Huawei’s new extra-wide foldable phone was revealed on Monday, and it’s already drawing comparisons to the next big thing from Apple. Little is known about the Pura X Max, teased on China’s Weibo social network, but the internet is buzzing over its uncommon proportions, wide aspect ratio and similarities with the rumored iPhone Fold expected to arrive later this year. 

There are plenty of different ways to fold a phone, and tech companies have been experimenting with various configurations over the last few years. There are clamshell-style devices, like the Motorola Razr and Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7, which fold like OG flip phones, shrinking down into a pocketable square. Then came taller, book-style phones that unfold to reveal larger, tablet-size displays. These days, you can even find trifold phones with two hinges. However you fold it, most foldables either start or end with the familiar candybar shape as their base.

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Huawei’s Pura X Max — the newly announced larger evolution of the Pura X foldable phone — is what I like to think of as a passport-style foldable. Rather than the tall rectangle aspect ratio that almost all modern phones take, it has shorter and extra-wide proportions when folded before opening up to reveal what appears to be an approximately iPad Mini-sized and proportioned internal display. This is a formula similar to what we’ve seen on the 2020 Microsoft Surface Duo, though the Duo made use of dual internal screens split by a visible hinge rather than a flexible, foldable display.

The proportions of the Pura X Max announcement have experts and enthusiasts drawing comparisons to the rumored iPhone Fold, which might end up being called the iPhone Ultra, that is expected to debut this fall alongside the new iPhone 18 models. Industry insiders, alleged dummy models and leaked CAD files point to Apple using a similarly wide passport-style shape with proportions in the ballpark of the Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold. The iPhone Ultra is rumored to feature a 5.5-inch outer screen that unfolds into a 7.8-inch internal display and could be priced between $2,000 and $2,500. 

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Set to launch on April 20 in China, the Pura X Max is shown in Huawei’s teaser imagery sporting a triple-camera hump on its rear panel. However, the manufacturer hasn’t given any specs, pricing or even shown us what that inside folding display will look like. 

The timing of the announcement could be seen as a shot across Cupertino’s bow — Huawei beating the hotly anticipated Apple device to the punch — and perhaps that could end up being true in Huawei’s home market of China. However, Huawei doesn’t have a presence in the US, so buyers looking to broaden their foldable horizons will have to wait to see what Apple or Samsung has to show later this year.

In the company’s most recent video, Unitree’s H1 humanoid bot is seen speeding down a typical athletic track and passing a speed sensor at a scorching 10 m/s (22.3 mph), with an error margin of up to 10.1 m/s. His average speed was close to the 200-meter sprint record (23.3 mph) that Usain Bolt achieved in 2009.

The company’s employees insist that although the H1 is nearly identical to human proportions and build, it can compete with the best athletes in the world. How so? The H1 weighs a comparatively trim 62 kilograms and has a total thigh and calf length of 80 cm.

Unitree G1 Humanoid Robot（No Secondary Development）

• Sleek & Durable Design: Standing at 132cm tall and weighing only approx. 35kg, the G1 is constructed with aerospace-grade aluminum alloy and carbon…
• High Flexibility & Safe Movement: Boasting 23 joint degrees of freedom (6 per leg, 5 per arm), it offers an extensive range of motion. For safety, it…
• Smart Interaction & Connectivity: Powered by an 8-core high-performance CPU and equipped with a depth camera and 3D LiDAR. It supports Wi-Fi 6 and…

To be honest, the person recording from the side appeared to be working far harder than the robot, yet the H1 just powered through the short run without even requiring any cables or support to stay upright. However, it’s important to remember that even the initial iterations of this platform were already pushing the boundaries; in 2024, for example, it was still the fastest full-sized humanoid in existence, reaching a speed of 3.3 meters per second.

