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Apple’s 30% fee on revenue made through its App Store has rubbed another tech giant the wrong way: Facebook. Earlier this month, Facebook announced a new feature that let influencers and businesses host virtual events that people must pay to access. Apple charges a fee, typically 30%, on all purchases made through an iOS app, …

There’s an inescapable truth to the new school year: Just about every student, from grade school through college, needs their own computer thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. Through a mix of remote learning and in-person classes, sometimes with multiple children in the same family beaming into different virtual classrooms at the same time, it’s a one-device-per-person world, now, which means …

For an industry fixated on constant change, the traditional “clamshell” laptop design — from the MacBook Pro to the Dell XPS 13 to many, many others — has endured for a long time. But the past few years have seen imaginative hybrid devices that act as both tablets and laptops, become increasingly viable alternatives. This is after years of less-than-successful …

Apple has settled a class action lawsuit over an alleged design defect in its Powerbeats 2 that some customers said caused the sports earphones to stop holding a charge after minimal usage. As part of the settlement, Apple agreed to pay $9.75 million, which will be split between class members after attorneys’ fees and other costs. Details of the settlement …

Alongside the Galaxy Note 20 and Note 20 Ultra, Samsung this month announced a new pair of completely wireless earbuds. The Galaxy Buds Live may look weird, but they have all of the features and specs to compete with Apple’s AirPods ($100 at Amazon).  The Buds Live bring active noise cancellation to drown out background noise, experimental features for improving …

Samsung’s new Galaxy Watch 3 is going head-to-head against the Apple Watch with new fitness tools, an FDA-cleared ECG app and a fall-detection feature that works a lot like Apple’s. But the execution of these features is different on each device and there’s a lot to consider when deciding between the two. If you want a deeper dive, we tested …

Technology has always had rivalries, like iPhone versus Android or PlayStation versus Xbox. But have you heard of the great rivalry between digital audio workstations, the software packages used for recording and mixing music? There’s Logic versus Ableton, Pro Tools versus Nuendo and many other possible matchups.  The DAW wars have always been serious. Audio fanboys have their favorites and …

A few years ago, I tried a demo of an E Ink sketching tablet that surprised me. The Remarkable tablet had a low-latency stylus and realistic-looking E Ink, which made for a tactile drawing experience that ended up feeling significantly different, if not necessarily better, than my time with iPads and Apple Pencils, or Microsoft Surface pens. The new Remarkable …

Get ready for a busy week of Samsung news. On Tuesday, the company will share more details about its new Galaxy Z Fold 2 as preorders for the foldable begin. Then on Wednesday, it will unveil news it normally would have introduced at the IFA trade show in Berlin.  Instead of attending this year’s scaled-down-for-coronavirus IFA show, Samsung has opted to host its own …

Apple’s iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max start at $699, $999 and $1,099, respectively, and feature the powerful A13 Bionic processor, multiple rear cameras and a bevy of camera and video tools like Night Mode. The phones also have Deep Fusion, a significant camera feature that improves details and lowers image noise in photos taken in medium to low …