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These are all the devices compatible with iOS 18 and iPadOS 18
Enlarge (credit: Apple) 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...
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The Google Pay app is dead
Enlarge / Google Pay is dead! (credit: Aurich Lawson / Ars Technica) Google has killed off the Google Pay app. 9to5Google reports Google's old payments app stopped working recently, following shutdown...
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Google’s Pixel 8 series gets USB-C to DisplayPort; desktop mode rumors heat up
Enlarge / The Pixel 8. (credit: Google) Google's June Android update is out, and it's bringing a few notable changes for Pixel phones. The most interesting is that the Pixel 8a, Pixel 8 and Pixel 8...
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Apple quietly improves Mac virtualization in macOS 15 Sequoia
Enlarge / Macs running a preview build of macOS 15 Sequoia. (credit: Apple) We’ve written before about Apple’s handy virtualization framework in recent versions of macOS, which allows users of Apple...
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My favorite macOS Sequoia feature so far might be the old-timey Mac wallpaper
Enlarge / The classic Mac OS wallpaper in macOS 15 Sequoia mimics the monochrome user interfaces used in System 1 through 6. (credit: Apple) I'm still in the very early stages of poking at macOS 15...
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Google’s abuse of Fitbit continues with web app shutdown
Enlarge (credit: Fitbit) Google's continued abuse of the Fitbit brand is continuing with the shutdown of the web dashboard. Fitbit.com used to be both a storefront and a way for users to get a...
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Starlink user terminal now costs just $300 in 28 states, $500 in rest of US
Enlarge / The standard Starlink satellite dish. (credit: Starlink) 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...
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Roku owners face the grimmest indignity yet: Stuck-on motion smoothing
Enlarge / Motion smoothing was making images uncanny and weird long before AI got here. (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images | Roku) Roku TV owners have been introduced to a number of annoyances...
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“Simulation of keyboard activity” leads to firing of Wells Fargo employees
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Last month, Wells Fargo terminated over a dozen bank employees following an investigation into claims of faking work activity on their computers, according to a...
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Microsoft delays Recall again, won’t debut it with new Copilot+ PCs after all
Enlarge / Recall is part of Microsoft's Copilot+ PC program. (credit: Microsoft) Microsoft will be delaying its controversial Recall feature again, according to an updated blog post by Windows and...
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Give yourself a day to tackle all your recommendation and subscription guilt
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) We're heading into summer, a time when some people get a few half or whole days off from work. These can't all be vacations, and there's only so much shopping, golfing,...
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Retired engineer discovers 55-year-old bug in Lunar Lander computer game code
Enlarge / Illustration of the Apollo lunar lander Eagle over the Moon. (credit: Getty Images) On Friday, a retired software engineer named Martin C. Martin announced that he recently discovered a bug...
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TDK claims insane energy density in solid-state battery breakthrough
Enlarge / TDK says its new ceramic materials for batteries will improve the performance of small consumer electronics devices such as smartwatches and wireless headphones (credit: AsiaVision via...
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After a few years of embracing thickness, Apple reportedly plans thinner devices
Enlarge / Apple bragged about the thinness of the M4 iPad Pro; it's apparently a template for the company's designs going forward. (credit: Apple) Though Apple has a reputation for prioritizing...
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Proton is taking its privacy-first apps to a nonprofit foundation model
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) 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...
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MacBook Air gets hosed, other models hold steady in macOS 15 as Intel support...
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) As the Intel Mac era has wound down over the last couple of years, we've been painstakingly tracking the amount of software support that each outgoing model is getting....
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Windows 11 24H2 is released to the public but only on Copilot+ PCs (for now)
Enlarge (credit: Microsoft) 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...
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Reports: Apple is halting its next high-end Vision in favor of something cheaper
Enlarge (credit: Samuel Axon) A report by tech news site The Information suggests that Apple is shifting its augmented reality priorities. The next high-end version of the Vision Pro has purportedly...
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Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else”
Enlarge / Signage outside a Dell campus. (credit: Getty) Big tech companies are still trying to rally workers back into physical offices, and many workers are still not having it. Based on a recent...
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Win+C, Windows’ most cursed keyboard shortcut, is getting retired again
Enlarge / A rendering of the Copilot button. (credit: Microsoft) Microsoft is all-in on its Copilot+ PC push right now, but the fact is that they'll be an extremely small minority among the PC install...
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