High torque motors that Unitree really designed in-house and a fairly ingenious gear arrangement make up the H1’s propulsion system. Each leg contains five independent joints to offer it some degree of movement flexibility, and each arm has an additional four joints for good measure. With a depth camera and a 3D LiDAR unit that allows it to instantly adjust its footing by getting a real-time reading of the ground beneath it, this device has it all. The entire device is powered by a quite good 0.863 kilowatt hours and a 15 ampere hour battery.

All of this follows other humanoid speed tests that have recently appeared everywhere. However, a few months ago, at last year’s Humanoid Games, another machine kind of stole the show when it won the 100-meter event with a respectable time of 21.5 seconds—quite amazing. A short while later, another Chinese team reached a max speed of 10 meters per second.

Unitree’s founder stated that he expects a humanoid to race around the 100-meter track in less than ten seconds in a year. However, they will need to continue refining the balance system, strengthening the joints, and enhancing the control software in order to achieve that breakthrough. It’s not bad that the most recent run provides you a decent picture of how far these systems have come even in a very short amount of time; every little adjustment helps the robot manage its leg swings a little bit quicker without face planting or tripping over.
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Rockstar Games has suffered a data breach linked to a recent security incident at Anodot, with the ShinyHunters extortion gang now leaking the stolen data on its data leak site.

The threat actors claim the data was taken from Snowflake environments using authentication tokens stolen during a recent Anodot security incident.

They have now published what they say is Rockstar Games data containing more than 78.6 million records.

“Your Snowflake instances metrics data was compromised thanks to Anodot.com,” reads a listing on the ShinyHunters extortion site.

Rockstar Games did not respond to multiple requests for comment about the breach from BleepingComputer. However, in a statement shared with Kotaku, the company confirmed that it suffered a data breach.

“We can confirm that a limited amount of non-material company information was accessed in connection with a third-party data breach,” Rockstar told Kotaku.

“This incident has no impact on our organization or our players.”

The threat actors told BleepingComputer that the leaked data primarily consists of internal analytics used to monitor Rockstar’s online services and support tickets.

This data allegedly includes in-game revenue and purchase metrics, player behavior tracking, and game economy data for Grand Theft Auto Online and Red Dead Online. The datasets also appear to contain customer support analytics for the company’s Zendesk support instance.

In a file list shown to BleepingComputer, there were references to fraud detection systems and anti-cheat model testing.

The incident is part of a larger data theft campaign linked to a recent security incident at Anodot, a data anomaly detection company that integrates with a wide range of SaaS cloud platforms.

As first reported by BleepingComputer, the threat actors stole authentication tokens from the service and used them to access customer data stored in connected Snowflake, S3, and Amazon Kinesis instances.

Snowflake confirmed to BleepingComputer last week that it had detected unusual activity affecting a small number of customer accounts tied to a third-party integration, and responded by locking down the affected accounts and notifying customers.

The company later confirmed that the third-party integration company was Anodot.

The ShinyHunters group told BleepingComputer it was behind the attacks and claimed to have stolen data from dozens of companies using the compromised tokens. 

Rockstar Games previously suffered a breach in 2022 when a hacker associated with the Lapsus$ extortion group leaked Grand Theft Auto 6 gameplay videos and source code.

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Hasan Piker is 15 minutes late to our Zoom. He’s just gotten back from the gym, where he works out seven days a week, first thing in the morning, with no rest days. He’s been up since 5. In 45 minutes, he goes live for an eight-hour stream on Twitch. Everything is already set up, so we can chat right up until he needs to switch over, he tells me. There’s no buffer time.

Piker is a man accustomed to operating under pressure, which is fortunate because the pressure has rarely been greater. To his audience—mostly young, white men—the 34-year-old far-left commentator is a spokesperson against a failing establishment. To his critics within the Democratic Party, he is a liability protected by his “jock insurance” when he makes controversial comments about Israel and US foreign policy. Last month, a Wall Street Journal op-ed demanded that Democrats sever ties with him entirely, branding him “anti-American, anti-women, anti-Western, and antisemitic.” As Politico puts it, the left is in a Piker pickle. Piker has learned to manage with the help of his daily routine.

