Tag: gear
The best iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro cases for 2025
The iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro are sleek, powerful devices — and also serious investments. If you’re lucky enough to have one in hand, the last thing you want is a drop, scratch or scuff ruining that pristine finish. That’s where a quality case comes in. The best iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro…
Latest stock updates at Walmart, Best Buy and more
The Nintendo Switch 2 has been available in the US for more than two weeks — but good luck finding one. While millions of people have been able to snag the $450 console since it officially went up for sale on June 5, online inventory dried up fairly quickly at most stores soon after launch…
Philips Hue says US prices will go up in July because of tariffs
When Philips Hue’s US prices go up next month, you can officially know who to blame. (Hint: It rhymes with “rump.”) Parent company Signify told Hueblog (via The Verge) that its price increases are “a direct result of tariffs.” See how easy that was, Amazon? Before that confirmation, the company vaguely referred to an upcoming…
Roland just released a weird little riff on an acoustic handpan
Synthesizer giant Roland just announced a fairly bizarre contraption. The Mood Pan is the company’s digital take on an acoustic handpan. For the uninitiated, a handpan is a version of the steelpan instrument that’s been popular in Trinidad and Tobago since the 1930s. It’s widely considered to be the only truly new acoustic instrument invented…
Windows 10 users can get extended security updates for 1,000 Microsoft Rewards points
As we edge closer to Windows 10’s end-of-support on October 14, 2025, Microsoft is throwing its more stubborn users another bone. The company previously announced that, for the first time, consumers would be able to purchase one year of Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESUs) for $30. Today, Microsoft revealed that you’ll also be able…
New budget-friendly laptops from Acer feature NVIDIA’s latest RTX 5050 GPU
Acer just announced several new budget-friendly laptops, and they each offer access to . This GPU features 2,560 CUDA cores and 8GB of GDDR7 VRAM. First up, there’s the . This model is available with an AMD Ryzen 5 240, Ryzen 7 260 or Ryzen 7 350 CPU. It’s also available with up to a…
Samsung’s big foldable Unpacked event takes place on July 9
The third Unpacked of 2025 (following installments in January and May) will be on July 9 at 10AM ET, kicking off in Brooklyn, New York. The company usually debuts its latest foldables in the summer, so we’re expecting to see the Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Flip 7 here. However, there’s an extra wrinkle (don’t…
The Oversight Board calls Meta’s uneven AI moderation ‘incoherent and unjustifiable’
As Meta’s platforms fill up with more AI-generated content, the company still has a lot of work to do when it comes to enforcing its policies around manipulated media. The Oversight Board is once again criticizing the social media company over its handling of such posts, writing in its latest decision that its inability to…
The next Samsung Unpacked event takes place on July 9
It’s almost time for another one of Samsung’s Unpacked events. The third Unpacked to be held this year (following installments in January and May) will take place on July 9 at 10AM ET. It will emanate from Brooklyn, New York and stream on the Samsung Newsroom, the company’s website and its YouTube channel. Samsung is…
Apple read your mean tweets about Liquid Glass and Finder
The more things change, the more they stay the same. After unveiling some new visual elements to the next generation of its operating systems during WWDC 2025, Apple has already walked back some of the proposed design revisions. 9to5Mac noticed that the most recent developer betas included changes to the new Liquid Glass operating system…