New terms let Meta crawl sites tied to business users and use the content to train its products, widening rights ad buyers had already granted.

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Lenovo’s upcoming Lenovo Googlebook 15 is shaping up to be a very different kind of Google-powered laptop. Leaked specifications point to a 15.3-inch 120Hz OLED touchscreen, Intel’s Core Ultra 5 325 processor, up to 32GB of LPDDR5X memory and a 70Wh battery. The combination suggests that Lenovo is targeting users who want more than the basic hardware traditionally associated with Chromebooks.

The laptop is expected to become one of the first devices built around Google’s new Googlebook Panther Lake processor platform. Lenovo has not yet confirmed the final retail price or complete launch details, so the specifications below should still be treated as leaked information until the company makes an official announcement.

Lenovo Googlebook 15 specifications

The reported configuration puts the Googlebook 15 firmly in the premium laptop category.

• Processor: Intel Core Ultra 5 325
• Graphics: Integrated Intel Xe3 graphics
• Memory: 16GB / 32GB LPDDR5X
• Storage: 256GB / 512GB SSD
• Display: 15.3-inch OLED touchscreen
• Resolution: 2880 × 1800
• Refresh rate: 120Hz
• Brightness: Up to 500 nits
• Color coverage: 100% DCI-P3
• Battery: 70Wh
• Claimed battery life: Up to 11 hours
• Wireless: Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4
• Ports: 2 × Thunderbolt 4, USB-A, HDMI 2.0 and 3.5mm audio
• Webcam: 5MP RGB with dual microphones
• Audio: Four speakers with Dolby Atmos
• Weight: Approximately 1.29kg
• Thickness: Approximately 15.9mm

A 120Hz OLED display is the biggest highlight

The Googlebook 15 laptop lineup reportedly uses a 15.3-inch OLED touchscreen with a 2880 × 1800 resolution and 16:10 aspect ratio.

The 120Hz refresh rate is particularly notable. Instead of positioning the machine as an inexpensive web-focused notebook, Lenovo appears to be giving it a display specification normally associated with more expensive Windows laptops.

The panel is also reported to reach 500 nits and cover 100% of the DCI-P3 color space. That combination should make the Googlebook 15 more appealing for photo and video viewing, creative work and general multimedia use.

For everyday productivity, the 16:10 format also provides more vertical workspace than a traditional 16:9 laptop display.

Core Ultra 5 325 and up to 32GB RAM

Performance is another area where the Googlebook 15 moves beyond the usual entry-level Chromebook formula.

The leaked configuration points to Intel’s Core Ultra 5 325 processor, paired with integrated graphics. Buyers are reportedly expected to have a choice between 16GB and 32GB of LPDDR5X memory.

Storage options are said to include 256GB and 512GB SSD configurations.

The higher 32GB memory option could be particularly useful if Googlebook is intended to handle heavier multitasking, Android applications and AI-assisted workloads rather than simply running browser-based tasks.

Googlebook 15 brings a different keyboard and design

Lenovo is reportedly giving the laptop several visual and functional details designed specifically for the Googlebook platform.

One of the most unusual additions is a dedicated Google “G” key positioned between the Fn and Alt keys. Its final software function has not been fully explained, but the key could become an important shortcut for Google services or AI features.

The lid is also expected to feature a multicolor LED strip known as Glowbar. Rather than being purely decorative, the lighting system can reportedly provide visual information related to power and charging status.

The laptop is said to use a large haptic touchpad measuring approximately 150 × 95mm, while the keyboard is backlit.

Security and video-call features

The Googlebook 15 also appears to take security and communication more seriously than a basic Chromebook.

The power button is reportedly integrated with a fingerprint reader, while the laptop is expected to support Google’s facial authentication system.

For video calls, Lenovo is reportedly using a 5MP RGB webcam with dual microphones. A physical privacy shutter is also included, allowing users to cover the camera when it is not in use.

Audio is handled by four speakers with Dolby Atmos support.

Plenty of ports for a thin 15-inch laptop

Despite its relatively slim chassis, the reported port selection is fairly comprehensive.

The laptop is expected to have two Thunderbolt 4 ports, one USB-A port, HDMI 2.0 and a 3.5mm headphone and microphone combo jack.

Wireless connectivity reportedly includes Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4.

