AMD stated at launch that it would deliver performance gains of up to 160% compared to its closest competitor.

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We've already heard plenty in the way of leaks and rumors about the Samsung Galaxy S25 so far, and the latest unconfirmed information to appear has given us some pointers about the colors that the Ultra model is going to be available in.

According to usually reliable tipster @UniverseIce, we're going to see the Galaxy S25 Ultra show up in Black, Blue, Green, and Titanium. However it's likely that a few more options will be offered through the Samsung website.

Read our Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra review and you'll see it can be picked up in seven different colors in total: Titanium Violet, Titanium Gray, Titanium Black, Titanium Yellow, Titanium Blue, Titanium Green, and Titanium Orange.

If Titanium is being marketed as a separate color on next year's model, it's not clear why – it's almost certain Samsung will keep titanium as the main frame material. It's possible the Titanium mentioned in this leak is simply a natural titanium color, while the others are also titanium but don't have that in the color name.

The rumors so far

BREAKING！The Galaxy S25 Ultra will debut in four color options:Black, Green, Blue, TitaniumI I don't know the online color scheme yet. pic.twitter.com/KNHZTC6lmaOctober 19, 2024

The same tipster has included a render supposedly showing the Galaxy S25 Ultra from the front: matching up with previous leaks, we can see the 2025 model has a more rounded frame, and bezels that are even thinner than the current phone. It's also rumored to be making use of a redesigned frame.

There's also been talk that Samsung is going to tweak the camera ring design on the Galaxy S25 Ultra next year, to more closely match the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6. Meanwhile, the screen size could get slightly bigger.

As usual, we're going to get performance increases across the board with the Galaxy S25 series, and the Galaxy S25 Ultra could well get a bump up to 16GB of RAM this time. The phone might even be called the Note 25, but that seems unlikely.

If Samsung sticks to the same schedule that it did in 2024, then the next flagship Galaxy phones should break cover sometime in January 2025. Of course as soon as anything is made official, we'll bring you the news here.

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Cosori TurboBlaze 6L Air Fryer: one-minute review

The Cosori TurboBlaze 6L Air Fryer is the perfect size for smaller families looking to cut down their cooking time a bit by air frying a larger part of their meal, like a chicken, or side dishes, with the basket easily big enough to feed three people - but it has some less-than-ideal quirks that prevent it ranking up there with the best air fryers.

The interface is easy to use, and there are an abundance of cooking functions available (including four Turbo Modes), but the performance isn't what we'd have liked (or expected) from an air fryer costing over $100. While some foods, like chicken wings and toast, turned out perfectly and allowed for easy clean up afterward, I also ended up with a half-baked cake and a mixture of burnt and undercooked chips and vegetables.

These niggles may be able to be worked out, but given the TurboBlaze's promise of 360-degree air flow, and faster cooking on its Air Fry, Roast, Grill, and Frozen modes, I was left disappointed and uncertain of what to expect next from this rollercoaster gadget.

These performance quirks may be able to be worked out with a lot of time, experimentation - and patience - but after my week with this air fryer, I was left far from impressed.

(Image credit: Vic Hood) Cosori TurboBlaze 6L Air Fryer: price and availability

• Price: $119.99 / £159.99 (about AU$180)
• Available in UK and US (as 6 Quart) from Cosori's website or third-party retailers like Amazon
• Regular discounts and sales

The TurboBlaze may not be the most expensive air fryer on the market, but it's certainly not the most affordable we've seen - nor the best for this price range. The US price tag is a bit less than the UK one, coming in just under $120. If you are buying in the US, note that the name and model is a bit different (6 Quart rather than 6L) If you've got a $100 budget, don't worry, this air fryer seems to be regularly discounted on Amazon, so we advise picking one up there rather than from Cosori directly. While the price in the UK is a bit higher, making this a less budget-friendly air fryer, again, Amazon regularly does discounts that knock it closer to the £100 mark. Unfortunately, if you're in Australia, the TurboBlaze range isn't available.

While this air fryer offers a bunch of bells and whistles, its lack of consistent results hold it back from being good value for money at that price tag. The things it does well, it does brilliantly, but there's a lot of functions that just didn't work how I'd expect. For an air fryer over 100 quid, I would expect the most basic functions (at the very least) to work well every time. That's not the case here.

• Value score: 2.5/5

Cosori TurboBlaze 6L Air Fryer: specifications Cosori TurboBlaze 6L Air Fryer: design

• Easy to set up, use, and clean
• Touch controls work well
• Fairly compact given its capacity

The Cosori TurboBlaze 6.0-Litre Air Fryer was a breeze to set up, coming with a handy booklet of recipes and tips to try out and recommendations on cooking weights and times for some of the most common air fryer ingredients.

