Tech / Product News & Reviews
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Android TV has access to your entire account—but Google is changing that
Should sideloading Chrome on an old smart TV really compromise your entire account?
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Message-scraping, user-tracking service Spy Pet shut down by Discord
Bot-driven service was also connected to targeted harassment site Kiwi Farms.
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Microsoft open-sources infamously weird, RAM-hungry MS-DOS 4.00 release
DOS 4.00 was supposed to add multitasking to the OS, but it was not to be.
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Tech brands are forcing AI into your gadgets—whether you asked for it or not
The "AI mouse" is just the start.
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HMD’s first self-branded phones are all under $200
HMD will still make Nokia phones but is shipping self-branded phones, too.
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Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Noble Numbat, overhauls its installation and app experience
Plus Raspberry Pi 5 support, better laptop power, and lots of other changes.
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Qualcomm says lower-end Snapdragon X Plus chips can still outrun Apple’s M3
Same NPU, same architecture as X Elite, but fewer cores and lower clock speeds.
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Palm OS and the devices that ran it: An Ars retrospective
Before smartphones, we had PDAs in our pockets. Palm did them best.
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Reddit, AI spam bots explore new ways to show ads in your feed
Reddit says its "communities are naturally commercial."
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A Polestar Phone now inexplicably exists
Polestar normally makes electric cars, but now it's releasing a phone.
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Google can’t quit third-party cookies—delays shut down for a third time
Google says UK regulator testing means the advertising tech will last until 2025.
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Is the Arm version of Windows ready for its close-up?
Checking back in with Windows 11 on Arm on the eve of the Snapdragon X Elite.
Paul Sutter walks us through the future of climate change—and things aren’t great
This episode of Edge of Knowledge focuses on our rapidly transforming world.
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The spam came from inside the house: How a smart TV can choke a Windows PC
The curious case of a living room screen making Windows' Settings app disappear.
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You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000
Thermonator, the first "flamethrower-wielding robot dog," is completely legal in 48 US states.
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iPadOS 18 could ship with built-in Calculator app, after 14 Calculator-less years
Every single iPhone and Mac has come with a calculator app, but not the iPad.
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Rumored new 4K Chromecast may fix long-standing storage issues
It's still $50, would have a new remote, and will hopefully not have 8GB of storage.
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Apple’s next product event happens on May 7, and it’s probably iPads
Reports point to a new OLED iPad Pro with M3 and a big-screened iPad Air.
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Meta debuts Horizon OS, with Asus, Lenovo, and Microsoft on board
Rivalry with Apple now mirrors the Android/iOS competition more than ever.
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First real-life Pixel 9 Pro pictures leak, and it has 16GB of RAM
With 16GB of RAM, there's lot of room for Google's AI models to live in memory.
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Home Assistant has a new foundation and a goal to become a consumer brand
Can a non-profit foundation get Home Assistant to the point of Home Depot boxes?
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Apple reportedly plans M4 Mac mini for late 2024 or early 2025, skipping the M3
But this would be a faster turnaround time than we saw for the M3 or the M2.
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After 48 years, Zilog is killing the classic standalone Z80 microprocessor chip
Z80 powered game consoles, ZX Spectrum, Pac-Man, and a 1970s PC standard based on CP/M.
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Meet QDEL, the backlight-less display tech that could replace OLED in premium TVs
Interested in gadgets with premium displays? QDEL should be on your radar.
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CNN, record holder for shortest streaming service, wants another shot
New CNN head thinks CNN+ "was abandoned rather briskly."
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Huawei phone has a pop-out camera lens, just like a point-and-shoot camera
The retractable camera lens works like a mini point-and-shoot!
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Roku forcing 2-factor authentication after 2 breaches of 600K accounts
Accounts with stored payment information went for as little as $0.50 each.
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Prime Video looking to fix “extremely sloppy mistakes” in library, report says
Business Insider reports of inaccuracy concerns that could hurt viewership.
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Google merges the Android, Chrome, and hardware divisions
Google says the new “Platform and Devices” team will let it move faster.
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Google’s latest layoffs are in finance and real estate
Google's almost uncountable number of layoffs continues.
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This app tries to do what Apple couldn’t: Multiple Mac monitors on Vision Pro
New "Splitscreen" app works around the limitations, but it's not perfect.
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Boston Dynamics’ new humanoid moves like no robot you’ve ever seen
All-electric, 360° joints give the new Atlas plenty of inhuman movements.
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Billions of public Discord messages may be sold through a scraping service
Cross-server tracking suggests a new understanding of "public" chat servers.
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Linus Torvalds reiterates his tabs-versus-spaces stance with a kernel trap
One does not simply suggest changing a kernel line to help out a parsing tool.
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The lines between streaming and cable continue to blur
Disney+ to offer 24/7 channels to play Star Wars content, commercials.
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YouTube puts third-party clients on notice: Show ads or get blocked
Google would really like it if everyone just paid for YouTube Premium instead.
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The Pixel 9 reportedly gears up for satellite SOS support
No one wants to build an Android satellite phone, so Google is going to do it.