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Texas law requiring age verification on porn sites ruled unconstitutional [Updated]

The day before a Texas anti-porn law that requires age verification to access adult websites was set to take effect, the state's interim attorney general, Angela Colmenero, has been at least temporari...

Ford's recall of Mustang Mach-Es in 2022 is under investigation by feds

Last year, Ford issued a recall for almost 49,000 Mustang Mach-E crossovers due to a problem with the electric vehicles' high-voltage battery contactors. The automaker's fix was a software update to t...

X, formerly Twitter, slowed down access to Threads, The New York Times, Bluesky and more

X, formerly known as Twitter, was throttling traffic to websites that the social network's owner Elon Musk publicly dislikes. The platform slowed down the speed it takes when accessing links to a hand...

SanDisk's silence deafens as high-profile users say Extreme SSDs still broken

SanDisk's silence this week has been deafening. Its portable SSDs are being lambasted as users and tech publications call for them to be pulled. The recent scrutiny of the drives follows problems from...

YouTube uses AI to summarize videos in latest test

Google is experimenting with the use of AI to auto-generate YouTube video summaries, according to a notice on a support page dated July 31st. The page, which we spotted via Android Police, notes that ...

5 marketing slides to bring to your next board meeting

Most board directors intuitively understand that marketing is an important part of any company's growth engine. It not only feeds the near-term sales engine, it also tees up future performance.Done ri...

How long will the last Intel Macs be supported? macOS Sonoma gives us some hints

A year ago, we compiled a model list of Macs spanning over two decades, complete with their launch dates, discontinuation dates, and all the available information about the macOS updates each model re...

Twitch walks back controversial ad rules policy

Twitch is reversing its newly announced rules concerning the way streamers could display ads on the platform after swift backlash from streamers and content creators. On Tuesday, Twitch released new r...

All the iOS 17 Features Apple Announced at WWDC

While the internet might be abuzz about Apple's expensive Vision Pro VR headset, there was plenty of other news to come out of WWDC 2023. For those of us with an iPhone, the biggest story might just b...

Here are the iOS 17 features Apple didn't announce on stage

Apple's Vision Pro headset dominated the headlines at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) event on Monday. But Apple is also going to launch a major update to iOS later this year. The upcoming i...

macOS Sonoma drops support for another wide swath of Intel Macs

With the introduction of the Apple Silicon Mac Pro, Apple has finally completed the Apple Silicon transition and booted all Intel Macs from its current lineup. But software support for Intel Macs isn'...

With iOS 17, Apple introduces new journaling app, refreshes communication apps

Apple unveiled the new version of his mobile operating system for the iPhone. iOS 17 is receiving many different new consumer-facing features, so here's a roundup of what you can expect when iOS 17 is...

Liveblog: All the news from Apple's WWDC 2023 keynote

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MS Paint gets its long-promised dark mode, along with other improvements

In the summer of 2021, Microsoft's efforts to redesign its software for the Windows 11 era were just kicking into high gear. The company announced an overhaul for the venerable MS Paint that promised,...

The original Chromecast hits end of life after a decade of service

Rest now, little Chromecast. Google has announced the decade-old Chromecast 1 is finally hitting end of life. A message on Google's Chromecast firmware support page (first spotted by 9to5Google) annou...

Microsoft Surface Pro X webcams quit working last week--flawed workaround issued

Microsoft has issued a workaround for broken Surface Pro X cameras following user reports that the integrated webcams stopped working on May 23. The tech giant says it's working with OEM partners to f...

Neuralink says it has the FDA's OK to start clinical trials

In December 2022, founder Elon Musk gave an update on his other, other company, the brain implant startup Neuralink. As early as 2020, the company had been saying it was close to starting clinical tri...

YouTube Stories are shutting down June 26 as company focuses on Shorts

Stories are over -- at least on YouTube, that is. The Google-owned video site announced today that YouTube Stories will be shutting down on June 26, 2023, as the company aims to focus on other key are...

Two dead in US from tainted surgeries in Mexico; 206 more may have brain infections

A second person in the US has died in an outbreak of fungal meningitis linked to surgeries in Mexico that involved epidural anesthesia. While the case count is now up to 18, more than 200 others acros...

Built-in ChatGPT-driven Copilot will transform Windows 11 starting in June

A couple of months ago, Microsoft added generative AI features to Windows 11 in the form of a taskbar-mounted version of the Bing chatbot. Starting this summer, the company will be going even further,...