For ten whole years, iFixit had been absent from the app stores; banned, after Apple pulled its developer account back in 2015 due to a controversial iPad teardown. But on December 9, 2025, the legendary repair resource finally made its triumphant return—and this time, it's not just bringing back the guides. The new iFixit app introduces FixBot, an AI repair assistant that transforms the intimidating world of device repair into something approachable, even for those who have never opened a gadget in their lives.

Nowadays, your phone is not just an assistant to making calls to people, but there are keys to their personal space, the amount of money, working and personal documents, and messaging. However, there are huge privacy costs in using it. Bad guys often look for ways to break in, using bad apps, open networks, or weak settings. A simple screen lock won’t cut it. Here are five easy yet strong ways to keep your phone data safe for everyone to follow.

Cellphones lose their value quickly. Within years, a previously top-of-the-line Android can start to lag, drain battery, or collect dust in a drawer. Nevertheless, an old Android is not obsolete. With the correct tweaks, it can be remarkably helpful again—either as a backup, smart home controller, or hobbyist-specific device. Breathing new life into dead hardware takes both tweaks and creativity, and the exercise is rewarding as well as handy.

When ChatGPT, from OpenAI, launched in November 2022, it was fully unopposed in the conversational AI space. That has changed today. Recent user studies put ChatGPT into fourth place on the LMArena leaderboard, as specialized competitors outshine the pioneer in an array of specific tasks the latter can no longer lay claim to. A wide-ranging study by Prolific's Humaine research platform tested thousands of anonymous user interactions and found seven AI chatbots consistently outperforming ChatGPT on many measures of performance and across demographics.