Infinix has introduced the GT 50 Pro as a gaming-focused smartphone with meaningful upgrades. It solves problems such as overheating and delays when playing for long hours. The device integrates an advanced cooling mechanism, improved control, and strong performance capability.

The GT 50 Pro is for gamers seeking a high-end smartphone with no interruptions. While other phones focus on making phone calls and sending text messages, the GT 50 Pro is designed for gamers. This means better control and cooling features to ensure good performance.

Smart Cooling That Prevents Overheating

The HydroFlow Liquid Cooling system is specifically designed to address overheating in gaming phones. The cooling mechanism ensures overheating does not occur by shielding the heat-producing parts and simultaneously circulating liquid to disperse heat.

In addition, to make the gaming experience easy and smooth, the GT 50 Pro comes with pressure-sensitive GT Triggers. Such triggers offer fast input and control in extreme gaming situations, along with adjustable settings options.

Display and Performance

The GT 50 Pro is equipped with an enormous 6.78 inches 1.5K screen with a maximum refresh rate of 144Hz. This ensures that the visuals are crisp and clear, especially when gaming or scrolling. In addition, the phone has high-brightness capabilities, ensuring you can view the screen in various lighting conditions. The phone is equipped with eye-care features that minimize eye strain during use. When it comes to audio, the device supports Dolby Atmos.

The GT 50 Pro runs on the MediaTek Dimensity 8400 Ultimate chip, which uses a very efficient 4nm process. As such, the phone delivers smooth performance in any game and does so in a very power-efficient manner, meaning it won’t overheat or drain its battery.

Camera and Battery

Infinix has added a balanced camera setup to the GT 50 Pro. The primary 50 MP camera should take clear photos thanks to the stabilization system and is used for landscape shots, alongside the 8 MP ultra-wide-angle camera. The 13 MP front camera is effective for selfies and video calls.

With a large 6500mAh battery, the GT 50 Pro offers longer battery life, including when playing games. The device supports not only wired but also wireless fast charging. Furthermore, the reverse charging feature is present; additionally, bypass charging provides heat management.

Price and Availability

In terms of availability, the GT 50 Pro is available in two storage variants, with 12GB of RAM and expansion support. It also supports RAM expansion for better efficiency. However, the price will depend on the region and may vary in different markets.

Gamers in the 1990s sat through plenty of marathon sessions on consoles like the Super Nintendo as well as SEGA Genesis, and their thumbs suffered as a result of continual pressure on rigid directional pads. Triax had a solution for the problem in the Turbo Touch 360. They abandoned the traditional movable plastic directional pad in favor of a flat octagonal plate with capacitive sensors underneath. So all you had to do was lightly lay your thumb on the surface, and it would register the direction you were attempting to go in.

The plate had eight sensors grouped around it to cover the majority of the straight shoots and diagonals, but because you don’t get a smooth, continuous circle of movement, it wasn’t fully analog, despite being dubbed the Turbo Touch 360, which implies complete freedom in all directions. Players could lean on the pad to achieve greater movement without having to hammer down as hard. Triax even went so far as to have an orthopedic specialist praise the design, claiming that it reduced scorching and numbness during those all-day gaming sessions to death.

Magazine ads showed the controller in action, and one of the examples they used was how you could land special moves in Mortal Kombat without having to struggle, and to top it all off, there was a turbo fire switch for shooting fans, giving you an advantage in older games that rewarded you with points for tapping buttons quickly.

The controller made its debut at a large electronics expo toward the end of 1993. Then there were versions for the NES, SNES, and Sega Genesis, with the Genesis version also working on certain earlier platforms such the Atari and Commodore. People who took one up immediately noticed how unusual it felt; more specifically, it was far too simple to accidentally trigger an input by resting your thumb on the plate. So precision deteriorated in tight platform games or when you had to make sudden changes of direction.

