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Yahoo
17 hours ago
- Business
- Yahoo
The Morning After: Apple might skip iOS 19, straight to iOS 26
According to Bloomberg, the next versions of Apple's operating systems may be labeled by year, starting now. It makes sense. At this point, we've got VisionOS 2, watchOS 11, macOS 15, iOS 18 and iPadOS 18. Instead, they might all be tagged 26 — even if they launch this year. It's not the first tech company to align new products with the year of release. Samsung started naming its phones by year of release in 2020 with the S20, which followed the S10. We'll learn for sure in under two weeks: WWDC kicks off June 9. — Mat Smith Get Engadget's newsletter delivereddirect to your inbox. Subscribe right here! Fujifilm GFX100RF review: A powerful, fun camera that's far from perfect Can you still buy a Switch 2 on launch day? Maybe Weber Smoque review: A simplified smart grill that's still a workhorse Video Games Weekly: Grand Theft Auto is no friend to the queer community Volkswagen review: A head-turning EV microbus with unfortunate flaws One of the standout deals of this year's Days of Play sale is the PS5 DualSense Edge controller. You can pick one up for $169, which is 15 percent off its usual price. The deal is available on Amazon and directly from Sony. The Edge resembles a regular DualSense controller, but there's a lot more to it. For instance, there are function buttons below each thumbstick and rear paddles, and you can choose between a set of levers or shorter half-domes. If you haven't jumped on the PS5 yet, the PS5 Pro also gets a $50 discount. Continue reading. Opera has launched another… Opera browser. Neon is its first fully agentic browser. That means it's baked in AI chat with users and can surf the web on their behalf. It… clicks for you. It can even fill out forms and shop for you. If you're feeling more ambitious, you can ask Neon to build websites, animations, even games, and it can continue chipping away at big projects while you're offline. Will that all be enough to swing you away from all your Chrome plugins or Safari passwords? According to recent figures, just over 2 percent of internet users use Opera. You can try it for yourself now. Oh wait, no, there's a waitlist. Continue reading. Pulsar's latest competitive gaming mouse features a premium tiny fan from Noctua, the renowned fan brand. (Apparently, no one makes fans quite like the Austrians). With a skeletal shell designed to enhance airflow, it's for sweaty-palmed professional gamers. Like the original Feinmann mouse from Pulsar, it has a 32,00 DPI sensor and an ultra-fast 8,000 Hz polling rate. Due to the fan, it's a little heavier than the original at 65 grams. And the price of dry palm calm? $180. Continue reading.
Engadget
18 hours ago
- Engadget
The Morning After: Apple might skip iOS 19, straight to iOS 26
According to Bloomberg , the next versions of Apple's operating systems may be labeled by year, starting now. It makes sense. At this point, we've got VisionOS 2, watchOS 11, macOS 15, iOS 18 and iPadOS 18. Instead, they might all be tagged 26 — even if they launch this year. It's not the first tech company to align new products with the year of release. Samsung started naming its phones by year of release in 2020 with the S20, which followed the S10. We'll learn for sure in under two weeks: WWDC kicks off June 9. — Mat Smith Get Engadget's newsletter delivered direct to your inbox. Subscribe right here! One of the standout deals of this year's Days of Play sale is the PS5 DualSense Edge controller. You can pick one up for $169, which is 15 percent off its usual price. The deal is available on Amazon and directly from Sony. The Edge resembles a regular DualSense controller, but there's a lot more to it. For instance, there are function buttons below each thumbstick and rear paddles, and you can choose between a set of levers or shorter half-domes. If you haven't jumped on the PS5 yet, the PS5 Pro also gets a $50 discount. Continue reading. Opera has launched another… Opera browser. Neon is its first fully agentic browser. That means it's baked in AI chat with users and can surf the web on their behalf. It… clicks for you. It can even fill out forms and shop for you. If you're feeling more ambitious, you can ask Neon to build websites, animations, even games, and it can continue chipping away at big projects while you're offline. Will that all be enough to swing you away from all your Chrome plugins or Safari passwords? According to recent figures, just over 2 percent of internet users use Opera. You can try it for yourself now. Oh wait, no, there's a waitlist. Continue reading. Pulsar's latest competitive gaming mouse features a premium tiny fan from Noctua, the renowned fan brand. (Apparently, no one makes fans quite like the Austrians). With a skeletal shell designed to enhance airflow, it's for sweaty-palmed professional gamers. Like the original Feinmann mouse from Pulsar, it has a 32,00 DPI sensor and an ultra-fast 8,000 Hz polling rate. Due to the fan, it's a little heavier than the original at 65 grams. And the price of dry palm calm? $180. Continue reading.