This combination makes the Googlebook 15 more flexible for users who connect external displays, storage devices and other accessories.

70Wh battery and lightweight design

The reported 70Wh battery is another interesting part of the specification.

Lenovo is said to target up to 11 hours of battery life under its own testing conditions. That figure should not be interpreted as guaranteed real-world runtime, since display brightness, refresh rate, applications, wireless connections and workload can all affect battery performance.

More impressive is the reported weight. Despite its 15.3-inch display, the laptop is expected to weigh around 1.29kg and measure approximately 15.9mm thick.

That would make the Googlebook 15 relatively portable for a large-screen notebook.

Why the Googlebook 15 matters

The most interesting part of the Googlebook 15 is not any single specification. It is the overall hardware combination.

A 120Hz OLED touchscreen , Core Ultra 5 processor, up to 32GB of RAM, Thunderbolt 4, Wi-Fi 7 and a 70Wh battery place the machine well above the basic hardware profile that consumers traditionally associate with Chromebooks.

The Googlebook platform also appears designed around Google’s broader ecosystem, including Gemini AI features and closer Android integration.

That means Lenovo’s new laptop could be aimed at users who want the simplicity of Google’s software environment without accepting entry-level laptop hardware.

This is also why the Googlebook 15 may be more interesting than a conventional Chromebook upgrade. Its value will ultimately depend on how well Googlebook OS takes advantage of the more powerful hardware.

Lenovo Googlebook 15 release date and price

Lenovo has not yet announced a final retail price for the Googlebook 15.

The laptop is expected to arrive this autumn, with Googlebook hardware expected to receive more attention as Google reveals additional details about the platform.

For now, the leaked specifications suggest that Lenovo is preparing a premium large-screen Googlebook rather than another budget-focused Chromebook.

The combination of a 120Hz OLED display, Intel Core Ultra 5 325, up to 32GB of RAM, modern connectivity and Google-focused software could make the Lenovo Googlebook 15 one of the more interesting new laptops in the emerging Googlebook category.

Until Lenovo officially confirms the specifications, however, pricing, availability and final software features should be considered unconfirmed.

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Algo que não passou despercebido durante a apresentação do iPhone Duo, primeiro smartphone dobrável da Apple, foi a animação ao abrir e fechar o aparelho — uma cortesia da versão adaptada do iOS especialmente para o modelo.

Como quase nada é impossível no mundo dos desenvolvedores, essa animação já foi transportada para o macOS graças ao DuoHinge, que adiciona uma ilusão de ótica interativa de dobra à tela física do seu MacBook.

Ao acessar diretamente o sensor de ângulo da tampa integrado ao Apple Silicon, o DuoHinge projeta sua área de trabalho em tempo real em um plano 3D virtual vertical, aplicando perspectiva realista via raycasting, dispersão gaussiana de vidro em duas passagens e dispersão cromática nas bordas conforme você fecha a tela.

An iPhone Duo–style hinge animation, but on a MacBook. Sometimes it’s fun to build things just because. pic.twitter.com/grYKra4X91

— João Franco (@JoaoFranco_03) September 10, 2026

O processamento da área de trabalho ocorre localmente no dispositivo, utilizando a taxa de atualização da tela integrada (até 120Hz em telas compatíveis) por meio do ScreenCaptureKit e shaders Metal personalizados, tudo encapsulado em uma camada transparente que permite cliques através dela, sem interromper seu fluxo de trabalho.

O aplicativo lê o sensor de ângulo da tampa e suaviza o movimento de acordo com a cadência de renderização. Um ícone vetorial do MacBook, no estilo da Apple, gira e espelha o ângulo real da sua tela nas barras de menu do macOS (no modo claro ou escuro).

O DuoHinge é gratuito, não contém assinaturas, nem rastreia quantas vezes você abre o seu MacBook. Ele exige pelo menos o macOS Sonoma 14 e pode ser baixado diretamente pela página no GitHub — ao iniciar o aplicativo pela primeira vez, abra-o na barra de menus e conceda permissão de Gravação de Tela e Áudio do Sistema quando o macOS solicitar.

Thanks to a little-known feature in Instagram, I try to travel back to 2012 – before everything on the internet was an ad

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I have a confession. I love my social media algorithm. It is a perfectly curated window into my insane and inquiring mind. It knows precisely which videos will tickle me and which memes will gently distract me from the slow collapse of humankind.

