Category: Hardware


  • I Tried the New McDonaldland Meal for Adults, With Its Bizarre Pink and Blue Shake

    McDonald’s continues to capitalize on the love of its customers for the company’s goofy history. Recently, Happy Meals included McDonald’s-themed toys — such as drink machines, fryers and trays with food on them — delivered in mini-Happy Meal boxes. And the much-longed-for Snack Wraps finally returned after a viral fan campaign. Now, McDonald’s has introduced…

  • Intel's fabled Itanium refuses to die, but the end is probably near — deprecation of IA-64 support is back on the chopping block in GCC version 16

    After a revival last year, support for Intel’s Itanium IA-64 architecture is back on the chopping block for the Linux GNU Compiler Collection version 16 (GCC 16). Phoronix reports that Linux developers are discussing the deprecation of all remaining Itanium IA-64 compiler code in the next iteration of GCC in a mailing list thread. Itanium…

  • Price Drop: Edit and Convert PDFs on your Mac without paying Adobe prices

    TL;DR: PDF Converter Pro for Mac for $24 with code SAVE20 (reg. $99.99) — convert PDFs to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, edit, merge, and secure files. Ever had a PDF land in your inbox when you specifically needed a Word file? Instead of wrestling with pricey subscription software like Adobe Acrobat Pro, you can get PDF Converter…

  • ChatGPT won’t remove old models without warning after GPT-5 backlash

    After the backlash to replacing its 4o model with GPT-5, OpenAI will no longer get rid of old models without a heads up. “In retrospect, not continuing to offer 4o, at least in the interim, was a miss,” Nick Turley, OpenAI’s head of ChatGPT, said on Tuesday. In an interview with The Verge, he said…

  • Made by Google 2025: We Found All the Biggest Pixel 10 Leaks and Rumors

    The new Pixel 10 line will debut on Aug. 20 at the Made by Google event, and it almost feels like the phones have been revealed in detail thanks to a multitude of rumors and presumed leaks. Google itself isn’t hiding that the Pixel 10 is coming, posting multiple looks of the phone when promoting…

  • How to choose which Apple Watch to buy

    It used to be easy to pick an Apple Watch. All you had to do was choose whether you wanted the larger model or the smaller one. Then Apple added optional cellular connectivity. Then, a more affordable Watch SE (now in its second generation) and, in 2022, the rugged Apple Watch Ultra (also now in…

  • Elon Musk has accused Apple of committing an “unequivocal antitrust violation” by favoring OpenAI in the App Store rankings. In a post on X, he claimed that Apple has made it impossible for other AI companies to reach number one in those rankings and that xAI “will take immediate legal action.” Musk didn’t clarify what…

  • Databases used by US federal courts for sharing and managing case documents have been hacked. Politico first reported on the hack last week on August 6; today, an investigation from The New York Times states that Russia is suspected to be involved in the attack. The Administrative Office of the US Courts initially identified the…

  • Space Force officials take secrecy to new heights ahead of key rocket launch

    After more than a decade of development and testing, US military officials are finally ready to entrust United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket to haul a batch of national security satellites into space. An experimental military navigation satellite, also more than 10 years in the making, will ride ULA’s Vulcan rocket into geosynchronous orbit more than…

  • League of Legends is testing a new WASD control scheme, 16 years in

    Riot Games is going to slowly introduce a WASD-based control scheme to League of Legends, which previously relied on point and click controls. “We believe that offering WASD controls will provide a fresh yet familiar way to play for both new players and veterans of the Rift without changing what makes League, League,” Riot says.…