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Apple recently strengthened its App Store policies on data collection, which has led to numerous apps getting the boot. The latest casualty of the policy is somewhat more notable than the rest. Facebook’s free Onavo Protect VPN client has been removed for violating Apple’s user data rules. A VPN client …

Talk to anyone about building a new PC, and the question of longevity is going to pop up sooner rather than later. Any time someone is dropping serious cash for a hardware upgrade they’re going to have questions about how long it will last them, especially if they’ve been burned …

With the introduction of its new Z6 and Z7 full-frame mirrorless cameras, Nikon has good reason to believe that late is better than never. Nikon and Canon have given Sony free reign until now in the growing market for mirrorless cameras for serious photographers, while traditional DSLR sales have slumped. …

Two years ago DJI’s Mavic Pro took the drone community by storm. Combining most of the important features of its larger sibling, the Phantom 4, into a folding package with a decent price point, it has quickly become a favorite for both amateurs and many professionals. As a full disclosure, …

On Monday, Nvidia announced a new set of GPUs in a presentation focused on ray tracing and the advent of ray tracing in today’s games. Nvidia has built an entirely new capability around ray tracing and announced an all-new SM (Streaming Multiprocessor) architecture around it. But Nvidia also debuted GPUs …

Your standard desktop computer monitor is almost an impulse purchase at this point. A 22 or 24-inch 1080p LCD panel costs less than $100, but that’s not the kind of monitor PC gamers want to use. Those monitors come with higher refresh rates, more pixels, and other features that invariably …

Plenty of consumers have run into mobile data caps, and the availability of “unlimited” plans doesn’t guarantee you a truly unlimited experience. Carriers still regularly throttle users who consume what the carrier considers “too much” data, and a California fire department can tell you how frustrating that is. While personnel …

A new app called HiHello is taking aim at business cards. While plenty of apps in the past have tried to kill the business card, they never achieved critical mass. Mainly, this is because most required that both parties — the business card holder and recipient — have their app …

Ever since Meltdown and Spectre were disclosed, Intel’s various customers have been asking how long it would take for hardware fixes to these problems to ship. The fixes will deploy with Cascade Lake, Intel’s next server platform due later this year, but the company is finally lifting the lid on …

Apple’s hardware refreshes haven’t garnered the company the kind of praise it’s used to getting of late. It’s most recent MacBook Pro refresh was completely overshadowed by problems with the company’s Core i9 and Core i7 CPUs (later resolved via firmware update). The new keyboards those systems shipped with are …