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  • MacRumors Turns 26: Heres What Our Readers Thought About the iPod, iPhone, and More

    MacRumors turns 26 today, and we want to take the opportunity to thank everyone who has read and supported our website over the years. MacRumors was founded by Arnold Kim on February 24, 2000, while he was a medical student, and it has since become one of the world’s most popular Apple news websites. Kim read more

    MacRumors Turns 26: Heres What Our Readers Thought About the iPod, iPhone, and More
  • Tide’s Evo Tiles Are a Fresh, Overengineered Take on the Tide Pod

    Laundry is a $100 billion business. It can also be a real time suck, what with all the washing, drying, and folding. Detergent company Tide has found great success with its Pods that let you pop detergent right into a washing machine without having to measure and pour liquid or powder. Now, the next evolution read more

    Tide’s Evo Tiles Are a Fresh, Overengineered Take on the Tide Pod
  • Xiaomis Rumored iOS Bridge to Bring Better Apple Device Connectivity

    Xiaomi will introduce a new software update at this year’s Mobile World Congress (MWC) that will reportedly improve connectivity between its own devices and Apple products. Alongside the debut of the Xiaomi 17 series, its HyperOS 3.1 update is said to include a new “iOS Bridge” for smoother connectivity between the two platforms. According to read more

    Xiaomis Rumored iOS Bridge to Bring Better Apple Device Connectivity
  • We’ve Tested Dozens of 2-in-1 Laptops. Here Are the Very Best

    Compare Top 6 2-in-1 Laptops Other 2-in-1 Laptops to Consider Photograph: Luke Larsen Framework Laptop 12 for $549: The Framework Laptop 12 (7/10, WIRED Recommends) isn’t just the smallest, cheapest, and most repairable Framework Laptop to come out. It’s also a 2-in-1. The device has a 360-degree hinge that lets you flip the screen all read more

    We’ve Tested Dozens of 2-in-1 Laptops. Here Are the Very Best
  • Steve Jobs Would Have Celebrated His 71st Birthday Today

    Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, so today would have marked his 71st birthday if he hadn’t passed away in 2011 at the age of 56. In 1976, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak co-founded Apple Computer Company to market Wozniak’s Apple I, a pioneering personal computer. Their collaboration read more

    Steve Jobs Would Have Celebrated His 71st Birthday Today
  • I Tested Dozens of Laptop Totes to Find the Perfect Commuter Bag

    Compare Top 6 Tote Bags Honorable Mentions Courtesy Boutayna Chokrane Tory Burch Perry Tote for $395: The Perry Tote is another one of those designer bags that transcends trends and functions as a fashionable work tote. Much like Leatherology’s Alex Laptop Bag Set, I wouldn’t use it as a lunch bag, but it’s definitely the read more

    I Tested Dozens of Laptop Totes to Find the Perfect Commuter Bag
  • Apple Set a European iPhone Sales Record Last Year

    Apple shipped 36.9 million iPhones in Europe in 2025, a 6% year-over-year growth which allowed the company to claim a record 27% share of the region’s smartphone market, according to new research from analytics firm Omdia. The gains came even as the broader European smartphone market declined by 1% to 134.2 million units, which Omdia read more

    Apple Set a European iPhone Sales Record Last Year
  • College Campuses Are in Upheaval Over Faculty Ties to Epstein

    Many of Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to prominent universities and academics, which he maintained through monetary donations and luxury gifts, have been known since his 2019 arrest and suicide in a Manhattan jail cell. After the US Justice Department published 3 million new documents related to criminal investigations of the late sex trafficker last month, however, read more

    College Campuses Are in Upheaval Over Faculty Ties to Epstein
  • AI Will Never Be Conscious

    The Blake Lemoine incident is remembered today as a high‑water mark of AI hype. It thrust the whole idea of conscious AI into public awareness for a news cycle or two, but it also launched a conversation, among both computer scientists and consciousness researchers, that has only intensified in the years since. While the tech read more

    AI Will Never Be Conscious
  • The Righteous EV Owners Who Won’t Let Their Broken Cars Die

    On an October evening in 2024, a gardener named Svein Hodne was driving home from vacation on a wind-buffeted coastal road in southwest Norway when his electric car began behaving strangely. Yellow and red warnings lit up its display. An alarm went off. The car lost power. Hodne barely managed to turn off the road read more

    The Righteous EV Owners Who Won’t Let Their Broken Cars Die
  • WhatsApp Working on Scheduled Messages Feature

