There are plenty of new and confusing terms facing TV shoppers today, but when it comes down to the screen technology itself, there are only two: Nearly every TV sold today is either LCD or OLED.  LCD TVs, also called “LED TVs,” have been prevalent on the market since the early 2000s. The best ones …

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What’s old is new again for Apple, which this week refreshed its MacBook Pro line at the high end and touched up its AirPods and HomePod Mini offerings as well. The biggest change: The 16-inch MacBook Pro now runs on Apple’s own M1 chips, rather than those from Intel. And what’s old is inexplicably still with us: This week marks …

This is what I remember: There was a line to get into Apple’s headquarters to see Steve Jobs.  That wasn’t all that unusual. Apple’s CEO was the closest thing the tech industry had to a rock star. Like him or not, he was a charismatic and persuasive presenter who could make even the most mundane tech sound like it was …

Twenty years after the first iPod debuted, it’s hard to find whether iPods even exist anymore on Apple’s website. They do, technically: One iPod Touch model remains. But really, iPods are kind of everywhere now. In 2021, Apple has atomized the iPod and spread its spirit into everything else.  In the fall of 2001, I was living in Los Angeles …

Reflections from the sun, or lights in your room, can be a distraction from an otherwise excellent 4K TV picture. Most modern TVs have a glossy screen that just loves to reflect even the tiniest amount of light. Between sunlight during the day, and any lamps or ceiling lights in your room at night, you could be faced with annoying …

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This story is part of Gift Guide, our year-round collection of the best gift ideas. If you’ve been waiting for a good time to buy nearly anything under the Samsung umbrella, today’s your lucky day. For a limited time, Amazon is offering some beefy price cuts on Samsung TVs, phones, small appliances, tablets and storage (to name just a few …

During this week’s Pixel 6 launch event, Google demonstrated a handful of AI-powered photography tricks built into its new phones. Among the capabilities: erasing photobombers from backgrounds, taking the blur out of smudged faces and handling darker skin tones more accurately. Those features, however, are just the tip of an artificial intelligence iceberg designed to produce the best imagery for …

Sphere, a group chat app co-founded by Czech academic Tomas Halgas and British entrepreneur Nick D’Aloisio, is being acquired by Twitter. The chat app, founded in 2016, attempts to encourage engagement by automatically clearing out old content. It emphasizes polls, announcements and events in a way that makes its users more likely to respond, according to Sphere. “Our work has …

Two months after reaching a settlement with some developers in a class action lawsuit over how it manages its App Store for the iPhone and iPad, Apple‘s officially changed its rules to allow app developers to highlight alternative purchasing options outside apps, and also to communicate more directly with customers. The new rules, which Apple codified in changes to three …

The new Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro showcase one of the biggest year-to-year phone upgrades I’ve seen in a long time. In the lead-up to Google’s fall Pixel event on Tuesday, the company behind Android and YouTube did something many other phone makers don’t and announced both new Pixel 6 phones back in August. The Pixel 6 has new camera …

Apple has taken the wraps off the iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max, its new luxe smartphones meant to succeed the iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max. The announcement was made at Apple’s product launch event in September, where the company also unveiled the iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Mini. The latest Pro models offer some new design features, including a smaller notch, …

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