Most reviewers stated it was overly sensitive and awkward to use for an extended period of time. One modern test, in which they went back in and tinkered with the loose contacts inside a Super Nintendo, demonstrated that it was possible to make it somewhat usable again, but it was still not as accurate as a standard pad, especially in side-by-side runs through Mario or fighting games.

However, Triax did not give up immediately. Next thing you know, news spreads that they’re working on a new controller called the Multi-Function, which, based on certain designs and accounts, resembled a joystick rather than a flat plate. And, to top it all off, there were two more buttons on the sides that indicated they would allow you to manipulate three dimensions in games. Capcom was looking at it, and Electronic Arts had begun development on six titles that would make use of the new inputs. It was set to release for the price of a conventional game at the time, and it looked very good, but then it simply… vanished.

Apple has reported its financials for the second quarter of 2026, posting a second-quarter record of $111.2 billion with gains almost across the board that exceed the expectations of Wall Street analysts.

The second quarter of Apple’s financial calendar has ended, and is usually a fairly quiet affair following the blockbuster first-quarter figures. For 2026, Q2 has a fair bit of expected spice, due to the John Ternus announcement.

In the quarter, Apple’s revenue hit $111.2 billion, up from the $95.4 billion reported in the year-ago quarter.

The Wall Street consensus as of April 29 was an average of $109.69 forecast.

Apple quarterly revenue and net profit as of Q2 2026

When it comes to product categories, iPhone revenue of $56.99 billion is up from $46.84 billion in Q2 2025. Mac revenue of $8.4 billion is up from $7.95 billion.

The iPad revenue of $6.9 billion is a positive move from last year’s dip to $5.56 billion. Wearables, Home, and Accessories shifted from $7.5 billion in the year-ago period to $7.9 billion now.

Services, the ever-dependable product category, continued its ever-ongoing growth path, from $26.6 billion in Q2 2025 to $30.9 billion now.

During Q1, Apple enjoyed some post-holiday product launches, including the M4 iPad Air, the iPhone 17e, the M5 upgrade to the MacBook Air, and the M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pro. It also launched the Apple Studio Display update, the Pro Display XDR was replaced by the Studio Display XDR, and the MacBook Neo shocked the notebook industry.

This took place to a backdrop of continually rising prices for memory and other components, which Apple has so far insulated itself from. Analysts will be keen to find out Apple’s plans to take on this problem, as well as its AI strategy.

Apple also announced that it is launching an additional $100 billion share repurchase program. The quarterly dividend has also been increased, rising 4% to $0.27 per share.

Apple quarterly revenue by unit as of Q2 2026

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Current-CEO Tim Cook commented that there was double-digit growth across every geographic segment, with iPhone also achieving a March quarter revenue record, thanks to iPhone 17 demand.

Kevan Parekh, CFO, added that there were new March quarter records for operating cash flow and EPS. “Continued strong customer demand for our products and services once again helped us achieve a new all-time high for our installed base.”

However, the biggest talking point for the results will be the announcement of a CEO transition later in 2026. On September 1, Tim Cook will become executive chairman, with hardware chief John Ternus taking the reins.

While Ternus won’t be involved in the usual conference call with analysts that follows the results release, he will be a hot topic of conversation as analysts try to determine how the future governance of the company will go.

As always, AppleInsider will be listening in to the call, no matter where the conversation flows.

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If there’s something that stands between foldables and the mainstream smartphone market, it’s their battery life, and Motorola has taken it upon itself to fix that. Almost all smartphone giants have their own book-style foldable available in the U.S., and all of them justify the premium with intricate hinges, flexible displays, and other engineering marvels, but somehow, that doesn’t extend to their batteries.

You can unfold a foldable to double its screen size; that’s its entire pitch. But does the battery life also double? Unfortunately, it doesn’t. Among the two widely available book-style foldables in the U.S. — Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Google’s Pixel 10 Pro Fold — the average battery life remains less than that of regular handsets.

