What is XPan Mode on the OnePlus 13?

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Why XPan Mode photos are so special

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One of the best reasons to use the OnePlus 13

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OnePlus 13

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Gorgeous design • Clever AI features • Flexible cameras

The OG flagship killer’s killer flagship.

The OnePlus 13 is the company’s most killer flagship to date, offering a massive battery, speedy charging, and powerful cameras that give Google and Samsung something to worry about.

Black Mirror season 7, Netflix’s biggest sci-fi show, returns this month for more devastating lessons about the dangers of technology. One of the episodes is a sequel to USS Callister, the Emmy-winning sci-fi adventure that kicked off season 4. Because it’s essentially a mini-movie, we’re putting it on the list of sci-fi to watch this month.

As for our four other picks, they are traditional movies. One is a small-budget cyberpunk thriller, and the other is a $300 million blockbuster. You’ll be surprised as to which one is the better movie. Check out the full list below.

We also have guides to the best new movies to stream, the best movies on Netflix, the best movies on Hulu, the best movies on Amazon Prime Video, the best movies on Max, and the best movies on Disney+.

Lucy (2014)

Scarlett Johansson becomes the most powerful intellectual in the world in Lucy. After being coerced into delivering illegal substances for a crime lord, the titular Lucy (Johansson) is kidnapped and becomes a drug mule. While transporting the drugs in her abdomen, the package explodes, releasing the toxins into her bloodstream.

Instead of dying, Lucy gains new powers — telepathy, telekinesis, and mental time travel. Lucy uses these newfound abilities to exact her revenge. The more power Lucy gains, the more unstable she becomes, forcing her to seek help from a famed neurologist (Morgan Freeman). While the film’s logic is flawed, Lucy does provide Johansson a chance to become a capable action hero outside of the MCU.

Stream Lucy on Netflix.

The Electric State (2025)

The Electric State is certainly not for the critics, who did not pull any punches in their negative reviews. It might not even be for the audience, but it’s up to you to decide. In this polarizing ‘90s sci-fi adventure from the Russo Brothers, Millie Bobby Brown plays Michelle, an orphaned teen who lives with her foster dad in a retro-futuristic United States. 

One day, a sentient robot named Cosmo (Alan Tudyk) convinces Michelle that her brother is still alive. Michelle and Cosmo venture off to the West to find the missing brother. Along the way, they team up with the drifter Keats (Chris Pratt) and learn that a nefarious organization might be behind the schism between humans and robots.

Stream The Electric State on Netflix.

Geostorm (2017)

Hurricanes, tornadoes, and tsunamis are not big enough for Gerard Butler. No, the action star needs something bigger like a meteorological phenomenon with extinction-level capabilities, aka a geostorm. In the movie that shares the same name as the storm, Butler plays Jake Lawson, an architect of Dutch Boy, a global satellite program that manipulates the weather. 

Years later, Dutch Boy gets into the wrong hands and causes mayhem on Earth. While Jake tries to solve the problem in space, his brother Max (Jim Sturgess) races to find out who’s calling the shots on Earth. This is pure disaster porn in the best way. Think of Geostorm as a little brother to Armageddon and Independence Day.

Stream Geostorm on Netflix.

USS Callister: Into Infinity (2025)

Is Black Mirror a TV show? Yes. However, certain episodes reach feature-film length and could be considered movies. That’s the case for USS Callister, the Star Trek homage about an undervalued computer programmer, Robert Daly (Jesse Plemons), who creates digital clones of his coworkers and traps them within a space adventure game.

USS Callister won the Emmy for Outstanding Television Movie, and now, there’s a sequel, USS Callister: Into Infinity. With Daly dead, Captain Nanette Cole (Cristin Milioti) and her crew continue to travel through the virtual universe. Now, the crew finds themselves in a battle for survival against millions of other players.

Stream USS Callister: Into Infinity on Netflix.

Upgrade (2018)

Between The Invisible Man and Upgrade, Leigh Whannell is at home within the sci-fi genre. While Upgrade did not have the same financial success as The Invisible Man, the cyberpunk thriller is a riveting and tense 100-minute mystery.

