US may ban the most popular home router over Chinese security fears

The Chinese-made TP-Link router used by Amazon, hundreds of ISPs, and 65% of the US market, is facing an investigation that could see it banned by the government. Unspecified sources say that the Commerce Department under President Biden has already subpoenaed TP-Link. Between the three Departments, it's possible that TP-Link will be banned at some…

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Best AI app to effortlessly remove the background from an image on Mac

Background removal options have often been hit or miss, but Aiarty Image Matting makes the process simple with powerful AI edge detection. Whether you're crafting ad campaigns, designing custom postcards, enhancing school projects, or simply creating fun social media content, removing image background is often the first step. However, achieving clean, precise results has historically…

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Steve Jobs’ original Macintosh demo site is now rubble

The Flint Center being demolished -- image credit: Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group It was the site of the original Steve Jobs launch of the Mac and it lasted until the time of the M4 Mac mini, but finally the famous Flint Center Apple event site is being demolished. It's famous for being where Steve…

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You can still get this crazy AirPods Max deal in time for the holidays

There’s a new USB-C AirPods Max model out, but the older Lightning model is just as good, if not better—especially when you can get a killer deal on them. And today we’ve got one: We found the AirPods Max for $399 at Walmart or Best Buy for delivery in time to wrap and put under…

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Your iPhone is now integrated with ChatGPT–here’s how to use it

The iOS 18.2 update brings several new Apple Intelligence features to your iPhone 16 (or iPhone 15 Pro/Pro Max), centered mostly around image generation and Visual Intelligence on iPhone 16. But it also integrated ChatGPT into Apple’s AI tools, including Siri, and it can be incredibly useful. Here are all the places that ChatGPT has…

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AirPods Max four years later: a missed spatial computing opportunity

At four years old, AirPods Max feel like a stagnant product that should be so much more, but the premium sound and Apple ecosystem features keep them from going completely stale. December 15, 2020 was a lifetime ago in reality and in technology. The AirPods Max were revealed shortly after the iPhone 12 lineup, when…

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iPhone 17 range will keep triangular camera system, claims leaker

Close up on the iPhone's familiar camera triangle A new leak claims that recent rumors of at least one iPhone 17 model switching to a horizontal row of cameras, are wrong. The original rumor came from two sources that both claimed knowledge of a horizontal camera bar being introduced for at least one of the…

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Apple’s 2024 full of surprises set up an unpredictable future

Hi, it’s me, Father Time. This is my 421st More Color column, only about 20 of which have been part of my annual attempt to predict the future while blaming myself for failing to properly predict the year gone by. (Look, if I got them all right, 421 of the columns would be prediction-based!) To…

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