Tech Releases

Samsung’s Galaxy SmartTag 2 design revealed by FCC—it’s very big

Dissolving circuit boards in water sounds better than shredding and burning

NES nostalgia at your fingertips: $100 mechanical keyboard honors ’80s console

“Blaze your glory!”—Twitter’s “X” becomes first one-letter iPhone app

iPhone 15 rumors take shape: More screen, titanium body, and (finally) USB-C

A jargon-free explanation of how AI large language models work

Communal stargazing using your phone: The Unistellar eQuinox 2, reviewed

Reddit calls for “a few new mods” after axing, polarizing some of its best

Samsung’s profits are down 95 percent for a second consecutive quarter

Here are the rules for Apple’s new Vision Pro dev kit: Your family can’t see it

Apple Pencils can’t draw straight on third-party replacement iPad screens

AMD extends game-boosting 3D V-Cache to laptop CPUs for the first time

Stability AI releases Stable Diffusion XL, its next-gen image synthesis model

Android phones can now tell you if there’s an AirTag following you

Waymo kills off autonomous trucking program

The Browsing Company’s unconventional browser Arc releases publicly on Mac

Google says it will start downranking non-tablet apps in the Play Store

OpenAI discontinues its AI writing detector due to “low rate of accuracy”

Man open-sources the self-repairable AirPods Pro case that Apple won’t make

Windows, hardware, Xbox sales are dim spots in a solid Microsoft earnings report

Pocket assistant: ChatGPT comes to Android

Samsung makes the Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Z Flip 5 official

How developers will test their apps before Vision Pro launches

Android 4.4 KitKat is truly dead, loses Play Services support

Encryption-breaking, password-leaking bug in many AMD CPUs could take months to fix

Jury orders Google to pay $339M for patent-infringing Chromecast 

ChatGPT’s new personalization feature could save users a lot of time

Apple releases iOS, iPadOS, and macOS updates to fix bugs and shore up security

Five cool features and one weird thing you’ll find in macOS 14 Sonoma

The IBM mainframe: How it runs and why it survives

IMAX emulates PalmPilot software to power Oppenheimer’s 70 mm release

Redditors prank AI-powered news mill with “Glorbo” in World of Warcraft

The ‘90s Internet: When 20 hours online triggered an email from my ISP’s president

No apologies as Reddit halfheartedly tries to repair ties with moderators

Report: Apple has already built its own ChatGPT-like chatbot

Google’s latest price hike is for YouTube Premium, now $13.99 per month

Unity’s visionOS support has started to roll out—here’s how it works

To defeat hackers, Google wants employees to work without Internet access

The Cyber Trust Mark is a voluntary IoT label coming in 2024. What does it mean?

Netflix kills Basic plan, making its cheapest ad-free tier $15.49

Asus takes over everything about Intel’s current and future NUC mini PCs

OnePlus 12 spec leak promises giant 5400 mAh battery

Microsoft 365’s Copilot assistant for businesses comes with a hefty price tag