In 2046, Gray Trace and his wife are involved in a deadly car crash, with the latter dying after four men shoot her in the wreckage. Gray survives but becomes a quadriplegic. A tech mogul gives Gray a second chance at life through his invention, a STEM implant chip that gives him control of his limbs again. With the chip installed, Gray goes after the men who killed his wife, and in doing so, uncovers a technological conspiracy that threatens his existence.

Stream Upgrade on Netflix.

In recent years, focus on career and delayed marriage age is driving some women to consider preserving their fertility through egg freezing.

But the steep cost of the procedure, estimated at $10,000 to $15,000 per attempt, means many women can’t afford it during their most fertile years: 20s and early 30s.

Cofertility, a startup founded by former Uber executive Lauren Makler and health tech angel investor Halle Tecco, offers women no-cost egg freezing in exchange for donating half the retrieved eggs to those unable to conceive.

The three-year-old startup just raised a $7.25 million Series A round led by Next Ventures and Offline Ventures, with participation from Initialized, Gaingels, and several other investors. This financing round brings Cofertility’s total funding to $16 million.

The idea for Cofertility stems from Makler’s fertility and health scare. A 2018 diagnosis of a rare abdominal disease led to multiple surgeries that threatened the loss of her ovaries.

In such situations, doctors sometimes suggest egg freezing for young women who want to have children, but that was not an option for Makler.

So, she started to learn as much as possible about egg donation.

Makler knew donors were compensated for their eggs, but she was shocked to learn how expensive the eggs could be. If she wanted an egg from a Jewish donor to match her background, it would cost more. The price increased further if she sought an egg from an educated woman.

“It felt sort of like surge pricing for egg donors, which felt icky to me,” she said, referring to Uber’s approach for charging for rides during peak-demand times.  

Luckily, Makler ended up conceiving a child naturally, but that experience led her to want to build a business that matches young women who wish to preserve their fertility with people who need a donor egg.

While the concept of egg sharing is not new, Makler claims that Cofertility is the only company that offers eggs at scale through its “Split” program.

“At any given time, we have hundreds of donors that are available for intended parents,” Makler said, adding that most clinics will have only a handful of donors, which is unlikely to result in a match.

Makler says that Cofertility’s egg donors come from diverse backgrounds and that about 55% of them have graduate degrees.

Intended parents cover the egg retrieval costs and Cofertility’s coordination fee, similar to standard egg donation. However, they don’t have to compensate the donor, lowering their out-of-pocket expenses.

While Makler doesn’t want to call Cofertility a marketplace, she agrees that it works like one and that her company is solving a big structural problem.

“The big vision and the goal is removing the taboo of egg donation,” she said, “There is zero shame in however you become a parent. Doing that with the help of a donor who’s also interested in freezing her own eggs is a really exciting option.”

Subaru is finally accelerating into the EV fast lane. The automaker is officially teasing the 2026 Trailseeker, an all-new electric SUV set to debut at the New York International Auto Show next week. While details are still scarce, the Trailseeker marks Subaru’s long-awaited second entry into the EV space, joining the Solterra — and the expectations couldn’t be higher.

The teaser image offers only a glimpse of the Trailseeker’s rear badge and taillight, but the name alone suggests rugged ambitions. It’s a clear nod to Subaru’s outdoorsy heritage. But in the EV space, the outdoors belongs to brands like Rivian, whose upcoming R2 compact SUV is already turning heads. The Trailseeker is Subaru’s chance to reassert its identity in an electric age.

Currently, Subaru’s only EV is the Solterra, a joint venture with Toyota that shares a platform with the bZ4X. While the Solterra nails some Subaru essentials — all-wheel drive, spaciousness, and off-road capability — it falls short on key EV metrics. Reviewers have pointed to its modest 225-mile range, slow 100kW charging, and unremarkable acceleration, especially compared to rivals like the Hyundai Ioniq 5  or Ford Mustang Mach-E.

