Enlarge / Apple’s M3 Max-powered 16-inch MacBook Pro. New Pro laptops and some desktops could be on tap for later this fall. Andrew Cunningham reader comments 52 Apple’s newest iPhones and Apple Watches don’t come out until later this week, but the rumor mill is already indicating that Apple is planning a product announcement for ..
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Enlarge / Illustration of a person who refuses to check their iPhone’s messages until RCS is enabled on their MVNO carrier, out of respect for their Android-toting friends and family. Getty Images reader comments 51 The future of inter-OS mobile messaging is here, it’s just unevenly distributed. With iOS 18, Apple has made it possible ..
Enlarge / Sorry about all the black space in the lower-right corner. Nerdfetch does not make good use of the space it’s given—unlike the Asahi install on this MacBook. Kevin Purdy reader comments 47 Almost nobody truly needed Neofetch, but the people who did use it? They really liked it. Neofetch, run from a terminal, ..
Enlarge / Emojipedia sample images of the new Unicode 16.0 emoji. reader comments 81 The Unicode Consortium has finalized and released version 16.0 of the Unicode standard, the elaborate character set that ensures that our phones, tablets, PCs, and other devices can all communicate and interoperate with each other. The update adds 5,185 new characters ..
Enlarge / Hard drives, unfortunately, tend to die not with a spectacular and sparkly bang, but with a head-is-stuck whimper. Getty Images reader comments 167 One of the things enterprise storage and destruction company Iron Mountain does is handle the archiving of the media industry’s vaults. What it has been seeing lately should be a ..
Enlarge / It’s never explained what this collection of app icons quite represents. A disorganized app you tossed together by sideloading? A face that’s frowning because it’s rolling down a bar held up by app icons? It’s weird, but not quite evocative. reader comments 79 You might sideload an Android app, or manually install its ..
Enlarge / In the U.S., a folding phone has you carrying around nearly $2,000 of fragile, folding OLED phone. In China and export-friendly countries, the Mate XT adds $1,000 and yet another hinge. reader comments 91 Huawei’s Mate XT Ultimate is a phone that does not flip or fold, at least in the way of ..
Enlarge / More streamlined (but still user-replaceable) battery packs are responsible for some of the Reform Next’s space savings. MNT Research reader comments 26 The current booting prototype of the MNT Reform Next. MNT Research The casing prototype is still being prototyped with 3D prints, but the final version will be anodized aluminum. MNT Research ..
reader comments 46 Apple plans to release the next versions of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS to the general public on September 16, the company announced via its website following its iPhone-centric product event earlier today. We should also see updates for tvOS and the HomePod operating system on the same date. The new releases ..
reader comments 57 For the last couple years, Apple has reserved its most significant silicon updates for its iPhone Pro models, while the less expensive non-Pro iPhones have made do with year-old chips. This year, Apple is introducing new A18-series chips for both Pro and non-Pro iPhones, chips which it says are “designed for Apple ..
