“Selfishly a little bit, we built Shield for ourselves.” It took Android devicemakers a very long time to commit to long-term update support. Samsung and Google have only recently decided to offer seven years of updates for their flagship Android devices, but a decade ago, you were lucky to…
Windows 11 clears a milestone as Windows 10 continues its slow fade. Complaining about Windows 11 is a popular sport among tech enthusiasts on the Internet, whether you’re publicly switching to Linux, publishing guides about the dozens of things you need to do to make the OS less annoying,…
For the Mac versions of pro apps, things aren’t actually changing much (yet). Apple’s new Creator Studio subscription bundle officially launches today, offering access to a wide range of updated professional apps for an all-or-nothing price of $12.99 a month or $129 a year. Teachers and students can get…
The Auto Browse agent is available to AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers, but there are some limits. Google began stuffing Gemini into its dominant Chrome browser several months ago, and today the AI is expanding its capabilities considerably. Google says the chatbot will be easier to access and…
The tradeoffs in the $499 9850X3D make it hard to get excited about. AMD has released three distinct generations of its 3D V-Cache technology, which initially appeared in the Ryzen 7 5800X3D in 2022. The kernel of the idea has remained the same throughout AMD’s efforts: take an existing…
Significant discounts come with committing to 1- to 3-year rental periods. LG has launched a subscription program in the UK that allows people to make monthly payments in order to rent LG TVs, soundbars, monitors, and speakers. LG Flex customers can sign up for one-, two-, or three-year subscriptions…
Apple renews certificates for old iOS versions to keep the lights on longer. When Apple stops supporting older iPhones and iPads with the latest version of iOS or iPadOS, it usually isn’t the end of the line—Apple keeps releasing new security-only patches for those devices for another year or…
This is the first major upgrade since Apple introduced AirTags five years ago. Apple is introducing a new version of its AirTag tracking device—simply dubbed “the new AirTag”—and claims it offers substantial improvements thanks to a new Bluetooth chip. The original AirTag came out five years ago now, and…
Storing recovery keys with Microsoft allows the company to unlock your disk. In early 2025, Forbes reports, investigators at the FBI served Microsoft with a warrant seeking the BitLocker encryption recovery keys for several laptops it believed held evidence of fraud in Guam’s COVID-19 unemployment assistance program. And Microsoft…
Intel is allocating more of its own production to its money-making server chips. Intel reported its earnings for the fourth quarter of 2025 yesterday, and the news both for the quarter and for the year was mixed: year-over-year revenue was down nearly imperceptibly, from $53.1 billion to $52.9 billion,…