The hope is that Subaru has learned from these criticisms and is poised to deliver a more competitive product. The Trailseeker could either be a variation of a newer Toyota EV (possibly the next-gen C-HR+), or something entirely new under the shared platform strategy. Subaru previously announced that its next three EVs would be co-developed with Toyota, before launching four in-house EVs by 2028.

Given how long Subaru has waited to expand its EV offerings, the Trailseeker has to deliver. It’s not just about adding a second electric model — it’s about keeping pace with a market rapidly leaving legacy automakers behind. If the Trailseeker can improve on the Solterra’s shortcomings and channel that classic Subaru ruggedness into a truly modern EV, it might just be the spark the brand needs.

In a quiet transformation from merchandising giant to (also) healthcare giant, Amazon may be positioning its sprawling logistics network and growing medical footprint to potentially save lives, starting with your front door.

According to Bloomberg, back in 2023, Amazon piloted a several months-long pilot program called Project Pulse, equipping delivery vans with defibrillators and training drivers in CPR. In cities like London, Amsterdam, and Bologna, more than 100 drivers participated, with several of them receiving alerts from citizen responder apps and arriving on site. (Rescue services were reportedly already treating the victims.)

The company hasn’t moved forward but it is “evaluating the feedback and exploring additional opportunities for future programs,” an Amazon spokesperson tells Bloomberg.

It’d likely a public relations win for the company. It would also be a way to expand Amazon’s healthcare ambitions beyond One Medical, the primary care provider for which it shelled out $3.9 billion in early 2023.

With rivals like Walgreens and Walmart retreating from primary care — Walmart shuttered its primary healthcare business in April of last year, closing 51 locations, and Walgreens is being taken private again by Sycamore Partners for just $10 billion — Amazon could be feeling increasingly confident it can do what the others couldn’t: reshape healthcare delivery and bring more than just packages to customers’ doorsteps.

Too much sky, too much ground, passersby, crowds; there are always too many distractions in a photo taken at 1x on modern smartphones.

A 2x telephoto would give me higher quality focused shots for better portraits, while also making 3x and 4x a more usable zoom range.

A great ultrawide lens could be a good 1x replacement

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Google could, or should extract a good 12MP 1x photo out of a 50MP 0.5x ultrawide sensor.

1x from the main sensor1x from the ultrawide sensor

The best business laptops are very well-made and robust, conservatively attractive, fast, and have great battery life. Those are feature that consumers look for, too, but manufacturers like HP add a ton of features that make business laptops more attractive to enterprises that require great management and security.

That makes them more expensive, which sometimes pushes them out of the range of many consumer buyers. That’s a shame with the HP EliteBook Ultra G1i, because it’s a great 14-inch laptop that all kinds of users would love — if only its price was a bit more palatable. But for businesses users, it’s one of the better choices.

Specs and configuration

As a business laptop, the EliteBook Ultra G1i is more likely to be purchased on a group contract. So, its prices listed in its web store (which are heavily discounted from list already) aren’t necessarily as indicative of what the target business customer will pay. However, right now, the EliteBook starts at $1,849 for an Intel Core Ultra 5 226V chipset, 16GB of RAM, a 256GB SSD, and a 14.0-inch 2.8K OLED display (the only option). For $2,432, you get a Core Ultra 7 268V, 32GB of RAM, and a 512GB SSD. That’s the confirmation I reviewed. There are other configurations available within that range.

So, that makes the EliteBook Ultra G1i a very premium business laptop. The similarly configured HP OmniBook Ultra Flip 14, which is aimed at consumers, is quite a bit less expensive starting at $1,100 on sale and maxing out at $1,730 (also on sale). The Apple MacBook Air 13 (M4) is also less expensive, starting at $1,000 and maxing out at just over $2,000.

Design

I recently wrote an editorial about how Apple’s attention to detail has resulted in some of the best hardware around. But Apple isn’t the only company that manages to make a laptop that feels really great in hand. The EliteBook Ultra G1i is another. It’s one of those laptops that gives me an immediate impression of quality the moment I pull it out of the box.

