Macworld At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros Quick, stable performance combined with a handy user interface made navigation and customization easy. The modules work as advertised, and handle duplicate files and cleanup well. Excellent Dropbox Scanner utility, which helps make it unique. Cons Some UI elements could be tightened and improved upon The Menu Bar
Read MoreCredit: Supplied by Qualcomm Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon 6 Gen 4 processor for budget phones. The new chip brings a more up-to-date CPU, a major GPU boost, and generative AI smarts. HONOR, realme, and OPPO will launch the first phones with this chipset in the “coming months.” Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 6 series chips power many
Read MoreApple’s 2025 is about to get busy with impending product launches, and new leaked info suggests some news big and small will be shared over the next week, which culminates in the iPhone SE 4 launch. Apple Vision Pro announcement coming, but no mention of iPads Things have been quiet product-wise for Apple in 2025
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority The Samsung Galaxy S25 Plus and S25 Ultra reportedly ship with a 45W cable in the box. This is a welcome but overdue upgrade as Samsung’s Plus and Ultra phones have supported 45W speeds for several years now. Samsung’s recent flagship Android phones, including the Galaxy S25 series, don’t
Read MoreMacworld Everyone knows that Apple is playing catch-up when it comes to Apple Intelligence. The company’s shipping AI models seem to be way behind the cutting edge, as OpenAI grows, Google pushes forward, and newcomers hit the scene. I’m sure Apple is pouring everything it can into building better, more modern models, and we’ll hear
Read MoreGoogle Photos lets you order physical copies of your pictures as prints or bound books. Last month, wildfires destroyed tens of thousands of homes across Southern California. Google Photos is now offering to replace any of those physical prints lost in the fires, free of charge. Last month, Los Angelenos found themselves confronting tragedy, as
Read MoreMacworld Everyone knows that Apple is playing catch-up when it comes to Apple Intelligence. The company’s shipping AI models seem to be way behind the cutting edge, as OpenAI grows, Google pushes forward, and newcomers hit the scene. I’m sure Apple is pouring everything it can into building better, more modern models, and we’ll hear
Read MoreIts status upgrade comes less than a year after the start-up raised $50m in a Series B round. Read more: Tines joins the unicorn league after latest funding round
Read MoreAs AI tech guzzles more and more energy, Dr Yating Wan and her team aim to provide light relief with their quantum solution. Read more: Silicon photonics: A light way to lower data centre energy needs?
Read MoreAs AI tech guzzles more and more energy, Dr Yating Wan and her team aim to provide light relief with their quantum solution. Read more: Silicon photonics: A light way to lower data centre energy needs?
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Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Are you a fan of foldable phones? They are pretty fun, but they also tend to be significantly more expensive than the usual black slabs. We always try to highlight any available deals when they come around, and this one is hot. You can currently get the Motorola Razr
Read MoreBy default, macOS Sequoia sends your Safari, Spotlight, and Siri searches to Apple. Here’s how to turn that setting off. You can turn off sending search data to Apple in System Settings. In macOS Sequoia Apple retrieves some of your search data for analysis to improve searches. This info can include (but is not limited
Read MoreChinese animated film Ne Zha 2 has broken multiple box office records, becoming China’s highest-grossing film of all time and the first non-Hollywood movie to surpass $1 billion in a single market. From a report: Helmed by Yang Yu, known as Jiaozi, the film hit the big screen during the lucrative Chinese New Year frame
Read MoreChinese animated film Ne Zha 2 has broken multiple box office records, becoming China’s highest-grossing film of all time and the first non-Hollywood movie to surpass $1 billion in a single market. From a report: Helmed by Yang Yu, known as Jiaozi, the film hit the big screen during the lucrative Chinese New Year frame
Read MoreCredit: Mahmoud Itani / Android Authority Are you looking for a good laptop for work, school, or just random computing needs? It’s hard to recommend a one-size-fits-all computer at a fair price, but if I had to pick one, I would bet on the Apple MacBook Air M2. Especially right now that you can save
Read MoreBluetooth trackers come in all shapes and sizes. | Photo by Victoria Song / The Verge Some people rarely lose things. Wallets are always exactly where they’re supposed to be, keys never go missing, and remotes never slip between the couch cushions. And then there’s the rest of us — the folks who can’t ever
Read MoreFor the first time since 2004, PassMark’s global CPU benchmark data shows a decline in average processor performance, with laptop CPUs dropping 3.4% and desktop CPUs falling 0.5% year-over-year. Tom’s Hardware reports: We see the biggest drop in laptop CPU performance results. PassMark recorded an average result of 14,632 across 101,316 samples last year. But,
Read MoreCES 2025 was a wild ride, and The Verge was on the ground in Las Vegas to cover the biggest gadgets, press conferences, and surprises of the show. You can follow along below for all the news, impressions, and takeaways from the biggest tech event of the year. Throughout the week, we saw a lot:
Read MoreAnduril will take over management and eventual manufacturing of the U.S. Army’s Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) from Microsoft, a significant shift in one of the military’s most ambitious augmented reality projects. The deal, which requires Army approval, could be worth over $20 billion in the next decade if all options are exercised, according to
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Verizon is increasing pricing on its Mobile Protect accounts with four or more lines. The price will increase by $8 in total, making Verizon Protect’s value more questionable. Thankfully, there are alternatives like AppleCare, Samsung Care, third-party insurance, and even a cheaper Verizon-backed option for those who know where
Read MorePixelmator’s image editing apps have been updated with no bug fixes and no improvements — but it did get a new splash screen confirming the firm’s acquisition by Apple. There’s a similar new splash screen across each of Pixelmator’s apps Back in November 2024, it was announced that Apple was acquiring Pixelmator, the maker of
Read MoreThe best iPad mini 7 price has returned, with Apple resellers dropping the ultraportable tablet to $399. Save $100 on the iPad mini 7 – Image credit: Apple Both Amazon and Best Buy are competing for your business with fresh price drops on Apple’s latest iPad mini. You can pick up the 128GB Wi-Fi capacity
Read MoreNvidia’s RTX 50-series GPUs are just around the corner, with the first releases — the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 — dropping on January 30th. The RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5070 will follow that with their own releases in February, but some are already getting a sneak peek at the software benefits of the
Read MoreAI chatbots struggle with factual inaccuracies and distortions when summarizing news stories, research from the BBC has found. The study, which examined whether OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, and Perplexity can accurately summarize news, found more than half of all the AI-generated output had “significant issues of some form.” As part of the study,
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