Tech Releases

Apple Music arrives on Amazon’s Echo speakers starting December 17

Microsoft wins $480 million military contract to bring HoloLens to the battlefield

Pixel Slate review: Paying the “Google” premium for Chrome OS

Windows 10 1809: iCloud incompatibility fixed, but other blockers remain

Google’s cellular service gets rebranded, offers support for iPhones

YouTube may make Originals free (with ads) for all to watch by 2020

Microsoft explains one Azure authentication outage as another one happens

802.eleventy which? 802.11ax and 802.11ay, explained

Microsoft (briefly) passed Apple to become the most valuable US company today

Latest Windows 10 update breaks Windows Media Player, Win32 apps in general

Dealmaster: The Cyber Monday 2018 tech deals that are worth your time

Dealmaster: A PS4 and Red Dead Redemption 2 for $199 may be the best deal of Cyber Monday

New wearable tech lets users listen to live music through their skin

Bloodhound SSC: How do you build a car capable of 1,000mph?

Mac mini review—a testament to Apple’s stubbornness

Kobo Forma review: A formidable opponent for Amazon’s Kindle Oasis

Store-bought is not enough: My first hard cider homebrew

Guidemaster: Want an Alexa device? Here’s every Amazon Echo, compared

Study: It only takes a few seconds for bots to spread misinformation

Google adds indoor positioning to Android’s Find My Device

Microsoft joining Qualcomm and Google to bring Chrome to Windows on ARM

Now it’s Office’s turn to have a load of patches pulled

The Ars Holiday Gift Guide 2018—good tech for the home and home office

Tim Cook defends using Google as primary search engine on Apple devices

Dealmaster: The Black Friday 2018 tech deals that might actually be worth buying

The new frontier of Automated Tests is Machine Learning

HP Elitebook x360 1030 review: Small tweaks made to a stylish work 2-in-1

Apple inks deal with A24 studio to produce original, feature-length films

To complement the new Windows 10 dark theme, Microsoft is adding a light theme

Microsoft wants Azure to be the multiplayer server solution for every platform

Cave acoustics can help sculpt more realistic sounds in digital space

Spotify officially releases first version of its Apple Watch app

Spectre, Meltdown researchers unveil 7 more speculative execution attacks

Windows 10 October 2018 Update is back, this time without deleting your data

Google adds always-on VPN to its Project Fi cellular service

Apple’s T2 chip will block some third-party repairs of new devices

The Ars Holiday Gift Guide 2018—tech and gear for travel that we’d buy

The next version of HTTP won’t be using TCP

iPad Pro teardown reveals TrueDepth array change, Apple Pencil guts

Surface Go with integrated LTE available for preorder now, from $679

Apple to replace unresponsive iPhone X touchscreens for free

25 years of two-wheeled tech

What you need to know before importing that exotic Chinese Android phone

Windows 10 users finding their legit installs are being deactivated

Acer Swift 7 review: thinness above all else demands many compromises

Why I use a 20-year-old IBM Model M keyboard

Apple walks Ars through the iPad Pro’s A12X system on a chip

Microsoft’s special Costco Surface Go is now available to all

AMD outlines its future: 7nm GPUs with PCIe 4, Zen 2, Zen 3, Zen 4

Spanish scientists: EnChroma glasses won’t fix your color blindness

Chrome 71 will block any and all ads on sites with “abusive experiences”

Samsung teases mythical smartphone with foldable display

Amazon drops $25 free shipping minimum for all US holiday shoppers

Intel announces Cascade Lake Xeons: 48 cores and 12-channel memory per socket

Lenovo Yoga Book 2018 review: The keyless keyboard returns, now in E Ink

Apple services reach a whopping $10 billion in revenue in Q4 2018

Satya Nadella: The cloud is going to move underwater