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This was a engaged week successful tech news, from Microsoft yet rolling retired its controversal Recall diagnostic to Synology revealing caller limits connected NAS hard drives. Here are the biggest stories you mightiness person missed.
The Big News
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...
Synology May Punish You for Buying Third-Party Hard Drives
Synology confirms that its upcoming Plus-series NAS devices volition restrict immoderate bundle functionality if you neglect to usage approved hard drives. This alteration does not impact older Plus-series hardware. 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...
Microsoft Is Fixing a Weird Bug successful Outlook
Your CPU should beryllium flared up by intensive tasks, not by sending emails. But this is precisely what has been happening for a fewer Outlook users. Thankfully, though, Microsoft has yet enactment retired a hole for this. Continue reading...
Google Photos “Quick Edit” Is Rolling Out, and You’ll Probably Want to Turn It Off
Google Photos is getting a caller “Quick Edit” feature, and it doesn’t enactment similar you would expect. The thought is to springiness you a last accidental to edit an representation earlier sharing, but I’m not definite that’s what radical want. Continue reading...
Windows Maps Will Become "Nonfunctional" This July
Microsoft is officially sidesplitting disconnected Windows Maps. The desktop app, which dates backmost to 2014, volition go nonfunctional successful July 2025. This alteration does not impact Bing Maps. Continue reading...
YouTube Is Testing a New Video UI That You Might Not Like
YouTube has softly rolled retired galore plan changes, but for the astir part, they've either been inoffensive oregon radical person rapidly adapted to them. This one, however, mightiness beryllium the astir delicate yet, and I'm not definite galore volition clasp it with unfastened arms. Continue reading...
Netflix's New Dialogue-Only Subtitles Won't Clutter Your Screen
Netflix present offers a dialogue-only subtitle option. Dialogue-only subtitles volition archetypal look successful the caller play of YOU, disposable today, earlier appearing successful different caller Netflix originals. Continue reading...
The Humane Pin Is Dead, but OpenPin Wants to Bring It Back
The Humane AI Pin aimed to beryllium a replacement for smartphones with nary surface and the powerfulness of generative AI, but the institution making it didn't past long, and each existing Pin devices person been chopped disconnected from the servers powering them. A caller task is hoping to marque them utile again. Continue reading...
Perplexity's Assistant Is Now connected iPhones, With a Big Catch
If you don't similar Siri connected your iPhone, excessively bad—you're stuck with it. Even arsenic Apple wants to sprinkle it up with Apple Intelligence, it's inactive precise lacking compared to different assistants. Perplexity's Assistant is yet connected iOS, and if you're consenting to bash immoderate workarounds, it's beauteous good. Continue reading...
Razer Joins the Vertical Mouse Party With New Pro Click V2
Razer has released its archetypal vertical mouse: the Pro Click V2 Vertical Edition. This caller exemplary joins the modular Pro Click V2. While the modular Pro Click V2 has a much accepted ergonomic shape, the Vertical Edition takes a much extremist approach, aiming to vie straight with well-known brands similar Logitech successful the vertical rodent space. Continue reading...
Anker’s New Nebula X1 Projector Is Packed to the Gills With Unique Tech
Anker sub-brand Nebula conscionable debuted the X1 outdoor astute projector. Packed with unsocial exertion and sold alongside a wireless talker system, it's honestly the astir breathtaking projector I've seen this year, but it costs $2,999. Continue reading...
Spotify’s AI-Generated Playlist Feature Is Available to More Subscribers
Playlists are a large portion of the Spotify acquisition and appeal, which is wherefore the institution spends truthful overmuch clip beefing up playlist features. Last year, Spotify introduced the quality to usage AI to assistance make playlists based connected prompts. Now, it's being expanded to much markets. Continue reading...
Anker's New Thunderbolt 5 Dock Has truthful Many Ports
There are lone a fewer Thunderbolt 5 docks disposable connected the market, and present Anker is joining the enactment with its archetypal Anker Prime TB5 Docking Station. It tin crook a compatible PC into a fully-equipped table workstation with 1 cable, implicit with aggregate monitors and accelerated charging. Continue reading...
Motorola Has Three New Folding Phones You Shouldn’t Buy
If you privation a foldable telephone successful the US, you're not near with a batch of options different than Samsung. Motorola makes immoderate of the astir fashionable foldable flip phones, and it has present released 3 much entries, though determination are inactive immoderate caveats you mightiness privation to beryllium alert of. Continue reading...
BMW and Ford’s Recalls Are Practically Microscopic
Ah, automotive recalls—they're ever a spot of a drawback bag. One day, they’re a occurrence hazard, and the next, they’re conscionable a typo successful the owner’s manual. Continue reading...
Acura MDX SUV Recalled Due to Water Intrusion Problem
Over the decades, Toyota has built a near-flawless reputation. It is known globally for crafting dependable, long-lasting vehicles. Its committedness to prime has made it a benchmark successful the industry. Continue reading...
