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The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 could be the next two major smartphone launches (all signs point to a July announcement), and at this point, we have a good idea of what to expect from both new devices.

Leaks and rumors have detailed many of their possible specs and upgrades, and now, leaker @PandaFlashPro has even gone so far as to detail the specific features Samsung will supposedly highlight at the phones' July launch.

So, below, you’ll find the five things Samsung might focus on during its upcoming Galaxy Unpacked showcase – from camera tech to screen sizes.

While Gemini and Gemini Live are Google features rather than Samsung ones, the latter company will apparently talk a lot about these tools during the launch of the Galaxy Z Fold 7 and the Galaxy Z Flip 7.

Gemini is Google’s AI chatbot, and Gemini Live is a feature that lets you engage in spoken conversations with said chatbot. You can also show Gemini what your camera can see, or other images or files, and ask it questions about them.

None of this is new, but perhaps we’ll see new Gemini features baked into the Galaxy Z Flip 7 and Fold 7, or perhaps Samsung will simply highlight how well Gemini Live works with a foldable form factor.

According to this leak, Samsung will also highlight other existing AI features like Generative Edits for photos and Now Brief (a tool that delivers personalized briefings throughout the day).

Samsung will also apparently highlight the camera capabilities of the Galaxy Z Fold 7 in particular, including its widely rumored new 200MP primary snapper, which will reportedly replace the 50MP one on the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6.

As well as new camera hardware, the company will apparently highlight new software, too, in the form of an improved version of its ProVisual Engine, which runs behind the scenes to optimize photo quality.

Samsung will supposedly highlight the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7’s thin and durable design at Galaxy Unpacked, including the “all-new” ultra-thin glass on its screen. The aforementioned leaker doesn't say exactly how this glass will be improved over the Z Fold 6’s, but presumably it will either be thinner or more durable, or both.

And we’ve previously heard from various sources that the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 could be much slimmer than its predecessor, with one source suggesting the Z Fold 7 will be just 3.9mm thick when unfolded and 8.9mm thick when folded. That’s down from 5.6mm and 12.1mm on the Galaxy Z Fold 6.

As for durability, we’ve previously heard that the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 might have improved water and dust resistance, and that it could have a tough titanium backplate.

In fact, Samsung itself has even said the Galaxy Z Fold 7 will be slimmer and more durable than the Z Fold 6.

It’s worth noting that some leaks suggest the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 could also be more durable than the previous model, but seemingly, Samsung won’t focus on that if this latest claim is accurate.

Samsung reportedly won’t focus as much on the Galaxy Z Flip 7, which makes sense, since leaks suggest this device won’t be getting as many upgrades as the Z Fold 7. But according to this latest rumor, one thing Samsung will highlight is the phone’s improved photo quality.

They don’t specify here what the cause of that improved photo quality will be, but this is likely a reference to a new version of Samsung’s ProVisual Engine, which is reportedly coming to both upcoming foldables and works behind the scenes to improve images using AI.

From what we’ve heard so far, though, the actual camera hardware on the Galaxy Z Flip 7 might be unchanged from the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6, so there might not be too much for the company to talk about here.

The other Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 feature that Samsung will apparently focus on is its cover screen. The source here doesn’t detail what this specific display upgrade might be, but we’ve previously heard that the Galaxy Z Flip 7 may have a larger cover screen of around 4 inches (up from 3.4 inches on the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6), so it’s likely to be the size that’s the focus.

That increase should make the Galaxy Z Flip 7's display a lot more usable, and according to previous reports, the main display might also be larger this year, at around 6.85 inches (up from 6.7), but that’s not mentioned here.

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Fifteen years ago, I was no stranger to a moshpit. I was eighteen, and without the responsibilities nor the creeping aches of a mostly desk-bound thirty-three-year-old journalist, I could throw myself into these mock-brawls at rock concerts with reckless abandon.

Clad in my best (or tattiest) black, baggy Iron Maiden T-shirt, I moshed at any gig I could, from obscure hardcore garage bands in tiny metal-music pubs, all the way to huge festival concerts for the likes of Metallica, entering moshes with hundreds of participants.

They might look scary on the outside, but even if you've never been in one before, most moshpits are friendly affairs: no-one's out to (seriously) hurt anyone else, and if anyone falls down, they get hauled up straight away. On many occasions, I'd see a hand holding a shoe, phone, or hoodie stick straight into the air in the middle of the pit, signaling to the owner that they've lost something. Moshpits everywhere, no matter the size of the crowd, share an unwritten code of conduct.