But haven’t smartphones already unlocked over 10 hours of screen-on time using silicon-carbon battery technology? This is exactly the gap Motorola is walking into with its first book-style foldable: the Razr Fold. For the first time, a foldable is entering the U.S. market with a 6,000 mAh battery that supports 80W wired charging, no less. 

Should it deliver, the Razr Fold could bridge that gap before Samsung or Google even comes close.

The battery problem foldables have always had

Think about what the battery on the Fold 7 or a Pixel 10 Pro Fold is actually running: two displays (the cover screen and the foldable screen), a flagship-tier chipset borrowed straight from the slab phones, and at least two to three rear-facing cameras, along with constant Wi-Fi or cellular connection. 

It is because of this compounded power draw that foldables require larger batteries to provide similar endurance to regular phones. A couple of years ago, when the technology wasn’t as mature as today, using a 4,000 or 4,400 mAh battery on a foldable was par for the course. 

To me, it feels like OEMs, especially in the U.S., are deliberately holding back on battery capacity in foldables, while Chinese brands like Honor and Oppo continue to push the limits. 

This is the core problem that the Motorola Razr Fold could solve.

Who does the Razr Fold compete with?

I’ve used the Fold 7 briefly, and by many measures, it’s an impressive piece of technology. The thinnest book-style foldable in the U.S. is just 4.2 mm when unfolded. However, with a 4,400 mAh battery that offers around six hours of screen-on time on average, that didn’t make the phone last an entire day, at least for me. 

The phone also takes around 90 minutes for a complete charge, thanks to support for only 25W wired charging. You can’t just plug it 20 minutes before leaving your home; you’d have to plan around it.

Google’s Pixel 10 Pro Fold took a meaningful leap with a 5,015 mAh cell and up to 39W charging, offering between seven and eight hours of screen-on time, genuinely lasting an entire day of usage. 

But that’s enough, right? Not quite. Now that we’re in the era of over-7,000-mAh battery phones (I’m talking about the OnePlus 15 and the OnePlus 15R) that deliver nearly two days of battery life between charges, plugging in a foldable at around 8 or 9 PM feels like getting shortchanged on a $2,000 purchase

If foldable phones stand a chance against mainstream handsets, manufacturers have to step up to the plate on battery life, and that’s exactly why the Razr Fold has my attention. 

What should you expect from the Razr Fold?

The Razr Fold’s 6,000 mAh battery is roughly 36% larger than the Galaxy Z Fold 7’s and about 20% larger than the Pixel 10 Pro Fold’s. The company has achieved this using the same tech on modern Chinese flagships: silicon-carbon battery chemistry, which packs more energy into less physical space without adding bulk. The result is a book-style foldable that unfolds to just 4.7 mm, slightly thicker than the Fold 7, but not by a margin that should trouble anyone. 

Now, this is the part where I’m using years of experience to speculate something without trying to sound too optimistic. The Razr Fold, with its 6,000 mAh battery and the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 chip that’s actually less powerful than the Snapdragon 8 Elite on the Fold 7, should provide a screen-on time of around eight to nine hours under mixed usage. 

If Motorola has optimized the software well for a big-screen foldable, and that’s a big if, given that this is the company’s first foldable, the screen-on time might nudge past nine hours as well. 

This way, the foldable could actually match the battery life of modern flagships. If that doesn’t happen, however, I’d be disappointed, and seven to eight hours is where the phone would sit, with the Pixel 10 Pro Fold, despite featuring a significantly bigger battery.

Please don’t drop the ball, Motorola

The charging speed is equally important here. Razr Fold’s 80W wired charging speed is more than three times what Samsung offers on the Fold 7 and double what Google offers on the Pixel 10 Pro Fold. The caveat, here, is that none of this has been proven yet, and we’ll have to wait a couple of weeks to find out the truth. 

It’s worth knowing that the company also promises over 12 hours of use from under 10 minutes of being plugged in. For added convenience, and to leave the competition baffled, the Razr Fold also supports 50W wireless charging. While achieving those speeds requires Motorola’s proprietary hardware, I’d definitely pay for that kind of speedy convenience. 

