PCs & Laptops: The Latest Computing News
PCs, laptops, Microsoft, Apple and everything in between. Here you’ll find all the latest computing news – from the gaming, to benchmarks to raytracing. You’ll also find stories about security, privacy, hacking and the dark web.
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Apple Spent $AU124,000 on Twitter Ads the Same Day Elon Tweeted It ‘Mostly Stopped’ Advertising There, New Data Shows
On Monday, Elon Musk picked a public fight with Apple, accusing the company of freezing its advertising on Twitter and wondering aloud if the alleged pause was because “they hate free speech in America.” In fact, Apple spent $US84,615 ($24,696) on Twitter ads that very same day, according to data from Pathmatics, a digital ad…
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If It Doesn’t Exist, Make It Yourself: How Apple’s iPad App of the Year GoodNotes Was Born
I sat down with GoodNotes founder Steven Chan to chat about how the app was founded from frustration with note-taking at university.
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Apple iPhone Shortage Looms as Workers in China’s ‘iPhone City’ Protest Harsh Treatment
If you’re still holding out for a new iPhone 14 Pro in the next few months, you might want to decide whether or not to upgrade soon. Bloomberg reports that Apple is facing a “production shortfall” due to protests at its manufacturing plants overseas.
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This Question-Answering Typewriter Is Like if We Had Siri in the ’70s
Although they’re far from perfect in their modern incarnation, Maker Cameron Coward’s latest video shows us what smart assistants could have been like in the ‘70s, decades before voice recognition and even personal computers, when an electric typewriter would have been the only way to interact with them. We’re suddenly a lot more appreciative of…