First, it’s nicely sized. Its display bezels aren’t the smallest I’ve seen, but they’re small enough that the EliteBook Ultra G1i is quite compact with its 14-inch display. It’s also very thin, coming in at a maximum of 0.48 inches in the rear that’s almost as thin as the insanely thin Apple MacBook Air 13’s 0.45 inches (and the HP is even thinner up front at 0.36 inches). The EliteBook is also almost the same weight as the MacBook, so it has that kind of density that avoids a really light laptop feeling flimsy. And 2.63 pounds is plenty light enough to make it eminently portable.

The weight is also very well-balanced, so it’s comfortable to carry around, open or closed. The rounded edges also feel great — better than the MacBook’s edges that border on being a little sharp. The EliteBook’s hinge isn’t quite as smooth, though, and requires two hands to open the lid. Overall, the all-aluminum construction is solid with no bending, flexing, or twisting in the chassis, keyboard deck, or lid. This is a really well-designed and well-built laptop.

Aesthetically, the design is quite elegant with the usual contemporary minimalism but enough identity that it’s not mundane. The rounded edges help here, too, and HP has done a great job with the dark blue color way. My only complaint is the lighter blue color assigned to the function keys, and then the power button (with embedded fingerprint reader) that has a rather bright LED and yet another light blue color. That might be good for accessibility, something that HP has paid a lot of attention to in their recent designs. But I do think it takes away from the look a bit.

Beyond the EliteBook Ultra G1i’s physical design, it’s also a business laptop with several features that make it a great choice for businesses. Primarily, that centers around various utilities that can plug into enterprise management systems to provide enhanced fleet management capabilities and security. HP’s Wolf Security serves the latter function, offering up a host of capabilities that lock the EliteBook down on both a software and hardware level. I won’t go into the details here, but suffice it to say that if you’re looking for a laptop that’s easy to manage and highly secure, then the EliteBook Ultra G1i provides what you’re looking for.

Keyboard and touchpad

HP has been making great keyboards for a while now, starting with their Spectre laptops that were some of my favorites. That’s carried that over to its OmniBook and EliteBook lineups, and HP has maybe even made them a little better given the attention to accessibility I mentioned above. That’s reflected in the bold lettering and careful color scheme that will help the visually impaired. But even more so, the EliteBook Ultra G1i’s keyboard is just about perfect for me, equally as good as Apple’s Magic Keyboard that’s been my overall favorite. The keycaps are large and yet there’s plenty of key spacing with a very comfortable layout. And the switches are exactly as I like them — light and snappy yet with a precise bottoming action. I could type on this keyboard at full speed for hours (as in writing this review) without getting fatigued. Another simple keyboard test for me is whether I can type passwords from muscle-memory on the first try, and the EliteBook’s keyboard passed with flying colors.

The touchpad is equally as good. It’s a large haptic version that takes up all the available space on the palm rest, just like with Apple’s MacBooks. And it’s excellent, with responsive and consistent “clicks.” Windows 11 affords a ton of customization with haptic touchpads, and it’s all here. Apple’s Force Touch haptic touchpad has long been the industry standard for excellence, and it benefits from the Force Click feature where pressing a little “harder” kicks off additional functionality. But otherwise, the EliteBook’s touchpad is just as good.

You can also opt for a touch-enabled display. A great haptic touchpad makes that less attractive for me, personally, but it’s available if you want it.

Connectivity and webcam

Connectivity is pretty good, with three USB-C ports with Thunderbolt 4 support and a USB-A port for legacy devices. I say that’s just pretty good because some 14-inch laptops have more connectivity, with an HDMI connection being fairly common. There’s also no SD card support, which I’d like to see. Wireless connectivity is fully up-to-date with Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4.

The webcam is HP’s usual 9MP version, so it provides excellent image quality. It’s backed up by a fast Lunar Lake Neural Processing Unit (NPU) that runs at a very fast 48 tera operations per second (TOPS), easily exceeding the 40 TOPS requirement for Microsoft’s Copilot+ PC AI initiative. That means it will power on-device AI processing more efficiently than relying on the slower CPU or GPU components. HP partnered with Poly Studio to offer the Poly Camera Pro suite of videoconferencing features with enhance background, spotlight, auto-framing, and other functionality, much of it AI-powered using the NPU. There’s probably not another laptop available with quite the same breadth and depth of AI-powered features in addition to what’s provided via Copilot+.

