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Meta’s billion-dollar settlement will change how the two social media sites work. Credit: Mateusz Slodkowski/SOPA Images/LightRocket

From keyboards to speakers, more and more parts of the PC experience are being brought to wireless form. Given the many conveniences afforded by wireless components, such as saving time on pulling and plugging wires or the added comfort afforded by that saved space, tech that doesn’t integrate Bluetooth inherently could get left behind. Fortunately,…

With IFA just around the corner (literally next week), we’re coming off another deluge of devices for our reviews team. There’s plenty to catch up on, including a quartet of Google’s latest Pixel wares. Read on for more than just phones and a watch, as we’ve done plenty of other gadget testing for your weekend…

Cached files are meant to reduce repeat work, so clearing them can actually be counter-productive.

Wireless CarPlay uses both Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, but not for the same job. Bluetooth helps your iPhone and car find each other, pair and reconnect, while Wi-Fi carries the active CarPlay session. Apple says that includes CarPlay’s audio, video and control data, even the audio from phone calls.

First, we had CPU and GPU. Then came AMD’s Accelerated Processing Unit (APU, if you’re nasty). And with the advent of the AI PC and smartphones, we’ve welcomed the NPU (Neural Processing Unit). But now, thanks to Google, we’re getting yet another chip: the TPU. First internally deployed by Google back in 2015, the TPU, or…

Bandai sent Tamagotchi fans spiraling this week when it announced an upcoming Tamagotchi ring — not just an accessory designed to look like the beloved toy, as we’ve seen before, but a functional, playable tiny Tamagotchi that you wear on your finger. In a teaser video, it showed off three colorways: iridescent white/pink, silver/black and…

Chances are there’s a connection issue between your phone and car if Android auto isn’t working.

Most people don’t think of Bluetooth when powering up a Kindle e-reader for the first time. After all, most of what a Kindle does is grab new books to add to its internal storage, and they can do thatnnection lets you read Wikipedia entries, get more books and sync progress across devices. Why then do…

Using a popular postpaid plan with one of the three major phone carriers (AT&T, T-Mobile or Verizon) isn’t cheap. Most of them cost at least $50 per month and can get close to $100/month for a single person. You have to join the priciest plans to take advantage of many “on us” phone deals, and…