    WhatsApp developers are working to bring scheduled messages to the Meta-owned platform, reports WABetaInfo. A scheduled message allows users to type a message and choose a specific date and time for it to be sent automatically. Telegram already has the feature, while Apple has offered a similar Send Later option in its Messages app since read more

    WhatsApp Working on Scheduled Messages Feature
  • Canva acquires startups working on animation and marketing | TechCrunch

    On Monday, creative suite maker Canva announced the dual acquisition of startups Cavalry, which works on animation, and Mango AI, which works on improving ad performance. UK-based Cavalry works on 2D motion animation for different verticals such as advertising, marketing, gaming, and generative art. Canva said that Cavalry’s tooling will add to the existing capabilities read more

    Canva acquires startups working on animation and marketing | TechCrunch
  • Stripe, PayPal Ventures bet on India's Xflow to fix cross-border B2B payments | TechCrunch

    Xflow, an Indian fintech startup, has secured backing from both Stripe and PayPal Ventures in a $16.6 million funding round. The investment comes as the company works to carve out a position in cross-border B2B payments, a market still dominated by banks and manual processes. The Series A round was led by General Catalyst, with read more

    Stripe, PayPal Ventures bet on India's Xflow to fix cross-border B2B payments | TechCrunch
  • Apple Announces Plans to Begin Assembling Mac Mini in U.S. This Year

    Apple has announced that Foxconn will begin assembling some Mac mini computers at a factory in Houston, Texas later this year. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Apple’s operations chief Sabih Khan said U.S. assembly of some Mac mini units is part of the company’s previously-announced commitment to invest $600 billion in the read more

    Apple Announces Plans to Begin Assembling Mac Mini in U.S. This Year
  • A Meta AI security researcher said an OpenClaw agent ran amok on her inbox  | TechCrunch

    The now-viral X post from Meta AI security researcher Summer Yue reads, at first, like satire. She told her OpenClaw AI agent to check her overstuffed email inbox and suggest what to delete or archive. The agent proceeded to run amok. It started deleting all her email in a “speed run” while ignoring her commands read more

    A Meta AI security researcher said an OpenClaw agent ran amok on her inbox  | TechCrunch
  • What to Expect From the iPhone 17e Launching in March 2026

    We’ve got just over a week to go until Apple’s “Special Experience” on March 4, and we’re expecting to see the iPhone 17e announced during the week of the event. The ‌iPhone‌ 17e will be the first update to the new low-cost iPhone 16e that Apple unveiled in February 2025. Design The ‌iPhone‌ 17e will read more

    What to Expect From the iPhone 17e Launching in March 2026
  • With AI, investor loyalty is (almost) dead: At least a dozen OpenAI VCs now also back Anthropic  | TechCrunch

    With OpenAI on the verge of finalizing a new $100 billion round, and Anthropic just closing its own monster $30 billion raise, one thing is clear: The concept of investor “loyalty” is only hanging on by a thread. At least a dozen direct investors in OpenAI were announced as backers in Anthropic’s $30 billion raise read more

    With AI, investor loyalty is (almost) dead: At least a dozen OpenAI VCs now also back Anthropic  | TechCrunch
  • Apple Launches New Sales Coach App

    Apple today debuted a new Sales Coach app for the iPhone and the iPad, replacing the former SEED app. Designed for Apple Store and Apple Authorized Service Provider (AASP) employees, Sales Coach provides training resources and information useful for Apple device sales. Sales Coach is available for ‌Apple Store‌ and AASP employees worldwide, and Apple read more

    Apple Launches New Sales Coach App
  • We Tested Duffel Bags for Weeks. These Are Our Favorites

    This is not a true duffel bag so much as “the world’s first true wide-mouth packing system,” as Rux calls it, but it is nevertheless an impressive piece of equipment from a company known for its modular gear-toting systems. Not unlike a foldable version of the popular 70L storage container, the Duffel box starts completely read more

    We Tested Duffel Bags for Weeks. These Are Our Favorites
  • Everything New in iOS 26.4 Beta 2

    Testing on the iOS 26.4 update is continuing, and Apple released the second beta today. The main new feature is an expansion of RCS encryption testing, but there are a few other small tweaks. End-to-End Encryption RCS Testing With the second beta of iOS 26.4, Apple is testing end-to-end encryption for text messages sent between read more

    Everything New in iOS 26.4 Beta 2