New Nothing Over-Ear Headphones Last for Up to 5 Days, Cost $199

From PC Mag: Nothing’s next pair of over-ear headphones are $100 cheaper than its Nothing Headphone (1), come in even bolder colors, and offer battery life that will last for the best part of a week.

Announced alongside the Nothing Phone 4a and Phone 4a Pro, the new over-ear headphones feature...

DirectX updates could boost ray tracing performance up to 90%

From PC World: Ray tracing is a gee-wiz feature for the most powerful hardware out there, but you do need, well, powerful hardware in order to use it. Tricks like supersampling and frame generation can make it more accessible, but you’re still gonna take a performance hit to see the coolest...

Apple's Colorful $599 MacBook Neo Is Here, Runs A18 Pro Mobile Chip

From PC Mag: Apple's big week of March announcements has been heavily MacBook-focused, and it's finishing with the $599 MacBook Neo, a new lower-cost alternative to the MacBook Air with M5.

Apple has made this possible by using a mobile chipset to power the laptop, the A18 Pro processor produced by...

ChatGPT just got a little less chatty

From PC World: Among the most annoying habits of AI chatbots is when they lay it on thick with the cringey “you can do it!” talk or the preachy “I can’t help you with that” refusals for seemingly innocuous requests. It’s all a matter of tuning, and now there’s a new ChatGPT version that promises to...

Elgato Unveils Wave Next: The Audio Ecosystem Powering a New Era

From Corsair Press Release: Elgato, a brand of CORSAIR, today announced Wave Next, the company’s next generation of audio products and the most significant evolution of the Wave platform since its debut in 2020. Wave Next brings together six deeply integrated products: Wave Link 3.0 software, Wave:3...

Claude can now import chat histories from ChatGPT (and other AIs)

From PC World: Anthropic has released a new Import Memory tool that lets you “switch to Claude without starting over.” In short, this new tool makes it extremely easy to import chat histories from other AI chatbots (including ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot) into Claude, reports Engadget.

The Import...

Apple Launches MacBook Pros With New M5 Pro, M5 Max Chips

From CNET: After shipping the M5-based version of the MacBook Pro 14 in the latter part of 2025, Apple has followed its usual pattern of releasing higher-end versions of its 14- and 16-inch MacBooks with Pro and Max versions of the processor. It's also releasing an M5 model of the MacBook Air.

The...

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