Macpaw’s CleanMyMac highlighting a lot of purgeable files on my MacBook Pro. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET Recently, I noticed my MacBook Pro was performing sluggishly, not during routine tasks like browsing or word processing, but with more demanding applications such as Adobe’s Premiere Pro and Photoshop. Opening and saving large files became laggy, a delay that hadn’t … Read more
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Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 26, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome. So psyched you found us, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been playing with the redesigned You.com for AI research, trying out … Read more
Electric motorcycle startup Cake filed for bankruptcy February 1, CEO Stefan Ytterborn has confirmed to TechCrunch. The Swedish company was in the middle of a funding round, just prior to the filing, but apparently the withdrawal of an investor was what tipped the company over the edge, according to Swedish media reports. Ytterborn declined to … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — Prosecutors in the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump told a judge Friday that defense lawyers had painted an “inaccurate and distorted picture of events” and had unfairly sought to “cast a cloud of suspicion” over government officials who were simply trying to do their jobs. The comments came in … Read more
PashaIgnatov/ZDNET If you do a lot of video and photo editing on location, you know what a hassle it is to move media files between your laptop and your desktop PC or Mac. So, what’s the best way to transfer those files from one device to another? As with just about every tech-related question ever, … Read more
Jay Leno has filed for conservatorship over his wife, Mavis Elizabeth Leno, because she suffers from dementia. According to court documents obtained by ET, the late-night TV legend filed the petition Friday in Los Angeles County Superior Court requesting that the judge make him the conservator so that he can structure her living trust and other … Read more
Jay Leno is taking steps to manage his wife’s affairs … in the form of a conservatorship. The comedian filed legal docs Friday to become conservator of his wife Mavis Leno’s estate … according to court records. A source with direct knowledge tells TMZ … Jay’s wife suffers from Alzheimer’s disease. The diagnosis, our source … Read more
Tiffany Hagler-Geard/Bloomberg via Getty Images I use Spotify daily. I mostly use it to listen to out-of-print music or discover new albums, so I can then purchase the vinyl copies. But there are times when I find that something I want to listen to isn’t available on the streaming service. When I run into that … Read more
Mint Images – David Schultz/Getty Images I’ve been using Linux for decades and, although the command line is second nature to me, I still opt to use GUI tools because they tend to be far more efficient than their terminal-based counterparts. There is, however, one task for which I always turn to the command line … Read more
Apple has AirDrop, Android now has Quick Share. At CES 2024 Google announced Quick Share, a collaboration with Samsung for a unified method of sharing for Android and Chromebook devices. For several years now, Samsung and Android have used their own features for sharing, which work across devices, but not completely. Don’t miss: The Most Ridiculous and Weird … Read more