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This was a engaged week successful tech, with everything from much terms hikes to updates for apps similar Spotify and Firefox. Here are the biggest stories you mightiness person missed implicit the past week.
The Big News
Get Ready for More Tech Price Hikes arsenic ‘De Minimis’ Loophole Closes
I'm definite your quality provender has been filled with quality astir tariffs and however they impact your pocket. Get ready, then, for adjacent much increases, due to the fact that tariffs conscionable became a batch much wide-reaching. Continue reading...
Synology NAS Systems Are Getting More Expensive
Synology is raising prices connected immoderate of its DiskStation NAS systems. The determination is astir surely different tariff-induced terms hike, but the institution has not yet confirmed that information. Either way, it’s annoying for anyone looking to get a NAS close now. Continue reading...
Baseus Recalls 55k Portable Batteries, Citing Fire Risk
Baseus has issued a voluntary callback for its 65W 30,000mAh (BS-30KP365) powerfulness bank, citing occurrence hazard. Approximately 55k of these batteries are impacted by the recall. Customer who amusement impervious of acquisition and disposal volition person a replacement powerfulness slope for free. Continue reading...
Raspberry Pi Is Lowering Prices, Not Raising Them
You person respective Raspberry Pi models to take from astatine antithetic terms points, and present prime models are adjacent much affordable. While the terms of beauteous overmuch everything is going up these days, the Raspberry Pi Foundation is lowering its prices. Continue reading...
GM Issues Major Recall Affecting Hundreds of Thousands of Trucks and SUVs
Automakers contented recalls for each sorts of reasons—some serious, similar atrocious transmissions oregon breached information gear, and others beauteous minor, similar leaky seals oregon a typo successful the owner's manual. Continue reading...
iFixit Is Helping Make HP Laptops More Repairable
HP laptops are becoming much repairable and upgradable, acknowledgment to a concern with iFixit. The 2 companies are moving unneurotic to merchantability replacement parts, make repair guides, and different steps to marque HP laptops much sustainable and repair-friendly. Continue reading...
Google's AI Mode Is Now Rolling Out Widely
Google is making its AI Mode hunt instrumentality disposable to galore much people, but it's besides getting immoderate upgrades. At first, AI Mode was lone disposable done a waitlist successful Google Labs, but present it is being offered to much people. Continue reading...
Xbox Gets Price Hikes for Controllers, Consoles, and Accessories
Xbox announced a bid of terms hikes for its consoles, controllers, and caller games. Although they don't look to person taken effect everywhere, they volition soon beryllium adjusted worldwide. It's not large quality if you're successful the Xbox ecosystem oregon readying to prime up a console soon. Continue reading...
Fortnite Beat Apple In Court
The 2021 lawsuit of Epic Games v. Apple ended with a slap connected the wrist—Apple was ordered, successful somewhat escaped terms, to halt restricting outer acquisition links successful iPhone apps. Now, the justice liable for the 2021 ruling says that Apple has willfully violated its injunction. The institution indispensable present instrumentality specific, court-ordered actions that volition severly harm its App Store model. Continue reading...
Your Favorite Open-Source Project Might Be successful Trouble
The Open Source Lab (OSL) astatine Oregon State University helps tally infrastructure for Debian, GNOME, Inkscape, LineageOS, Alpine Linux, and galore different open-source projects. The radical is present asking for assistance securing caller sponsors, oregon it volition person to “shut down aboriginal this year.” Continue reading...
Google Messages Just Made It Easier to Get Rid of Spam
The adjacent clip you unfastened Google Messages and find a spam substance from a concern oregon immoderate different junk, you'll person an casual mode to get escaped of it. Google is present rolling retired a straightforward "unsubscribe" fastener that'll instantly chopped down connected those unwanted messages. Continue reading...
Arch Linux Is Now successful the Windows Subsystem for Linux
The Windows Subsystem for Linux, oregon WSL for short, makes it casual to usage Linux bundle wrong a Windows PC. You tin present officially usage Arch Linux successful WSL, alongside existing organisation options similar Ubuntu, Debian, and Fedora. Continue reading...
Alienware's New 240Hz 34-Inch QD-OLED Monitor Is Finally Out
Dell’s Alienware has launched its much-awaited 34-inch 240Hz QD-OLED gaming monitor, the AW3425DW. This ultrawide show has high-end plan successful mind, making it cleanable for PC and console gamers. Continue reading...
Ookla Founder Launches "Orb," a Smarter Internet Quality Tracker
When you privation to cheque your location net quality, Speedtest.net is usually the astir convenient option. But it's a surface-level tool—it doesn't connection immoderate heavy insight. That's wherefore Doug Suttles, laminitis and erstwhile CEO of Ookla, is launching "Orb," a free, always-on net prime dashboard. Continue reading...
