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Alongside a global launch for Xiaomi’s 17 Ultra (read about that right here), the company announced a further deepening of its relationship with Leica. The CEO of Leica, Matthias Harsch, took to the stage to announce a new Leitzphone, which appears to be an even deeper collaboration than 17 Ultra by Leica, which is a different phone. Confused? That’s fair.Design-wise, Leica has shifted back to a single tone body color, which looks more “Leica” to this camera dilettante’s eyes. And if you’re thinking you’ve heard of the Leitzphone before, you probably have: it was a series of phones made by…

Xiaomi launched the Xiaomi 17 Ultra at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on March 28. 2026.XiaomiXiaomi launched its latest flagship smartphones globally on Saturday as an unprecedented surge in memory chip prices threatens to dampen sales. The Xiaomi 17 and 17 Ultra represent the Chinese technology giant’s top tier devices aimed at challenging the likes of Samsung and Apple in the high-end segment of the market.Xiaomi, which is the third-largest smartphone player globally, has maintained the prices of the devices versus last year’s flagship, even amid the huge jump in memory prices that are critical for smartphones. The Xiaomi 17…

The week before the 2026 Brit Awards, we began to hear murmurs about Harry Styles’s red carpet look. It would be fabulous and it would be womenswear-focused and there would be a very specific shoe moment. Reader, we spent a large portion of the next few days dreaming up what the next step on from that ballet shoe at the Grammys could be. We’d show you the mood board, but it’s filed somewhere in our minds between this week’s dispatches from Milan Fashion Week, featuring the Bella Hadid-ification of the Prada runway and Maria Grazia Chiuri bringing back Karl Lagerfeld…

I never knew how easy it was to die in an orgy. But that’s just one of the many threats facing Geralt of Rivia in his latest adventure. The studio behind the Reigns series of Tinder-like choose-your-own-adventure games has now adapted The Witcher, following a handful of original titles and a take on Game of Thrones. And for Francois Alliot, creative director at Reigns studio Nerial, the series’ structure actually makes it an ideal way to ease players into sprawling fantasies like this. “There’s something about the way you can bring really complex universes, lore, and storylines to simple actions,”…

The 2026 NCAA Tournament is almost here, with the 2026 March Madness bracket set to be revealed on Selection Sunday, March 15. The March Madness 2026 bracket will offer tantalizing storylines, and there are plenty of upsets waiting to happen in the NCAA Tournament. The Florida Gators enter the 2026 NCAA Tournament as the defending champions, but the Gators will have to knock off plenty of contenders if they want to repeat. However, they cannot be counted out either, so deciding how far Florida advances will be one key to building a winning March Madness bracket 2026.Meanwhile, the UConn Huskies…

Xiaomi has announced its first Bluetooth tracker, and while the Xiaomi Tag has a more elongated design than the Apple AirTag, that lets you use it in more places right out of the box. On one end of the tracker you’ll find an integrated metal loop that can be attached to a keyring or clipped to a carabiner without the need for an extra case.The Xiaomi Tag is compatible with both Apple’s Find My and Google’s Find Hub tracking networks and mobile apps, but not at the same time. You’ll need to choose one or the other during setup. Like…

Friday afternoon, just as this interview was getting underway, a news alert flashed across my computer screen: the Trump administration was severing ties with Anthropic, the San Francisco AI company founded in 2021 by Dario Amodei. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had invoked a national security law to blacklist the company from doing business with the Pentagon after Amodei refused to allow Anthropic’s tech to be used for mass surveillance of U.S. citizens or for autonomous armed drones that could select and kill targets without human input. It was a jaw-dropping sequence. Anthropic stands to lose a contract worth up to…

Jeff BorzelloFeb 28, 2026, 06:48 PM ETClose Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware.Multiple AuthorsMichigan guard L.J. Cason suffered a torn right ACL and will miss the rest of the season, the school announced Saturday.The injury occurred in the Wolverines’ win over Illinois on Friday night.”This isn’t how I wanted my season to end, but I trust God’s plan, and I’ll attack rehab the same way I approach everything — with focus and determination,” Cason said. “We’ve got many goals as a team, and I’ll be locked in supporting my brothers every step of the…

Minutes after Donald Trump announced that the US and Israeli governments had launched a “major combat operation” against Iran in the early hours of Saturday morning, disinformation about the attack and Tehran’s response flooded X.WIRED has reviewed hundreds of posts on X, some of which have racked up millions of views, that promote misleading claims about the locations and scale of the attack.Elon Musk’s social media platform is a verifiable mess: In some cases, alleged video footage of the attack shared in posts on X are actually months or years old. In several posts, video footage of apparent attacks have…

A plume of smoke rises following a reported explosion in Tehran on February 28, 2026. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)- | Afp | Getty ImagesFollow CNBC’s live coverage of the U.S.-Israel strikes in IranMarket watchers are bracing for turbulence after the U.S. confirmed it has launched “major combat operations” in Iran, a move investors say could carry far greater market consequences than the recent run of geopolitical flare-ups.U.S. President Donald Trump said the U.S. military has begun “major combat operations” in Iran.Several ministries in the southern part of the Iranian capital, Tehran, were targeted, Reuters quoted an unidentified Iranian…