“Mental sanity in an insane world has to be propped up by a rigorous regimen,” Piker tells WIRED. “Think about it. Death. Destruction. An ineffective state that won’t address the working class’s needs. To maintain some semblance of hope, I have to keep my sanity, and I figured out this is the way to do it.”

I spoke with Piker—who has previously chatted with WIRED global editorial director Katie Drummond—about his relentless routine, his streaming setup, and his borderline obsession with Zyns.

When you wake up, what’s the first thing you reach for?

My phone, unfortunately. Then, my Finasteride.

Are you a coffee person?

Yes. Once I’m done tweeting, reading, and listening to NPR Morning Edition, I get out of bed and slam two double espresso shots back-to-back. And I take a bunch of pills. I take my creatine in the morning. I take fish oil pills because I throw up when I eat seafood. I take a bunch of multivitamins, ashwagandha, zinc—all that good stuff.

You stream for at least eight hours a day. When do you have the time to eat lunch?

I eat the same lunch every day, on stream, usually around 3 pm. It’s a pound of chicken. Straight white chicken breast and rice—it’s either going to be Asian or Middle Eastern chicken. I also drink a lot of cold brew while I’m slamming 3-milligram Zyns. Sometimes I substitute the 6-milligram Zyns. Coffee and cinnamon are my two flavors.

You’re often reacting to breaking news in real time for thousands of viewers. How do you avoid giving an instant take that might age badly?

It happens, but I try to be restrained. I have my ideology and message discipline on the things I’ve been talking about for years, and because the problems persist, it’s not difficult to have an instant reaction. I have talked about the necessity for gun control thousands of times at this point. So, in the aftermath of yet another horrible mass shooting, I know there are certain systemic factors at play that I can talk about instantly.

There are a lot of younger crowds watching you. How do you frame some of these political issues to them?

Donald Trump has made my job infinitely easier. My job is to educate people on imperialism and sometimes reflect on the perspective of victims. This is not an often-discussed part of our war machine. We talk about how wars impact us—our sons and daughters are sent overseas, they die, and we’re spending all of our money on it, for petro-capitalists or whatever. But rarely is there focus on the actual victims on the ground and how their perspective even shifts over time once they realize that America and Israel aren’t exactly invested in the liberation of the Iranian people as they initially presented.

If you spot a Lucid Gravity SUV blinged-out with sensors — and a self-driving system developed by Nuro — driving around San Francisco, chances are that’s an Uber employee taking a ride.

Select Uber employees can now request a ride in a Lucid robotaxi through the Uber app, the latest phase of testing ahead of a planned public launch later this year. Nuro, which provided the update in a blog posted Monday, told TechCrunch the vehicles are operating in autonomous mode and have a human safety operator behind the wheel as backup.

While this is far from a public launch, it does signal the companies’ progress since announcing a partnership and multimillion-dollar investment in July 2025. Uber invested $300 million in Lucid and separately agreed to buy “at least” 20,000 of the EV maker’s new Gravity SUV over the next six years.

Those EVs are equipped with Nuro’s autonomous vehicle system, which is powered by Nvidia’s Drive AGX Thor computer. The Lucid Gravity robotaxi, which was revealed in January, is outfitted with high-resolution cameras, solid-state lidar sensors, and radars that help the self-driving system perceive the real-world environment and operate in it.

Uber also invested an undisclosed “multi-hundred-million dollar” amount into Nuro.

The plan is for Uber to own and operate — likely with the help from a third party — the premium robotaxi service. Production of these modified Lucid Gravity vehicles is expected to begin in late 2026, according to a regulatory filing posted last year.

