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Enlarge / The ever-evolving Framework Laptop 13 is back again, this time with some Linux-friendly upgrades and Intel’s new Meteor Lake-based Core Ultra CPUs. Andrew Cunningham Would you believe that the Framework Laptop 13 is back again? Framework’s fifth motherboard for the Laptop 13—which, in typical fashion, can be easily swapped into any existing Framework…
Google kills Chromecast, replaces it with Apple TV and Roku Ultra competitor
This is Google’s new streaming box, the Google TV Streamer. It’s meant to sit on your media console instead of hanging from your TV’s USB port like the Chromecast. The remote comes with a lot of the standard features you’d expect from this kind of device now: a button to trigger voice control, a remote…
Chrome’s Manifest V3, and its changes for ad blocking, are coming real soon
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Apple will let other digital wallets into Apple Pay, and even be the default
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Now that decent Arm-powered PCs exist, Qualcomm’s CEO wants to make them cheaper
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“Do not hallucinate”: Testers find prompts meant to keep Apple Intelligence on the rails
Enlarge / Apple Intelligence was unveiled at WWDC 2024. Apple As the parent of a young child, I can tell you that getting a kid to respond the way you want can require careful expectation-setting. Especially when we’re trying something new for the first time, I find that the more detail I can provide, the…
