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New CFO and iPhone holiday sales: What to expect from Apple’s Q1 2025 earnings

Apple will be announcing the first-quarter results for 2025 on January 30. Here’s what to expect from what should be a blockbuster financial release. Apple CEO Tim Cook Apple’s Q1 2025 financial results will be released on Thursday, January 30, a short time ahead of the analyst and investor conference call at 5p.m. Eastern. The call will feature CEO Tim… Continue Reading

Garmin down: Worldwide reports of Garmin watches crashing – is a fix on the way?

Hi there! TR’s Senior Fitness and Wearables Ed Matt Evans here. I’ve been running this live blog for hours, and been inundated with reports of many of the best Garmin watches, including every Garmin Forerunner, Garmin Venu, certain Garmin Fenix watches, Epix watches, Instinct watches, and even cycling computers have been crashing or stuck in their respective boot-up screens today,… Continue Reading

NYT Wordle today — answer and my hints for game #1319, Tuesday, January 28

It’s time for your guide to today’s Wordle answer, featuring my commentary on the latest puzzle, plus a selection of hints designed to help you keep your streak going. Don’t think you need any clues for Wordle today? No problem, just skip to my daily column. But remember: failure in this game is only ever six guesses away. Want more… Continue Reading

The Ayaneo 3 portable is here with the first modular control – here’s how much it’ll cost you

Ayaneo’s latest Windows-based portable is the Ayaneo 3 Ayaneo comes with modular controls, a first in the market Its cheapest price point is $700, and most expensive is $1,800 Ayaneo has been putting out a wide range of high-quality handheld gaming devices. While the Chinese hardware company mainly focused on Android-based portables in 2024, it’s returning to form with the… Continue Reading

OpenAI is making ChatGPT’s Canvas feature smarter and sleeker

ChatGPT has upgraded Canvas to be smarter and more accessible. Canvas now works with the OpenAI o1 model and can visualize code directly. It’s now available to macOS desktop users. OpenAI has enhanced ChatGPT’s collaborative editing feature, Canvas, with some major upgrades. The updates make Canvas even more flexible in helping you compose and edit content and code. The brainpower… Continue Reading

Remote workers are more productive and face less interruptions than their office-only co-workers

Report finds remote-first employees log more productive hours, fewer interruptions Hybrid model offers flexibility but leads to shorter work breaks Healthcare workers face high burnout risk despite increased productivity ActivTrak Productivity Lab’s latest report on workplace productivity trends has revealed work location significantly affects productivity, and remote-first companies, where employees work remotely most of the time, are provider greater productivity,… Continue Reading

This case isn’t just a rotting banana, it’s a window into iconic music history

Casetify’s latest collaboration is with The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The collection consists of phone cases, charm bracelets, and earbuds case covers. Beyond the can of Campbell’s soup it also celebrates the iconic banana. Casetify’s known for some pretty epic cases thanks to impressive collaborations with the likes of sports leagues, Disney, Netflix, and countless others. As… Continue Reading

‘Marvel Snap’ can once again be downloaded from the US App Store

Apple allows “Marvel Snap” to return to the App Store, presumably thanks to new publishing arrangements that gets the game away from the still-banned ByteDance. ‘Marvel Snap’ is now once again on the App Store. Just days after was initially removed from the iOS App Store, Marvel Snap is now back for good. The studio behind the game has seemingly… Continue Reading

A new Chinese AI app tops the App Store, but its meteoric rise could be short-lived

Chinese AI app DeepSeek is on top of the App Store, challenging Apple Intelligence, and shaking Wall Street confidence in big tech. DeepSeek logo The market for generative AI is already dominated by a few major names in the West, with Apple Intelligence alongside Google Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT. While there are many smaller efforts to offer AI services, one… Continue Reading

Don’t wait to update: iOS 18.3 addresses an actively exploited vulnerability

Apple’s iOS 18.3 and iPadOS 18.3 updates contain key security improvements and patch actively exploited vulnerabilities. Here’s why you should update today. The iOS 18.3 update fixes an actively exploited vulnerability. On Monday, after a series of developer betas, Apple released iOS 18.3 to the general public. While the update contains a variety of noteworthy enhancements and features, including changes… Continue Reading

‘Severance’ title sequence has more drama and plot clues than most shows

The designer of the new title sequence for season two of Apple TV+ hit “Severance,” has detailed the many clues and hints in the sequence — even though he doesn’t know what they mean either. Still from the new “Severance” title sequence — image credit: Apple Somewhere around the middle of the 2000s, the television drama title sequence was dead.… Continue Reading

Apple rolls out watchOS 11.3, primarily focusing on bug fixes

Get ready to update your Apple Watch, as Apple has just released watchOS 11.3 to the public. An Apple Watch Series 10 Like the two previous watchOS releases, there weren’t any significant new features in the watchOS 11.3 beta builds. This suggests Apple is concentrating quality-of-life updates, such as fixing bugs and enhancing the system’s underlying stability and performance. This… Continue Reading

Hackers expose serious Subaru security flaws that allow them to remotely start cars

Two hackers exposed serious security flaws in a 2023 Subaru Impreza Vulnerabilities in a Subaru web portal allowed the pair remote access Similar issues could affect a number of major automotive brands A pair of hackers have revealed how they remotely took control of a Subaru Impreza, thanks to a serious security flaw in Subaru’s Starlink-connected infotainment system. Sam Curry… Continue Reading

Hear me out: my TV’s built-in streaming apps sound better than via the Apple TV 4K

For some time, if someone was to ask me how to get the best image and sound quality when watching the best streaming services, I would direct them to the Apple TV 4K without hesitation. I’m not saying that the streaming box has built-in speakers, but listening and watching the same content via the built-in apps on my LG C4… Continue Reading

Quordle today – my hints and answers for Monday, January 27 (game #1099)

Quordle was one of the original Wordle alternatives and is still going strong now more than 1,000 games later. It offers a genuine challenge, though, so read on if you need some Quordle hints today – or scroll down further for the answers. Enjoy playing word games? You can also check out my NYT Connections today and NYT Strands today… Continue Reading

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