Ryan Haines / Android Authority When Google launched the latest Pixel series last year, there was a murmur of excitement around the smartphones’ names. Google had revived the XL moniker for the Pixel 9 Pro XL, a suffix not seen since the Pixel 4 lineup. The fact this caused even a minor stir tells you … Read more
Nicholas Carr wrote The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. But his new book looks at how social media and digital communication technologies “are changing us individually and collectively,” writes the Los Angeles Review of Books. The book’s title? Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart . But if these systems … Read more
In his Power On newsletter today, Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman briefly touched on the future of the Pro Display XDR and a larger iMac. This comes amid rumors of a new Studio Display with mini-LED backlighting launching by 2026. Below, we recap the latest rumors. Pro Display XDR 2 Released in December 2019, the Pro Display … Read more
In a political landscape that is fully intent on otherizing the Black experience, it’s more important than ever to listen to Black voices and experience Black stories. Netflix’s Black Stories collection makes celebrating Black cinema a bit easier. However, like most of the platform’s categories, it’s a crowded collection, and you only have so much … Read more
To the uninitiated, Linux may be nothing but arcane console commands, but it offers a great desktop experience and a ton of powerful multimedia applications. The distros we’re looking at here focus on helping you get creative work done. 1 Ubuntu Studio If you’re not sure where to start with Linux distros focused on getting … Read more
At a time in American history when even the most intelligent Black women were expected to become, at most, teachers or nurses, Willie Hobbs Moore broke with societal expectations to become a noted physicist and engineer. Moore probably is best known for being the first Black woman to earn a Ph.D. in science (physics) in … Read more
TikTok’s uncertain future in the US has caused a surge in people putting the app on their phones through unofficial means, the BBC has been told. An executive order from President Donald Trump means the social media platform can be used in the US despite the Supreme Court upholding a law which will see it … Read more
Ted Price, the retiring CEO of Insomniac Games, received the honor of being inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences at The Dice Awards this week. Price started Insomniac Games in 1994 and brought us games such as Spyro the Dragon, Ratchet & Clank, Resistance: Fall of Man, and the blockbuster Marvel’s Spider-Man … Read more
ZDNET only writes about deals we want to buy — devices and products we desire, need, or would recommend. Our experts looked for deals that were at least 20% off (or are hardly ever on sale), using established price comparison tools and trackers to determine whether the deal is actually on sale and how frequently … Read more
YouTube TV has reached a deal with Paramount to avoid cutting off subscribers’ access to certain channels, including CBS, CBS Sports and Nickelodeon. Earlier this week, YouTube TV announced in a blog post that Paramount content would be removed from its platform after February 13 because the two had failed to reach “a fair agreement” … Read more