On Tuesday the Australian government announced “world-leading” reforms that would force social media platforms to allow users to opt-out of algorithms, dubbed “my feed, my way”. On the same day, I was delighted to be confronted with a video on Instagram of a woman accidentally spilling a bucket of eels on a Chinese train. Dozens of eels slithered among the passengers, who appeared not as surprised as I would have expected.

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A ANACOM afirma que as plataformas da Meta foram responsáveis por mais de 50% das reclamações sobre serviços digitais recebidas durante o segundo trimestre do ano. Entre as plataformas que geram mais queixas em Portugal incluem-se ainda as da Google e a rede social X.

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Meta took days to remove ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on Facebook and Instagram. Some ads featured photos of real kids, including a press photo of a young member of a European royal family and images swiped from a popular Instagram profile of a preteen girl deemed an influencer.

In an investigation published Tuesday, the Tech Transparency Project (TTP) reported that Meta failed to detect 332 ads containing CSAM this year. The “vast majority” of ads promoted AI apps made in China, while many ads promoted so-called “nudify” apps that make it easy for bad actors to use AI and digitally alter images of children.

TTP matched “multiple CSAM ads to photos of real children that appeared online.” These ads seem to violate federal child pornography laws, since the Justice Department has clarified that AI CSAM is just as harmful as CSAM. The young royal’s image was “animated into a video of her performing a graphic sex act,” TTP found. Other ads animated a photo of a 14-year-old Instagram influencer “showing off her new sports club uniform” into “a video of her performing oral sex.” A third “preteen” victim “posing in a pink athletic outfit with pigtails” in a series of stock photos was morphed into a video where she looks frightened as she’s molested by an adult male, TTP reported.

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Even if the legislation passes, tech companies may still find ways to frustrate its intent and keep Australians hooked on their feed

Social media could become a “choose your own adventure” between the doom-scrolling status quo, or just the feed of the friends you want to see, if the government’s planned digital duty of care legislation passes, and the tech companies don’t muck around on compliance.

But that’s a big if.

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Instagram and Facebook’s parent company agreed to sweeping alterations and a payment of up to $18bn to settle a landmark trial

Meta’s agreement to change how teenagers use its social networks marks a major turning point for the US tech giant, setting a precedent that could significantly reshape how other social media operates in the coming years.

Meta agreed to substantial alterations to Instagram and Facebook on Wednesday as part of a settlement to end a landmark lawsuit. Dozens of US states had accused it of addicting and harming children with dangerous products. The company also agreed to pay up to a combined $18bn over a decade to several US states and territories involved in the suit.

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Also: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman expressed his surprising sympathy over the construction of datacenters across the country

Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m Blake Montgomery, US tech editor at the Guardian, writing to you from a sunny park in New York City, which was supposed to endure rain all weekend but in fact delivered the best weather of the year.

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The integration of Apple Maps in Ford’s future electric vehicle platform generates discussions of the auto industry picking and choosing technology. The MacVoices Live! panel also examines security risks involving Claude Cowork and exposed shared chats, OpenAI’s dispute with Hugging Face, and the hazards of autonomous AI tools. If that wasn’t enough, selfie-based account recovery puts a new spin on the facial recognition.The panel includes: Chuck Joiner, Web Bixby, Eric Bolden, Marty Jencius, David Ginsburg, Brian Flanigan-Arthurs, Jim Rea, Jeff Gamet, and Mark Fuccio. 

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Do smart glasses need video recording to be relevant? The MacVoices Live! panel debate the importance of privacy, accessibility, navigation, object recognition, captions, and visual assistance as measures of usefulness. They examine the stigma created by existing smart glasses, the difference between processing and storing images and the public expectations around recording, detection apps, and […]

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Já está disponível em pré-venda no Brasil o livro “A Apple na China”, tradução oficial de “Apple in China”, obra lançada no ano passado pelo especialista Patrick McGee que retrata as transformações no mercado chinês resultantes dos investimentos da Maçã.

“Como uma parceria criada para aumentar a eficiência e reduzir custos ajudou a transformar a economia global e a indústria de tecnologia?” é o questionamento que move o título, que foi lançado no Brasil pela editora Livros de Valor.

