Sometimes the best upgrades you can make to your PC are on your desk rather than inside the case. Let’s say you have 32GB of DDR5 6000 RAM and enough RGB to view your PC from space. Yet after four hours of work or play, your eyes burn, your neck is stiff, and your desk is cramped. You spend thousands of dollars on the PC engine, but end up skimping on the cockpit. Spending $30 on something small like a monitor light bar or monitor arm does a lot more for you and your daily experience than an extra 5FPS…
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Sony is partnering with Bandai Namco Holdings Inc. (the parent company of Bandai Namco Entertainment) on a “collaborative pilot initiative” focused on generative AI and its role in the future of video production. AI was a major theme in the company’s latest earnings and corporate strategy presentation, with Sony Chairman and CEO Hiroki Totoki describing the technology as an “amplifier of human imagination and a catalyst for new possibilities”, while insisting it will not replace artists or creators. Of the gen AI project with Bandai Namco – which admittedly seems quite vague and may well go nowhere – Totoki said…
Apple and Meta have opposed a Canadian bill that the companies say could force them to create backdoor access to encrypted user data if passed by the country’s parliament. Proposed by Canada’s ruling Liberal Party, Bill C-22 contains provisions that could be similar to a British data access order sent to Apple last year, depending on how they are implemented. In February 2025, the UK government demanded that Apple grant it global access to all encrypted user content uploaded to the cloud. Apple refused and instead removed its advanced data protection iCloud feature from the UK. U.S. officials later said…
OpenAI is forcing Mac users to update ChatGPT and other desktop apps soon, after a supply chain attack exposed the signing certificates that Apple’s security systems use to verify trusted software.The company revealed the incident on May 13 and confirmed that malware related to the “Mini Shai-Hulud” attack had infected the devices of two employees through the TanStack npm ecosystem. Investigators identified unauthorized access activity in a limited set of internal source code repositories connected to these employees.OpenAI alternated its signing certificates and re-signed affected applications to prevent misuse of exposed credentials. The company found no evidence that customer data,…
iOS 26.5 arrived this week and brought an Apple Maps pop-up informing users that ads are coming soon. Here’s what to expect when they officially launch this summer. Ads will launch in Apple Maps this summer and you’ll see them in two places Apple announced earlier this year that ads would run on Apple Maps in the United States and Canada. This week, iOS 26.5 brought compatibility for ads, but they won’t actually launch until this summer. When they go live in Apple Maps, users will find them in two places: At the top of search results In the “Suggested…
Save $200 on an upgraded M5 14-inch MacBook Pro this weekend – Image credit: Apple Apple retailers are involved in a MacBook Pro price war this weekend, offering $200 off the 14-inch M5 1TB model with an upgrade to 24GB of memory.You can get the 1TB 14-inch MacBook Pro with 24GB RAM for $1,699 from Amazon and B&H Photo. This reflects a $200 reduction off MSRP.Buy MacBook Pro M5/24GB/1TB for $1,699Apple recently made an update to make 1TB of storage standard in the MacBook Pro line, eliminating the 512GB SSD option. This model has an increase to 24GB of memory,…
Last March, OpenAI abruptly pulled the plug on its Sora video application. Two months later, two AI video generation apps are vying for the top spot in the App Store. Sora wasn’t the only AI video generation technology OpenAI abandoned Sora largely due to the cost of running the AI video generation service. The service was resource intensive and free for users. Instead, OpenAI focuses on ChatGPT and Codex to improve productivity. Codex in particular works best with paid plans. With Sora out of the way, competing AI applications have pushed video generation capabilities to the fore. For example, Gemini…
Yaroslav Bushuev/Getty Images I admit that much of my motivation for writing this explainer is selfish. As someone who has used and reviewed technology for decades, USB color coding is one of those anecdotal items that has entered and exited my consciousness several times over the years, but never found enough purchase to really stick. It’s not something that comes down to knowing what type of USB port you have. We hope that a dedicated article explaining why most USB-A ports are color-coded and why most USB-C ports are not…