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iOS 14 basics: how to quit an app on your iPhone

Even iOS apps occasionally misbehave — they can crash, or freeze, or otherwise stop working. If you’re new to iOS, or just haven’t had this happen before, you may not know how to actually quit an app (as opposed to just swiping it off your screen). Here’s how to quit an app using iOS 14:… Read more

AMD Radeon Pro W6800 32GB Coming June 8: Workstation Card With Unique Features

Home News (Image credit: AMD) AMD this week issued a teaser post in Twitter that pre-announces formal launch of the company’s Radeon Pro graphics card based on the RDNA2 architecture on June 8. While the company did not officially disclose specifications of the Radeon Pro W6800, an unknown leaker disclosed a Geekbench 5 entry early… Read more

Netflix’s Sweet Tooth makes the end of the world a little cozier

Gus may have antlers like a deer, but he’s a puppy dog at heart. The main character of Netflix’s new series Sweet Tooth, based on the comic by Jeff Lemire, is a young boy struggling to survive in a world ravaged by a pandemic. But while the world around him descends into chaos, Gus, played… Read more

Apple WWDC 2021: iOS 15, new MacBook Pros, and what else to expect

Apple’s annual developer extravaganza, the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), is coming up fast, kicking off with the keynote presentation on June 7th at 1PM ET. Like last year, WWDC will be an entirely digital and online-only event due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and for the keynote, that means we can likely expect another tightly produced… Read more

Apple working on iPad Pro with wireless charging, due 2022

Home News (Image credit: Apple) Apple has only just announced an iPad Pro with a Mini LED screen, but already there is word of a successor. The next iPad Pro will have ‘MagSafe’ magnetic wireless charging – just like the iPhone 12 – according to Bloomberg. It apparently won’t launch until 2022, but a redesigned… Read more

Xgimi Halo

Our Verdict The specs and feature highlights are appealing but the Halo falls short when it comes to subtlety For Excellent black depth Bright for the money Handy portable features Against Blunt contrast control Poor speaker placement If you’ve ever had to pull an all-nighter for work, then you’ll know the taste of the 4am… Read more

A very sus chicken nugget shaped like an Among Us crewmate sells for $99,997 on eBay

After an intense, dayslong bidding war, a single McDonald’s chicken nugget shaped like one of the Among Us crewmates has just sold for an eye-watering $99,997 on eBay. The little nugget started off from humble beginnings, listed for a respectable 99 cents on May 28th. (I’d pay that much for it. Maybe even $5.) And… Read more

Dell Hit With Fraud Case Over Alienware Area-51m Upgrade Claims

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) A California man has filed for a class action lawsuit against PC manufacturer Dell, claiming that the company “intentionally misled and deceived” buyers of its Alienware Area 51-m R1 gaming laptop, which was advertised to be more upgradeable than other gaming notebooks. The plaintiff, Robert Felter, who is based… Read more

Google Replaces Millions of Intel’s CPUs With Its Own Homegrown Chips

Home News (Image credit: Intel) Google has designed its own new processors, the Argos video (trans)coding units (VCU), that have one solitary purpose: processing video. The highly efficient new chips have allowed the technology giant to replace tens of millions of Intel CPUs with its own silicon. For many years Intel’s video decoding/encoding engines that come… Read more

China Says WuDao 2.0 AI Is an Even Better Conversationalist than OpenAI, Google

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) The Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) researchers announced this week a natural language processing model called WuDao 2.0 that, per the South China Morning Post, is more advanced than similar models developed by OpenAI and Google. The report said WuDao 2.0 uses 1.75 trillion parameters to “simulate conversational speech,… Read more

Pimoroni to Release RP2040 Breakout for Maker Projects

Home News (Image credit: Chris Parrott / Pimoroni) It has been Mere days since the Pi Foundation announced the availability of Raspberry Pi Pico RP2040 ‘Pi Silicon’ in standalone chips and makers around the world are laying down their $1 for access to the dual core Arm Cortex M0+ and wondering how to use it… Read more

VAXEE ZYGEN NP-01S Review

Introduction Founded in 2019 by several former Zowie employees, VAXEE is a peripherals company and shop platform. The NP-01S marks VAXEE’s second cooperation with Junya “noppo” Taniguchi and his brand ZYGEN. Whereas the ZYGEN lettering features prominently on the NP-01S (this time on the side, similarly to the Outset AX), the line “powered by VAXEE”… Read more

i-Rocks K72MN Artisan Keyboard Review

Introduction After my review of the i-Rocks K71MN, I realized the brand was still doing wacky things and went on their website to see more. There was an interesting April Fool’s prank that unfortunately was put out a day too early and a few other keyboards that interested yours truly. One of those turned out… Read more

Climate tech is about to fly commercial

A greenhouse gas-tracking technology is about to go commercial. Greenhouse gas detectors will soon take flight on an Alaska Airlines-run Boeing 737-9, in an effort to help federal scientists get even more information about how we’re changing the climate. The tools would measure concentrations of planet-heating pollution in the air, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric… Read more

Google confirms diversity exec no longer in role after problematic post

One of Google’s top executives in diversity strategy and research has left his post after a 2007 blog post slamming the state of Israel resurfaced on June 1st. In the post, Kamau Bobb used antisemitic language, insinuating Jews have an “insatiable appetite for war and killing.” The post was quickly picked up by the New… Read more