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Sonos’ $30M app fail is cautionary tale against rushing unnecessary updates
Enlarge (credit: Sonos) Addressing blowback from Sonos' wildly unpopular app redesign will cost the company $20 to $30 million "in the short term," according to CEO Patrick Spence. In May, Sonos...
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Nova Launcher, savior of cruft-filled Android phones, is on life support
Enlarge (credit: Nova Launcher) Back in July 2022, when mobile app metrics firm Branch acquired the popular and well-regarded Nova Launcher for Android, the app's site put up one of those...
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Intel details fixes for crashing 13th- and 14th-gen CPUs as BIOS updates roll...
Enlarge (credit: Intel) Intel has shared more about the voltage-related issues that affected some 13th- and 14th-generation Core processors, as the company tries to put the episode behind it. As...
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Microsoft’s Paint 3D was once the future of MS Paint, but now it’s going away
Enlarge / Paint 3D, once the future of the Paint app, is getting the axe in November. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) In October of 2017, Microsoft released a version of Windows 10 called the "Fall...
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Stratasys sues Bambu Lab over patents used widely by consumer 3D printers
Enlarge / The Bambu Lab A1, complete with heated build platform. (credit: Bambu Lab) A patent lawsuit filed by one of 3D printing's most established firms against a consumer-focused upstart could have...
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Framework Laptop 13 reviewed, again: Meteor Lake meh, Linux upgrades good
Enlarge / The ever-evolving Framework Laptop 13 is back again, this time with some Linux-friendly upgrades and Intel's new Meteor Lake-based Core Ultra CPUs. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Would you...
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The Pixel 9 phones are big cameras and screens soldered onto Gemini AI ambitions
Enlarge (credit: Google / Aurich Lawson) Google announced its fall lineup of Pixel phones today: three standard phones and a second tablet-esque folding model. There are new chips, new cameras,...
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Google’s Pixel Watch 3 has a bigger screen, and Pixel Buds Pro 2 are smaller
Enlarge (credit: Google) In addition to a whole bunch of Pixel 9 phones, Google launched the Pixel Watch 3 and Pixel Buds Pro 2 at its Made by Google event today. Here's the lowdown on what's new,...
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Classic PC game emulation is back on the iPhone with iDOS 3 release
Enlarge / The start of any journey in MS-DOS. (credit: Samuel Axon) After a 14-year journey of various states of availability and usefulness amid the shifting policies of Apple's App Store approval...
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Apple will let other digital wallets into Apple Pay, and even be the default
Enlarge / Soon enough, iPhone owners will be able to use "CREDIT CARD" to pay for delicious clams and prawns at the bistro of their choice. (credit: Getty Images) Do iPhones have NFC? Up until...
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Redbox app axed, dashing people’s hopes of keeping purchased content
Enlarge (credit: Getty) Roku has finally axed the Redbox app from its platform. Redbox parent company Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in June and moved to...
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AMD Ryzen 9000 review: Impressive efficiency, with bugs and so-so speed boosts
Enlarge / AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Nearly two years after the release of the first Ryzen 7000 CPUs, AMD has returned with a full-fledged follow-up. The new Ryzen 9000 chips—the...
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Sonos laying off 100 people amid expensive app problems
Enlarge (credit: Sonos) Sonos is laying off about 100 people, the company confirmed on Wednesday. The news comes as Sonos is expecting to spend $20 million to $30 million in the short term to repair...
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New Geekbench AI benchmark can test the performance of CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs
Enlarge (credit: Primate Labs ) Neural processing units (NPUs) are becoming commonplace in chips from Intel and AMD after several years of being something you'd find mostly in smartphones and tablets...
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Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app
Enlarge (credit: Anova) Anova, a company that sells smart sous vide cookers, is getting backlash from customers after announcing that it will soon charge a subscription fee for the device's companion...
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New Windows 11 build removes ancient, arbitrary 32GB size limit for FAT32 disks
Enlarge / If you've formatted a disk in Windows in the last 30 years, you may have come across this dialog box. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) As we wait for this fall's Windows 11 24H2 update to be...
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Epic Games Store and Fortnite arrive on EU iPhones
Enlarge / Artist's conception of Epic dodging harm from Apple's decisions (and perhaps its own). It's been four years since Fortnite, one of the world's most popular games, was pulled from the Apple...
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Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse.
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) The TV business isn't just about selling TVs anymore. Companies are increasingly seeing viewers, not TV sets, as their most lucrative asset. Over the...
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$50 2GB Raspberry Pi 5 comes with a lower price and a tweaked, cheaper CPU
Enlarge / The 8GB Raspberry Pi 5 with the official fan and heatsink installed. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) We're many months past the worst of the Raspberry Pi shortages, and the board is finally...
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Google denies reports that it’s discontinuing Fitbit products
Enlarge / The Fitbit Sense 2. (credit: Google) Google is denying a recent report that it is no longer making Fitbit smartwatches. A company spokesperson told Ars Technica today that Google has no...
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