He became one of the first to visualize personal computing by painting vivid cover art. On February 1, Robert Tinney, the illustrator whose airbrushed cover paintings defined the look and feel of pioneering computer magazine Byte for over a decade, died at age 78 in Baker, Louisiana, according to…
Arm PCs have enjoyed special treatment from Microsoft for the past two years. Since its release in the fall of 2021, Microsoft’s Windows 11 has received an “annual feature update” in the second half of every year. These feature updates sometimes include new Windows features and other changes that…
Users only get three hours of free Nest video storage, but Google can retrieve videos much later. Like most cloud-enabled home security cameras, Google’s Nest products don’t provide long-term storage unless you pay a monthly fee. That video may not vanish into the digital aether right on time, though.…
It’s getting a little easier to move from iOS to Android, if that’s your thing. Apple has just released the latest major updates for iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26 Tahoe, and all the other operating systems it released back in September of 2025. The 26.3 updates for these…
Updated Home app is required for Matter support and some types of accessories. In 2022, Apple announced it was adopting a “new Home architecture” for its smart home ecosystem to improve its performance and reliability and make it possible to support different kinds of accessories. Although it was mostly…
PCs without the new certificates could eventually have trouble booting new OSes. Windows 8 is remembered most for its oddball touchscreen-focused full-screen Start menu, but it also introduced a number of under-the-hood enhancements to Windows. One of those was UEFI Secure Boot, a mechanism for verifying PC bootloaders to…
The Results About You tool is getting an upgrade. Do you feel popular? There are people on the Internet who want to know all about you! Unfortunately, they don’t have the best of intentions, but Google has some handy tools to address that, and they’ve gotten an upgrade today.…
Alphabet becomes first tech company to issue 100-year bonds in nearly three decades. Alphabet has lined up banks to sell a rare 100-year bond, stepping up a borrowing spree by Big Tech companies racing to fund their vast investments in AI this year. The so-called century bond will form…
High-end Macs and less-expensive iPhones and iPads are all on the docket. Apple’s 2026 has already brought us the AirTag 2 and a new Creator Studio app subscription aimed at independent content creators, but nothing so far for the company’s main product families. That could change soon, according to…
AirDrop came to the Pixel 10 last year, and more Android phones will join the party in 2026. There is very little functional difference between iOS and Android these days. The systems could integrate quite well if it weren’t for the way companies prioritize lock-in over compatibility. At least…
