An interesting iPhone despite throttling, worse battery, and single-lens camera. If you’ll indulge me for a moment, here’s some ancient history. In 2008, when Apple took the very first MacBook Air out of a manila envelope, it was not positioned as Apple’s new entry-level Mac laptop. The innovative but…
“It was over quickly for both males, one after the other. The first took 63 seconds, the other 47.” It’s a rare occurrence for scientists to witness sharks mating in the wild. It’s even rarer to catch three leopard sharks—two males and one female—engaging in what amounts to a…
QWOP meets Death Stranding meets Getting Over It to form wonderfully surreal, unique game. There’s an old saying that life is not about how many times you fall down but how many times you get back up. In my roughly 13 hours of walking through the surreal mountain wilderness…
Judge calls decision to stop construction “the height of arbitrary and capricious.” On Monday, a judge blocked the Trump administration’s latest attempt to stifle the US’s nascent offshore wind industry. The ruling allows construction to restart on Revolution Wind, which the Danish company Orsted is building in the waters…
Public schools ran to VMware during the pandemic. Now they’re running away. When the COVID-19 pandemic forced kids to stay home, educators flocked to VMware, and thousands of school districts adopted virtualization. The technology became a solution for distance learning during the pandemic and after, when events such as…
Here comes another screen overlay. The era of Google’s Play’s unrivaled dominance may be coming to an end in the wake of the company’s antitrust loss, but Google’s app store isn’t going anywhere. In fact, the Play Store experience is getting a massive update with more personalization, content, and…
EU looks at Big Tech groups over handling of fake apps and search results. The EU is set to scrutinize if Apple, Google, and Microsoft are failing to adequately police financial fraud online, as it steps up efforts to police how Big Tech operates online. The EU’s tech chief…
The Ridgeville plant will add a new hybrid by 2030 in addition to next year’s XC60. Volvo is undergoing something of a restructuring. The automaker wants to be fully electric by 2040, but for that to happen, it needs to remain in business until then. Earlier this year, that…
Design that puts the logic board at the top helps stave off a second Bendgate. As is now a long-standing custom, iFixit performed a full teardown of the latest iPhone—this time, the newly launched iPhone Air. These teardowns got pretty routine for a while, as Apple settled into a…
The remedy phase of Google’s adtech antitrust case begins. Google is back in court, hoping to avoid a painful breakup of its advertising business. US District Judge Leonie Brinkema has already ruled that Google operated an illegal monopoly in digital advertising, and now it’s time to learn the consequences…
