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Android’s AirTag competitor gears up for launch, thanks to iOS release
Enlarge / Pebblebee's Android trackers. (credit: Pebblebee) Will Google ever launch its "Find My" network? The Android ecosystem was supposed to have its own version of Apple's AirTags by now. Google...
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Roku patent invents a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV
Enlarge / A promotional image for a Roku TV. (credit: Roku) Roku TV sets come with ads. Generally, these are restricted to Roku's home and menu screens, its screensavers, and its first-party video...
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Apple now allows retro game emulators on its App Store—but with big caveats
Enlarge / The classic Sega Genesis game Sonic the Hedgehog running on an iPhone—in this case, as a standalone app. (credit: Samuel Axon) When Apple posted its latest update to the App Store's app...
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Android’s Bluetooth trackers are finally shipping in late May
Chipolo's trackers. The keychain tracker takes a CR2023 battery; the card is not rechargeable. [credit: Chipolo ] After an announcement that ended up being a year early, Android's version of...
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After pushing cloud storage, TV provider to auto-delete 61-day-old DVR...
Enlarge (credit: Getty) Canadian telecom Bell Canada has been pushing its cloud-based DVR service to its Fibe TV subscribers for years. While it has given customers advantages, like the ability to...
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AI hardware company from Jony Ive, Sam Altman seeks $1 billion in funding
Jony Ive, the former Apple designer. (credit: Gary Cohen) Former Apple design lead Jony Ive and current OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are seeking funding for a new company that will produce an "artificial...
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WordPress.com owner acquires Beeper, giving it two chat apps to rule them all
Enlarge / Beeper's new apps are now available, without waitlist, across nearly all mobile and desktop platforms. Beeper, the multinetwork messaging app that recently gave up on trying to engineer...
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Intel is investigating game crashes on top-end Core i9 desktop CPUs
Enlarge / Intel's high-end Core i9-13900K and 14900K are reportedly having crashing problems in some games. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) If you own a recent high-end Intel desktop CPU and you've been...
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“Google Vids” is Google’s fourth big productivity app for Workspace
Is that Google Slides? Nope it's Google Vids, the new video editor that seems to just make souped-up slideshows. [credit: Google ] If you had asked me before what Google's video editor app was, I...
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Kobo adds color to its e-reader lineup for the first time, starting at $149
Kobo's Libra Colour is the higher-end of the two color Kobos, with a 7-inch screen, physical page-turn buttons, and stylus compatibility. [credit: Kobo ] Color e-readers have been a thing for a while,...
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5.25-inch floppy disks expected to help run San Francisco trains until 2030
Enlarge (credit: Getty) The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), which runs the city's Muni Metro light rail, claims to be the first US agency to adopt the train control system it...
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Fairbuds are Fairphone’s proof that we really could make better tiny gadgets
Enlarge / The Fairbuds and their replaceable components, including the notably hand-friendly, non-soldered batteries. (credit: Fairphone) Fairphone has spent years showing us that it could do what...
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Google Cloud rolls out self-designed Arm chips in its data centers
Enlarge / A Google Axion Processor. (credit: Google) Google is joining the custom Arm data center chip trend. Google Cloud, the cloud platform division that competes with Amazon Web Services and...
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Google Photos’ AI editor goes freemium, hopes you’ll join $100/year plan
Enlarge / Google's Magic Editor and Photo Unblur. (credit: Google) Google Photos is opening up its premium editing tools to more users. The company says features like Magic Editor, Magic Eraser, Photo...
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Apple will allow reuse of iPhone parts for repairs, with a notable catch
(credit: Getty Images) Apple has always had a strong preference that only its own parts be used in repairs, but only if they're brand-new. Now, soon after Oregon passed a repair bill forbidding...
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Amazon virtually kills efforts to develop Alexa Skills, disappointing dozens
Enlarge / The 4th-gen Amazon Echo Dot smart speaker. (credit: Amazon) Alexa hasn't worked out the way Amazon originally planned. There was a time when it thought that Alexa would yield a robust...
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TSMC’s $65 billion bet still leaves US missing piece of chip puzzle
Enlarge / President Biden speaking at the official opening of TSMC’s first Arizona fabrication plant in December 2022. The Taiwanese chipmaker plans to start manufacturing 2-nanometer chips in the US...
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Google kills “One” VPN service, says “people simply weren’t using it”
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) Another day, another dead Google product. The Google One VPN service we complained about last week is headed to the chopping block. Google's support documents haven't...
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The DiskMantler violently shakes hard drives for better rare-earth recovery
Enlarge / From magnets we came, to magnets we return. (credit: Garner Products) There is the mental image that most people have of electronics recycling, and then there is the reality, which is...
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SD cards finally expected to hit 4TB in 2025
Enlarge / Generic, non-Western Digital SD cards. (credit: Getty) Western Digital plans to release the first 4TB SD card next year. On Thursday, the storage firm announced plans to demo the product in...
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