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Pixel 8a review—The best deal in smartphones
The Pixel 8a and its speedy 120 Hz display. [credit: Ron Amadeo ] SPECS AT A GLANCE: Pixel 8a SCREEN 6.1-inch, 120 Hz, 2400×1080 OLED OS Android 14 CPU Google Tensor G3 One 3.0 GHz Cortex-X3 core Four...
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M2 iPad Air review: The everything iPad
The new 13-inch iPad Air with the Apple M2 processor inside. [credit: Andrew Cunningham ] The iPad Air has been a lot of things in the last decade-plus. In 2013 and 2014, the first iPad Airs were just...
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M4 iPad Pro review: Well, now you’re just showing off
Enlarge / The 2024, M4-equipped 13-inch iPad Pro. (credit: Samuel Axon) The new iPad Pro is a technical marvel, with one of the best screens I’ve ever seen, performance that few other machines can...
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Apple releases iOS 17.5, macOS 14.5, and other updates as new iPads launch
Enlarge (credit: Apple) Apple has released the latest updates for virtually all of its actively supported devices today. Most include a couple handfuls of security updates, some new features for Apple...
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AI in Gmail will sift through emails, provide search summaries, send emails
AI in Gmail summarizes recent emails. [credit: Google ] Google's Gemini AI often just feels like a chatbot built into a text-input field, but you can really start to do special things when you give it...
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Google is “reimagining” search in “the Gemini era” with AI Overviews
Enlarge / "Google will do the Googling for you," says firm's search chief. (credit: Google) Search is still important to Google, but soon it will change. At its all-in-one AI Google I/O event Tuesday,...
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Google strikes back at OpenAI with “Project Astra” AI agent prototype
Enlarge / A video still of Project Astra demo at the Google I/O conference keynote in Mountain View on May 14, 2024. (credit: Google) Just one day after OpenAI revealed GPT-4o, which it bills as being...
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Android’s AI era includes eavesdropping on phone calls, warning you about scams
The "ask this PDF" feature. Google's "code red" demands that AI be part of every single Google product and that includes Android. At Google I/O, the company announced a "multi-year journey to...
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Virtual Boy: The bizarre rise and quick fall of Nintendo’s enigmatic red console
Enlarge (credit: Benj Edwards) Ars Technica AI Reporter and tech historian Benj Edwards has co-written a book on the Virtual Boy with Dr. Jose Zagal. In this exclusive excerpt, Benj and Jose take you...
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VMware Fusion, Workstation now free for home use, subscription-only for...
Enlarge (credit: VMware) Broadcom's acquisition of VMware last year has led to widespread upheaval at the company, including layoffs, big changes to how it approaches software licensing, and general...
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Android 15 gets “Private Space,” theft detection, and AV1 support
Enlarge / The Android 15 logo. This is "Android V," if you can't tell from the logo. (credit: Google) Google's I/O conference is still happening, and while the big keynote was yesterday, major Android...
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Cable TV providers ruined cable—now they’re coming for streaming
Enlarge (credit: Getty) In an ironic twist, cable TV and Internet provider Comcast has announced that it, too, will sell a bundle of video-streaming services for a discounted price. The announcement...
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Netflix gets the NFL: Three-year deal starts this season on Christmas
Enlarge / The San Francisco 49ers' star quarterback Brock Purdy celebrates during a blowout 35-7 win over the Tom Brady-led Buccaneers. (credit: Getty Images/Thearon W. Henderson) Hey, football fans!...
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RealVNC is dropping its “Home” plan and barely noting its free “Lite” option
Enlarge (credit: RealVNC) RealVNC will soon end its "Home" plan that's free to use for up to three users and five devices. If you still wanted a non-commercial just-in-case plan, there is one, but...
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Thunderbolt Share simplifies dual-PC workloads—but requires new hardware
Enlarge (credit: Intel) Intel this week announced new Thunderbolt software made for connecting two PCs. Thunderbolt Share will require Intel-licensed hardware and is looking to make it simpler to do...
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Archie, the Internet’s first search engine, is rescued and running
Enlarge (credit: The Serial Code/YouTube) It's amazing, and a little sad, to think that something created in 1989 that changed how people used and viewed the then-nascent Internet had nearly vanished...
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Google Search adds a “web” filter, because it is no longer focused on web...
Enlarge / Google continues to change what it means to be the "Google" search engine. (credit: Aurich Lawson) Google I/O has come and gone, and with it came an almost exclusive focus on AI. Part of the...
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How I upgraded my water heater and discovered how bad smart home security can be
Enlarge / This is essentially the kind of water heater the author has hooked up, minus the Wi-Fi module that led him down a rabbit hole. Also, not 140-degrees F—yikes. (credit: Getty Images) The hot...
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“Unprecedented” Google Cloud event wipes out customer account and its backups
Enlarge (credit: Bloomberg via Getty Images) Buried under the news from Google I/O this week is one of Google Cloud's biggest blunders ever: Google's Amazon Web Services competitor accidentally...
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Microsoft says “Prism” translation layer does for Arm PCs what Rosetta did...
Enlarge / A PC running Windows 11. (credit: Microsoft) Microsoft is going all-in on Arm-powered Windows PCs today with the introduction of a Snapdragon X Elite-powered Surface Pro convertible and...
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