reader comments 56 For the vast majority of compatible PCs, Microsoft’s Windows 11 24H2 update still isn’t officially available as anything other than a preview (a revised version of the update is available to Windows Insiders again after briefly being pulled early last week). But Microsoft and most of the other big PC companies are ..
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Getty Images reader comments 81 Proton, the secure-minded email and productivity suite, is becoming a nonprofit foundation, but it doesn’t want you to think about it in the way you think about other notable privacy and web foundations. “We believe that if we want to bring about large-scale change, Proton can’t be billionaire-subsidized (like Signal), ..
Enlarge / Apple bragged about the thinness of the M4 iPad Pro; it’s apparently a template for the company’s designs going forward. reader comments 254 Though Apple has a reputation for prioritizing thinness in its hardware designs, the company has actually spent the last few years learning to embrace a little extra size and/or weight ..
Enlarge / TDK says its new ceramic materials for batteries will improve the performance of small consumer electronics devices such as smartwatches and wireless headphones reader comments 247 Japan’s TDK is claiming a breakthrough in materials used in its small solid-state batteries, with the Apple supplier predicting significant performance increases for devices from wireless headphones ..
Enlarge / Motion smoothing was making images uncanny and weird long before AI got here. Aurich Lawson | Getty Images | Roku reader comments 237 Roku TV owners have been introduced to a number of annoyances recently through the software update pipeline. There was an arbitration-demanding terms of service that locked your TV until you ..
Enlarge / The standard Starlink satellite dish. reader comments 109 You can now buy a Starlink satellite dish for $299 (plus shipping and tax) in 28 US states due to a discount for areas where SpaceX’s broadband network has excess capacity. Starlink had raised its upfront hardware cost from $499 to $599 in March 2022 but ..
Enlarge / Google Pay is dead! reader comments 74 Google has killed off the Google Pay app. 9to5Google reports Google’s old payments app stopped working recently, following shutdown plans that were announced in February. Google is shutting down the Google Pay app in the US, while in-store NFC payments seem to still be branded “Google ..
reader comments 49 Apple’s new iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 updates are mostly good news for users of older Apple devices—with the exception of 2018’s sixth-generation iPad, the new updates will run on all the same hardware that can run iOS 17 and iPadOS 17. For iPhones, that will cover everything from the iPhone XR/XS ..
reader comments 130 The AIs are learning to cooperate! Siri talks to ChatGPT. This type of super-specific question would be hard for a search engine to answer. The response. It looks a lot like a search engine. This new context menu looks like a kickoff point for AI writing features. It’s integrated into the OS ..
Enlarge / So much depends upon a red puzzle cube, pinned by servo motors, inside Mitsubishi. Mitsubishi reader comments 48 The last time a human set the world record for solving a Rubik’s Cube, it was Max Park, at 3.13 seconds for a standard 3×3×3 cube, set in June 2023. It is going to be ..
