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Review: reMarkable Paper Pro writing tablet feels almost like paper, for a price
Enlarge / The reMarkable Paper Pro tablet. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Our main critique of Amazon's Kindle Scribe when it launched in late 2022—and one that still mostly holds up—was that it felt...
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Apple Watch Series 10 is smaller, thinner, lighter, and has mini-Intelligence
Enlarge (credit: Apple) The newest Apple Watch is all about a big screen, a thinner case, and lighter metal options, allowing for better typing and easier viewing. Apple's first wide-angle OLED...
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Apple announces $179 AirPods 4 with active noise cancellation
The AirPods 4. [credit: Apple ] Apple announced the fourth-generation AirPods today during its It's Glowtime event. As you can tell from the gallery above, the AirPods 4 look different from their...
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iPhone 16 gets two new buttons and a new camera layout
The iPhone 16 has a new rear camera arrangement. [credit: Apple ] Apple's new iPhone 16 isn't a revolution by any means, but it's a solid upgrade with a handful of new features (including two new...
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Apple’s iPhone 16 Pro boasts a bigger screen and better camera zoom
These are the new colors and finishes for the iPhone 16 Pro. As expected, Apple announced the new iPhone Pro models today during a livestream: the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max. The iPhone 16...
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Apple updates both of its new iPhones with A18 and A18 Pro chips
Enlarge (credit: Apple) For the last couple years, Apple has reserved its most significant silicon updates for its iPhone Pro models, while the less expensive non-Pro iPhones have made do with...
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Apple will release iOS 18, macOS 15, iPadOS 18, other updates on September 16
Enlarge (credit: Apple) Apple plans to release the next versions of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS to the general public on September 16, the company announced via its website following its...
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You can buy a diamond-making machine for $200,000 on Alibaba
Enlarge (credit: eugenekeebler via Getty Images) In an age when you can get just about anything online, it's probably no surprise that you can buy a diamond-making machine for $200,000 on Chinese...
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“MNT Reform Next” combines open source hardware and usable performance
Enlarge / More streamlined (but still user-replaceable) battery packs are responsible for some of the Reform Next's space savings. (credit: MNT Research) The current booting prototype of the MNT...
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Huawei’s $2,800 trifold phone is a real thing it wants people to hold and use
Enlarge / In the U.S., a folding phone has you carrying around nearly $2,000 of fragile, folding OLED phone. In China and export-friendly countries, the Mate XT adds $1,000 and yet another hinge....
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Android apps are blocking sideloading and forcing Google Play versions instead
Enlarge / It's never explained what this collection of app icons quite represents. A disorganized app you tossed together by sideloading? A face that's frowning because it's rolling down a bar held up...
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iFixit’s FixHub tools want to pull soldering away from the wall socket
Enlarge (credit: iFixit) Not being able to solder puts a hard cap on the kinds of devices you can fix at home. As more modern devices add in circuit boards and discrete electronics (needed or...
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Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying
Enlarge / Hard drives, unfortunately, tend to die not with a spectacular and sparkly bang, but with a head-is-stuck whimper. (credit: Getty Images) One of the things enterprise storage and destruction...
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Unicode 16.0 release with new emoji brings character count to 154,998
Enlarge / Emojipedia sample images of the new Unicode 16.0 emoji. (credit: Emojipedia) The Unicode Consortium has finalized and released version 16.0 of the Unicode standard, the elaborate character...
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Neofetch is over, but many screenshot system info tools stand ready
Enlarge / Sorry about all the black space in the lower-right corner. Nerdfetch does not make good use of the space it's given—unlike the Asahi install on this MacBook. (credit: Kevin Purdy) Almost...
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macOS 15 Sequoia: The Ars Technica review
Enlarge (credit: Apple) The macOS 15 Sequoia update will inevitably be known as "the AI one" in retrospect, introducing, as it does, the first wave of "Apple Intelligence" features. That's funny...
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Also releasing today: New iOS 17, macOS 14 updates for the upgrade-averse
Enlarge Today is the official release date for the public versions of iOS 18, iPadOS 18, macOS 15 Sequoia, and a scad of other Apple software updates, the foundation that Apple will use for Apple...
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iOS 18 brings RCS to major carrier iPhones, but prepaid plans are still waiting
Enlarge / Illustration of a person who refuses to check their iPhone's messages until RCS is enabled on their MVNO carrier, out of respect for their Android-toting friends and family. (credit: Getty...
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Apple software leaks new Mac mini with five USB-C ports ahead of rumored event
Enlarge / Apple's M3 Max-powered 16-inch MacBook Pro. New Pro laptops and some desktops could be on tap for later this fall. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Apple's newest iPhones and Apple Watches don't...
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iOS 18’s new home screen features are a long-awaited win for flexibility
Enlarge / iOS 18's home screen color tinting and grid-based app icons in action. (credit: Samuel Axon) Apart from the much-ballyhooed (and delayed) Apple Intelligence, a big change to home screen...
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