What has changed in the last 16 years? I would say the world has changed quite a bit since 2010. At the time, I was just an undergraduate engineering student barely passing my classes, still living with my parents, and drove a Honda Civic. The S&P 500 was around 1100, and the median house price in Calgary was $400,000. APH Networks was five years old, and our editorial team had five people. We worked with about 70 manufacturers, publishing...
From PC Mag: Meta’s top-tier Ray-Ban Display augmented reality smart glasses offer impressive hardware, but PCMag’s review found the software limited, with too many ties to Meta’s own apps. That may soon change with third-party developers getting involved.
Meta announced several new features this...
From PC World: FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) is AMD’s alternative to upscaler tech like Nvidia DLSS, and it’s pretty good. But the latest frame generation goodies in FSR 4 are only available to the latest Radeon 9000-series cards on the RDNA 4 architecture, a move that has rankled gamers using...
From CNET: There are a lot of smart glasses right now, including a lot of display glasses, which work specifically like plug-in monitors for your face. Xreal makes a number of them. A new set made along with Asus, the ROG Xreal R1, is arriving starting in June. They have a better refresh rate than...
From PC Mag: Netflix’s ad-supported tier is proving successful amid the cost-of-living crisis and households balancing price hikes across many streaming services. Even Netflix's own ad-supported plan saw a $1 hike in March, up to $8.99 a month.
At the recent Upfront conference, Netflix's annual...
From PC World: You won’t have to worry about searching for and uninstalling faulty drivers on your Windows PC in the future. In a recent Hardware Dev Center blog post, Microsoft unveiled a new feature called Cloud-Initiated Driver Recovery, which allows the company to roll back faulty drivers that...
From CNET: Rufus has gone to the kennel. Amazon is replacing its e-commerce AI assistant with Alexa for Shopping, which will be available to all US customers within a week.
The new feature will be available to customers using the Amazon Shopping app and website, as well as Echo Show devices. It's...
From PC Mag: Sony avoided a major redesign of its flagship smartphone for over half a decade, keeping the same look since 2020’s Xperia 1 II. Rather than vertically oriented cameras, Sony is now moving to a raised camera island at the top left of the rear of the new Xperia 1 VIII.
The redesign is...
From PC World: Lenovo’s latest ThinkPad X13 Gen 7 helps mark the debut of AMD’s next-gen Ryzen AI 400 laptop processor, the last of the 2026 mobile platforms. The ultralight, configurable productivity laptop earns a top score from iFixit for repairability and upgrades.
A pound might not be that...
From CNET: Apple's next big iOS update could make one of the iPhone's most important apps feel a lot more personal.
The company is planning to overhaul the iPhone's Camera app in iOS 27 with a fully customizable interface, according to a Tuesday report from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. You would...
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