Moreover, the Razr Fold’s 6,000 mAh battery, paired with 80W wired and 50W wireless charging, is the spec combination that the U.S. buyers deserve. If it delivers, it will bridge the gap between the battery life we get from regular smartphones and foldables, making the Razr a compelling buy and forcing Samsung and Google to go back to the drawing board. 

• Iron flow battery runs 6,000 cycles without measurable capacity loss
• New electrolyte chemistry reduces degradation and membrane crossover problems
• Iron materials offer low-cost alternative for large-scale renewable energy storage

Researchers in China say they have made new progress on iron-based flow batteries that could reduce the cost of storing renewable energy while extending usable lifespan.

The team from the Institute of Metal Research under the Chinese Academy of Sciences developed a redesigned electrolyte that allowed an alkaline all-iron flow battery to run through more than 6,000 cycles without measurable capacity decay, according to results published in Advanced Energy Materials.

OpenAI has released a security feature for ChatGPT accounts that treats them the way banks treat online banking: hardware keys, no passwords, no email recovery, and no help from customer support if you lose access. The feature, called Advanced Account Security, is an opt-in setting that requires users to authenticate with two passkeys, two hardware security keys, or one of each before they can log in to ChatGPT or Codex. Once enabled, password-based login is permanently disabled, and recovering an account through email or text message is no longer possible. OpenAI has partnered with Yubico, the Swedish-American hardware authentication company, to sell co-branded YubiKeys bundled for $68, less than half the $126 retail price. The feature is available to everyone, including users on the free tier. The company says it is designed for journalists, political dissidents, researchers, and elected officials. But the fact that OpenAI built it at all is an acknowledgment that a ChatGPT account, for a growing number of people, now holds more sensitive information than their email.

What it does

Advanced Account Security replaces every conventional login and recovery mechanism with cryptographic authentication. Users who enable it must register two separate credentials, choosing from passkeys stored on their device, YubiKeys or other FIDO2-compliant hardware tokens, or a combination. Each credential generates a unique cryptographic key pair that never leaves the device, which means there is no password to steal, no one-time code to intercept, and no recovery email that an attacker can compromise through social engineering. OpenAI has made the design trade-off explicit: its own support team cannot restore access to an account protected by Advanced Account Security if the user loses both credentials. The company issues a recovery key during setup, and if that key is also lost, the account is unrecoverable. The architecture is borrowed from the same zero-trust principles that protect classified government systems and cryptocurrency wallets, applied to a consumer chatbot.

The feature includes several secondary protections. Sign-in sessions are shortened, reducing the window during which a stolen session token could be exploited. Users receive alerts for every new login and can view and terminate active sessions from their account settings. And enabling Advanced Account Security automatically opts the user out of model training, meaning their conversations will not be used to improve future versions of ChatGPT. That last detail is significant: it links the highest level of account protection to the highest level of data privacy, creating a tier of user whose interactions with the system are both cryptographically secured and contractually excluded from OpenAI’s training pipeline. For users handling sensitive material, the combination addresses two concerns simultaneously.

Why it matters

The security upgrade arrives in a context that makes its purpose clear. In 2024, Group-IB, the Singapore-based cybersecurity firm, identified more than 100,000 stolen ChatGPT credentials circulating on dark web marketplaces, harvested from devices compromised by information-stealing malware. Those credentials gave anyone who purchased them full access to the victim’s chat history, which for many users included confidential work conversations, personal queries, and information that would be damaging if exposed. A separate breach involving Mixpanel, a third-party analytics provider, exposed ChatGPT user names, email addresses, and technical metadata that could be used for targeted phishing campaigns. The industry’s broader push toward passwordless authentication has been driven by the recognition that passwords are the single largest attack surface in consumer technology: an estimated 46 per cent of all successful cyberattacks on small and medium businesses in 2026 will originate from credential reuse, according to industry research.

