If you own a recent Android flagship, you’ve probably noticed the benefits of Ultra HDR photos, which capture more intense colors and lighting details. Now, Instagram is adding support for the format to its in-app camera, along with a handful of other upgrades for Android users. With these changes, Instagram will better support the Ultra HDR format, which was introduced with Android 14 in 2023. This means that Instagram users can get the same “realistic vibrancy” when using the in-app camera as their device’s native camera app. Meta also adds support for Android’s Night Sight feature for low-light captures and…
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Apple has filed a petition with the Supreme Court asking it to stay the Ninth Circuit’s mandate, which would send the case back to the district court to determine what it can charge for purchases made outside the App Store. Here are the details. A little context Last year, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California found Apple in contempt of a 2021 injunction related to non-App Store purchases. The injunction prohibited Apple from preventing developers from including buttons or links to alternative purchasing mechanisms, and from communicating with users about these options using contact information obtained…
Rising memory costs have led to price increases on many Android smartphones, but in a new report, analyst Jeff Pu predicts that Apple will implement “aggressive pricing” for this fall’s iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max. iPhone 18 Pro pricing expected to defy industry trends Demand for AI has driven up memory costs due to supply constraints, and some Android makers have already raised prices. Analysts also predict that the Android market may shrink overall this year as some budget smartphones will not be manufactured due to the cost crisis. Naturally, many are wondering what Apple plans to do with…
There’s never been a better time to become a Linux gamer. Over the past few years, Linux gaming has made some pretty big strides, and none of it has been wrapped up in flashy marketing or benchmark graphics. This change has been buried deep in kernel patches, memory controllers, and the type of engineering work that most people may never see, but will absolutely feel. If you’ve ever seen your GPU choke as the VRAM fills up, you’ll understand exactly what Valve just did. Modern games and their VRAM requirements have increased significantly, leading many people to be convinced that…
The gap between gaming on the go and gaming with a dedicated home setup has never been thinner. The Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 inspired portable PC platforms like the ROG Xbox Ally Alienware is Dell’s own line of computers and gaming peripherals. The brand started out independently, but Dell acquired Alienware in 2006. If you ever see someone using a laptop with a glowing alien face on the monitor lid, it’s an Alienware. The Alienware x14 R2 is a 13th generation gaming laptop that runs Windows 11 Home and uses an Intel Core…
Santa Clara County has become the latest entity to sue Meta for fraudulent ads on Facebook and Instagram. The lawsuit, filed by County Attorney Tony LoPresti, alleges the company profited from a “vast ecosystem of fraudulent advertisements” that defrauded seniors and other vulnerable people. The lawsuit refers to a report from last year by Reuters which cited internal documents detailing the billions of dollars fraudulent advertisers invested in Meta’s platforms. Meta earns up to $7 billion a year from such ads, the filing says. He also claims that Meta’s own processes and policies enabled scams. Santa Clara, which is just…
Windows 11 can be a nuisance, reminding you to link your phone to the operating system using Phone Link, but I gave up on that utility years ago. It’s built on a sound principle: if the basic elements of your handheld were accessible on your PC, you would not need to interrupt your focus on the flow by switching to the phone. Additionally, phone use begins with the innocent intention of reading a 2FA code or dismissing a malicious email notification, but it quickly escalates into unrelated distractions. Built directly into the operating system, Phone Link should have provided a…
Likely launching at WWDC, Safari users will soon discover that it will be easier to create tab groups, with a test version of the browser for all 27 operating systems using AI to group them for you.Apple introduced Tab Groups in Safari 15 in 2021, to help users organize and save groups of frequently used browser tabs. Five years later, he plans another change to this feature.A test version of Safari for iOS 27, iPadOS 27 and macOS 27 has updated tab groups to include an automated organization feature, explains Mark Gurman in his “Power On” newsletter for Bloomberg. The…
ZikG/Shutterstock Mini-LED TVs have become commonplace in the television market in recent years. All major smart TV manufacturers offer mini-LED TVs in their product portfolio, and the technology has trickled down to some of the most affordable TVs. If we zoom out and look at the major screen types such as LCD, OLED and QLED, mini-LED TVs are very similar to modern LCD screens. However, instead of relying on conventional LEDs for backlighting, they use even smaller LEDs, giving them better control over localized dimming and increasing their overall brightness.…
Samuel Boivin/Shutterstock Microsoft plans to remove nearly 70 apps across its product families throughout 2026. It has already started, with 15 apps shut down as of January 13, 2026, according to Microsoft’s own documents. You may never encounter many of these unless you are actively in the IT industry, managing many different aspects of a Windows-based workplace. Until now, Microsoft has sent software like Advanced Threat Analytics, which had been scheduled for obsolescence since 2020, to its ever-growing product graveyard. This was replaced by the cloud-based Azure Advanced Threat Protection.…