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When George Arison took over Grindr in 2022, he inherited a company that had been bounced from Chinese ownership to a forced divestiture to a private-equity rescue — a business that was printing money but also had no real product or business strategy. Four years, a SPAC listing, and a controversial return-to-office mandate later, Grindr…

People still swear by this quirky controller, leading to Nintendo supporting it for 25 years and counting.

In July and August, Washington tightened restrictions on foreign-made advanced robotic systems and imposed steep tariffs on imported drones and their components, both moves citing national-security concerns. The drone tariffs take effect in September, with additional component tariffs following in 2027.

Google has relabeled Lake Ontario in Maps following President Trump’s executive order to change its name to Lake America. Apple Maps hasn’t yet made the update, but it adopted the Gulf of Mexico’s new Trump-ordered moniker last year when all that nonsense went down, so it likely won’t be long before it does. Everything is…

Getting an “iPhone Unavailable” message on your lockscreen is never a welcome sight. The issue is a common one, caused by entering an incorrect passcode too many times. It’s a system meant as a safeguard against unwanted access, but it can just as easily be triggered by unintentional pocket presses or plain old forgetfulness. Thankfully,…

If your phone’s acting up or you’re transferring it to someone else, you’ll need to reset it.

CarPlay is great for listening to music on the go, but a few tweaks will help it sound even better in your car.

It’s that time of year again. Football season kicks off on September 9, and I watch my beloved New York Giants probably crash and burn yet again. According to ESPN, the odds of us winning the Super Bowl this year are 70-1. But, masochist that I am, I plan to watch all the games and hope for…

Birthdays are great. Cake! An increasingly sprawling number of candles! Microsoft Rewards points! Wait… come again? Yup, you can indeed claim birthday gifts from the Xbox App if you own an Xbox Series X/S or use Xbox Game Pass on a gaming laptop. Though said gifts aren’t exceptionally glamorous and require you to make purchases on…

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has officially launched on its mission to explore dark matter, dark energy and other mysteries of the universe. NASA’s new space telescope, which is able to image swaths of the sky 100 times larger than what Hubble could capture, launched this morning from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on a…