As a harsh reminder—even though it feels like its been a decade since December, 2024—we have only managed to muddle through three months of 2025. It’s been an awkward time to love tech. As both consumers and the world’s biggest tech companies wrestled with the impact of Trump tariffs on supply chains. At the very […]
iPads and Fendi Handbags Among $200k of Stolen Packages Found in UPS Driver’s Home
A Texas UPS driver is accused of stealing a massive haul of luxury goods and tech items from the packages intended for local residents. A press release from the office of Cameron County District Attorney Luis V. Saenz says that 37-year-old Armando Garcia was recently taken into custody after police found over $200,000 of stolen […]
Apple Snoozed, so Now It Might Lose Google as Its Default Search Engine (and $22 Billion a Year)
We’ve all overslept an alarm or missed a deadline, but has it ever cost you $20 billion? According to Ars Technica, it may have just happened to Apple, which apparently suffered from some decision paralysis that pissed off a federal judge and might cost the company its lucrative agreement with Google to make the company’s […]
Apple’s AI Problem Escalates With Major Executive Shakeup
Apple is shaking up its executive roster as the company desperately seeks to make an AI product that works. According to Bloomberg, John Giannandrea, senior vice president of Machine Learning and AI Strategy, will no longer be in charge of Apple’s Siri and AI efforts. After months of jokes and criticism the Apple Intelligence boondoggle […]
Meta Quest Didn’t Save VR Market, But Glasses May Take Over
VR headsets are out, and AR glasses are in. Research from analysis firm Counterpoint shows that the global VR shipments trended down through 2024 despite proliferation cheap headsets like the Meta Quest 3s. Worse, VR sales numbers may not improve any time soon. The next step for these companies are glasses—with or without augmented reality […]
Apple Overpromised on AI Siri and Its Staff Is Not Happy About it
Last week, in a classic Friday news dump, Apple made the deeply embarrassing announcement that it would be delaying plans to infuse its voice assistant Siri with artificial intelligence-powered capabilities. But that announcement didn’t just send its stock price tumbling. According to a new report from Bloomberg, it’s also caused morale within its Siri team […]
Apple Will Fully Encrypt RCS Messages Between Androids and iPhones
It’s been less than a year since iPhones were granted the ability to send messages to Green Bubbles unfettered, and only now is proper end-to-end encryption making an appearance. Better late than never. The GSM Association announced new specifications for RCS, requiring it to be end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) based on a protocol called the Messaging […]
This Is the Year Apple and Samsung Will Compete for the Title of Thinnest Smartphone
Another day, another iPhone leak, part of which we covered already last week. But this isn’t just about the iPhone 17 Air; eventually, I’ll bring up the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge, too. Both devices have been trending in the gadget rumor space enough that multiple thinkpieces have sprouted about what this means for phone design. […]
Tim Cook Teases New ‘Air’ Products Coming Very Soon
The air floating up from Apple’s spaceship headquarters is starting to smell like fan-less laptop exhaust. In a post to X, Apple CEO Tim Cook tells fans there is “something in the air”—and it’s probably the next MacBook Air. Sure, Cook doesn’t give anything anyway, but unless something truly surprising happens we expect the MacBook […]
The Best Gadgets of February 2025
Apple and Nvidia kept it interesting this month while everyone else just kind of fell flat in the shortest month of the year. Source link