Enlarge / The font styling is very intentional. reader comments 46 I traded in my Series 5 Apple Watch last week to Apple after the battery couldn’t make it through most evenings. There wasn’t much resale incentive on the open market, because the screen was far from pristine and the battery was nearly 5 years ..
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reader comments 66 Whether you want to call it “Google Business Messaging” or “Google Business Profile Chat,” the chat buttons in Google Maps and Search are going away. This is the 2018 version of Google Maps Messaging, which is when it was first built into the Google Maps app. Messages used to have a top-tier ..
reader comments 63 8BitDo’s IBM-like M Edition keyboard. Design cues help pay tribute to the ’80s buckling spring keyboard. It even has arrows on the Tab key, like the original Model M had. A profile view. Modern updates include these dedicated media keys. The keyboard has integrated storage for the wireless dongle. 8BitDo is releasing ..
Enlarge / The now normal “AI” results versus the old school “Web” results. Ron Amadeo / Google reader comments 75 If you’re tired of Google’s AI Overview extracting all value from the web while also telling people to eat glue or run with scissors, you can turn it off—sort of. Google has been telling people ..
Enlarge / iPadOS 17.5.1 ready to install on an iPad Pro. Samuel Axon reader comments 47 On May 20, Apple released iOS 17.5.1 to fix a bug users had found a few days prior in iOS 17.5 that resurfaced old photos that had been previously deleted. So far, the update seems to have resolved the ..
reader comments 221 Owners of Spotify’s soon-to-be-bricked Car Thing device are begging the company to open-source the gadgets to save some the landfill. Spotify hasn’t responded to pleas to salvage the hardware, which was originally intended to connect to car dashboards and auxiliary outlets to enable drivers to listen to and navigate Spotify. Spotify announced ..
Getty Images reader comments 26 Bing, Microsoft’s search engine platform, went down in the very early morning today. That meant that searches from Microsoft’s Edge browsers that had yet to change their default providers didn’t work. It also meant that services relying on Bing’s search API—Microsoft’s own Copilot, ChatGPT search, Yahoo, Ecosia, and DuckDuckGo—similarly failed. ..
reader comments 29 The Windows 11 24H2 update isn’t scheduled to be released until sometime this fall, but testers can get a near-final version of it early. Microsoft has released Windows 11 24H2 build 26100.712 to its Release Preview testing channel for Windows Insiders, a sign that the update is nearly complete and that the ..
Enlarge / The Humane AI Pin. It has a magnetic back, so it sticks to your clothing like a name tag. reader comments 72 The wearable startup Humane, makers of the bizarre Humane AI Pin, is already looking for the exit. Bloomberg reports the company is seeking a sale after its first and only product ..
Enlarge / The new Arm-powered Surface Laptop. These Copilot+ PCs are all pictured with a refreshed version of Windows 11’s “Bloom” wallpaper. reader comments 25 Microsoft is announcing some fairly major changes for Windows and the Surface lineup as part of its Build developer conference this week, but there’s one thing that’s definitely not coming, at ..
