A new survey has found that nearly seven in ten iPhone owners in the United States plan to upgrade to an iPhone 17 model, signaling strong demand ahead of Apple's expected unveiling of the devices at its September 9 keynote.
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I've been a tech journalist for 20 years. Over those years, I've written countless how-to guides and advice columns, and I've made endless recommendations for how you should go about looking after, maintaining, and enhancing your PC.
But I'm embarrassed to say, I don't follow all of the tips and tricks I share, and I sometimes fall into the very traps I warn others against. It's time to come clean and admit my mistakes. Here are some of my worst tech sins that you should avoid doing yourself. Don't be like me!
It's one of the best times of the year to score a new mattress. Here are all the best deals (plus some exclusive sale codes) to snag ahead of the long weekend.
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Note: Tech deals come and go quickly, so it's possible some of these computer discounts will have expired before this article's next update.
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TransUnion confirms a major data breach affecting 4.4 million U.S. consumers after hackers exploited third-party Salesforce apps to steal personal info.
iOS 26 adds several features to the built-in Wallet app on the iPhone, providing a new way to track your online shopping, an update to boarding passes, and more. We've outlined everything new in the Wallet app below.
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The answer, it turns out, is today. On the official Tablo blog, Tablo manufacturer Nuvyyo announced that it's rolling out a long-promised feature that allows users of the fourth-generation Table DVRs to watch live TV with an antenna and stream previously recorded over-the-air TV shows even when their internet goes out or Tablo servers go down.
Tablo's new offline mode comes a few weeks after Tablo DVR users endured a pair of server outages that briefly locked them out of live and recorded over-the-air TV streams and temporarily blanked out their electronic programming guides.
There have been plenty of other Tablo outages in the past too, enough so that Tablo owners have long been asking for an offline mode that would allow them to access live TV via an antenna, as well as their recorded OTA shows when Tablo's servers are inaccessible.
The new offline mode (first reported by Cord Cutters News) has some quirks, including the fact that it can't be ac
Fortunately, there are many great home office monitors to choose from, as I've discovered through extensive real-world testing.
Below you'll find my picks for the best home office monitors, and below that you can learn more about what specs and features matter when shopping for a home office monitor.
Dell Ultrasharp U3225QE - Best home office monitor overall
Why tear down an entire building, if only its flimsy interior components need to be replaced? That's the thinking behind a new Velcro-like fastening system which allo
NEW RESOURCES Virginia Tech: AI, citizen science combine to help save sharks. "One-third of shark species are at risk of extinction, yet scientists still lack basic data on their habitats, populations, and […]
We know Lifestraw best for lightweight, ultraportable water filter and purification products it aims at backpacking and other backcountry usage - the "straw" is right there in the name. But the company also has a family of larger potable water products for home, car camping and even village. Its all-new Escape falls in tha
Kidney dialysis provider DaVita experienced a ransomware breach by the Interlock gang affecting 916,000 people in the second-largest U.S. healthcare attack of 2025.
NEW RESOURCES TechSpot: AnandTech's 27-year archive has vanished, but someone uploaded a 74 GB backup. "The thousands of articles from AnandTech's 27-year history are still accessible through the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, […]
The Ninth Circuit US Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court's ruling that Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard did not violate antitrust laws. The Federal Trade Commission had sued to block the merger of these large gaming brands on claims that the new entity would fall afoul of antitrust laws. In the court's ruling, released today, the FTC failed to prove that Microsoft would have blocked access to popular titles such as Call of Duty on hardware owned by other gaming brands. The appeals court was also unswayed by the FTC's arguments that the deal would have lessened competition in gaming subscription services and cloud streaming.
The issue of platform-exclusive titles was one of the core tenets of the FTC's latest charge against this acquisition. However, the opinion written by Judge Daniel P. Collins observed that "all major manufacturers have engaged in this practice." And as Microsoft has been making more and more of its once-exclusive titles available on new hardware, this may mean that the competition agency will finally accept the deal as done.
The $68.7 billion deal for Microsoft to buy Activision Blizzard closed in
Most online users have experienced it. You do an online search for healthcare purposes, travel information, or something to buy and soon you're being bombarded with emails and targeted online ads for everything related to your search. That's because browser cookies were tracking you as you performed your searches; they identified you and your activity.
Over the past few years, the online advertising industry has been undergoing a sea change as regulators restricted how cookies can be used and browser providers moved away from their use in response to consumer outcries over privacy.
"They often feel surveilled; some even find it ‘creepy' that a website can show them ads related to their behavior elsewhere," according to a recent study by the HEC Paris Business School.
Another day, another hack of Microsoft technology. Ho-hum, you might think, this has happened before and will happen again — as surely as the sun rises in the morning and sets at night.
This time is different. Because this time the targets weren't Microsoft customers, but rather the top echelons of Microsoft itself. And the hacker group, called Midnight Blizzard, or sometimes Cozy Bear, the Dukes, or A.P.T. 29, is sponsored by Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (and has been since at least 2008).
