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Anthropic confirms Claude is down in major outage affecting multiple services

Claude is experiencing a major outage, with users reporting login problems and degraded performance across several Anthropic services. The incident began on August 16, 2026, at around 21:58 UTC, and is affecting Claude.ai, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork. According to Anthropic’s status page, the company first said it was investigating an issue preventing some users […]

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Unforgetful is a new app from the creator of Overcast that enhances Apple Reminders

Overcast developer Marco Arment just launched a brand-new app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Called Unforgetful, the new task-management app is built for people who struggle to keep reminders from slipping through the cracks. Unforgetful is designed around persistent notifications, flexible snoozing, and a deliberately simple interface. In a blog post announcing Unforgetful, Marco Arment

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Apple One gets even better in iOS 27, here’s what’s new

iOS 27 is packed with big Apple Intelligence upgrades, including the new Siri AI, powerful editing tools in Apple Photos, improved image generation features, and more. While these features will be free to all users, some of them will have daily usage limits—and those limits will be higher depending on your Apple One tier. Some

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Nintendo announces Pokémon Pokopia has sold over 5m copies, meaning that roughly one in four Switch 2 users now owns the game

We know that, as of May 2026 at least, Nintendo has sold over 20m Switch 2 units. A bit of napkin maths suggests, then, that one in four Nintendo Switch 2 users now owns a copy of Pokémon Pokopia – not bad going for a spin-off series from the folks that made Dragon Quest Builders.

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Leak uncovers design changes coming with One UI 9.5 to Galaxy phones

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. Samsung is steadily preparing its next major software refresh, and after recent leaks gave us our first glimpse of One UI 9.5 on a Galaxy phone alongside an early look at the dedicated native App Lock functionality, a fresh leak is now shedding

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Big app download hogging your data? Google Play Store may finally let you pause it

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. Last month, Google released a Play Services update and noted that users would have the option to add home screen widgets for apps while they were being installed from the Play Store. Although we couldn’t get a glimpse of the feature back then,

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You Don’t Always Need a Student ID for Apple’s Back-to-School Deals

The back-to-school laptop sales just don’t hit the same this year with price spikes and inventory shortages. You won’t typically find sales at Apple Stores, but there are some deals now for back-to-school shopping — beyond the always-available education discount. In this week’s episode of One More Thing, embedded below, I explain all the fine

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Pixel 11 Pro trades one niche feature for another — but which is your favorite?

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. We want to hear from you! Share your thoughts in the comments and vote in the poll below — your take might be featured in a future roundup. The Pixel 11 series made its big bow this week, and with the four phones

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Life on Mars? It Remains a Tantalizing Topic for Scientific Study

What if we aren’t alone in the universe? People have been speculating about the possibility of alien life forms at least since Lucian’s A True Story, some 1,800 years ago. In modern times, much of that has centered on our near neighbor Mars. Sometimes those life forms are dangerous, probably never more so than in

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After a public scrap between CEO and former writer, Saber Interactive finally adds AI disclaimer to Steam page and doubles down: ‘AI can and should help shape gamer experiences’

One of the unexpected stories this week has been that of a rather public spat between former Saber Interactive writer Stella Sacco, who claimed she was replaced in favour of AI, and the publisher’s CEO, who tore into her via a statement sent to This Week in Videogames. “Stella who?” asked Matt Karch, “I had

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