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European Parliament’s consumer protection committee votes 43 to 2 in favor of universal USB-C charger adoption, ahead of a vote by the full parliament in May (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: European Parliament’s consumer protection committee votes 43 to 2 in favor of universal USB-C charger adoption, ahead of a vote by the full parliament in May — European Union lawmakers have taken a step closer to agreeing rules to standardize how a range of mobile gadgetry is charged.

Apple Pay outage currently affecting Mastercard users

What you need to know Apple’s Wallet app is currently experiencing an outage. Mastercard users are currently unable to add their card to use with Apple Pay. The issue does not appear to affect cards already added to the app. Apple’s Wallet app is currently experiencing an outage. That might sound scary at first, especially

Speedtest Creator Ookla Ranks Fastest US Mobile Broadband Providers

LEAD Technologies Inc. V1.01 If you’ve been around for awhile you’ll probably recognize the URL Speedtest.net. It’s a website that can show you the speed of your internet connection. It’s run by Ookla (disclosure: Extremetech’s parent company Ziff Davis also owns Ookla), and the company has analyzed the results of peoples’ tests on its site

The Xbox Series X is now available at Best Buy

The Xbox Series X console is available to buy for its usual price of $499.99. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge If you’ve been trying to land an Xbox Series X for a while now, today may be your lucky day. Right now, Best Buy is selling the elusive next-gen console for its

Airbnb to sue host of Pittsburgh party where a shooting left two dead

Two people were killed in an Easter weekend shooting at this Pittsburgh Airbnb rental. | Photo by Jeff Swensen/Getty Images After a shooting at an Easter weekend house party at an Airbnb in Pittsburgh left two teenagers dead and another eight people with gunshot wounds, Airbnb says it plans to pursue legal action against the

Share your favorite content through SharePlay on FaceTime

Share your entertainment on FaceTime with SharePlay. SharePlay is a unique feature that makes it possible to share video and audio content with those in the same FaceTime chat. Apple calls this “an entirely new way to have experiences with family and friends, no matter the distance.” The feature is available on the best iPhones

Tesla No Longer Includes a Charger with New Vehicles

If you’ve purchased a new, high-end smartphone lately, you might have noticed that it didn’t come with a charger. That’s increasingly common after Apple set the standard with the iPhone 12. Now, Tesla is doing the same with its electric vehicles. If you purchase a new Tesla vehicle, it won’t come with the bundled level

Brave browser fixes the internet, can now bypass Google AMP pages

What you need to know A new Brave browser update will bypass Google AMP pages. The new browser will automatically skip Google AMP and take users directly to the destination URL. AMP has long been something privacy advocates have claimed should be avoided. No more clicking through a Google search and seeing an AMP page.

Best Buy will haul away your old TV and more for $199

Best Buy will take away anything from TVs to old laptops. | Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images Best Buy’s offering to take away and recycle your unwanted tech and appliances for a $199 fee. The standalone haul-away service includes the pickup of two large items, like a TV or washing machine, as well as an

D-Matrix, which is building its chiplet-based Nighthawk architecture for faster matrix math calculations, raises a $44M Series A led by Playground Global (Peter Wayner/VentureBeat)

Peter Wayner / VentureBeat: D-Matrix, which is building its chiplet-based Nighthawk architecture for faster matrix math calculations, raises a $44M Series A led by Playground Global — Today, D-Matrix, a company focused on building accelerators for complex matrix math supporting machine learning, announced a $44 million series A round.

Nice: Judge says Apple must pay man $1,000 for not including charger with iPhone

Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority A judge in Brazil has ruled Apple must pay a man over $1,000 for not including an iPhone charger in the box. The case’s verdict comes on the heels of intense scrutiny of Apple from the Brazilian government. Will this case set a legal precedent forcing Apple (and others)

Mutiny, which uses AI to help companies serve personalized websites, raises a $50M Series B led by Tiger Global and Insight Partners at a $600M valuation (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Mutiny, which uses AI to help companies serve personalized websites, raises a $50M Series B led by Tiger Global and Insight Partners at a $600M valuation — Advertising, particularly online advertising, isn’t a surefire way to bolster business. A report from ecommerce analytics platform Glew drives …