Performance

You can choose from several Intel Lunar Lake (Core Ultra Series 2) options with the EliteBook Ultra G1i, all of them 8-core/8-thread chipsets available running at 17 watts.  Lunar Lake is focuses more on efficiency than pure performance, with speeds falling between the previous-generation 15-watt U-series and 28-watt H-series Meteor Lake chipsets. As a business laptop, Intel vPro is a natural option that enables the EliteBook’s excellent manageability and security.

All Lunar Lake versions give similar performance in CPU-intensive tasks, because they only vary by clock speed. And, they’re considerably slower than Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X chipsets, the other Windows efficiency option. AMD;s Ryzen AI 9 and Apple’s M4 chipsets are also considerably faster. The Core Ultra 5 226V has a slower Intel Arc 130V integrated graphics, but the faster Intel Arc 140V in the Core Ultra 7 268V isn’t much faster.

Overall, the EliteBook Ultra G1i is a fast laptop for demanding productivity users, including business users, but gamers and creators will want to look elsewhere.

Battery life

As I mentioned above, Lunar Lake is aimed more at battery life than pure performance. And generally speaking, that’s been the case in the laptops I’ve tested. Some are impacted by power-hungry high-res OLED displays, while those with more efficient IPS displays compete better with Apple’s highly efficient Apple Silicon chipsets that remain the most efficient overall.

The EliteBook Ultra G1i has a relatively small 64 watt-hour battery to go with a 2.8K OLED display. That shouldn’t be a recipe for the best battery life, even with Lunar Lake. But, the EliteBook does pretty well. Its results in our video looping test was very good at over 15 hours, and it was competitive at almost 2.5 hours in the demanding Cinebench R24 test. It didn’t do as well in our web browsing test, but I had to change the tool we use for testing due to our previous tool being deprecated by Google. Using our older tool, the EliteBook would likely have scored closer to the HP OmniBook Ultra Flip 14 with basically the same chipset, display, and battery capacity and that managed two hours longer.

These are very strong results for a laptop with such a gorgeous display. You’ll get a full day’s work, which isn’t quite as good as Apple MacBook Air (M4), but still much better than previous Windows laptops.

Display and audio

There’s just one display option for the EliteBook Ultra G1i, and it’s a 14.0-inch 16:10 2.8K (2880 x 1800) OLED display running at up to 120Hz. Like almost every OLED display, it’s spectacular out of the box, with bright, dynamic colors and inky blacks. As I mentioned above, there’s a penalty in battery life, but the EliteBook still manages very good longevity.

My colorimeter liked this display quite a bit. It’s not the absolute brightest at 397 nits (most displays I’ve tested lately are greater than 400 nits), but it’s till a lot brighter than displays were a few years ago. It has perfect blacks with extremely high contrast at 27,780:1. And its colors are very wide at 100% of sRGB, 97% of AdobeRGB, and 100% of DCI-P3, with excellent color accuracy with a DeltaE of 0.58 (less than 1.0 is indistinguishable to the human eye).

It’s a great display no matter what you’re using it for. It’s not fast enough for demanding creativity work, but it provides a great media experience to go.

Audio is provided by a quad-speaker setup, and it sounds pretty good. There’s good volume and clear mids and highs, while bass is somwhat lacking as is typical with laptops. I’d rate the MacBook Air’s audio to be better, but it’s not a night and day difference.

An excellent laptop for businesses, but a little expensive for most consumers

If you’re a business user looking for a well-built laptop that feels great in hand and looks just as good, with decent productivity performance and great battery life, the EliteBook Ultra G1i is a great choice. Toss in a spectacular OLED display for good measure.

In fact, those are qualities that many consumers are looking for. However, the EliteBook comes with a host of business features that most consumers don’t need, which pumps up the price. So, if you have money to burn, then it’s a great laptop for consumers — but I suspect most buyers will be businesses.