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Tiny, removable “mini SSD” could eventually be a big deal for gaming handhelds

The Mini SSD card isn't and may never be a formally ratified standard, but it does aim to solve a real problem for portable gaming...

Report: Apple’s smart home ambitions include “tabletop robot,” cameras, and more

Rumors about a touchscreen-equipped smart home device from Apple have been circulating for years, periodically bolstered by leaked references in Apple's software updates. But a...

RIP to the Macintosh HD hard drive icon, 2000–2025

That version of the icon persisted through the Apple Silicon-era Big Sur redesign and was still with us in the first public beta build for...

What would a cheap, Apple A18-powered MacBook actually be good at?

Some Apple rumors just don't go away, hanging around in perpetuity either because they reflect things that Apple is actually testing in its labs or...

Apple’s Craig Federighi on the long road to the iPad’s Mac-like multitasking

Fixing that was one of the primary goals of the new windowing system. "We decided this time: make everything we can make available," said Federighi,...

Apple details the end of Intel Mac support and a phaseout for Rosetta 2

The support list for macOS Tahoe still includes Intel Macs, but it's been whittled down to just four models, all released in 2019 or 2020....

In 3.5 years, Notepad.exe has gone from “barely maintained” to “it writes for you”

By late 2021, major updates for Windows' built-in Notepad text editor had been so rare for so long that a gentle redesign and a handful...

AMD’s $299 Radeon RX 9060 XT brings 8GB or 16GB of RAM to fight the RTX 5060

AMD didn't provide much by way of performance comparisons, but it's promising that the cards have the same number of compute units as AMD's last-generation...

Intel says it’s rolling out laptop GPU drivers with 10% to 25% better performance

Intel's oddball Core Ultra 200V laptop chips—codenamed Lunar Lake—will apparently be a one-off experiment, not to be replicated in future Intel laptop chips. They're Intel's...

In HBO’s The Last of Us, revenge is a dish best served democratically

New episodes of season 2 of The Last of Us are premiering on HBO every Sunday night, and Ars' Kyle Orland (who's played the games) and...

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