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This story is part of Gift Guide, our year-round collection of the best gift ideas. Thanks to the always evolving state of the pandemic, a lot of folks are still postponing travel plans. Others are leaning into their vaccinated status and traveling for business or pleasure like in the good old days, albeit with a …

For years, iPhone owners have hoped for a USB-C port to replace Apple’s proprietary Lightning port built into the bottom of their devices. Tired of waiting for Apple, one fan took matters into his own hands, creating what he says is the world’s first USB-C iPhone before selling it for a small fortune. Swiss robotics student Ken Pilloner is the man behind …

Oct 2021 One of the problems with having a sophisticated, already excellent e-reader like the Amazon Kindle Paperwhite is that it’s hard to make it much better. The same might be said for Apple’s iPhones and plenty of other devices. But with an e-reader, you’re dealing with a limited feature set and a core technology, E Ink, that seems pretty …

Apple boasted about how efficient its new MacBook Pro laptops are during their debut Monday, but it takes Apple’s most power-hungry laptop charger, a beefy 140-watt brick, to top up the biggest of the new laptops. Apple’s previous 16-inch MacBook Pros, which use the Intel processors Apple is kicking out of its Mac family, came with a 96-watt charger. The 140-watt …

With its pedigree in active noise-canceling headphones, it’s not surprising that Bose’s new QuietComfort 45s ($330, £320, AU$500) are excellent. But for a lot of people, the question is just how good are they compared to Bose’s slightly more expensive Noise Canceling Headphones 700 or Sony’s excellent WH-1000XM4. For better or worse, the answer isn’t clear-cut, especially with how prices …

The European Commission on Thursday revealed a proposal that would require phones and other electronic devices to include a common USB-C charging port, to reduce waste by letting people reuse their old chargers on new devices. This move would mainly impact Apple, which uses its own Lightning connector on its iPhones instead of USB-C. In addition to phones, the rules …

Accessory maker Plugable began selling on Thursday a compact USB-C hub that will address a problem many PC users have experienced: more peripherals than ports. The TBT4-HUB3C hub, which sells for $189, includes three connections for storage systems, external monitors and other peripherals and a fourth connection to link to your computer. The hub supports USB 4 and Thunderbolt 4, …

At long last, there’s a new Kindle Paperwhite. It’s got a larger 6.8-inch E Ink display, USB-C charging and some other small improvements for $10 more than ($140, £130, AU$239) its predecessor, which was last updated back in 2018. A step-up model, the Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition, adds wireless charging and additional storage — 32GB instead of 8GB — as …

When Apple unveils a new iPhone, the world takes notice — even if it’s only a slightly buffer version of the iPhone that preceded it. This week, we met the iPhone 13, whose big claim to fame sounds like much of the generational upshifting before it: bigger battery, more storage, some new camera tricks, that sort of thing. We should …

Better iPhone cameras and faster chips are great, but one of the biggest improvements Apple could make on the iPhone is adding a USB-C port. That’s why I was cheered this week to see signs Apple might someday make that change. Apple introduced the iPhone 13 on Tuesday with the same old Lightning port the company has used since 2012. Lightning …