The US smartphone market has declined 17% YoY in Q1 2023 due to inventory correction and weak consumer demand. On the other hand, the iPhone has increased its market share to 53% in Q1 2023 from 49% in Q1 2022, showing that Android owners are switching to Apple. This information comes from the latest Counterpoint…
tvOS 17 should be previewed in a few weeks during Apple’s WWDC 2023 keynote. I said “should” because Apple has not uttered a single word about Apple TV’s operating system during its keynote presentations for the past two years at WWDC. As the company focuses on smart home appliances by bringing back the HomePod with…
If you open Google Bard on the Edge browser, Microsoft will do its best to during you to Bing AI instead of Google’s experimental AI chatbot. This tweak was noted by developer Vitor de Lucca on his Twitter. He wrote: “Now when you open Bard on Microsoft’s Edge, it shows a button to compare the…
Despite pressure from a ton of other music streaming services, Spotify keeps adding users like hotcakes. The company held its Q1 2022 earnings call today. In a blog post, Spotify announced that it achieved its “strongest” first quarter since taking the company public back in 2018. That’s quite the feat considering competition in the music…
High-performance microprocessors tend to get hot and, when overclocked without proper cooling or throttling, can literally burn out When an old CPU does so in an old PC because of dust and a worn out fan, there is nothing surprising about it. But when a new CPU breaks on a shiny new motherboard, that’s surprising.…
It’s no secret that malware tends to be more of a significant issue for PC users than Mac users. And while Apple’s advertising materials might suggest otherwise, this isn’t due to the fact that Macs are impervious to malware and inherently more secure. On the contrary, malware creators prioritize Windows simply because it’s the most…
Unfortunately, 2023 isn’t the year that we’re going to stop finding malware on the Google Play store. Last week, McAfee’s Mobile Research Team shared a list of more than 60 Android apps containing a malicious software library which it named Goldoson. Altogether, the infected apps have accumulated over 100 million downloads between them. Delete these infected…
iOS 16 is almost at the end of its lifecycle, as Apple will reveal iOS 17 this summer. That said, while the software should be stable by now, users can’t stop complaining about how many bugs they can still find in the latest version of the iPhone operating system. In fact, as YouTuber Luke Miani…
If anyone had said that being verified on a social media platform would be a paid feature back in 2022, I wouldn’t have been surprised. I also would have thought that was really stupid. Apparently, LinkedIn thinks so too! While other social media companies like Twitter and Meta continue to push their paid verification services,…
If you’re an Audible subscriber, you’ll soon be able to listen to some audiobooks in spatial audio. In a press release, the company announced a major enhancement to its audio experience with the addition of Dolby Atmos. The new technology will allow Audible subscribers to enjoy immersive audio experiences when listening to audiobooks. At launch,…
