CES 2024: How to watch as Nvidia, Samsung and more reveal hardware, AI updates

CES 2024 will be here before we know it, taking over Las Vegas with throngs of crowds, booths full of products and a lot of companies making claims about how AI is improving their offerings. As noted in our CES preview, though the conference has had its ups and downs of late, it’s increasingly become … Read more

Democracies are fragile, and hardware is hard

Welcome to the TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. Journalists and readers love scoops. But sometimes it’s important to state the obvious. This week, I’m reminded that democracies are fragile but that technology … Read more

Apple October 2023 Hardware Event: MacBook Pro, iMac, M3, M3 Pro, M3 Max

Unlike its predecessors, which are built on 5-nanometer process technology, all three new chips are now built on a 3-nanometer process—this packs more transistors into a smaller space and enhances both the speed and power efficiency of the chip. Photograph: Apple The M3 chips have a few features new to Apple silicon. The first, a … Read more

OnePlus Open Review: Sleek Hardware Isn’t Enough to Take on Samsung

7.0 OnePlus Open Like Good battery life Excellent hardware Fast wired charging Don’t like Cameras are just OK Software not optimized for larger display No wireless charging OnePlus built its brand on the idea of “never settling” for compromises from your phone. Its first foldable, the $1,700 OnePlus Open, certainly delivers on that premise with … Read more

Apple says iPhone 15 overheating not a hardware issue, and a fix is coming

Jason Hiner/ZDNET Apple has confirmed that the overheating issue affecting the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro is the result of a combination of an iOS 17 bug and third-party apps. And the good news is that it’s not some hardware design flaw related to the titanium chassis, and in even better news, the fix … Read more

Everything Should Be As Easy to Upgrade As the Steam Deck (2023)

When I bought the Steam Deck a few years ago, I was skeptical. I was willing to risk buying only the cheapest version possible—a $400 handheld with a measly 64 GB of storage. Now, I know I love it. I’ve used it for hundreds of hours already, stuck with limited, slower storage. If I were … Read more

This Lenovo laptop computer makes a case for utilizing gaming {hardware} at work

Taylor Clemons/ZDNET The brand new Lenovo Legion Professional 5i is a wonderful, well-specced gaming laptop computer that can also be able to pulling double-duty within the workplace. By limiting RGB lighting to the keyboard, in addition to having a simple design and respectable battery life, you may take the Legion Professional 5i to work or … Read more

Magic Leap’s CEO will talk about the way forward for AR at Disrupt’s {Hardware} Stage

In late 2020, Peggy Johnson took the reins as CEO and led Magic Leap’s pivot away from a shopper viewers — these much less in a position to swing $2,300 for a mixed-reality headset — to the deeper pockets of the enterprise market. We’re excited to have Johnson be a part of us for a … Read more

All of the {hardware} Google introduced at I/O 2023 this week (and what wasn’t unveiled)

The Pixel Fold was arguably essentially the most anticipated product from Google I/O this 12 months, and the corporate delivered every little thing that we wished. (You may not be a fan of the value, although.)  Google touts the Pixel Fold because the thinnest foldable available on the market, with a smaller type issue than … Read more