ChatGPT’s vulnerability is distinctive because of what the accounts contain. An email account holds messages. A banking account holds transaction records. A ChatGPT account holds the unfiltered questions a person asks when they believe no one is watching: medical symptoms, legal exposure, relationship problems, business strategies, code with proprietary logic, and conversations with an AI system that remembers context across sessions. OpenAI’s Codex Chronicle feature, which periodically captures screenshots of a user’s desktop and sends them to OpenAI’s servers for processing, has made the data stakes even higher for users who opt in. The company is simultaneously expanding the volume of sensitive information its products collect and building the security infrastructure to protect it. Advanced Account Security is the protection side of that equation.

The Yubico deal

The partnership with Yubico is commercial and strategic. The two co-branded products, the YubiKey C NFC and the YubiKey C Nano, are physically identical to Yubico’s existing product line but carry OpenAI branding and are sold through OpenAI’s channels at a subsidised price. The C NFC model supports both USB-C and near-field communication, allowing it to work with laptops, phones, and tablets. The C Nano model is small enough to remain permanently inserted in a USB-C port. Both support FIDO2, the authentication standard developed by the FIDO Alliance that underpins passkeys and is backed by Apple, Google, and Microsoft. The $68 bundle for two keys represents a meaningful discount: a single YubiKey C NFC retails for approximately $55, making the bundle effectively a buy-one-get-one offer.

OpenAI’s decision to subsidise hardware authentication for its users reflects a calculation about the cost of account compromises. A high-profile breach of a ChatGPT account belonging to a journalist, government official, or corporate executive would generate reputational damage that far exceeds the cost of discounted security keys. By making hardware authentication cheap and accessible, OpenAI is shifting the security burden from a password that can be phished to a physical object that must be stolen. The strategy mirrors what Google implemented internally in 2017, when the company distributed YubiKeys to all 85,000 employees and subsequently reported zero successful phishing attacks against employee accounts. OpenAI is applying the same logic to its user base, though on an opt-in rather than mandatory basis, with one exception: members of the Trusted Access for Cyber programme, which grants verified security researchers and defenders access to OpenAI’s most capable cybersecurity models, will be required to enable Advanced Account Security by 1 June 2026.

The signal

The deeper significance of Advanced Account Security is not the feature itself but what it implies about the category. When a company builds bank-grade security for a chatbot, it is telling you that the chatbot is no longer a toy. OpenAI now operates a six-tier subscription structure that ranges from a free ad-supported account to custom enterprise contracts, with 50 million paying subscribers and 900 million weekly active users. A meaningful fraction of those users treat ChatGPT as a primary work tool, a confidential advisor, or both. The conversations stored in those accounts are, in aggregate, one of the most valuable datasets of human intent ever assembled: what people want to know, what they are worried about, what they are building, and what they are hiding. Protecting that dataset is not a feature. It is a business requirement.

The opt-in model is both a strength and a limitation. Users who need Advanced Account Security the most, dissidents in authoritarian countries, journalists investigating powerful institutions, executives discussing unreleased products, are also the users most likely to enable it. But the vast majority of ChatGPT’s 900 million weekly users will never toggle the setting, which means their accounts will remain protected by whatever password they chose when they signed up, reused from another service, and have not changed since. AI-powered phishing campaigns can now generate hundreds of targeted messages per minute, each tailored to a specific victim, and the most common entry point remains a stolen or guessed password. OpenAI has built the infrastructure to protect accounts that matter. Whether the accounts that do not opt in will become the easier targets is a question the feature does not answer. What it does answer, clearly, is that OpenAI considers a ChatGPT account to be a high-value asset worth defending with the same tools used to protect state secrets and financial systems. The company that made it easy for anyone to talk to an AI has now made it possible for anyone to lock that conversation behind hardware that cannot be phished. The gap between those two populations will determine how the next wave of AI-related breaches unfolds.