Engadget
4 days ago
- Engadget
The Morning After: Our verdict on the Galaxy S25 Edge
When I got an early look at Samsung's Galaxy S25 Edge, the first of a new supposed wave of thinner smartphones, it was easy to spot what I'd take issue with. But you know what? Those issues may not matter as much as I thought. Engadget's Sam Rutherford has put the device through its paces, and thankfully, the impressive battery life of the S25 series continues. Our rundown test lasted a minute shy of 26 hours. That's less than other S25 phones with bigger batteries but roughly equal to Google's Pixel 9 Pro. And while there's no optical zoom, the substantial 200-megapixel main camera sensor can crop in a lot, offering some kind of zoom, even if image quality doesn't match true telephoto cameras. I've got the S25 Edge with me, and these compromises are fine . I also like it thinner. And lighter. I've suffered enough with Ultras and Pro Max phones. If anything, I wish the S25 Edge had a smaller screen, closer to the base S25, Pixel 9 Pro or iPhone 16 Pro. The biggest weakness I didn't note with the S25 Edge? The perennial curse of measuring devices in millimeters and fractions of an inch means your protective case will almost certainly add those millimeters back on. — Mat Smith Get Engadget's newsletter delivered direct to your inbox. Subscribe right here! Sure, the Nintendo Switch 2 is almost here, but early June also means a whole host of gaming showcases as part of Summer Game Fest. Along with the two big events — Summer Game Fest Live and the Xbox Games Showcase — there are many others in store, including the always-delightful Day of the Devs. We'll be there in person, and I'll be flying out on Switch 2 launch day. So I won't get to touch my Switch 2 until a week later. Bah. We've pulled together all the livestream details revealed so far. Continue reading. A bill banning social media for anyone under 18 recently moved past the Senate committee and is due for a vote in the Texas State Senate. If made into law, the bill would force social media platforms to verify the age of anyone setting up an account, like how Texas passed legislation requiring porn websites to implement an age verification system. Texas' social media ban also proposes letting parents delete their child's social media account, which definitely won't start blazing arguments in households across the state. Continue reading. On June 9, the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) keynote will showcase the changes coming with its 2025 software. What can we expect besides new numbers after every flavor of Apple software? Apparently, a platform-wide visual overhaul. The revamp is said to be a dramatic change, drawing inspiration from Apple's mixed reality headset. The aim is to integrate all the OSes to a singular design, so jumping from iPhone to iPad to Mac feels like different screens showing the same thing. We could also see the iPad get even more Mac-like (thanks to those powerful M-series chips), Apple Intelligence delivering on those promises (Siri?) and more health coaching. Continue reading.
Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
The Morning After: Computex's new laptops from ASUS, Razer and more
If you've been holding out for the latest 2025 PC models and graphics card loadouts, Computex is usually when you have to check your bank balance. The PC-centric tech show in Taiwan has kicked off with a barrage of new laptops from the likes of Razer, ASUS and Acer. ASUS has revealed the new ROG Zephyrus G14, with a 14-inch (of course) screen at 3K resolution, a refresh rate of 120Hz, 500 nits of peak brightness and Dolby Vision support. The G14 can be outfitted with up to an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 processor with 12 cores and 24 threads and an AMD XDNA NPU with up to 50 TOPS. The graphics card maxes out with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080, while RAM options go up to 64GB and on-board storage up to 2TB. Meanwhile, Razer's new Blade 14 laptops will arrive with RTX 5000 series cards, while still remaining thin, thin, thin. Those NVIDIA cards can tap into the company's DLSS 4 tech to provide 'the highest quality gaming experience possible in a 14-inch' laptop, according to Razer. The laptops have AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 processors that can achieve up to 50 TOPS. And if you're feeling even more lavish, there's also the bigger Blade 18, which you can load out with the RTX 5090. And then there's Acer, which is doing something special with thermal interface materials. — Mat Smith Get Engadget's newsletter delivereddirect to your inbox. Subscribe right here! 23andMe bought by Regeneron in court auction The best robot vacuum for 2025 The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender gets hit with its second delay More original Switch games are getting a Switch 2 makeover. Although their enhancements are subtler than the Switch 2 editions of Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, at least these will be free. Nintendo's list includes some of the console's best games: Super Mario Odyssey, Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury and New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe. It also has the platform's top-down Zelda titles: Echoes of Wisdom and Link's Awakening. A pair of Pokémon games makes the cut: Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet. Continue reading. LG's 27-inch 1440p UltraGear OLED monitor is as close to gaming nirvana as fps-hungry players can get. Topping out at a 480Hz refresh rate means it can actually display up to 480 fps. Devindra is already obsessed with it — 240Hz can go to bed. Continue reading.
Engadget
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Engadget
The Morning After: Computex's new laptops from ASUS, Razer and more
If you've been holding out for the latest 2025 PC models and graphics card loadouts, Computex is usually when you have to check your bank balance. The PC-centric tech show in Taiwan has kicked off with a barrage of new laptops from the likes of Razer, ASUS and Acer. ASUS has revealed the new ROG Zephyrus G14, with a 14-inch (of course) screen at 3K resolution, a refresh rate of 120Hz, 500 nits of peak brightness and Dolby Vision support. The G14 can be outfitted with up to an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 processor with 12 cores and 24 threads and an AMD XDNA NPU with up to 50 TOPS. The graphics card maxes out with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080, while RAM options go up to 64GB and on-board storage up to 2TB. Meanwhile, Razer's new Blade 14 laptops will arrive with RTX 5000 series cards, while still remaining thin, thin, thin . Those NVIDIA cards can tap into the company's DLSS 4 tech to provide 'the highest quality gaming experience possible in a 14-inch' laptop, according to Razer. The laptops have AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 processors that can achieve up to 50 TOPS. And if you're feeling even more lavish, there's also the bigger Blade 18, which you can load out with the RTX 5090. And then there's Acer, which is doing something special with thermal interface materials. — Mat Smith Get Engadget's newsletter delivered direct to your inbox. Subscribe right here! More original Switch games are getting a Switch 2 makeover. Although their enhancements are subtler than the Switch 2 editions of Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom , at least these will be free. Nintendo's list includes some of the console's best games: Super Mario Odyssey, Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury and New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe . It also has the platform's top-down Zelda titles: Echoes of Wisdom and Link's Awakening . A pair of Pokémon games makes the cut: Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet. Continue reading. LG's 27-inch 1440p UltraGear OLED monitor is as close to gaming nirvana as fps-hungry players can get. Topping out at a 480Hz refresh rate means it can actually display up to 480 fps. Devindra is already obsessed with it — 240Hz can go to bed. Continue reading.
