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Apple stealthily adds minor features in iOS 17.6, macOS 14.6 releases
Enlarge / iOS 17.6 installing on an iPhone 13 Pro. Samuel Axon Apple has some minor updates for all its operating systems, and the releases include iOS 17.6, iPadOS 17.6, tvOS 17.6, watchOS 10.6, and macOS Sonoma 14.6. Apple’s notes for these updates simply say they include bug fixes, security updates, or optimizations. However, there…
Apple will let other digital wallets into Apple Pay, and even be the default
Enlarge / Soon enough, iPhone owners will be able to use “CREDIT CARD” to pay for delicious clams and prawns at the bistro of their choice. Getty Images Do iPhones have NFC? Up until recently, the answer was “Kind of,” or, possibly, “It depends.” You could use an iPhone’s near-field communication (NFC) hardware for Apple…
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…
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…
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…
Logitech has an idea for a “forever mouse” that requires a subscription
Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber recently discussed the possibility of one day selling a mouse that customers can use “forever.” The executive said such a mouse isn’t “necessarily super far away” and will rely on software updates, likely delivered through a subscription model. Speaking on a July 29 episode of The Verge’s Decoder podcast, Faber, who…