Unfortunately, your technology can't understand that this is all fun and games. All the best Apple watches, and most of the best Android smartwatches, offer features designed to detect falls and collisions, notifying either a designated contact or placing a call to emergency services, but these features can be accidentally triggered too. The Guardian reports that during the annual Download Festival, a three-day event in the UK that's considered by many to be a Mecca for metal fans, around 700 accidental emergency calls get made on average as a result of moshing.

The festival took place last weekend, from 13-15 June, and the wasted time for emergency services is presumably still being assessed.

Before Download began in earnest last weekend, the local Leicestershire Police force took to social media to remind rock fans to either take off their smartwatches or turn off the feature. On Facebook, the police force wrote:

"The tech assumed that people in mosh pits had been in a collision, causing 999 contacts and abandoned 999 calls.

"All those calls had to be assessed, with three outbound call attempts completed to ensure there is no threat, risk or harm, taking our contact handlers away from answering true emergency calls.

"#HelpUsHelpYou by answering our callbacks from hidden numbers to let us know you are safe. We also recommend switching on ‘airplane mode’ or disabling emergency alerts on your wearable tech."

When Crash Detection features were first introduced by Apple in 2022, headlines abounded about accidental callouts to theme parks: one BBC article highlighted Apple Watches as responsible for six different emergency callouts to a single theme park in Cincinatti, Ohio.

However, it's not all bad; for every headline about accidental triggers or false callouts, there's also been one about how someone's benefited from a smartwatch's emergency features. We'd call that a net positive overall.

If you're about to rock, we don't just salute you: we also encourage you to turn off Crash Detection or similar features on your devices. For Wear OS, you'll find these features under the Personal Safety tab, while Apple Watch users will need to go to Settings > SOS > Crash Detection.

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• The Nubia Pad Pro is launching outside of China
• The tablet comes with impressive specs for the price
• The starting configuration will set you back $420 / £360

We may well have just got a new contender for our comprehensive best tablets guide, because the Nubia Pad Pro is launching globally. It's the first Android tablet from the Chinese company, and it has specs to compete with the best iPads.

Head over to the official Nubia Pad Pro listing (via GSMArena), and you'll see the device comes with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset, with 8GB, 12GB or 16GB of RAM, and either 256GB or 512GB of storage on board.

That chipset isn't the newest, but it's only a couple of years old, and still has plenty of power for day-to-day tablet tasks. Factor in the starting price of $420 / £360 (a launch in Australia hasn't been mentioned), and this seems like a pretty sweet deal.

The Nubia Pad Pro looks the part as well, nicely curved and finished based on the marketing images published so far: the tablet is a mere 7.3 mm thick, tips the scales at 523 grams, and boasts a 10.9-inch, 2880 x 1800 pixel, 144 Hz display.

While we haven't had a chance to review or even hold the Nubia Pad Pro yet, based on the specs and images it would appear to be a serious contender to Apple's entry-level iPad, which was refreshed again back in March.

That Apple tablet has a starting price of $349 / £329 / AU$599, so it's cheaper than the Nubia offering. However, the iPad also has a lower resolution screen and less RAM, and starts with less storage (128GB).

Fit out the iPad with 256GB of storage for all your photos, movies, and other files – which is what the Nubia Pad Pro starts with – and you're up to $449 / £429 / AU$799. That makes the Android option look very appealing indeed.

Of course you need to weigh up various other factors, including the other devices you have and the ecosystems you're already invested in, but this is a welcome new addition to the best Android tablets market – and you can currently grab some preorder deals as well.

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• Google Cloud's API service ere to blame for widespread outage
• Most regions were back online in 40 minutes, but some took even longer
• The company has promised to protect against future outages and improve communication

Following Google Cloud's recent widespread outage, which took sites like Spotify, Cloudflare and Discord offline, the company released its detailed report sharing exactly why it failed customers.

The company says the root cause was a code issue in Service Control – part of the company's API management and policy checking system.

Specifically, invalid automated quota update and a lack of proper error handling triggered a global crash loop, with 503 errors seen across not only Google Cloud services, but services using its APIs.

The outage affected the Google Cloud infrastructure, as well as other popular Google Workspace apps like Drive, Docs, Gmail and Calendar. However, third-party sites accessing Google Cloud's API, including popular music streaming platform Spotify which boasts of 678 users, as well as some Cloudflare services, were also affected.

"On May 29, 2025, a new feature was added to Service Control for additional quota policy checks," the company wrote in its incident report. "The issue with this change was that it did not have appropriate error handling nor was it feature flag protected."