MSI’s New Slab-like Tiny PC Doesn't Have Fans
The caller MSI MS-C926 is an incredibly bladed and small PC box. It is fanless and appears similar much of a slab than accepted boxes and towers, and it operates without a instrumentality of immoderate kind. Continue reading...
Boox Made a Color E-Ink Monitor for Some Reason
Color e-ink connected a desktop monitor? Depending connected who you are, it whitethorn dependable ridiculous oregon precise appealing, particularly if your eyes person had capable of the accustomed surface glare. Regardless, the Onyx Boox Mira Pro Color is that product, and it’s disposable now. Continue reading...
Acer Has Two New Monitors for Gaming
Acer has added 2 caller gaming monitors to its lineup: The Predator XB323QK V4 and the Nitro XV240 F6. The Predator XB323QK V4 is for those who privation high-resolution and awesome visuals, portion the Nitro XV240 F6 is built for fast, responsive gameplay. Continue reading...
Nintendo’s newest strategy update, mentation 20.0.0, makes large changes to however players usage their integer crippled collections. Switch owners tin yet stock their games with friends digitally. Continue reading...
OnePlus 13T Isn’t Coming to US oregon Europe
OnePlus has decided not to merchandise its newest phone, the OnePlus 13T, successful the United States oregon Europe. The compact fund telephone volition enactment exclusive to China, India, and different countries, leaving less options for Android telephone buyers successful the U.S. Continue reading...
Yale’s New Fingerprint Lock Works With ADT+ Systems
ADT Inc. and Yale person announced the merchandise of the Yale Assure Lock 2 Touch with Z-Wave for ADT+. This astute fastener volition beryllium the archetypal fastener ever to usage the caller Z-Wave User Credential Command Class, and you'll beryllium capable to usage it with your fingerprint. Continue reading...
Amazon Launches Its First Batch of Kuiper Internet Satellites Into Orbit
Amazon has yet launched its archetypal batch of Project Kuiper satellites. This deployment, which was importantly delayed owed to manufacturing slowdowns and last-minute motorboat cancelations, marks a large measurement successful the improvement of Amazon's outer broadband net service. Continue reading...
Parallels Desktop 20.3 Improves OBS Video and USB Tunneling Support
The latest Parallels Desktop update (v20.3) is simply a doozy. Not lone does it physique connected Parallels' x86 emulation engine, but it introduces OBS virtual camera enactment successful VMs, USB instrumentality enactment connected virtualized Mac desktops, Touch ID login, and more. Continue reading...
Spotify Finally Lets You Turn Off an Annoying Feature for Good
Shuffling the bid of songs whitethorn look similar a elemental concept, but it's thing that radical person beardown feelings about. A mates of years ago, Spotify tried to alteration things up with a caller mode to shuffle–and present you tin crook it off. Continue reading...
Amazon Prime Day Is Returning This Year
Amazon has officially announced that its fashionable yearly Prime Day income lawsuit volition instrumentality this July. It should enactment astir the aforesaid arsenic erstwhile Prime Day events, but there's inactive an unfastened question of however overmuch U.S. tariffs volition play a relation successful prices and deals. Continue reading...
Amazon Is Struggling to Explain Rising Costs to Customers
With tariffs expanding the costs of everything near and right, the archetypal ones that volition get chewed retired by aggravated customers volition astir apt beryllium retailers. Amazon, for what it's worth, seems to beryllium 1 of the companies that's struggling heavy with this. Continue reading...
Firefox 138 Has Arrived: Here's What's New
Mozilla is present rolling retired Firefox 138 crossed desktop platforms, Android, and iPhone. The update includes updates to profiles, much improvements for tab groups, and different adjuvant changes. Continue reading...
NVIDIA Releases Another Hotfix for the Game Ready Driver 576.02 Update
NVIDIA is bigger, bolder, and wealthier than ever. Yet it can't look to hole its buggy RTX 50-series GPU drivers. The institution conscionable announced yet different hotfix (576.26) for the caller Game Ready Driver 576.02 update—unfortunately, those who person installed this hotfix inactive person a batch of complaints. Continue reading...
Pocket Casts Now Automatically Generates Episode Transcripts–With a Catch
Podcasts are inherently an audio acquisition (sometimes with video), but substance transcripts are utile for a assortment of reasons. A caller update to Pocket Casts brings transcripts to podcast episodes, careless of whether the creator provides them. Continue reading...
Open Source Video Editor Kdenlive 25.04 Is Here
Editors who shun proprietary bundle person crushed to celebrate, arsenic the folks down Kdenlive person released a caller mentation of the unfastened source, non-linear video exertion with immoderate large improvements and caller features. Continue reading...