Google Is Getting Ready to Replace Assistant With Gemini connected Smartwatches
Get acceptable to accidental goodbye to the acquainted Google Assistant connected your wrist. Google’s continued propulsion to regenerate Assistant with Gemini appears to beryllium hitting Wear OS smartwatches. The changes are small–for now. Continue reading...
Intel Arrow Lake CPUs Are Getting a Speed Boost, but You Need an Update
Your Intel Core Ultra 200-series machine mightiness already beryllium fast. But 1 perk you person by buying newer hardware is that sometimes, caller optimizations are recovered that tin marque things adjacent faster. Arrow Lake users tin present bask faster performance—and much importantly, for free. Continue reading...
Your LG TV Is Now an Xbox
LG and Xbox person joined forces to bring Xbox games consecutive to your surviving room, without the Xbox. Some LG TVs tin present watercourse games from Xbox Cloud Gaming. Continue reading...
Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses Now Act Like a Live Language Interpreter
Ray-Ban Meta astute glasses present enactment unrecorded translation and ocular currency conversion. These features, which leverage Meta AI, could beryllium utile to planetary travelers oregon expats. Continue reading...
Sony Is Bringing Back the PS5's Classic Interface Themes
Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced that classical PlayStation interface designs are returning to the PS5 for good. The strategy bundle for the PS5 is getting a fewer different adjuvant improvements, too. Continue reading...
Windows 11 Fixed My Biggest Problem With The Taskbar
To adjacent an app connected Windows, sometimes it's not arsenic casual arsenic hitting the Close button—the app mightiness proceed sticking astir arsenic a inheritance process, oregon if an app is frozen, hitting the fastener mightiness not bash a thing. Now, Windows 11 is making the taskbar way, mode much utile successful this regard. Continue reading...
PayPal Will Reward You for Using Its Cryptocurrency, but You Still Shouldn't
PayPal has offered its ain cryptocurrency for a while, called PayPal USD, intended for peer-to-peer transfers and commerce payments. The institution is present rolling retired a rewards programme that turns your PYUSD equilibrium into thing resembling a high-yields savings account, but astir radical shouldn’t usage it. Continue reading...
Roku's New Update Is All About Sports and Movies
Do you privation your Roku instrumentality had much features, similar an expansive enactment of sports highlights, a amended mobile app, oregon easy-to-find movie trailers? If so, we person immoderate bully news. Along with launching 2 caller streaming sticks this week, Roku announced respective breathtaking caller features coming to Roku OS. Continue reading...
Roku’s New Ultra-Portable Streaming Sticks Are Ready for Summer Travel
Roku conscionable opened pre-orders for its revised Streaming Stick and Streaming Stick Plus players. These upgraded streaming devices, which commencement astatine $30, are "over 35% smaller" than Amazon's Fire TV Stick and whitethorn beryllium a useful enactment for predominant travelers. Continue reading...
2026 Lexus ES Debuts With Comprehensive Redesign and Major Upgrades
Lexus conscionable pulled the wraps disconnected the 2026 ES astatine Auto Shanghai 2025, and it's harmless to say—nobody saw this coming. Once the understated "girl adjacent door" of the lineup, the ES has transformed into 1 of the astir striking sedans Lexus has ever designed. Continue reading...
Lenovo’s First 2025 ThinkPads Have AMD's Zen 5 And Intel's Arrow Lake Chips
Few laptops person arsenic overmuch of a bequest arsenic the ThinkPad. It archetypal started arsenic an IBM product, and portion the lineup is managed by Lenovo today, they are inactive awesome pieces of hardware. Now, if you request a keyboard with a nub successful your life, there's a fewer caller ThinkPads. And they each look great. Continue reading...
Ford Hits the Brakes Again With Major New Recall
Ford has announced 3 caller recalls done the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The determination affects assorted fashionable models, including the F-150, Expedition, and Lincoln Navigator. Continue reading...
Gmail Will Help You Manage All Your Email Newsletters & Spam
I person a immense occupation with my Gmail account. It's filled to the brim with email subscriptions, immoderate of which I subscribed to respective years back—and going one-by-one unsubscribing to each is an highly time-consuming task. Now, Gmail mightiness really assistance maine hole that problem. Continue reading...
Samsung's Glasses-Free 3D Gaming Monitors Are Now Available
Samsung has released its 2025 Odyssey lineup of gaming monitors. The postulation comes with the Odyssey 3D, Odyssey OLED G8, and the wide-screen Odyssey G9. They're beauteous pricey, but Samsung is offering $300 Samsung recognition for purchasing immoderate caller Odyssey show until April 27. Continue reading...
Sharing your Max relationship with idiosyncratic extracurricular of your household? You're not alone, and Max has a caller mode to grip it that looks awfully familiar. Just similar Netflix, Max is present letting you adhd an "Extra Member" to your account, but it'll outgo you. Continue reading...
Google Fi Has a New $35/mo 5G Plan and Data-only eSIMs
The mobile bearer Google Fi is present 10 years old, and Google is celebrating with a caller unlimited program for $35 per month, eSIMs for data-only devices, and adjuvant updates to its different plans. Continue reading...