The overall black, matte design is pretty sleek, and its digital interface is easy to use, with a good-sized touch-screen interface showing its nine cooking functions (including four Turbo modes) and keep warm function. Simply select the mode suited to what you're cooking (the booklet helps here), then use the touch screen to increase or decrease the time and temperature. Press start, and you're off.

The air fryer itself is pretty compact given its generous capacity, but still measures 40 x 30 x 30.1cm, so it takes up a chunk of counter space when you consider the 13 cm behind it you need to leave. How imposing you find it will really depend on your kitchen counter space - and how often you plan to use it.

The six-liter basket provides plenty of room to cook for a small family (I was easily able to fit an eight-inch cake tin pan inside) and is ideal for those looking to cook one larger item, like a whole chicken or a portion of vegetables or fries for a few people. It comes with a crisper plate, which slots in simply from an angle (just don't catch the rubber stoppers) and is used for most cooking functions.

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The basket and crisper plate are dishwasher-safe, but I found that hand washing them was almost quicker and easier than waiting for the dishwasher cycle to end.

It would have been good for a window to be included in the basket to prevent me from having to pull it out to check on my food (letting some heat out), and it was frustrating at times to have to reset all the controls when my food needed an extra 10 minutes, but overall this TurboBlaze has a solid, to-the-point design.

• Design score: 4/5

Cosori TurboBlaze 6L Air Fryer: performance

• Inconsistent results
• Handy preheating function
• Plenty of functions to try out, including proving

I found Cosori TurboBlaze 6.0-Litre Air Fryer the perfect size for me and my partner, and I was excited to put it through its many cooking functions through their paces- but the results were mixed to say the least.

Testing started off strong when I tried a chicken wing recipe from the booklet. After preheating the air fryer as per Cosori's instructions, I added 700g of seasoned wing to the crisper plate and set it to air fry at 200C for 16 minutes.

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This air fryer isn't too loud, hitting around 60 decibels when cooking - about the volume of a conversation between people sitting a meter away. So, while you don't need to shout over it, you will notice it a bit. As a massive clutz, I liked that the outside of the air fryer never got above around 23/24C, with the back airflow around 25C, so if you've got little ones, you don't need to worry about them accidentally burning themselves by touching the outside- though obviously, the inside is another story.

I was really impressed with the first test. The wings came out crispy on the outside and succulent inside - perfectly cooked and the best I've ever made. There was minimal mess in the bottom of the basket, too. But my other tests were another story.

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I tried 500g of fresh and frozen fries on the air fryer setting (part of the Turbo modes), at different times, but both came out with half the fries underdone and half overdone - mostly with the edges of the chips burnt. Even giving the basket a shake during cooking didn't help. Those that were cooked were fluffy inside but either burnt outside or soggy. Considering fries are a staple of air fryer cooking, and the Turbo Mode cooking functions are meant to quickly cook food with 360-degree air flow, this was a big disappointment.

The disappointment only continued with my cake baking. I used this as a perfect opportunity to bake my fiancé a birthday cake, using an online air fryer standard cake recipe. After consulting the book again (which I had to do a lot), I set the air fryer on the Bake function, using the recommended time and temperature from the booklet. It's worth noting, you can't (and shouldn't) just use the default cooking mode setting for everything and anything you're cooking in this air fryer (or any, really).

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After preheating the air fryer and cooking my cake for 20 minutes at 165C (as the book instructed), my skewer came out wet. I ended up baking the cake for another 20 minutes (in intervals) until the top was burning and busting open.

Though the skewer was still a bit wet at the bottom, the cake wasn't going to survive much longer. After cooling, I tipped the cake upside down on a rack to find the entire bottom half was completely raw, while the top half was on the verge of burning. Absolute disaster.

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Using this air fryer was a bit of a rollercoaster. After the cake, I made a roast chicken using the roast function and the booklet's recipe that was crispy on top and juicy inside. Though, the bottom was a bit too juicy, verging on almost soggy after the air fryer managed to blow over my whole chicken. Much like the chips, the vegetables for the roast were inconsistently booked, with the edges of my broccoli burning until the point of being inedible but my carrots not cooking enough - and requiring more time than the instructions stated.

As for the other functions, I ended up still somewhat juicy lemons and limes after four hours dehydrating, but did find toast easy to grill and the proving feature rose my bread dough in just an hour, resulting in perfectly crispy on the outside and soft on the inside bread.

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By the end of my testing, I wasn't quite sure what I was going to get from this air fryer. I spent days testing its modes, but still found it inconsistent across some of its most basic modes. My advice? Trust the book's recipes, but maybe not its cooking times.

