Tech Releases

Twitter posts the code it claims determines which tweets people see, and why

Google Bard gets better at homework with improved math and logic capabilities

Right-to-repair rules for electronics, appliances targeted for 2024, Canada says

Google Drive does a surprise rollout of file limits, locking out some users

Ads are coming for the Bing AI chatbot, as they come for all Microsoft products

510K CPUs, HDDs & more seized as smugglers keep trying to sneak tech into China

Google Assistant might be doomed: Division “reorganizes” to focus on Bard

Lenovo gives up on its dream of Android gaming phones

After two years, Autodesk Maya and AutoCAD become Apple Silicon-native

Apple’s WWDC 2023 keynote will take place on June 5

After killing Nest Secure, Google has a new home security system with ADT

Game over: Steam won’t run on Windows 7 or 8 after January 1, 2024

With Amazon Alexa’s future in peril, Fire TVs offer a glimmer of hope

Apple Pay Later turns Apple into a full-on money lender

Huawei’s foldable is thinner, lighter, and has more battery than Samsung

Open source espresso machine is one delicious rabbit hole inside another

Apple rolls out iOS 16.4 and macOS Ventura 13.3 with new emoji and features

Google is killing most of Fitbit’s social features today

Garmin’s Forerunner 955 review: Still king for runners and cyclists

Dealmaster: Savings on Galaxy and Pixel phones, desktop PCs, and more

Nvidia quietly boosts the video encoding capabilities of GeForce GPUs

The Ars Technica GOG collection: Our picks from GOG’s big Spring Sale

Egad! 7 key British PCs of the 1980s Americans might have missed

The Leia Lume Pad 2 is a $1,100, glasses-free 3D Android tablet

Framework gives its modular laptops 13th-gen Intel CPUs and (finally) an AMD option

Framework’s next project is a 16-inch modular, upgradeable gaming laptop

Chipmakers fight spread of US crackdowns on “forever chemicals”

Journalist plugs in unknown USB drive mailed to him—it exploded in his face

“Acropalypse” Android screenshot bug turns into a 0-day Windows vulnerability

Making faces: How to train an AI on your face to create silly portraits

Newegg’s unique NAS configurator is a handy, but limited, shopping tool

Amazon layoffs will shut down camera review site DPReview.com after 25 years

Bing’s AI chatbot can now generate unhinged images along with unhinged text

Google’s answer to ChatGPT, Google Bard, is out

PC maker Acer aspires to get into e-bikes with the 35-pound “ebii”

8BitDo makes the Mac great for retro games—iPhone? Not so much

Today’s best deals: Apple Watch, AirPods Pro, AirTags, and Mac Mini

HDD average life span misses 3-year mark in study of 2,007 defective drives

Microsoft wants changing default apps in Windows to be less of a mess

Google won’t honor medical leave during its layoffs, outraging employees

Microsoft is testing a built-in cryptocurrency wallet for the Edge browser