From The Verge: After years of waiting for Spotify to release the lossless audio tier it promised, some leaked UI elements suggest the project is alive and kicking, if not (dare I say) possibly close to release.

Spotify’s current bitrate tops out at 320kbps, but that could soon change if...

From PC World: In addition to being a pretty great device all on its own, the Steam Deck makes an ideal stream machine, playing either your own local games from a dedicated gaming PC or cloud games via a service like GeForce Now or Stadia (RIP, Stadia). But actually getting to the service using the...

From CNET: Wrapped up like a what? There's a bathroom on the right? All the lonely Starbucks lovers? Scuse me while I kiss this guy? We've all had those moments where we're listening to a song and suddenly wonder, "What did they just sing?" Now, Spotify is starting to charge for that curiosity...

From PC Mag: T-Mobile's corporate palette now includes some green to go with its trademark magenta: The prepaid T-Mobile reseller Mint Mobile is officially property of the Bellevue, Wash., carrier.

T-Mobile announced Wednesday that it had completed its acquisition of Ka’ena Corporation, the parent...

From PC World: Microsoft said this week that the most recent Windows security update for Windows 10 and Windows 11 may break VPN connections.

According to Microsoft (via Bleeping Computer), “Windows devices might face VPN connection failures after installing the April 2024 security update, or...

From CNET: Universal Music Group and TikTok just called time on their three-month spat. On May 2, the label and the social platform struck a "multi-dimensional licensing agreement" that will see music from UMG's artists, including SZA, Bad Bunny, Kendrick Lamar and Ariana Grande, available for you...

From Tom's Hardware: Samsung Foundry is set to detail its third generation process technology featuring gate-all-around (GAA) transistors at the VLSI Symposium 2024 in June. The technology is called SF2, and it will be the company's initial 2nm-class fabrication process. The node is projected to...

From The Verge: Nvidia is updating its experimental ChatRTX chatbot with more AI models for RTX GPU owners. The chatbot, which runs locally on a Windows PC, can already use Mistral or Llama 2 to query personal documents that you feed into it, but now the list of supported AI models is growing to...

From CNET: There hasn't been a new iPad since 2022, but Apple seems likely to change that next week. All signs point to the release of new iPad models in early May.

Last week, I received an email invite for a virtual Apple event, scheduled for May 7 at 7 a.m. PT (10 a.m. ET). The invite, which says...