Google Cloud boasted that its Site Reliability Engineering team had started triaging the incident within two minutes, having identified the root cause within 10 minutes. "The red-button [to disable the serving path] was ready to roll out ~25 minutes from the start of the incident," Google said, with the rollout complete within 40 minutes.

Although smaller regions recovered relatively quickly, larger regions like us-central-1 took longer to come back online – around two hours and 40 minutes in the case of this particular region.

In its mini incident report issues on the day of the outage, Google Cloud promised to "do better." Its more detailed report promises the usual responses going forward, such as improving static analysis and testing practices, auditing and modularizing Service Control’s architecture to contain future incidents, but the company has also pledged to "improve [its] external communications" to better inform customers, ensuring that its communications infrastructure remains online even during such outages in the future.

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It's my job to test coffee makers here at TechRadar, and I take it so seriously that I trained as a barista so that I can bring you the best advice when you're choosing a machine for your own kitchen.

I've tested some of the best espresso machines from big brands including De'Longhi, Jura, Breville, and Gaggia, and during that time I've got a pretty good feel for the factors that will make the biggest difference when you're brewing coffee at home.

Here I've picked the five things that matter most to me, and which I think you should bear in mind when researching your next big purchase. Most of this advice applies to bean-to-cup coffee makers, but there are some considerations (such as boiler type) that also apply to fully manual machines.

There are some factors you won't have a lot of choice over. For example, the overwhelming majority of bean-to-cup coffee machines use thermoblock heating systems. These are a good choice for making drinks at home because they heat quickly and accurately, but they don't allow you to brew coffee and steam milk simultaneously – the Breville Dual Boiler Espresso Machine is a rare exception.

Of course, coffee is very personal, and you'll also have your own checklist of requirements when picking a machine for your home. For example, you might want an espresso machine that's capable of making cold-brew coffee, or one with an automatic milk frother. Which factors matter most to you? Let us know in the comments.

If you're considering buying a bean-to-cup machine that has a coffee grinder built in, there are some important factors to consider.

First of all, Even if your coffee machine's grinder isn't great, it's better than buying coffee pre-ground. Coffee beans start to lose their aroma within minutes of grinding, so preparing them yourself is always the best option. That's because exposure to air causes coffee to degrade, and ground coffee has a much larger surface area to volume ratio than whole beans, so it loses its aromas much faster.

When you're looking at grinders, there should be one word in mind: consistency. You want all your coffee ground to the same-size particles, and that's down to the burrs. Pretty much all home espresso machines have stainless steel burrs, which tend to get hotter than ceramic, and become blunt faster, but since you're only grinding a small amount of coffee at a time, that's not likely to be a problem.

However, ceramic burrs are generally better for consistency at small grind sizes, which is what you want for espresso, so if you can find a home coffee machine with ceramic burrs, it's well worth investigating.

Pretty much all bean-to-cup espresso machines will let you adjust the grind size manually, even if they make suggestions or can do it automatically. You can usually do this using a dial on the side of the machine, or by rotating the bean hopper. Look for a machine that gives you fine control over the grind size; a small adjustment can be the difference between a shot of sour, over-extracted espresso and a perfectly balanced, sweet-tasting shot.

If you're choosing a bean-to-cup coffee machine, also check to see how easy is is to disassemble the grinder for cleaning. Over time, oils and debris from your coffee beans will build up on the burrs, which can affect its performance and the taste of your coffee (nobody wants rancid oil in their freshly ground coffee).

It might seem obvious that you should be able to take the grinder apart for thorough cleaning, but it's not always possible. Some coffee makers will come with instructions suggesting you should just give the top of the grinder a brush, but that's not enough for me. I want to get it properly clean.

Coffee is mostly water, so a filter to remove impurities that can affect the taste of your drink is always welcome. You don't want to remove all the minerals (distilled water prevents the sensors that detect the level of the water in the tank from working properly, and can make the coffee taste flat) but there's a happy medium.

Most of the espresso machines I've tested recently let you fit a water filter inside the tank. They're easy to attach, and either push or screw into place. However, the machine doesn't always come with one provided, which is a shame since some of them can cost half a month's salary. They can be expensive to buy separately, so take a look at how much they cost when picking a machine that uses them.

If your tap water is extremely hard, it's worth considering installing a filter under the sink, or using a jug with a filter to fill your coffee machine – and however hard it is, make sure to run the machine's descaling program regularly.

I've already mentioned cleaning the grinder, but I want to be able to clean the whole machine properly too – and that's not always easy.

