Pay to Play Your Own Music on Your Own Speakers As streaming services have become more ubiquitous, they’ve begun treating people who actually own content in increasingly hostile ways. In Google’s case, it intends to replace Google Play Music with YouTube Music by the end of the year — and …
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Google Will Now Delete Sensitive Data After a Few Months for New Accounts Google makes most of its apps and services available for free, but you’re still paying for them. Instead of paying with money, you pay with your data. Google has made untold mountains of money from targeted advertising, …
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OnePlus CEO Confirms a New Budget Phone Is Coming OnePlus has become one of the top smartphone makers in the world, and it got there by blazing a path through the “budget flagship” space. Each year, OnePlus makes its phones a little more expensive, which has left budget buyers feeling …
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80 Cores, 3.3GHz Clocks, With 128 Cores Ampere, founded by former Intel president Renee James, is one of a handful of upstart semiconductor design firms seeking to challenge the likes of Intel and AMD using the ARM architecture. The company released new information on its Altra line of processors this …
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Western Digital Rebrands non-SMR HDDs as ‘Red Plus’ Western Digital has been in hot water for months over its attempt to sell SMR hard drives into the WD Red product family. Red drives are explicitly intended for NAS (Network Attached Storage) devices, and as we’ve seen in several investigations, SMR …
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Apple Announces A12Z CPU for Mac, Will Transition Away From Intel, x86 After 15 years and approximately 50 failed predictions, Apple has finally announced its own ARM CPU for the Mac and MacBook product lines. The upcoming A12Z will transition Apple away from the x86 CPUs it adopted in 2005 …
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Instagram expands Shopping to more businesses, including creators selling their merch Instagram announced today it’s expanding access to Instagram Shopping to more businesses, including creators who want to sell their own merchandise. To enable this expansion, the company introduced new “Commerce Eligibility Requirements” that offer a set of guidelines that …
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Western Digital Sued to Permanently Block SMR in NAS HDDs Western Digital continues to face fallout for its decision to ship shingled magnetic recording (SMR) HDDs in NAS products. The law firm suing the company has updated its filing to add significant technical data and is not requesting a huge …
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Hands On With Adobe’s Updated Photoshop and Camera Raw Adobe has rolled out another set of incremental updates to many of its flagship applications, including Photoshop, Camera Raw, and Lightroom, as has become standard since the company moved to a subscription model. We had a chance to work with the new …
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Chrome Might Not Eat All Your RAM After Adopting This Windows Feature Google’s Chrome browser is far and away the most popular way to browse the web, which is surprising when you consider its abysmal memory management. It’s not uncommon for Chrome to gobble up multiple gigabytes of RAM in …
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