TECH

Take a read through our Oura Ring 4 review and you’ll see there’s a lot to like about the smart ring that launched in October 2024: we described it as being “nearly the perfect fitness tracker”, while praising its battery life, tracking capabilities, and design. However, the high score attached to that review — 4.5…

Yamaha launches the RX300A and RX500A AV receivers, priced at $399 / $599 Dolby Atmos, DTS:X and HDMI 2.1 support in both models 5.1 speaker bundle with RX300A also available Yamaha has unveiled two new Dolby Atmos AV receivers with very competitive price tags. The RX300A has a list price of just $399, while the…

Looking for a different day? A new Quordle puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Monday’s puzzle instead then click here: Quordle hints and answers for Monday, May 18 (game #1575). Quordle…

Looking for a different day? A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Monday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Monday, May 18 (game…

Looking for a different day? A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Monday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Monday, May 18 (game…

Google I/O is less than a day away, and the annual software showcase would be the perfect opportunity for Google and its partners to showcase their 2026 Android XR tech: the XR glasses we’ve been promised will land this year. Google isn’t a stranger to smart specs, but since the rapid rise and fall of…

Meta will receive $3.3 billion in tax breaks for Louisiana datacenter The company will pay zero sales tax on GPU purchases for the site The number of natural gas turbine plants needed to power the campus has been tripled Across the US, AI data centers are being planned and constructed at a scale never before…

Microsoft is bringing in more options for remapping the Copilot key You’ll be able to redefine it to invoke the context menu, or use it as Right Ctrl This used to be the Right Ctrl key before Microsoft jettisoned it to make room for the dedicated AI key on Windows 11 laptops Microsoft is going…

Quantum switching element delivers ultra-fast processing with minimal heat Device stores bits using magnetic electron properties instead of electricity Laboratory chip achieves 40 picosecond processing speed in experiments A research team from the University of Tokyo has developed a device called a non-volatile quantum switching element which increases information processing speeds by 1000x without generating…

AWS secures rare Mac Studios while ordinary Apple customers remain completely locked out Apple’s hidden 256GB Mac Studio configuration surfaced through Amazon’s cloud infrastructure unexpectedly AI developers exhausted Mac Studio inventory running local language models across expensive Apple hardware Amazon Web Services (AWS) has acquired a significant number of Apple’s Mac Studio computers, a workstation-grade…