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Apple Intelligence and other features won’t launch in the EU this year
Enlarge / Features like Image Playground won't arrive in Europe at the same time as other regions. (credit: Apple) Three major features in iOS 18 and macOS Sequoia will not be available to European...
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40 years later, X Window System is far more relevant than anyone could guess
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Often times, when I am researching something about computers or coding that has been around a very long while, I will come across a document on a university website that...
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Citing national security, US will ban Kaspersky anti-virus software in July
Enlarge (credit: Kaspersky Lab) The Biden administration will ban all sales of Kaspersky antivirus software in the US starting in July, according to reporting from Reuters and a filing from the US...
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$200-ish laptop with a 386 and 8MB of RAM is a modern take on Windows 3.1 era
The Pocket 386, a new-old laptop that can run MS-DOS, Windows 3.x, and (technically) Windows 95. [credit: DZT's Store ] Of the many oddities you can buy from Aliexpress, some of the weirdest are the...
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iFixit says new Arm Surface hardware “puts repair front and center”
Enlarge / Microsoft's 11th-edition Surface Pro, as exploded by iFixit. Despite adhesive holding in the screen and the fact that you need to remove the heatsink to get at the battery, it's still much...
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Larry Finger made Linux wireless work and brought others along to learn
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) Linux and its code are made by people, and people are not with us forever. Over the weekend, a brief message on the Linux kernel mailing list reminded...
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Microsoft removes documentation for switching to a local account in Windows 11
Enlarge / A PC running Windows 11. (credit: Microsoft) One of Windows 11's more contentious changes is that, by default, both the Home and Pro editions of the operating system require users to sign in...
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iOS 18’s drive-formatting option shows how far iPhones have come for power users
Enlarge / The 2024 iPad Pro. (credit: Samuel Axon) Apple has added the ability to format external drives in iOS 18 and iPadOS 18, the major software updates for iPhones and iPads due later this year....
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OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Mac is now available to all users
Enlarge / The app lets you invoke ChatGPT from anywhere in the system with a keyboard shortcut, Spotlight-style. (credit: Samuel Axon) OpenAI's official ChatGPT app for macOS is now available to all...
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Patent document showcases the cloud-only streaming Xbox console that never was
The streaming-only Xbox would have looked like a smaller, squarer relative of the Series S. [credit: Microsoft ] Microsoft's mid-generation plans for the Xbox Series S and X consoles looked a whole...
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Apple’s “Longevity, by Design” argues its huge scale affects its repair polices
Enlarge / Apple has a lot to say about the third-party battery market in "Longevity, by Design," specifically about how many batteries fail to meet testing standards. (credit: Apple) Earlier this...
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Google Translate just nearly doubled its number of supported languages
Enlarge / The logo for PaLM 2, a Google large language model. (credit: Google) Google announced today that it has added support for 110 new languages to Google Translate, nearly doubling the number of...
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Researchers craft smiling robot face from living human skin cells
Enlarge / A movable robotic face covered with living human skin cells. (credit: Takeuchi et al.) In a new study, researchers from the University of Tokyo, Harvard University, and the International...
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Apple’s Vision Pro goes on sale outside the US for the first time
Enlarge / A Vision Pro on display at an Apple Store in Tokyo. (credit: Apple) Apple's Vision Pro headset went on sale outside the United States for the first time today, in the first of two waves of...
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30 years later, FreeDOS is still keeping the dream of the command prompt alive
Enlarge / Preparing to install the floppy disk edition of FreeDOS 1.3 in a virtual machine. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Two big things happened in the world of text-based disk operating systems in...
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Bleeding subscribers, cable companies force their way into streaming
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | stefanamer) It's clear that streaming services are the present and future of video distribution. But that doesn't mean that cable companies are ready to give up on your...
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Surface Pro 11 and Laptop 7 review: An Apple Silicon moment for Windows
Enlarge / Microsoft's Surface Pro 11, the first flagship Surface to ship exclusively using Arm processors. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Microsoft has been trying to make Windows-on-Arm-processors a...
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Google’s greenhouse gas emissions jump 48% in five years
Cooling pipes at a Google data center in Douglas County, Georgia. (credit: Google) Google’s greenhouse gas emissions have surged 48 percent in the past five years due to the expansion of its data...
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Apple Vision Pro, new cameras fail user-repairability analysis
Enlarge / Apple's Vision Pro scored 0 points in US PIRG's self-repairability analysis. (credit: Kyle Orland) In December, New York became the first state to enact a "Right to Repair" law for...
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Japan wins 2-year “war on floppy disks,” kills regulations requiring old tech
Enlarge (credit: Getty) About two years after the country’s digital minister publicly declared a “war on floppy discs,” Japan reportedly stopped using floppy disks in governmental systems as of June...
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