It’s one of the great philosophical debates of our time: Can an iPad replace a laptop? From day one, way back in 2010, we’ve been trying to turn Apple‘s iconic tablet into a computer replacement, with mixed success. If you’re a media consumer and online reader, then it’s a fairly simple transition, as long as …

Google Play Music, the company’s audio streaming service, is launching its first original podcast, a travel-show-like documentary series called “City Soundtracks.” The first three episodes are now available on Google Play Music and iTunes. Each includes a prominent music figure from the profiled city. Cities and artists covered in this initial batch are Austin, Texas/Spoon, New Orleans/Big Freedia and Oakland, …

The most important feature for many laptop shoppers is battery life, and rightly so. We carry these devices to meetings, to class, on airplanes and even just from room to room at home. Maximizing time away from the power outlet keeps you mobile and lets you move around without lugging a power brick. Buying the best laptop Laptop buying guide …

Laptop trends come and go. We’ve lived through netbooks, ultrabooks and even stereoscopic 3D laptops (yes, that was a thing for a while). Most don’t stick around for the long haul, so I originally approached Chromebooks with the same skepticism. The first couple of generations of Chromebooks were stripped-down laptops running Google’s Chrome OS — literally, little more than the …

The Touch Bar in Apple’s updated MacBook Pro laptops is a useful and unique add-on, but for the first few months of the product’s life, it supported little more than a handful of Apple apps built into MacOS. Since then, some big players, from Photoshop to Spotify, have added support, and now one of the biggest cross-platform software packages — …

Subscribers to the premium cable network Epix will now be able to watch on their 4th-gen Apple TV boxes. The network, owned by Viacom, Lionsgate and MGM, says the Apple TV app will be available starting today. “Apple has been a renowned leader in shaping the digital landscape and I’m proud to make our content available on Apple TV,” Epix …

If you’ve been burning through your 10 free articles per month and thinking about getting a paid New York Times digital subscription, the news giant is adding a new incentive. New Times digital subscribers will also get free access to Spotify Premium if they sign up for a one-year all-access plan. The plan the deal applies to costs $5 per …

Two of Apple‘s apps for musicians and music producers, Logic Pro X for Macs and the iOS version of GarageBand, are getting free updates that add new features. Both updates will be released in time for the 2017 National Association of Music Merchants trade show happening this week in Anaheim, California. Logic Pro X is a professional music recording and …

Last month, venerable product testing publication Consumer Reports said it couldn’t recommend Apple’s latest MacBook Pro models because of inconsistent battery life results. On the 13-inch model, CR got battery runs that ranged from 16 hours down to less than four hours. After working with Consumer Reports to figure out why its tests we not giving the expected results, Apple …

Most of the big television news from CES 2017 was about LG’s paper-thin OLED sets and Samsung’s new push for quantum dots QLED TVs. Just days after the show doors closed, budget TV king Vizio has a new product update, but not for its line of high-value televisions. Instead, Vizio on Tuesday said it’s updating the SmartCast app that controls …