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Sonos laying off 100 people amid expensive app problems
Sonos Sonos is laying off about 100 people, the company confirmed on Wednesday. The news comes as Sonos is expecting to spend $20 million to $30 million in the short term to repair the damage from its poorly received app update. In a statement to The Verge, Sonos CEO Patrick Spence said: We made the…
AMD Ryzen 9000 review: Impressive efficiency, with bugs and so-so speed boosts
Enlarge / AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X. Andrew Cunningham Nearly two years after the release of the first Ryzen 7000 CPUs, AMD has returned with a full-fledged follow-up. The new Ryzen 9000 chips—the 6-core 9600X, 8-core 9700X, 12-core 9900X, and 16-core 9950X—bring AMD’s new Zen 5 architecture to the desktop a couple of weeks after it…
It’s not worth paying to be removed from people-finder sites, study says
Enlarge / For a true representation of the people-search industry, a couple of these folks should have lanyards that connect them by the pockets. Getty Images If you’ve searched your name online in the last few years, you know what’s out there, and it’s bad. Alternately, you’ve seen the lowest-common-denominator ads begging you to search…
macOS 15 Sequoia makes you jump through more hoops to disable Gatekeeper app checks
Enlarge / The Mac’s Gatekeeper feature has been pushing developers to digitally sign their apps since it was introduced in 2012. Apple/Andrew Cunningham It has always been easier to run third-party software on a Mac than on an iPhone or iPad. Despite the introduction of the Mac App Store a couple of years after the…
Nothing’s new AI widget is trying to make its CFO a news star
Nothing has a new smartphone—the Phone (2a) Plus—nearly identical to the Phone (2a) it released earlier this year, but with slightly beefed-up specs. It costs $399 and is available in the US through the same beta program. But it isn’t the new Android handset we find most interesting, it’s the company’s new widget. The “News…
Testing shows “significant durability” problems with edge-lit LCD TVs
Enlarge / Samsung’s 2022 The Frame is one of the edge-lit TVs that RTINGs tested. Samsung Thin LCD-LED TVs are appealing because they’re easy to find space for and are aesthetically pleasing. To stay slim, most thin TVs, like Samsung’s The Frame pictured above, use edge-lit backlights. But beyond the image quality limitations of these…