• Performance score: 2/5

Should you buy the Cosori TurboBlaze 6L Air Fryer? Buy it if

You don't mind working out its quirks

This air fryer does some things perfectly, and others not so well If you're up for experimenting with the best cooking times for each product, or an air fryer expert, you could end up with the same level of consistency across the board.

You've a smaller household

The 6-liter basket is aimed at households of three to five, but I think three is the perfect number (depending on appetites).

You want an easy-to-use air fryer with multiple functions

The touchscreen interface is super simple to use and there's lots of different functions to try out - even if they aren't all perfect.

Don't buy it if

You don't want to mess around with times and temperatures

If you want an air fryer that does a lot of the work for you, working out the precise cooking times and temperatures for your meals via smart app or otherwise, this isn't for you.

You want a solid air fryer on a budget

There are better air fryers at this price range, or for less, so it's worth considering them instead. Take a look at our roundup of the best air fryers for some alternatives.

You have very limited counter space

This air fryer doesn't take up loads of room, but if you have a small kitchen then it could be too bulky.View Deal

How I tested the Cosori TurboBlaze 6L Air Fryer:

I used the Cosori TurboBlaze 6L for a week, cooking a wide variety of foods including fresh and frozen fries, chicken wings, fresh vegetables, a roast dinner, cake, and bread. I tested all the air fryer's various modes (including dehydrate, which I used to dry fruit slices). I cleaned the air fryer in line with the instructions provided in the manual. For more details, see how we test.

First reviewed October 2024

After five joyous years as an Android user, curiosity got the best of me – I’ve been using an iPhone 15 for the last week or so to re-immerse myself in iOS and offer stronger contributions to our iPhone coverage.

Overall, I’ve been impressed by last year’s base-model iPhone. A lot has certainly changed since I parted with my iPhone 5S in 2019, and in the ten years between the launch of the iPhone 5S and iPhone 15, Apple has improved the iPhone in nearly every way, from the screen size (4 inches to 6.1 inches) to the battery life (a couple of hours to nearly all day) and connectivity (USB-C!).

Regrettably, there remains one thing that Apple did not improve in the decade of development between my previous and present iPhone, and it’s not been fixed with the new iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus either.

In the world of Android, 120Hz is the new normal for flagship and high-end phone displays, while budget options are commonly equipped with 120Hz or 90Hz displays. These days, 60Hz displays are the preserve of tablets and the cheapest budget phones. The iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus are, by modern standards, complete oddballs.

Apple introduced its ProMotion display technology on the iPhone 13 Pro (Image credit: TechRadar)

The 60Hz debacle has been a focus of debate here at TechRadar for years now; "Please, Apple – don't do this to the iPhone 15" wrote Managing Editor for Mobile Computing Roland Moore-Colyer in the run-up to the phone's launch back in 2023, and Phones Editor Axel Metz found that 120Hz changed his entire outlook on iPhones when he switched to the iPhone 15 Pro.

Apple is more than capable of producing high refresh rate phone displays, as the ProMotion displays on the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max demonstrate. In my experience, the smaller the screen, the more the benefit of a higher refresh rate is felt, as your eye has less space to work with to accommodate jagged motion.

To me, this is simply the most egregious example of Apple’s famously blunt product stratification strategy.

There is simply no user benefit to fitting iPhones with 60Hz displays, and the Samsung Galaxy S24 shows us that a company can deliver a flagship phone with a 120Hz display for $799, the same price as the iPhone 16. This partially counters arguments centered on component price or manufacturing costs.

So, why does Apple continue to sell iPhones with slow refresh rate panels? To me, this is simply the most egregious example of Apple’s famously blunt product stratification strategy, a considered choice to drive customers towards the more expensive iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max.

It’s a shame, too – I’ve been otherwise impressed by the iPhone 15, and our iPhone 16 review found that Apple’s latest flagship brings the base model closer than ever to its Pro counterpart. Understandably, the standard and Pro iPhones need to be separated somehow, but here, Apple continues to enforce distance by limiting the low-end model rather than enhancing its premium offering.

This is a regrettably common Apple tactic. The exact same issue applies to the iPad Air and iPad Pro, and the cheapest MacBook Pro is still sold with a puny 8GB of RAM – decisions that drive people towards more expensive options.

I’m far from an Apple hater – I’m a longtime iPad user and converted from Windows to Mac last year – but this kind of behavior is my pick for Apple’s worst bad habit. Apple has made its name by thinking differently, but when it comes to refresh rates, I’m afraid everyone else is right.

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