Enlarge / Oral-B released the Guide in 2020, making promises of Alexa-powered convenience, which it ended in 2022. reader comments 100 As we’re currently seeing with AI, when a new technology becomes buzzy, companies will do almost anything to cram that tech into their products. Trends fade, however, and corporate priorities shift—resulting in bricked gadgets ..
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reader comments 46 The Motorola Edge 2024. Some companies are still making curved screens. The bottom, which just features a sim tray, speaker, and USB-C port. Motorola’s newest phone is the Motorola Edge 2024. This is a mid-range phone with the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 2. It costs $550 and will be in stores ..
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Enlarge / Pixel devices. reader comments 19 Google has changed its repair policy in response to criticism from repair advocate Louis Rossmann. Rossmann dug through the Google Store’s “Service & Repair Program Terms & Conditions” for its first-party mail-in repair service and found the same style of onerous bans on third-party parts that Samsung was ..
Enlarge / Yes, there are bigger monitors, but is there a better way to have a tri-monitor setup? reader comments 50 In a technical disclosure published this month, HP explored a Micro LED monitor concept that would enable consumers to easily use various multi-monitor configurations through the use of “Lego-like building blocks.” HP has no ..
Enlarge / Someone really likes Google Chrome. reader comments 155 Google Chrome will be shutting down its older, more capable extension system, Manifest V2, in favor of exclusively using the more limited Manifest V3. The deeply controversial Manifest V3 system was announced in 2019, and the full switch has been delayed a million times, but ..
Enlarge / Spotify’s Car Thing thing in a car. reader comments 19 Spotify will refund owners of Car Thing, its Spotify-playing device that mounts to car dashboards, Ars Technica confirmed today. On May 23, Spotify announced that it would brick all Car Things on December 9. Spotify started notifying customers via email on May 24 ..
Enlarge / OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. reader comments 44 Apple and OpenAI have successfully made a deal to include OpenAI’s generative AI technology in Apple’s software, according to The Information, which cites a source who has spoken to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about the deal. It was previously reported by Bloomberg that the deal was ..
Enlarge / The Framework Laptop 13. reader comments 48 Framework will release a fourth round of iterative updates and upgrade options for its Framework Laptop 13, the company announced via a blog post yesterday. The upgrades include both motherboards and pre-built laptops that feature new Intel Meteor Lake Core Ultra processors with Intel Arc dedicated ..
Enlarge / ICQ in Windows 98. Samuel Axon reader comments 73 After nearly 28 years in operation, messaging service ICQ will cease operations on June 26, according to its current owners. You’d be forgiven for not realizing it still existed; the proto-IM service hasn’t been in the mainstream since the 2000s. But in the late ..