Nuro completed closed-course testing and started its first public road testing of the autonomous Lucid Gravity SUVs late last year. Nuro now has 100 Lucid Gravity SUVs outfitted with its self-driving system in the engineering fleet, used to gather real-world data and test autonomous driving across multiple U.S. cities and states.

According to Nuro, the employee test rides help the team evaluate how the autonomy stack, vehicle, and rider experience work together and function in a live operating environment. It also allows the team test how well the vehicle handles rider pickups and drop-offs, a notoriously tricky operation in autonomous ride-hailing.

Listing consumer electronics on the internet’s large ecommerce marketplaces is a key step in “democratizing” the products, allowing them to be purchased by anyone with just a click. It has happened to cars (in the United States, you can buy a Hyundai on Amazon), and now it’s happening to humanoid robots.

The Chinese manufacturer Unitree Robotics, among the most active robot-makers in the field, is preparing to bring its most affordable model, the Unitree R1, to international markets through Alibaba Group’s marketplace. According to reports in The South China Morning Post, the rollout will initially cover North America, Japan, Singapore, and Europe. There’s no exact on-sale date for the robots yet, but the Post report says it will show up as soon as this week.

This is not the first time Unitree has used AliExpress as a global storefront. The company’s G1 model, the more powerful and more expensive predecessor to the R1, is already listed at just under $19,000.

The G1 is already on sale on AliExpress.

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It’s as much of a symbolic step before as a commercial one; selling a humanoid robot on a global marketplace positions the product as easily attainable. This serves as a step toward normalization of the tech, which is still not widely adopted. The sale of the R1 simply lowers the threshold of access even further, and shifts humanoid robots from the territory of promise to that of concrete availability.

Lower Price, Higher Demand

When it was announced last summer, the starting price of the R1 was 39,900 yuan, or about $5,900. Today, the basic version starts at 29,900 yuan, or about $4,370.

That price will fluctuate given changes in exchange rates and shipping costs that add on import taxes and tariffs. Still, that figure sounds surprisingly low considering that some of the R1’s other competitors in the humanoid robotics landscape are far more expensive.

The price tag for Unitree’s own flagship H1 robot approaches $90,000. Tesla’s Optimus robot, which is not yet on sale to the public, is aiming for a starting price under $20,000, but that price will only be attainable when Tesla reaches production of 1 million units a year. Meanwhile, robots from Figure AI and Apptronik are hovering around $50,000 per unit. The R1’s objectively low price essentially makes it a hatchback in a world of sedans.

The R1 is 4 feet tall, weighs 50 pounds, and has 26 smart joints. You can talk to it and give it commands; Unitree’s large-language multimodal model with voice and image recognition is on board. Curious coders can program it using a software developer’s kit. But the real calling card is the R1’s physical performance. The robot can do cartwheels, lie down and stand up independently, and run downhill. Unitree calls it “born for sport,” and videos of its presentation made the rounds months ago. Handstands and wheel kicks are not exactly what you’d expect from a robot that costs less than a used car.

Put It to Work

As impressive as the Unitree R1’s moves are, it lacks hands with articulated fingers, and its motors can’t generate a lot of torque. It is not designed to be a domestic helper or to manipulate complex objects. The company presents it as an “intelligent companion” for interaction, research, and software development.

The EDU model (Go2 EDU, G1 EDU) add an Nvidia Jetson Orin module with more computing power for artificial intelligence tasks. That model also has two degrees of freedom for the head and optional right hands. In that robot’s case, the target market is laboratories and universities. The limitations of the basic R1 put it largely in the same camp. This is not a household robot that makes coffee and walks the dog, but it is a good choice for researchers, labs, and anyone who wants to test robotics algorithms on solid hardware without spending a fortune.

It is true that bringing a relatively capable humanoid to global markets at this price does lower the barrier to entry for developers, researchers, and enthusiasts. It is a real leap from a few years ago, even if some people will buy it just to keep it in the living room to take a bow when guests arrive.

This story was originally published by WIRED Italia and translated from Italian.