This Laptop Gets All The PCIe Devices

Did you ever feel like your laptop’s GPU was sub-optimal, or perhaps that your laptop could use a SAS controller? [Rob Rogers] felt like that too, so now he has the only Dell Latitude business-class laptop that’s paired with an AMD RX580 GPU – and more. Made possible because of a PCIe link he hijacked

Apple Music gains new spatial audio DJ mixes

What you need to know Apple Music has launched a new collection of DJ mixes featuring Dolby Atmos support. The new mixes can be listed to with spatial audio enabled on compatible devices and audio gear. A new mix will arrive every month. Apple Music fans now have more spatial audio to listen to. Apple

The BMW i7 EV Has a Fold-Down Movie Screen

This full-electric flagship can go 388 miles on a charge, hit 62 mph in 4.7 seconds, and has a 31-inch 8K ultra-wide TV that unfolds from the cabin roof.

Set up any email, calendar, or contact account on your brand new iPhone

Here’s how you can set up mail on iPhone and iPad, as well as the Calendar and Contacts. Nowadays, you can upgrade to a new iPhone or iPad with no hassle. You can also set up mail you already had in no time, thanks to the syncing options in iOS 14 and iPadOS, respectively. You

Wallpaper Wednesday: More great phone wallpapers for all to share (Apr. 20)

Credit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Welcome to Wallpaper Wednesday! In this weekly roundup, we’ll give you a handful of Android wallpapers you can download and use on your phone, tablet, or even your laptop/PC. The images will come from folks here at Android Authority as well as our readers. All are free to use

Go watch our GoPro Bones review

No battery, no screen, no GPS, no fan, and no metal housing? There’s a lot of stuff missing from the new GoPro Hero10 Black Bones. But then again, a normal GoPro isn’t well-suited for the acrobatics of an FPV drone. So when GoPro sent us a review unit of its new stripped-down Hero10 Black designed

Commodore C64: the Most Popular Home Computer Ever Turns 40

This year marks the anniversary of the most popular selling home computer ever, the Commodore 64, which made its debut in 1982. Note that I am saying “home computer” and not personal computer (PC) because back then the term PC was not yet in use for home computer users. Some of you have probably not

Sonic Origins launches in June with remasters of four classic games

Sega In the lead-up to Sonic’s 31st birthday (feel old yet?), Sega has finally revealed the details behind Sonic Origins, a remastered collection of Sonic The Hedgehog 1, 2, Sonic 3 & Knuckles, and Sonic CD. Don’t expect straight ports of these Sega classics, though. In addition to remastered visuals updated for today’s consoles, Sonic

Apple drops stunning new trailer for ‘Prehistoric Planet’

A five-episode series will take viewers 66 million years into the past. What you need to know Apple’s Prehistoric Planet has another new trailer. The show is a natural history documentary airing on May 23. It features David Attenborough, a score by Hans Zimmer, and production from the makers of Planet Earth. Apple has today

DuckDuckGo’s browsers and extensions now protect against AMP tracking

DuckDuckGo says it’s now preventing AMP tracking. | Image: DuckDuckGo Privacy-oriented search engine DuckDuckGo says it will “protect” against tracking by web pages with Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages framework (or AMP) enabled. “When you load or share a Google AMP page anywhere from DuckDuckGo apps (iOS/Android/Mac) or extensions (Firefox/Chrome), the original publisher’s webpage will be

The 2020 iPad Air is available for its lowest price ever at Amazon

The 2021 iPad Pro and 2020 iPad are discounted to their lowest price ever. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge You came to the wrong house if you’re shopping for weed jokes — we only distribute good wholesome content here on Verge Deals. For instance, both the 2020 version of the iPad Air

Filings: Amazon’s Luxembourg-based European business lost €1.2B in 2021, meaning it paid no income tax and received €1B in tax credits, on €51.3B in sales (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)

Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg: Filings: Amazon’s Luxembourg-based European business lost €1.2B in 2021, meaning it paid no income tax and received €1B in tax credits, on €51.3B in sales — Amazon.com Inc.’s main European retail business reported 1.2 billion euros ($1.2 billion) of losses in 2021 …

Zoom’s gesture recognition now works in its desktop apps

Image: Zoom Zoom’s reaction emoji are one of the platform’s handiest features, letting you quickly applaud a co-worker or send a heart to a friend. With the latest update to its desktop apps, Zoom is making a couple of those reactions easier to find. Its gesture recognition feature will show a thumbs-up emoji in the

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