The world is in the middle of a climate crisis, and, for better or worse, major companies are the ones with most influence over the sustainability of our planet. Dell is greeting that challenge with the Concept Luna, a laptop prototype designed to drastically reduce the carbon footprint of production. Glen Robson, Dell’s CTO of client …

Messaging platform WhatsApp recently changed its Last Seen feature, which will no longer display to unknown contacts by default. So if you haven’t chatted with someone before, they’ll no longer be able to see information about your activity on the app. Before, you’d have to manually change your Last Seen settings to “My Contacts” if you wanted to hide your …

Apple’s Universal Control feature won’t be hitting your MacOS devices until spring, as spotted by the Apple Software Updates Twitter account. On Apple’s MacOS Monterey page, a small button says “Available this spring” under the paragraph about Universal Control. Apple previously stated that the feature would be available “later this fall.”  Universal Control will allow you to seamlessly move content …

Verizon on Tuesday said it had completed its acquisition of prepaid mobile company Tracfone, just a day after the US Federal Communications Commission voted to approve the $6 billion deal. Verizon announced the acquisition in September, pending the regulatory approval that finally came this week.  “The addition of the TracFone brands firmly establishes Verizon as the provider of choice in …

Apple released iOS 15 for iPhones in September, alongside four new phones, the iPhone 13 and 13 Mini and the iPhone 13 Pro and Pro Max. And a new OS update has already arrived with iOS 15.1. (We also get a small glimpse at iOS 15.2 with the update’s first developer beta.) iOS 15 brought a variety of new and improved features …

If you’re the type of person who likes to watch TV and movies but hates choosing which show or movie to watch, Amazon might be able to help. The company is bringing a handy Netflix feature to its line of Fire TV devices, starting today.  Earlier this year, streaming service Netflix added the Play Something feature — a button that …

Installing a new operating system is an emotionally complicated process. On the other side of the update, the new OS promises new toys to play with and enhancements to older features. But there’s always the fear that something goes wrong. Maybe something’s a little buggy in the new operating system, maybe your system rejects the upgrade or maybe your whole …

This year marks the 20th anniversary of Apple’s MacOS operating system, and Apple celebrated with the release of MacOS Monterey on Monday, Oct. 25. Many Monterey features reflect how much technology has evolved in the past two decades, although we’re still waiting for some of the promised features in a future update. (Here’s how to download MacOS Monterey now.) Apple …

Target is gearing up for the holidays and the nationwide retailer is focusing on tech as a major part of those plans. Most notably, Target announced plans to expand its shop-in-shop experience with Apple, roughly doubling the number of stores featuring the experience from 17 to 36. The shop-in-shop experiences function like miniature Apple stores within participating Targets — dedicated sections …

Apple just released an update for iOS and iPadOS 15.0.2, which fixes a security bug on Apple devices. Notably, Apple says that the bug “may have been actively exploited,” which means you should update your device right now. Monday’s update fixes a memory corruption issue that might have allowed some apps to “execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges,” according to …