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The new iPhone 17 line-up was unveiled at Apple’s “Awe Dropping” event on 9 September. The all-new iPhone Air replaces the Plus model, and sits alongside the iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro, and iPhone 17 Pro Max. There’s plenty new under the hood – and a surprising amount that’s stayed the same. If, like me, you can’t wait to get your hands on the latest iPhones, you’ll want to make sure you pre-order the iPhone 17. There are lots of dates to remember, so here I’ll walk you through how to pre-order the iPhone 17 line-up and where you can. When is…

In 2021, when former Meta employee Frances Haugen blew the whistle on dangers that the company’s platforms posed to kids, Meta realized it needed to change.“I’m here to tell you today that Meta has changed,” said one of a new set of whistleblowers — former Meta user experience researcher Cayce Savage — before the the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law, “for the worse.”Savage and another former Meta researcher, Jason Sattizahn, appeared before the subcommittee on September 9th. Their testimonies built on an account that they and several other former and current employees shared with The Washington…

Apple launched the Apple Watch Ultra 3 just yesterday at its “Awe Dropping” iPhone 17 launch event. The new top smartwatch looks fairly impressive, which a larger display and 42 hour battery life. But that’s about to be blown out of the water. Huawei is just about to launch its next GT smartwatch, and it offers 12x the battery life of the Apple Watch Ultra 3. The Chinese tech giant has announced that it’s launching the Huawei Watch GT 6 Series on 19 September. The headline-grabber is a frankly outrageous 21-day battery life. That’s three full weeks on a single…

Wallet gone walkabout again? If you’re forever retracing your steps, try using one of the best Bluetooth trackers. Better than a breadcrumb trail, these clever locators make lost and found a whole lot easier. From keyrings to purse inserts, we’ve picked out Bluetooth trackers to fit all kinds of kit. All of them can be tracked from a smartphone. Some even tap into global networks which make it almost impossible for your stuff to go AWOL. Can’t find the right one? We’ve also shared some buying tips to help you hunt down the best Bluetooth tracker for your everyday carry,…

Apple announced the iPhone 17 at its “Awe dropping” event held yesterday. They won’t be available to preorder until Friday, September 12th, but you may already be contemplating an upgrade. It’s easier to tell some of what makes the iPhone 17 different (like the larger screen and new colors), but changes under the hood (like the display’s 120Hz refresh rate) are more difficult to spot until you’ve had a chance to try it yourself. We’ve created a handy chart comparing the most significant tech specs of both smartphones to help you make sense of the changes.Both smartphones can run iOS…

I’ve been a tech journalist for over a decade, and in that time I’ve reviewed more phones, tablets, smartwatches and earbuds than I can count. It’s been fun, but if I’m honest, the last few years have felt like a lull. Phones were getting minor spec bumps. Smarthome tech was getting cheaper. Battery life improved a little each year. Useful, sure, but hardly thrilling. As someone who grew up in the 90s and early 2000s, my bar for “exciting tech” is probably a little skewed. I was raised on Spy Kids, Pierce Brosnan’s gadget-loaded James Bond, and even Robin Williams…

With their debut, the official AirPods lineup now looks a little different: the fourth-gen AirPods and their ANC counterpart remain the entry-level models, but now the AirPods Pro 3 are Apple’s most premium earbuds. The AirPods Max, meanwhile, continues to be the company’s only set of over-ears.Priced at $249, the new AirPods Pro 3 push into fitness territory with a built-in heart rate sensor to track calories burned and over 50 types of workouts via the iPhone’s Fitness app. They also introduce Workout Buddy, a new fitness experience that delivers personalized insights based on your workout history and achievements.Beyond fitness,…

Lossless audio has finally arrived on Spotify Premium – read our full story for more. Rumours of a higher tier Spotify subscription aimed at higher quality speakers or headphones have circled for years. The company first announced it was working on a new tier offering CD-quality music using a lossless compression format all the way back in February 2021. The high-quality streams would, the company said, be “rolling out in select markets” later that year. We even got a Billie Eilish featuring ad and everything. But since then, nothing official has happened. Yep, that’s over four years we’ve been waiting.…

For 16 years, a team of linguists carefully crafted and honed the grammar editing software Grammarly to match natural English language patterns. Now, the company is getting a big assist from AI to expand similar offerings to five more languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, and Italian. This expansion caters to what has been the “number one feature request” since the company’s founding, according to Grammarly’s VP of enterprise product, Luke Behnke.In addition to catching spelling mistakes, the app reworks sentences and paragraphs to match the tone of native speech and improve the overall clarity — now in six languages. Grammarly…

Today, Nvidia is soft-launching its latest gaming GPUs in the cloud — upgrading its $20-a-month GeForce Now Ultimate cloud gaming service with RTX 5080 graphics for select games, with more to come down the road. At the same time, it’s also adding thousands more titles to the bring-your-own-games service by letting you install them yourself, while also unlocking a 360Hz mode for ultra-fast desktop monitors, launching a 90Hz version of its Steam Deck app, and more.Do all these changes make GeForce Now fundamentally better? Absolutely, and it was already pretty good! But while playing I couldn’t escape the thought: it’s…

Nvidia is releasing a new GeForce Game Ready driver today in preparation for the Borderlands 4 release later this week. There’s also an Nvidia app update arriving today that includes a new RTX Remix update to allow modders to improve fire and smoke effects in older games.Today’s Game Ready driver (581.29) includes optimizations for DLSS 4 in Borderlands 4, with the new game also supporting Multi Frame Generation and Nvidia’s Reflex technology. Dying Light: The Beast is also part of the Game Ready driver, with optimizations ahead of its release next week with DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation, DLSS Super…

Lossless on Spotify Premium is finally here, ending one of the protracted tech announcements in history. It’s finally on the way to a wireless speaker or mobile device near you. Rumored to be known as Spotify Music Pro or Supremium, Spotify first said it was working on it all the way back in February 2021.  The high-quality streams would, the company said, be “rolling out in select markets” later that year. We even got an ad for it featuring Billie Eilish and everything. But afterwards, there was a defening silence. “The wait is finally over: we’re so excited lossless sound is rolling out…