What’s stopping me (or you) getting an iPad Pro? The cost, for one. And a belief that anything I’d want to use an iPad for, I can already do with my eighth-generation vanilla model. That said, Nathan Ingraham’s review of the M2 iPad Pro did make me che…
Google is shutting down its dedicated Street View app
You can add the standalone Street View app to Google’s growing product graveyard. Upon decompiling the latest version of the application for Android, 9to5Google found shutdown notices that the company has yet to publish. In those notices, the tech gian…
Google revamps Assistant parental controls and adds a kids’ dictionary
Kids love to use smart speakers, but it’s all too easy for things to go horribly wrong — including content that’s decidedly not family-friendly. Google is trying to address those worries by both revising parental controls for Assistant and providing mo…
Xiaomi’s latest concept phone has an interchangeable Leica M lens
The Xiaomi 12S Ultra surprised us with its 1-inch camera sensor and Leica co-branding back in July, but it turns out that the Chinese brand was working on something far more ambitious at the same time. Earlier today, the “Xiaomi 12S Ultra Concept Phone…
T-Mobile will start charging a $35 fee on all new activations and upgrades
T-Mobile may be joining rivals Verizon and AT&T by introducing an $35 charge for all new postpaid activations and upgrades, according to The T-Mo Report and some Redditors. According to T-Mobile internal documents, it’s introducing a “Device Connec…
Google Hangouts is well and truly dead
Google has laid Hangouts to rest, a couple of years after it first announced that it was going to push people to use Chat, its Slack-like app, instead. After allowing users to move to Chat on their own in 2021, Google phased out the Hangouts Chat app f…
Canon R6-II hands-on: Higher resolution, faster shooting and reduced heating issues
Just two years after the launch of the original EOS R6, Canon has unveiled its successor, the $2,500 EOS R6 Mark II. It brings a number of key improvements, like a higher-resolution 24.2-megapixel sensor and faster shooting speeds. Most importantly, Ca…
Elon Musk wants to make Twitter’s edit button free for everyone, report says
Twitter may soon charge users $8 a month for verification, but Elon Musk reportedly plans to give all users a long-requested feature for free: the edit button. According to Platformer’s Casey Newton, the move is in the works alongside the more swe…
Some of our favorite gaming mice are up to 47 percent off at Amazon
Gaming mice are different — faster, lighter, more responsive than standard mice — which means they’re usually more expensive, too. Right now Amazon has five of the mice that made the cut in our productivity tests at discounts between 24 and 47 percent …
Iconic ASCII sim ‘Dwarf Fortress’ will hit Steam and Itch on December 6th with major upgrades
It’s been a long, long time coming, but the legendary civilization management sim Dwarf Fortress at last has a Steam and Itch.io release date. It will be available on both storefronts on December 6th for $30. While that might seem steep for a game that…