Intel has again confirmed that its Alder Lake processors for desktop PCs and laptops are on track to arrive in the second half of 2021, with a rumor also surfacing which contends that September will be the launch month. As...
Spreadsheet software Microsoft Excel is an undeniably powerful tool, but one that also creates opportunity for mishap. As the UK government and NHS found out the hard way in 2020, small spreadsheet errors can snowball rapidly, with significant real-life consequences....
Apple just pushed out the release candidate version of watchOS 7.3 beta – meaning a public launch is going to happen in the very near future – and it mentions the new Time to Walk feature coming to the Apple...
Looking to upgrade your smartphone, tablet or laptop? Keep an eye on Huawei’s online shopping festival running from January 25 to January 29. The sale comes as part of the 26th edition of the Dubai Shopping Festival wherein Chinese tech...
Picking a gaming mouse is a very personal endeavor. Everyone's hands are different, everyone's preferences and needs are different, and we all play different games. That's why we're lucky to live in the golden age of gaming mice, with major...
Google is redesigning how search results look on mobile, the company announced in a blog on Friday. “We wanted to take a step back to simplify a bit so people could find what they’re looking for faster and more easily,”...
Apple’s next-generation MacBook Air will reportedly ditch USB-C in favour of MagSafe charging, a feature also tipped to be returning to the 16-inch MacBook Pro. Bloomberg News reports that Apple is working on a “thinner and lighter” version of the...
Since launching in 2007, Amazon’s Kindle ebooks have become a near-essential tool in the arsenal of any bookworm, holding hundreds of different titles on a single device. The problem with digitizing the reading process, however, is that not even your...
Samsung's latest offspring haven't long been out in the world, yet Carphone Warehouse is already delivering one of the cheapest Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra deals we've seen so far. Considering the model itself is the South Korean brand's top shelf,...
We were very taken with the LG Rollable that was shown off very briefly at CES 2021, and LG had promised to bring the innovative handset to the smartphone market at some point in 2021 – a promise that might...
Want to know when WandaVision episode 4 is released on Disney Plus? You can watch the next instalment of the first Marvel Cinematic Universe TV show on Friday, January 29, 2021. New episodes of WandaVision will be released every Friday...
Cryptocurrencies could come under renewed regulatory scrutiny over the next four years if Janet Yellen, Joe Biden's pick to lead the Treasury Department, gets her way. During Yellen's confirmation hearing on Tuesday before the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Maggie Hassan (D-New...
The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter. The internet often speaks earnestly of cultural resets. Shakira performing at the Super Bowl? Cultural reset. Parasite...
The Apple II computer ceased production in 1993, but that hasn’t stopped fans like Mark Lemmert from continuing to create new programs for it. Lemmert’s game Nox Archaist, released last month, is a role-playing game modeled on the classic Ultima...
Around this time last year, Covid-19—the disease that has so far killed more than 400,000 Americans and infected 25 million more—still seemed like someone else’s problem. On the last day of 2019, China’s government had confirmed that dozens of patients...
Vaccinating the masses against Covid-19 is fraught with challenges. Despite deployment in sophisticated health care institutions, less than 46 percent of the available vaccine stock has reached the arms of United States residents since its emergency release last month. Administering...
If you are looking for a smartphone with a good camera but don’t want to spend a ton of money, B&H Photo is selling a 64GB unlocked Google Pixel 3 XL for $300. The phone was released in late 2018,...
You can now use automated transcription service Otter.ai to transcribe and provide closed captions for Google Meet calls with the help of a new Chrome extension. Meetings will be transcribed in real time, and transcripts will be saved right to...
Alphabet is shutting down Loon, its division that provides internet from floating balloons, according to a post on the blog of Alphabet’s X moonshot division. “The road to commercial viability has proven much longer and riskier than hoped,” Astro Teller,...
Google is threatening to pull its search engine from an entire country — Australia — if a proposed law goes into effect that would force Google to pay news publishers for their content. “If this version of the Code were...
Honor has announced the new V40 5G flagship phone, its first since Huawei sold the company off to a Shenzhen-based consortium of Chinese partners. The phone is exclusive to China for now, but Honor’s V-series usually makes its way to...