Your portable power bank should not be weighing down your backpack, satchel, or purse. If you have to think twice before bringing it along, that’s a clear sign that you need an upgrade. Power bank technology has come too far to be lugging around something chunky or laden with wires. INIU’s new SnapGo Air portable…
OnePlus has officially launched the Nord Buds 4 in India as a more affordable alternative to the Nord Buds 4 Pro, which debuted in March. However, the non-Pro TWS earbuds still offer ANC and are claimed to deliver up to 54 hours of total battery life. The Nord Buds 4 feature an in-ear design with…
Sony has dropped a bombshell announcement, as it’s ending physical disc production for PlayStation consoles starting in 2028, marking a shift to digital-only sales for its games. The PlayStation 5 era kicked off with Sony offering a digital-only version of the system, one that was available for a cheaper price, but lacked a disc drive….
Up to this point, adding someone on WhatsApp has meant giving them your phone number—which is perhaps not something you always want to divulge, especially if you only just met, or you’re in a group chat with lots of other people. That’s finally changing: WhatsApp is embracing usernames. The update is launching “later this year,”…
Ten years ago, a record 17.6 million cars, trucks and SUVs were sold in the U.S. Some forecasts say the country might not come close to that number again. Analysts at consulting firm Bain & Company said several signs indicate the market is about to shrink even more. Falling birth rates, behavioral changes, high car…
The U.S. has lifted a requirement that Anthropic obtain a license before exporting its Mythos and Fable models abroad, a requirement that effectively cut off public access to what are widely considered the most advanced AI models released to date. The AI lab said it would begin restoring access to the models on Wednesday, July…
Variety scored 16 first-place wins Sunday night as the Los Angeles Press Club handed out the 68th annual Southern California Journalism Awards. Variety’s first place finishes included wins for music criticism, for Variety’s music chief Jem Aswad; Owen Gleiberman, for film criticism under 1,000 words; and Aramide Tinubu, for TV criticism. The kudos were presented…
Igor Golovniov | Lightrocket | Getty Images A day after closing out a blockbuster three months on Wall Street, high-flying chip stocks suffered steep declines to open the third quarter. Memory maker Micron dropped 11%, wiping out $138 billion of market cap. Intel fell 9% and rival chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices dropped 7%. Those three…
In 2012, a new form of bootkit was demonstrated. Instead of targeting machines through the BIOS or master boot record, one such bootkit attacked Mac OS X systems by infecting the EFI, a package of firmware that started the boot process. A second very primitive bootkit targeted Windows 8 machines by infecting the UEFI bootkit,…
