Amazon “tricks” customers into buying Fire TVs with false sales prices: Lawsuit
Lawsuit claims list prices only available for "extremely short period" sometimes.
Scharon Harding
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Tech // Product News & Reviews
Bricked iPhones 16 feature wireless recovery mode for phone-to-phone resuscitation
Recovery mode has historically required a cable and a Mac or PC.
Andrew Cunningham
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macOS 15 Sequoia: The Ars Technica review
Apple Intelligence isn't ready yet. There's still a lot here to like.
Andrew Cunningham
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iOS 18’s new home screen features are a long-awaited win for flexibility
Wiggle mode gets an update that opens up almost Android-like customization.
Samuel Axon
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Apple pauses iPadOS 18 rollout for M4 iPad Pro after bricking complaints
Apple's servers have stopped signing the 18.0 update for M4 iPad Pros for now.
Andrew Cunningham
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TCL accused of selling quantum dot TVs without actual quantum dots
Would such a scam really be worth it?
Scharon Harding
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Amazon kills remote working, tells workers to be in office 5 days a week
Hot-desking is out, assigned floor plans are in.
Stephen Morris, Financial Times
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Apple software leaks new Mac mini with five USB-C ports ahead of rumored event
Apple often launches Macs and iPads in October, after the iPhone dust settles.
Andrew Cunningham
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iOS 18 brings RCS to major carrier iPhones, but prepaid plans are still waiting
A future iOS update may be needed to unlock better Apple-to-Android messages.
Kevin Purdy
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Also releasing today: New iOS 17, macOS 14 updates for the upgrade-averse
Security updates without the headaches for the risk-averse (and bug-averse).
Andrew Cunningham
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Neofetch is over, but many screenshot system info tools stand ready
Dev behind a popular screenshot tool checks out, but the successors are good.
Kevin Purdy
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Unicode 16.0 release with new emoji brings character count to 154,998
New designs will roll out to phones, tablets, and PCs over the next few months.
Andrew Cunningham
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Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying
The music industry traded tape for hard drives and got a hard-earned lesson.
Kevin Purdy
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iFixit’s FixHub tools want to pull soldering away from the wall socket
Battery-powered USB-C soldering iron aims to improve over what's out there.
Kevin Purdy
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Android apps are blocking sideloading and forcing Google Play versions instead
"Select Play Partners" can block unofficial installation of their apps.
Kevin Purdy
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Huawei’s $2,800 trifold phone is a real thing it wants people to hold and use
"It’s a piece of work that everyone has thought of but never managed to create."
Kevin Purdy
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“MNT Reform Next” combines open source hardware and usable performance
New design has sleeker profile, uses more RAM and better CPU than the original.
Andrew Cunningham
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You can buy a diamond-making machine for $200,000 on Alibaba
Making diamonds is cheaper than ever, creating a weird problem: too many diamonds.
Benj Edwards
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Apple will release iOS 18, macOS 15, iPadOS 18, other updates on September 16
Apple Intelligence won’t be part of the initial launch.
Andrew Cunningham
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Apple updates both of its new iPhones with A18 and A18 Pro chips
Both new iPhones get new chips at the same time for the first time in years.
Andrew Cunningham
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Apple’s iPhone 16 Pro boasts a bigger screen and better camera zoom
A 48-megapixel ultra-wide camera and the A18 Pro chip headline Apple's flagship.
Samuel Axon
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iPhone 16 gets two new buttons and a new camera layout
The 16 is positioned as the first non-Pro iPhone optimized for generative AI.
Samuel Axon
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Apple announces $179 AirPods 4 with active noise cancellation
AirPods Pro and Max get new features, too.
Scharon Harding
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Apple Watch Series 10 is smaller, thinner, lighter, and has mini-Intelligence
No word on whether S10 chip inside will allow for broader AI features.
Kevin Purdy
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Review: reMarkable Paper Pro writing tablet feels almost like paper, for a price
$579 starting price is up there with Android E Ink tablets and Apple's iPad Air.
Andrew Cunningham
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Leaked Disney+ financials may shed light on recent price hike
Disney+ finally profitable but not making as much per subscriber as competition.
Scharon Harding
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WaveCore runs right through a concrete wall with gigabit-speed network signal
Core drilling is tricky. Getting a 6 GHz signal through concrete is now easier.
Kevin Purdy
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Ars Technica system guide: Falling prices are more exciting than new parts
Falling prices mean you can get more for your money than you could last year.
Andrew Cunningham
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What to expect from Apple’s “It’s Glowtime” event
Here's what we already know about the new flagship iPhones.
Samuel Axon
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FTC urged to make smart devices say how long they will be supported
Sudden subscription fees, lost features causing users "death by a thousand cuts."
Scharon Harding
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I added a ratgdo to my garage door, and I don’t know why I waited so long
Dumping proprietary garbage for a FOSS solution that just works.
Lee Hutchinson
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Qualcomm’s new 8-core Snapdragon chip is aimed at cheaper Arm Windows PCs
Windows-on-Arm has gotten better, but we're still waiting for good budget PCs.
Andrew Cunningham
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Rust in Linux lead retires rather than deal with more “nontechnical nonsense”
How long can the C languages maintain their primacy in the kernel?
Kevin Purdy
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Intel Core Ultra 200V promises Arm-beating battery life without compatibility issues
Another mixed year for CPU speed, but battery and graphics upgrades are welcome.
Andrew Cunningham
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AnandTech, mainstay of computer hardware reviews, closes after 27 years
Site was founded by a 14-year-old Anand Lal Shimpi in 1997.
Andrew Cunningham
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Tumblr migrates more than 500 million blogs to WordPress
Parent company Automattic insists the user experience won't change a bit.
Samuel Axon
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