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Amazon is bricking $2,350 Astro robots 10 months after release
(credit: Amazon) Amazon is bricking all Astro for Business robots on September 25. It first released the robot about eight months ago as a security device for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs)...
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ChatGPT’s much-heralded Mac app was storing conversations as plain text
Enlarge / The app lets you invoke ChatGPT from anywhere in the system with a keyboard shortcut, Spotlight-style. (credit: Samuel Axon) OpenAI announced its Mac desktop app for ChatGPT with a lot of...
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Notepad’s spellcheck and autocorrect are rolling out to everybody after 41 years
Testing spellcheck in the latest version of Windows Notepad. In March, Microsoft started testing an update to the venerable Notepad app that added spellcheck and autocorrect to the app's limited but...
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“Immensely disappointing”: Nike killing app for $350 self-tying sneakers
Enlarge / Nike announced the Adapt BB as "a Self-Lacing Basketball Shoe" with app-controllable LEDs. (credit: Nike) In 2019, Nike got closer than ever to its dreams of popularizing self-tying sneakers...
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After two rejections, Apple approves Epic Games Store app for iOS
Enlarge / Epic Games founder and CEO Tim Sweeney. (credit: Epic Games) It's been a whirlwind journey of stops and starts, but AppleInsider reports the Epic Game Store for iOS in the European Union has...
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Samsung’s abandoned NX cameras can be brought online with a $20 LTE stick
Enlarge / Under-powered Samsung camera, meet over-powered 4G LTE dongle. Now work together to move pictures over the air. (credit: Georg Lukas) Back in 2010—after the first iPhone, but before its...
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Testers unearth touchscreen UI in tvOS beta, signs point to a touchscreen...
Enlarge / A screenshot of tvOS 17. Recent betas have included evidence that Apple is working on a touchscreen-enabled version of the interface. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Apple’s tvOS betas are...
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Galaxy Z Fold & Z Flip 6, Watch Ultra, and new Ring are Samsung’s AI carriers
Enlarge / "Galaxy AI is here," Samsung announces, while also noting that there are seven new devices they have for sale. (credit: Samsung) Samsung, much like every large tech company on this planet,...
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Three betas in, iOS 18 testers still can’t try out Apple Intelligence features
Enlarge (credit: Apple) The beta-testing cycle for Apple's latest operating system updates is in full swing—earlier this week, the third developer betas rolled out for iOS 18, iPadOS 18, macOS 15...
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Arm tweaks AMD’s FSR to bring battery-saving GPU upscaling to phones and tablets
Enlarge / An Arm sample image meant to show off its new "Accuracy Super Resolution" upscaling tech. (credit: Arm) Some of the best Arm processors come from companies like Apple and Qualcomm, which...
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DVDs are dying right as streaming has made them appealing again
Enlarge / A Redbox movie rental kiosk stands outside a CVS store. (credit: Getty) Since 2004, red DVD rental kiosks posted near entrances of grocery stores and the like tempted shoppers with movie...
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Shady company relaunches popular old tech blogs, steals writers’ identities
Enlarge / Professional writers' names were attached to AI content they had nothing to do with. (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images | Christina Warren) In one of the most egregiously unethical uses...
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Arduino’s Plug and Make Kit lets your hacking imagination run wild, sans solder
Enlarge / Having this on the wall, right by your front door, would serve the purpose of informing guests where your priorities lie. (credit: Arduino) I know how to solder, but I do not always want to...
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New app releases for Apple Vision Pro have fallen dramatically since launch
Enlarge (credit: Samuel Axon) Apple is struggling to attract fresh content for its innovative Vision Pro headset, with just a fraction of the apps available when compared with the number of developers...
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$500 aluminum version of the Analogue Pocket looks like the Game Boy’s final...
Enlarge / Analogue is launching another limited-edition version of its Pocket console, this time with an anodized aluminum body and buttons. (credit: Analogue) Analogue has released multiple...
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German Navy still uses 8-inch floppy disks, working on emulating a replacement
Enlarge / An example of an 8-inch floppy disk. It's unclear which brand disks the German Navy uses. (credit: Cromemco, CC BY-SA 4.0) The German Navy is working on modernizing its Brandenburg-class...
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Report: Alphabet close to $23 billion deal for cybersecurity startup Wiz
Enlarge (credit: Timon Schneider/Dreamstime) Google’s parent company, Alphabet, is in talks to buy cybersecurity start-up Wiz for about $23 billion, in what would be the largest acquisition in the...
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Apple releases public betas of all next-gen OS updates, except for VisionOS
Enlarge (credit: Apple) Apple's next-generation operating systems are taking their next step toward release today: Apple is issuing the first public beta builds of iOS 18, iPadOS 18, macOS 15 Sequoia,...
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AMD brags about Ryzen 9000’s efficiency, extends AM5 support guarantee to 2027
Enlarge / AMD's Ryzen 9000 launch lineup. (credit: AMD) AMD has released more information about its next-generation Ryzen 9000 processors and their underlying Zen 5 CPU architecture this week ahead of...
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Streaming’s bundling obsession ignores the real problem with subscription costs
Enlarge (credit: Getty) Video streaming providers have a big churn problem. While many streaming companies are not profitable yet, the entire industry is grappling with high and fast cancellation...
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