2025 iPad Air hands-on: Why mess with a good thing?
There’s not much new in Apple’s latest refresh of the iPad Air, so there’s not much to say about it, but it’s worth taking a brief look regardless. In almost every way, this is identical to the...
View ArticleOld Bolt, new tricks: Making an EV into a backup power station with an inverter
Back when EV enthusiasm was higher, there were fits and starts of vehicle-to-home concepts and products. If EVs and their ginormous batteries are expensive, resource-intensive purchases, the thinking...
View ArticleAlphabet spins off laser-based Internet backbone provider Taara
Alphabet is spinning out laser-based Internet company Taara from its “moonshot” incubator, hoping to turbocharge the start-up that provides high-bandwidth services to hard-to-reach areas in competition...
View ArticleWhy wait? Google is already dismantling Assistant as it switches to Gemini.
Google Assistant is not long for this world. Google confirmed what many suspected last week, that it will transition everyone to Gemini in 2025. Assistant holdouts may find it hard to stay on Google's...
View ArticleWindows 11 updates are accidentally getting rid of Copilot, at least for now
Microsoft's Windows updates over the last couple of years have mostly been focused on adding generative AI features to the operating system, including multiple versions of the Copilot assistant....
View ArticleSobering revenue stats of 70K mobile apps show why devs beg for subscriptions
If you're frustrated by some of your favorite apps pestering you to sign up for a subscription, some new data may help you empathize with their developers more. According to revenue data from "over...
View Article“Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen
Owners of smart TVs and streaming sticks running Roku OS are already subject to video advertisements on the home screen. Now, Roku is testing what it might look like if it took things a step further...
View ArticleEight years later, new but familiar-looking PebbleOS watches appear
Certain watches can stay just as they are and people will keep buying them. The Casio F-91W, the most-sold watch in the world, keeps the time on a readable display and offers a single daily alarm slot...
View ArticleGemini gets new coding and writing tools, plus AI-generated “podcasts”
On the heels of its release of new Gemini models last week, Google has announced a pair of new features for its flagship AI product. Starting today, Gemini has a new Canvas feature that lets you draft,...
View ArticleNvidia announces “Rubin Ultra” and “Feynman” AI chips for 2027 and 2028
On Tuesday at Nvidia's GTC 2025 conference in San Jose, California, CEO Jensen Huang revealed several new AI-accelerating GPUs the company plans to release over the coming months and years. He also...
View ArticleNvidia announces DGX desktop “personal AI supercomputers”
During Tuesday's Nvidia GTX keynote, CEO Jensen Huang unveiled two "personal AI supercomputers" called DGX Spark and DGX Station, both powered by the Grace Blackwell platform. In a way, they are a new...
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Google reveals Pixel 9a, with the largest battery ever in a Pixel
Google has taken the wraps off the Pixel 9a today, a phone that has leaked about a thousand times in recent weeks, as is the Pixel tradition. Still, there are some things to know about this phone you...
View ArticleMeager 8GB of RAM forces Pixel 9a to run “extra extra small” Gemini AI
Google can't make a move in 2025 without veering into the realm of generative AI, and the release of the Pixel 9a is no exception. Curiously, the AI experience on this phone may not match what you've...
View ArticlePlex ups its price for first time in a decade, changes remote-streaming access
Plex is a bit hard to explain these days. Even if you don't know its roots as an outgrowth of a Mac port of the Xbox Media Center project, Plex is not your typical "streaming" service, given how most...
View ArticleApple and Google in the hot seat as European regulators ignore Trump warnings
The European Commission is not backing down from efforts to rein in Big Tech. In a series of press releases today, the European Union's executive arm has announced actions against both Apple and...
View ArticleHP avoids monetary damages over bricked printers in class-action settlement
A United States District Court for the Northern District of California judge has signed off on a settlement agreement between HP and its customers who sued the company for issuing firmware updates that...
View ArticleDiscord heightens ad focus by introducing video ads to mobile apps in June
Discord’s mobile app will have video ads starting in June, the company announced today. The initial pilot for the video ads, which Discord calls Video Quests on Mobile, will offer advertisers the...
View ArticleThe early 2000s capacitor plague is probably not just a stolen recipe
It's a widely known problem with roots in urban legend: Devices with motherboards failing in the early 2000s with a sudden pop, a gruesome spill, or sometimes a burst of flames. And it was allegedly...
View ArticleApple loses $1B a year on prestigious, minimally viewed Apple TV+: report
The Apple TV+ streaming service “is losing more than $1 billion annually,” according to The Information today. The report also claimed that Apple TV+’s subscriber count reached “around 45 million” in...
View ArticleCEO of AI ad-tech firm pledging “world free of fraud” sentenced for fraud
In May 2024, the website of ad-tech firm Kubient touted that the company was "a perfect blend" of ad veterans and developers, "committed to solving the growing problem of fraud" in digital ads. Like...
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