Steam released an updated client in the last few days, with some noteworthy features and updates. The big news from this patch will be welcome for anyone who likes using a PS4 controller on the PC — it’s now fully supported in Steam’s Big Picture mode. According to Valve, you can …
Read More »Microsoft fixes broken Windows 10 update that blocked Internet connectivity, broke DHCP
Last week, Microsoft pushed an update to Windows 10 that broke DHCP and knocked some users offline until they rebooted their systems. The update is believed to have been part of cumulative update KB 3201845, which was released on December 9. After it was released, multiple European users reported being …
Read More »Small is big again: Apple announces 4-inch iPhone SE
One of the major trends in phone design across both Android and iOS has been the concerted push towards larger devices. Apple has actually moved less aggressively towards phablets than much of the Android market, but the iPhone 6 moved to a 4.7-inch display, while the iPhone 6 Plus has …
Read More »Apple’s iOS 9.3 update tackles screen-related insomnia with ‘Night Shift’
After a few months of testing, Apple has finally released iOS 9.3 to the public. Historically, the company has been slow to roll out user-facing features, but it seems that the folks at Cupertino are moving a bit faster these days. And not only does this point-release deliver a handful of meaningful …
Read More »Could the 9.7-inch iPad Pro kickstart a tablet upgrade cycle?
Apple’s new 9.7-inch iPad Pro, introduced yesterday, is in some respects a smaller version of the 12.9-inch iPad Pro introduced last year. While it might lack the one-more-thing wow factor Steve Jobs kept hidden until the end of a product announcement, it may have enough mini-wows to entice customers. The big question …
Read More »Apple just posted its first quarterly sales decline in 13 years
Apple’s results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2016 are just in, and the company’s reign as a near-invincible titan of Wall Street is, in the words of Nathan Fillion, “certainly coming to a middle.” On the one hand, the company just posted its first year-on-year quarterly decline in …
Read More »Microsoft may target the iMac with new all-in-one Surface PC
When Microsoft announced its original Surface and Surface Pro four years ago, the company was diving into uncharted waters with a new, ARM-based iteration of its operating system and a higher-end x86 PC hardware packed into a tablet form factor. Surface may have gotten off to a rocky start, but …
Read More »Pokémon Go’s iOS privacy settings give its developer total access to your Google account [Updated]
Update: Niantic stated the following to Ars Technica in addressing this topic: “We recently discovered that the Pokémon Go account creation process on iOS erroneously requests full access permission for the user’s Google account. However, Pokémon Go only accesses basic Google profile information (specifically, your user ID and e-mail address) and …
Read More »Apple’s stagnant product lines mostly reflect the state of the computer industry
Most of Apple’s product lines are severely overdue for a refresh. Apart from the recently refreshed MacBook, many of the company’s Mac products are well over a year old. The Mac Mini is nearly two, the high-end workstation Mac Pro is almost three, and the sole remaining non-Retina MacBook Pro …
Read More »Apple kills the headphone jack, launches mediocre wireless earbuds, and calls it ‘courage’
At its iPhone unveil yesterday, Apple senior vice president Phil Schiller took the stage to explain why the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus would dump the 3.5mm headphone jack, and move to a mixture of proprietary wireless solutions with wired headphone support provided via the Lightning port. Schiller justified this …
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