Scientists Catch Star Disintegrating a Planet, Creating a Comet-Like Tail
Scientists person identified a satellite that has a turbulent narration with its genitor star: it is being disintegrated, and leaving a spectacular way of dusty debris successful its wake. Within a fewer cardinal years, the satellite volition beryllium wholly destroyed. Continue reading...
Boost Mobile Is Adding Tablets And Smartwatches
You typically get phones done carriers, but with the emergence of different kinds of devices with cellular support, lines are needed for those devices arsenic well. Most carriers connection tablet and smartwatch lines, and now, Boost Mobile is joining the fray. Continue reading...
This Is Windows 11 Running connected an iPad
Apple has been forced to unfastened up its hardware and bundle a batch much these days owed to the European Union's progressively stringent laws and regulations—Apple needs to comply oregon hazard a prohibition connected 1 of its biggest markets successful the world. Thanks to the openness allowed by these regulations, idiosyncratic appears to person gotten a Windows 11 VM moving connected an iPad. Not bad. Continue reading...
T-Mobile and Metro Just Overhauled Their Phone Plans
T-Mobile and its prepaid brand, Metro by T-Mobile, person rolled retired large updates to their work plans. T-Mobile's plans are costly but feature-packed, and Metro keeps the debased terms points we'd expect. Continue reading...
Meta's New Mobile Video Editor Is Gunning for CapCut
Meta has officially joined the competitory satellite of smartphone video editing with the planetary merchandise of its caller app, Edits. The app is simply a nonstop rival to ByteDance’s precise fashionable CapCut. Continue reading...
Duolingo Will Now Teach You How to Play Games, Too
Duolingo has been a premier prime for connection learning for years, and it precocious began branching retired into teaching different things, too. Now, it wants to marque you amended astatine 1 circumstantial skill—chess. Continue reading...
Samsung's Galaxy S24 'Certified Re-Newed' Phones Start astatine $620
Samsung present cells ‘Certified Re-newed’ Galaxy S24, Galaxy S24+, and Galaxy S24 Ultra phones. The devices are refurbished with caller batteries, “assembled by Samsung engineers,” and sold astatine a discount compared to getting a brand-new Galaxy S25 phone. Continue reading...
Google Messages Is Getting Two Huge New Features
Do you privation Google Messages had a fewer much features, similar determination sharing and blocking unwanted images? If so, you’re successful luck. This week, we learned that Google is rolling retired a caller diagnostic that blurs inappropriate images and is preparing to merchandise different that’ll instrumentality it 1 measurement person to matching iMessage. Continue reading...
Insta360's X5 Action Camera is Finally Here (And Tougher Than Ever)
You person tons of options arsenic acold arsenic enactment cameras go, but Insta360's cameras stay coagulated for a fewer reasons. Now, the Insta360 X5 is yet here, and it's the toughest we've seen to day from the company. Continue reading...
This Tiny PC Can Fit In Your Pocket
We've seen tons of antithetic PCs connected the smaller side, from mini-ITX-sized ones to existent miniatures. Few are arsenic tiny arsenic this one, though. Continue reading...
Rockbox 4.0 Custom Firmware Arrives for MP3 Players, Including Old iPods
Rockbox, the customized firmware for iPods and MP3 players from Archos, Samsung, Creative, and different companies, conscionable released a caller large version. Rockbox 4.0 is packed with caller features and usability improvements, and it present supports a fewer much media players. Continue reading...
Logitech Is Quietly Increasing Its Prices
We warned you that owed to the tariffs being imposed by the United States, you should expect terms hikes for everything everywhere. Now, Logitech is the latest large institution forced to summation its prices for mysterious reasons perfectly nary 1 knows. Continue reading...
Reolink Is Teaming up With Home Assistant
Security camera institution Reolink has joined the Works with Home Assistant program. This concern means galore Reolink devices present enactment smoothly with Home Assistant, and supports Home Assistant’s absorption connected section power and privacy. Continue reading...
The Other Stuff
Google lost its tribunal case against the United States Department of Justice, and could extremity up having to merchantability the Chrome web browser arsenic an anticompetitive measure. In response, respective companies are lining up astatine the accidental to beryllium the court-ordered buyer: Perplexity, OpenAI, and Yahoo, to sanction a few. It's excessively aboriginal to archer if they volition adjacent get the opportunity, though, particularly aft lawsuit appeals.
The Bluesky societal media web is inactive gaining momentum, and it conscionable started rolling retired enactment for verified badges. Noteworthy people, companies, and different organizations volition present person a bluish checkmark, overmuch similar successful the aged days of Twitter.
Finally, the emergence of 5G location net is inactive making a important interaction successful the United States, arsenic evidenced by much complaints from accepted net work providers. Comcast executives said successful an net telephone this week that its net services aren't "winning successful the marketplace," and attributed "price transparency and predictability" arsenic the reasons. Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T, and different 5G location net providers aren't perfect, but it's large to spot ISPs suffer the monopoly they person enjoyed for decades successful galore areas.
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