Enlarge / Apple will replace iTunes with Music, Podcasts, and TV on Mac. Ron Amadeo Podcast fans will want to keep their ears to the ground with the latest Apple news. Bloomberg reported that Apple may be looking for deals to bring exclusive original shows to its podcast-listening platform. Unnamed sources said the company is […]
The Nokia 2.2. Nokia Here you can see a closeup of the camera notch, which has the earpiece just above it. The back is plastic and removable. This side has the power and volume buttons. Notice the extra button on the side here, which launches the Google Assistant. How cheap do you like your smartphones? […]
Enlarge Ars Technica Greetings, Arsians! Your friendly neighborhood Dealmaster is back and reporting for bargain-hunting duty—and boy, is he going to need some extra coffee. That’s because today marks the start of Amazon Prime Day 2019, the increasingly misnamed sales event that sees the nation’s largest online retailer discount products beyond number to Black Friday-level […]
Enlarge Today Qualcomm announced a mid-cycle upgrade for the Snapdragon 855, called the “Snapdragon 855+.” As a mid-cycle upgrade, there aren’t huge changes here. It’s still an eight-core, 7nm SoC, but the CPU and GPU are a bit faster thanks to higher clock speeds. First up: the CPU, which sees the 855’s “Prime” core clock […]
Enlarge Valentina Palladino Prime Day is nearly upon us, and Amazon has already pushed out a bunch of deals on its own devices. Like Prime Days past, Amazon has discounted most of its devices and services in the hopes that more people will take the plunge and try Echo speakers or other Alexa-enabled devices, Kindle e-readers, […]
Enlarge / 5G is here, but that doesn’t mean you have to buy into it. Thermal throttling is a fact of life for smartphones. SoCs generate a lot of heat, and when this heat can’t be dissipated, processors react by slowing down and thereby generating less heat. Usually this is just an issue for heavy […]
Tim Cook on stage during an Apple event in September 2018. Valentina Palladino Software may come and go from the App Store, but this week marks a return that could have some real significance for Apple. OurPact, an app that lets parents monitor and limit their children’s use of technology, has returned to the App […]
The 13-inch MacBook Pro with two Thunderbolt 3 ports, torn down. iFixit A peek inside. iFixit The logic board. iFixit The revised keyboard mechanism. iFixit As is tradition, repair guide site and parts vendor iFixit tore down the latest Mac to see what’s different inside and to assess its repairability. This time it’s the new, […]
Enlarge / A Microsoft office (not to be confused with Microsoft Office). Julien GONG Min / Flickr Microsoft Teams may have only been around for two years, but the group-chat platform is already larger than one of its main competitors. Microsoft announced that Teams has more than 13 million daily active users. The amount rises […]
Enlarge / The Google Home Mini, the original Google Home, and the Google Home Max. Google Google today defended its practice of having workers listen to users’ Google Assistant queries, following the leak of 1,000 voice recordings to a media outlet. Google also said it will try to prevent future leaks of its users’ voice […]
Enlarge Android We don’t have any Beta 5 pictures yet, but here’s what the gesture navigation system looked like in earlier builds. Ron Amadeo Correctly set-up apps get a transparent nav bar. Ron Amadeo With a transparent bar, Android will continuously sample the background and change the color of the gesture indicator. (The whole rest […]
Enlarge AMD AMD debuted its new Ryzen 3000 desktop CPU line a few weeks ago at E3, and it looked fantastic. For the first time in 20 years, it looked like AMD could go head to head with Intel’s desktop CPU line-up across the board. The question: would independent, third-party testing back up AMD’s assertions? […]
Enlarge / Send copies of files with Dropbox Transfer. Dropbox Dropbox is adding a new option for how its users can share files. Dropbox Transfer introduces a way to send files between people rather than simply sharing access for collaboration. Files can be dragged and dropped directly from your computer or from within Dropbox storage. […]
Enlarge / The 2018 MacBook Air is 10% thinner than the old MacBook Air and weighs 2.75lbs. Valentina Palladino Today, Apple refreshed much of its entry-level laptop lineup in time for a “Back to School” push that includes slashed prices for educators and students as well as other perks, like a free pair of Beats […]
Enlarge / Eleven and the gang face down weird dangers yet again in the third season trailer. YouTube/Netflix If you were one of the many people confused and curious about Microsoft’s apparent time-traveling social media blitz last week, wonder no more. As several astute fans guessed, the retro throwback was part of a collaboration with […]