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Apple lays off employees working on Books and News
Enlarge / The Apple Books icon on a Mac. (credit: Samuel Axon) Apple will cut 100 jobs, all in its digital services teams. Laid off employees will have 60 days to find another job in the company...
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A long, weird FOSS circle ends as Microsoft donates Mono to Wine project
Enlarge / Does Mono fit between the Chilean cab sav and Argentinian malbec, or is it more of an orange, maybe? (credit: Getty Images) Microsoft has donated the Mono Project, an open-source framework...
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ESPN’s Where to Watch tries to solve sports’ most frustrating problem
The ESPN app on an iPhone 11 Pro. (credit: ESPN) Too often, new tech product or service launches seem like solutions in search of a problem, but not this one: ESPN is launching software that lets you...
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AI company Midjourney teases hardware product in a new form factor
Responding to this meme image of a wizard with an orb from the I.C.E. book Middle-earth: Valar and Maiar, Midjourney's founder joked that the new hardware form factor might be an orb. (credit: I.C.E.)...
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Apple is reportedly trying to invest in OpenAI
Enlarge / The OpenAI logo. (credit: Getty Images) According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, Apple is in talks to invest in OpenAI, the generative AI company whose ChatGPT will feature in...
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Revised Raspberry Pi 5 chip comes with unexpected power savings
Enlarge / The Broadcom SoC used in the original 4GB and 8GB Raspberry Pi 5. The 2GB version uses an updated revision with several small but significant benefits. (credit: Raspberry Pi) When Raspberry...
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Sunrise alarm clock didn’t make waking up easier—but made sleeping more peaceful
The Hatch Restore 2 with one of its lighting options on. [credit: Scharon Harding ] To say "I’m not a morning person" would be an understatement. Not only is it hard for me to be useful in the first...
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Asus ROG Ally X review: Better performance and feel in a pricey package
Enlarge / It's hard to fit the perfomance-minded but pricey ROG Ally X into a simple product category. It's also tricky to fit it into a photo, at the right angle, while it's in your hands. (credit:...
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Gen AI Alexa to use Anthropic tech after it “struggled for words” with Amazon’s
Enlarge / Generative AI Alexa asked to make a taco poem. (credit: Amazon News/YouTube) The previously announced generative AI version of Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant “will be powered primarily by...
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Tumblr migrates more than 500 million blogs to WordPress
Enlarge / "You'll never be bored again" is one of the more fitting slogans attached to Tumblr. (credit: Getty Images) Once-great social media and blogging platform Tumblr has gone through a number of...
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AnandTech, mainstay of computer hardware reviews, closes after 27 years
Enlarge (credit: AnandTech) Few '90s tech sites other than Ars Technica are still operating here in 2024, and today, there's one fewer. AnandTech, a staple of CPU and GPU news and reviews since 1997,...
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Intel Core Ultra 200V promises Arm-beating battery life without compatibility...
Enlarge (credit: Intel) Intel has formally announced its first batch of next-generation Core Ultra processors, codenamed "Lunar Lake." The CPUs will be available in PCs beginning on September 24....
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Rust in Linux lead retires rather than deal with more “nontechnical nonsense”
Enlarge / Rust never sleeps. But Rust, the programming language, can be held at bay if enough kernel programmers aren't interested in seeing it implemented. (credit: Getty Images) The Linux kernel is...
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Qualcomm’s new 8-core Snapdragon chip is aimed at cheaper Arm Windows PCs
Enlarge (credit: Qualcomm) Windows-on-Arm is finally just about good enough to serve as your main PC, thanks to a combination of long-awaited Snapdragon X-series silicon from Qualcomm, Arm-specific...
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I added a ratgdo to my garage door, and I don’t know why I waited so long
Enlarge / A ratgdo, version 2.53i. (credit: Ratcloud LLC) I live in suburbia, which means I've got a garage (or a carhole, if you’re not so fancy). It's a detached garage, so part of my nightly...
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FTC urged to make smart devices say how long they will be supported
Enlarge / Spotify released the Car Thing to the general public in February 2022. It's bricking them in December. (credit: Spotify) For some of us, few things are more infuriating than a gadget that...
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What to expect from Apple’s “It’s Glowtime” event
Enlarge / Apple's event will likely discuss Apple Intelligence, though that's not going to launch until later in the year with iOS 18.1 (credit: Apple) For years, Apple's September event has focused...
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Ars Technica system guide: Falling prices are more exciting than new parts
Enlarge / AMD's Ryzen 7700X makes enough sense to feature in our higher-end gaming build. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) It's been a while since our last system guide, and a few new products—most notably...
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WaveCore runs right through a concrete wall with gigabit-speed network signal
Enlarge / "Hmm, no signal here. I'm trying to figure it out, but nothing comes to mind …" (credit: Getty Images) One issue in getting office buildings networked that you don't typically face at home...
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Leaked Disney+ financials may shed light on recent price hike
Enlarge / A shot from Agatha All Along, an upcoming Disney+ exclusive. (credit: Marvel Studios/Disney+) A leak of data from Disney points to the Disney+ streaming service making about $2.4 billion in...
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