By balancing price, performance, portability, and design, the 13.5-inch Microsoft Surface Laptop became one of the best notebooks of 2017, and the company barely bothered to tweak that formula for 2018’s Surface Laptop 2. But with the just-announced Surface Laptop 3, Microsoft is actually changing the laptop’s design in a few key ways — including the long-awaited USB-C port so you can…
More than a billion scam popup ads were served thanks to bugs in Apple’s WebKit and the open-source Blink frameworks which power Safari and Chrome on iOS and macOS…
Scam popup ads are one of the biggest headaches for web publishers. Scammers manage…
Microsoft's Surface Laptop 3 packs a 10th-gen Intel CPU
October 2, 2019
Microsoft has good news if you just want a straightforward portable PC instead of one of its more exotic models: there’s a new Surface Laptop in town. The Surface Laptop 3 shares much of the familiar design (more on that in a bit), but there’s considerably more…
After taking several years between updates to its popular Major headphones, Marshall has announced a new pair just one year after it came out with the Major III. The company’s new Major III Voice Bluetooth headphones add voice control through Google Assistant and a dedicated button for easy activation. Additionally, the headphones carry over the control knob that was included with the…
A British iPhone owners’ lawsuit against Google filed in 2017 and which the High Court blocked in 2018 has today been reinstated.
The ‘representative action’ (the UK equivalent of a class action lawsuit) was seeking compensation for every Brit who used an iPhone…
The popular iOS app Duet Display that turns your smartphone or tablet into a secondary monitor is now available to download on Android.
While you can already turn your Samsung Galaxy phone into a desktop machine using the DeX system, it’s harder to turn your phone into…
Blue Yeti X review — The best USB microphone yet
October 2, 2019
If you ask a group of young kids what they want to do when they get older, at least some of them are going to answer “YouTuber” or “Twitch streamer.” Content creation is a huge business, and Blue Microphones is one of the companies capitalizing on that. Its Blue Yeti USB mic is the go-to option for anyone looking to add some quality audio to a video or a podcast. Now, the company is…
Apple will let Siri open third-party iOS apps by default
October 2, 2019
Apple’s iOS operating system has increased its included collection of apps over the years, growing from 17 in 2007 to just under 40 in 2019 — all while guaranteeing that everything included is the iPhone’s or iPad’s “default” app for its own functionality. Now…
Microsoft unveils Surface Laptop 3 with AMD processor
October 2, 2019
At its Surface event in New York City today, Microsoft refreshed its Surface Laptop with updated specs, USB-C support, and AMD Ryzen 7. This is the first time a Surface device has been powered by AMD. Furthermore, while the Surface Laptop 2 only came in a 13.5-inch size, the…
Watch Star Wars filmmaker’s short film shot on iPhone 11 Pro
October 2, 2019
A new short film shot on iPhone 11 Pro gives perhaps the best insight yet into what a professional filmmaker can do with nothing more than an iPhone.
There’s no shortage of films and ads proclaiming they were ‘shot on iPhone,’ but most have cheated by using cinematography lenses and stabilization kit costing many times the price of the phone.
We now have a more realistic test thanks to…