After testing a coffee maker, I always run the full gamut of cleaning programs so it's as close to mint condition as possible, and it's interesting to see how much variety there is. Commercial espresso machines have a backwash function, which involves putting a cleaning tablet or a scoop of powder in a blank basket (with no holes), fitting it in the portafilter handle, and then running a cycle to thoroughly clean all residue from the brewing group.

It get things truly clean, but so far I've only seen a couple of home espresso machines with a backwash cycle. It's something you should ideally use at the end of every day (much more often than descaling) but the majority of home espresso machines just make do with rinsing the brew group with hot water. The Sage Barista Touch Impress with Cold Extraction is a notable exception, coming with a blank basket plus a full array of cleaning products. Full marks, Sage.

Another feature I appreciate is the ability to purge all water from the machine by draining the circuit and evaporating water from the boiler. It makes the machine safe to store or transport, and I've seen it on a couple of bean-to-cup espresso makers, but not many.

Call me shallow, but I'm not going to pretend that aesthetics don't matter when I'm choosing an espresso machine. We're not talking about a blender that's going to be tucked away in a cupboard – your coffee machine is going to be on the counter at all times, and it might be the first thing people see when they come in to your kitchen.

That doesn't necessarily mean it has to be a heavy piece of brushed stainless steel. Some of the best bean-to-cup coffee machines I've tested have a case that's made mostly from plastic, and that's perfectly fine as long as you can't tell.

The De'Longhi La Specialista Touch, for example, is mostly plastic on the outside, but it looks just like brushed metal and attracted a lot of admiring glances when I was using it in TechRadar's test kitchen. What it doesn't attract is fingerprints, which is excellent.

I have a small kitchen, so I also tend to look for coffee machines with a relatively small footprint, and which aren't too tall. I've sometimes struggled to use particularly large bean-to-cup coffee machines because I can't get beans into the hopper without pulling the machine out from underneath my cupboards.

Water tanks on the back of the machine are another bugbear, because they're hard to access unless you keep your coffee maker on an island. Give me a tank that sits on the side of the machine (like the Jura J10) or slides out of the front (like the De'Longhi Primadonna Aromatic) any day.

A coffee machine is a big investment, so it's well worth considering what the after-sales service is like before taking the plunge. This is one of the reasons why it's a good idea to consider one of the bigger brands, as they're more likely to have good customer support.

For example, if you pick a DeLonghi coffee machine, you'll benefit from a minimum guarantee of two years, and servicing at licensed repair centers using original parts. If your machine is outside its guarantee period, the company can still inspect and repair it for a fee, and it even supports coffee makers over nine years old.

Jura offers a 25-month warranty when you buy one of its machines from an authorized dealer, and the company can carry out repairs, or you can buy spare parts if you want to replace something yourself.

• Hacker posts new thread on a dark web forum, claiming to have stolen millions of records from T-Mobile
• The records included names, email addresses, phone numbers, and other PII
• However T-Mobile says the archive has nothing to do with the company or its customers

Hackers have recently shared a new database they claim contains sensitive customer information stolen from the American telecommunications giant, T-Mobile. However, the company denied any connection to the archive, saying it had nothing to do with it, or its clients.

A Cybernews report claims the unnamed cybercriminals leaked a database containing fresh intel (obtained as early as June 1, 2025).

The database contained 64 million lines, holding valuable customer information such as full names, dates of birth, tax IDs, postal addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, device IDs, cookie IDs, and IP addresses.

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This kind of data is extremely valuable to cybercriminals, who can use it to create specially crafted, personalized phishing emails, tricking the victims into sharing login credentials, banking info, and other vital data. These attacks can result in identity theft, wire fraud, and ransomware attacks.

Responding to a Cybernews inquiry, T-Mobile said the data had nothing to do with it: “Any reports of a T-Mobile data breach are inaccurate. We have reviewed the sample data provided and can confirm the data does not relate to T-Mobile or our customers," the company's representative told the publication.

The Cybernews team analyzed the data, but could not confirm its authenticity. It said that some data, such as phone numbers, appeared in earlier T-Mobile links, but said it was impossible to verify the archive with 100% accuracy. We also don’t know if 64 million lines means 64 million people.

“If this data is legitimate, exposing 64M lines of highly sensitive information poses a serious threat of identity theft/fraud, surveillance, and further, better-targeted attacks on customers,” the team said.

This is not the first time T-Mobile denied having been breached. Roughly a year ago, an infamous threat actor known as IntelBroker claimed to have broken into T-Mobile and stolen Source code, SQL files, Images, Terraform data, t-mobile.com certifications, and Siloprograms. T-Mobile denied the claims.

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