After almost four years, YouTube is closing its dedicated gaming portal and merging it with the main platform. It announced the move late last year, but missed the original March shutdown date. YouTube Gaming will cease to exist on May 30th; visitors will get directed to a new channel for games on the main YouTube […]
The biggest and most hotly anticipated news of 2019 for Apple fans is obviously the upcoming release of the iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Max, and iPhone 11R, or whatever Apple ends up naming its next-generation iPhone lineup. Apple is rumored to be using the same iPhone design that it introduced on the iPhone X in […]
Arm, the company that designs the basic chip architecture for most of the world’s smartphones, today announced the launch of its next suite of designs for premium phones. It’ll be a while before you’ll see the first phones that use chips based on this design, but typically we see the first actual chips before the […]
While the bulk of this morning’s AMD Computex keynote has been on AMD’s 3rd generation Ryzen CPUs and their underlying Zen 2 architecture, the company also took a moment to briefly touch upon its highly anticipated Navi GPU architecture and associated family of products. AMD didn’t go too deep here, but they have given us […]
iPhone and iPad currently support multiroom audio to AirPlay 2 speakers. A new report from Macotakara says that Apple is adding dual Bluetooth audio support for the next iPhone. Dual bluetooth output could potentially enable two people to listen to music from the same phone, connecting two sets of AirPods simultaneously. Currently, the iPhone software […]
The OnePlus 7 Pro is supposed to be the company’s big bet for 2019 but, just like Samsung’s Galaxy Fold and Honor’s 20 Pro, things are looking a little bit questionable for the flagship killer. In addition to allegations regarding its camera quality and telephoto lens, the smartphone is reported to be having problems with […]
Just a little over a week after iOS 12.3 hit iPhones and iPads everywhere, Apple has released iOS 12.3.1—a minor update that fixes a couple bugs. Earlier this week, Apple also released a supplemental update for macOS 10.14.5 to fix issues with the T2 chip on some MacBook Pros, addressing a common user complaint.Ars Technica Join […]
Samsung is one of the few phone manufacturers that has a solid history of innovation, even if it doesn’t always work out. But for the last few years the Korean company has prioritised incremental upgrades on a tried and tested design. The Galaxy S11 is Samsung’s opportunity to change all of that and create some […]
Apple has agreed to be more transparent with users when new software updates are likely to throttle or slow down the performance of their iPhones. The tech giant signed an agreement with the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), a UK watchdog, that it would be ‘clearer and more upfront’ with users in the future. It […]
Amazon today announced that third-party devices using Alexa Voice Service can now use voice announcements to turn smart speakers into something like a home intercom system. The move makes announcements available for a number of devices, like Facebook’s Portal and smart speakers and soundbars from companies like Bose and Sonos. Announcements are one-way voice messages […]
The 3rd-generation Echo Dot is great because it lets you spread Alexa around your home for just $50 a speaker, which is a big discount compared to some of the other Echo speakers in Amazon’s lineup. But why pay $50 when you can get the same thing for $19.99 a piece? Check out the Eufy […]
Are the female voices behind Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa amplifying gender bias around the world? The United Nations thinks so. A report released Wednesday by the UN’s culture and science organization raises concerns about what it describes as the “hardwired subservience” built into default female-voiced assistants operated by Apple, Amazon, Google and Microsoft. The […]