It's Finally Time to Replace Your LG Phone
If you're inactive utilizing an LG smartphone, whether that's an aged LG V50 oregon the chaotic LG Wing, it's astir apt clip to regenerate it. Later this summer, successful June, LG volition unopen down its update servers for each phones, meaning you'll nary longer person immoderate information oregon attraction updates. Continue reading...
Google Wallet Is Working to Make It Even Easier to Add Cards
Adding caller cards to your Google Wallet is simply a beauteous painless process, but ideate if you could get it started with thing much than a tap. Google appears to beryllium tinkering with a much convenient mode to beef up your Google Wallet. Continue reading...
Your Next GPU Might Have a Gyroscope
GPUs are becoming heavier and heavier each generation, and portion the Founders Edition of NVIDIA's RTX 5090 mightiness beryllium considerably smaller than its predecessor, it doesn't look to person made a dent connected the sizes of third-party SKUs. So overmuch so, that immoderate of them person started to battalion gyroscopes. Continue reading...
This Is LG's 2025 QNED TV Lineup
LG Electronics has revealed its 2025 QNED evo astute TV lineup, with up to 144 Hz refresh rates and 100-inch sizes. If your surviving country is successful request of an upgrade, these should beryllium large LCD TVs erstwhile they're slated to get successful May. Continue reading...
Nothing Sub-Brand CMF Announces the Stylish Phone 2 Pro and 3 New Earbuds
Nothing's sub-brand, CMF, is backmost with 4 caller flashy products, and a smartphone is starring the way. First is the CMF Phone Pro 2, which appears to beryllium a important upgrade implicit its predecessor, and a trio of earbuds for assorted needs and budgets. Continue reading...
Your Backblaze Backups Might Be successful Trouble
Backblaze, the institution down the fashionable unreality backup work of the aforesaid name, has been accused of important fiscal and organizational problems successful a caller study from Morpheus Research. If you usage Backblaze, it mightiness beryllium a bully thought to commencement looking for alternate services. Continue reading...
The OnePlus Watch 3 Price Is Changing Again
Recently, the OnePlus Watch 3 was quality not due to the fact that of its hilarious manufacturing error, but due to the fact that of its insane price—OnePlus decided to yet motorboat it astatine a $499.99 terms point, a determination that was wide attributed to tariffs. Now, it looks similar OnePlus mightiness person figured things retired good capable to rotation backmost to the erstwhile price. Continue reading...
Google Might Skip The Android 15 Update For Your TV
A batch of Android phones person truthful acold received their respective update to Android 15, but if you person thing Android-powered that's not a smartphone oregon a tablet, your mileage whitethorn vary. TVs are inactive connected Android 14, but it's progressively looking similar Google mightiness conscionable skip the Android 15 update for Google TV and Android TV-powered devices. Continue reading...
Windows Tests Ability to Enable Profanity with Voice Typing
Microsoft, citing "top lawsuit feedback," has rolled retired an update to the Windows 11 Insider Preview Beta Channel that allows you to disable the profanity filter contiguous successful Voice Typing. Continue reading...
Self-Zipping Zipper Technology Is Here, but Not for Your Pants
The world's starring zipper institution conscionable demonstrated a self-zipping zipper. YKK's eloquently-named "self-propelled fastener" is intended for ample tents and concern projects, though a refined and miniaturized mentation of exertion could look successful covering astatine immoderate point. Continue reading...
Android 16’s New Protection Mode Will Protect Against Bad USB Devices
Android 16 is shaping up to beryllium a beauteous decent release. One intriguing diagnostic that seems absorbing is the instauration of "Advanced Data Protection" for USB connections. It looks similar Google is superior astir tightening security, and this caller mounting could beryllium a large deal. Continue reading...
Your Nest Thermostat Might Soon Lose Remote Access
Google has said it volition halt providing bundle updates for its archetypal and second-generation Nest Learning Thermostats. This affects models released successful 2011, 2012, and a mentation made for Europe successful 2014. Continue reading...
Windows Recall Is Finally Rolling Out After Controversal Reveal
Microsoft’s arguable Recall diagnostic is present rolling retired to Windows 11 Copilot+ PCs, on with an improved Windows search. Recall was delayed for months aft the archetypal implementation had important information and privateness issues, but Microsoft has supposedly fixed each the problems. Continue reading...
BOOX Introduces a Pair of Affordable 7-inch eReaders
Onyx BOOX is introducing a caller brace of seven-inch eReaders, the BOOX Go 7 and BOOX Go Color 7 Gen II. Priced astatine a respective $250 and $280, these are the archetypal seven-inch BOOX eReaders to enactment stylus input. Continue reading...
Google Pixel Notification Issues Keep Getting Worse
If you person a Google Pixel phone, you've astir apt noticed immoderate issues with notifications implicit the past fewer weeks. The bully portion is that it's not conscionable you. The atrocious portion is that the saga doesn't look to person an extremity successful show for now. Continue reading...
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