Apple Silicon’s success helped AMD make Ryzen AI Max chips

AMD Ryzen AI Max - Image Credit: AMD AMD's latest Ryzen AI Max chips probably wouldn't have existed without Apple, an AMD executive has admitted, thanks to the popularity of Apple Silicon. At CES, AMD introduced Ryzen AI Max chips, an upgraded version of its Ryzen AI architecture with up to 16 CPU cores and…

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Indonesia welcomes Huawei but wants still more from Apple

Tim Cook (right) with photographer Sofyan Pratama in Indonesia in April 2024 -- image credit: Apple Apple is in negotiations with an increasingly demanding Indonesia to get its iPhone 16 ban lifted, while Huawei plans to shortly launch its smartphone in the country. The ban on sales of the iPhone 16 in Indonesia originally followed…

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Apple Intelligence can still save AI—by solving the smallest problems

If you hoped flipping the calendar over to a new year meant that we’d stop talking about AI, well, you better keep flipping for a while. Eventually we won’t be talking about it because AI will be in charge of everything. As my colleague Jason Snell recently wrote, prepare for 2025 to be the year…

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Valerion VisionMaster Pro 2 projector review: Beautiful hardware, amazing image quality

The Valerion VisionMaster Pro 2 offers cinematic-level picture quality in a consumer-friendly and incredibly well-engineered package. Anyone wanting to put together a home cinema has to consider whether they want a projector or a large television. Most go for the latter, since a projector has inherent issues associated with home use. For a start, you're…

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MacPaw goes after company device management with CleanMy Mac Business

Managing multiple Macs in a business -- image credit: MacPaw Setapp and CleanMyMac developer MacPaw has launched a new device management solution for small to medium-sized businesses, providing tools to manage fleets of Macs. MacPaw is best known for its Setapp bundle of chiefly Mac apps, although in Europe it is working to introduce an…

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Dell rips off Apple’s iPhone ‘Pro’ and ‘Pro Max in an odd rebrand

In a bid to reinvigorate PC sales, Dell should've put a lot of thought into how it rebrands its PCs. Instead, it ripped off the iPhone's Pro and Pro Max naming conventions. While a company can use brand names for its products successfully for long periods of time, they sometimes feel the itch to try…

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8 cool CES announcements every Apple fan will want to buy

The Consumer Electronics Show, as its name suggests, is a showcase for new consumer electronics. Unfortunately, most of them are for PCs, but there are a lot of Apple-related products at CES, some of them more interesting than others. Fortunately, you don’t have to scour the show floor to find them, because we’ve listed the…

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