No livro, McGee revela os bastidores da relação entre a Apple e a China, com base em uma pesquisa aprofundada de mercado que incluiu “centenas de entrevistas, documentos confidenciais e relatos inéditos”.

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Esse embasamento ajudou o autor a falar com propriedade sobre as concessões, disputas e decisões que possibilitaram a colaboração entre ambas e, principalmente, discorrer sobre as suas consequências econômicas — e até geopolíticas.

Para os interessados, o livro já pode ser adquirido na Amazon — por R$75 ou R$52 em suas versões física e digital, respectivamente. Ele será lançado oficialmente no dia 26 de agosto.

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Um AirTag usado para rastrear uma cadela ajudou a encontrar um casal de idosos que foi evacuado da casa de repouso onde residiam após um incêndio florestal atingir o espaço, localizado em British Columbia (no Canadá).

Conforme relatado ao Globalnews.ca, as duas filhas do casal ficaram desesperadas quando viram as notícias envolvendo os incêndios na cidade de Summerland — que foi completamente evacuada —, uma vez que moram bem longe do local onde os pais residem.

Foi aí que uma delas lembrou que a cadela do casal tinha um AirTag em sua coleira e começou a observar a localização apontada pelo rastreador, que apontou para um famoso centro de convenções e comércio na província.

Embora concluísse que eles estavam seguros, a mulher começou a se preocupar com a medicação do pai e com a perda de memória da mãe, e decidiu fazer um apelo para encontrá-los em uma comunidade do Facebook.

Após a publicação, várias pessoas começaram a ligá-la afirmando terem visto seus pais e que eles estavam bem. “Eles são adoráveis, eles estavam cumprimentando a todos”, diziam algumas das pessoas que ligavam.

Uma mulher, então, encontrou os pais de Helen Gonzalez e ligou para ela. A mulher ajudou a conseguir uma cama confortável e alimento para eles, além de ter permitido que a filha falasse com os pais pelo telefone.

Além do AirTag, a linha de apoio criada para famílias entrarem em contato com seus entes queridos foi essencial para o reencontro e para o final feliz dessa história.

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For years, social media companies have faced pressure from users and government watchdogs to stop misinformation from distorting

Meta has released Muse Glimmer, a slimmed-down open-weight AI model designed to run locally on a single GPU for agent tasks such as scheduling, file management, coding, and tool use. The release is based on Meta's closed Muse Spark 1.2 model and appears to be aimed at attracting developers who want capable AI agents without relying entirely on cloud-hosted services. Engadget reports: Facebook said that it's making the "weights" that AI systems use to choose responses available to everyone on Hugging Face along with developer documentation. The download is available for free, and users can run the model on their own PCs. The company noted that optimized integrations will land on llama.cpp and other sites, "so you can go from download to working agent in minutes." The model is powerful for its size, according to Meta, with the "strong success rates" on benchmarks like DeepSearch QA, MCP-Atlas and SWE-Bench (which evaluates its ability write and debug code). It also supports reliable tool use, multi-step reasoning, failure recovery, multimodal input and scaffold compatibility for work with OpenClaw and other agent orchestrators. It was trained on data from over 100 languages, the company added. "Rather than centralizing superintelligence, we should distribute it widely and give every person the ability to direct it," CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in an essay accompanying Muse Glimmer's release. "This has the potential to begin a new era of personal empowerment where individuals can use this powerful new capability to reach their full potential, pursue their interests, and improve their lives and the world more than ever before."

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Com inúmeros modelos e variações de Macs já fabricados, a Apple consegue abranger diferentes públicos-alvo. Desta forma, seja você uma pessoa que usa computador apenas para navegar na web ou um profissional que precisa de máquinas parrudas para dar conta do recado, pode usufruir de notebooks ou desktops da empresa.

Para ter certeza de qual modelo de computador da Apple você tem no momento, é possível conferir exatamente essa informação pelo sistema.

Veja duas maneiras de conferir isso! 👨‍💻

Primeiro método

No canto superior esquerdo, clique no logo da Apple e depois em “Sobre Este Mac”.

Veja que a janela lista o modelo da máquina (MacBook Air), assim como detalhes como o chip (M1) e a quantidade de memória (8GB).

Segundo método

Abra os Ajustes do Sistema (System Settings) e clique em “Geral”. Depois, selecione “Sobre” para conferir essas mesmas informações da sua máquina.

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Fácil, certo?

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