This story is part of Gift Guide, our year-round collection of the best gift ideas. With so many people working from home or remote learning, this is a good year to give the incredibly thoughtful gift of upgrading a loved one’s slow or clunky old system. Our picks for the best laptops and desktops to buy for the …

After updating to iOS 14 or MacOS 11 Big Sur you’ve likely experienced your AirPods randomly switching between your Apple devices. The new automatic switching feature is supposed to make your life easier, but for many — including yours truly — it’s annoying.  In theory, the new feature would be able to identify which Apple device you want to use …

The iPhone 12 Pro Max ($1,199 at Amazon) follows in the footsteps of the 7 Plus and gets camera upgrades that none of the other iPhone 12 models have. At its core the iPhone 12 Pro Max, like all the phones in the iPhone 12 family (the iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Mini), has a bunch of …

For years, quantum computing has been the preserve of academics. New advances, however, are pushing this potentially revolutionary technology toward practical applications. At the Q2B conference this month, quantum computer makers Google, IBM, Honeywell, IonQ and Xanadu detailed specific steps they expect by 2024 that will push their machines further down the road of commercial practicality. Those achievements include increasing …

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Every once in a while, back in a year called 2019, I’d run off every few weeks or so and spend time in a VR headset, or peek at some augmented reality device. I’d come back from demos imagining a world lived virtually. With all the pieces in play from so many companies, it seemed like the possibilities were almost …

Hey, did you know that Lenovo offered its own line of true wireless earbuds? Neither did I. But here they are and, man, are they cheap. Regularly priced at a modest $60, you can get the Lenovo LivePods LP1 for just $17 at Walmart right now. That’s 70% off.  See it at Walmart The earbuds look pretty ordinary, modeled after …

Apple surprised all of us and released the AirPods Max, the company’s first over-ear headphones, as one last announcement mid-December. The $550 headphones are not only expensive, but they’re also downright impressive. CNET editor David Carnoy says they sound “like high-end headphones, with tight bass, natural mids, crisp highs and a wide soundstage for a closed-back headphone.”  From 20-hour battery life, …

Samsung’s new wireless earbuds continue to leak. After images of the Galaxy Buds Pro popped up earlier this month, we now have some idea on how much the new buds will cost.  Per a new comparison chart posted by Twitter leaker WalkingCat the new Buds Pro will retail for $199, or $50 more than the $149 Galaxy Buds Plus and $30 …

We have a full review of the AirPods Max that’s chock-full of info for people contemplating dropping $549 on Apple’s high-end noise-canceling wireless headphones. But not everybody wants to unpack a few thousand words to find the answers to a few vital questions you might have about the AirPods Max, especially if you already own a pair. That’s why I’ve …

Update, Feb. 18, 2021: The Android 12 developer beta is here, and you can install it and try it out now. The latest and greatest version of Android has been out for a few months now and has slowly made its way to more devices. Samsung recently announced the rollout of Android 11 to some of its Galaxy devices, adding new and exciting features …

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Though the new strain of the COVID-19 virus that first surfaced in the UK has not been reported in India so far, there is a fear that the failure to trace all those with recent travel history to the country may result in the virus, which is more infectious getting silently transmitted. The government had recently issued SOPs for those …

The UK has detected two cases of another new variant of coronavirus, the health secretary Matt Hancock says. The cases in London and north west England are contacts of people who travelled to South Africa, where the variant was discovered. File Travel restrictions with South Africa have been imposed. Anyone who has travelled there in the past fortnight, and anyone they …

For the past few days, thousands of trucks and their drivers have been stuck on the roads, on both sides of the UK’s border, due to the sudden travel restrictions imposed there because of the spread of the new strain of COVID-19. The truck drivers, who are from across Europe, were eying to reach their homes before Christmas, but that …