This $60 100W Anker charger will quickly juice up three of your devices at once

No one has time to wait forever for their phone to charge, so having a tool like the Anker Prime 100W USB-C Charger may very well be just what you need. In fact, since the Anker Prime is down to $60 at Amazon, down from $87, it should end up in your cart sooner rather…

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How Control Center’s new design makes it faster to use and customize

Now every control in Control Center can be removed, rearranged, or resized You still swipe down from the top right on iPhone to get Control Center in iOS 18, but after that, it's a whole new design and how you edit has completely changed. There was always a kind of mental disconnect between Control Center…

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Apple fined in South Korea for violating location data collection law

National Assembly of the Republic of South Korea Apple and Google's business interests in Korea have been fined for violating a law on collecting location data, but it's not clear why Apple got dinged. Apple has been ordered by the Korean Communications Commission (KCC) to pay a fine of 210 million won (approximately $153,000) for…

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Silicon Motion Demos Low-Power PCie 5.0 SSD Controller: SM2508

Rounding out our Computex 2024 SSD controller news, let's talk about the final major controller vendor at the show: Silicon Motion. Silicon Motion has been somewhat late to the PCIe Gen5 SSD party, as its rival Phison has been offering their high-end PS5026-E26 controller for almost 18 months now. But as Silicon Motion gets ready…

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Do a deep clean on your Mac with $7 off this optimizing app

We all want our Mac to run at its best, but it can sometimes seem like keeping that cache and desktop clear is a full time job. Now there’s finally an optimization tool that lets you put your digital “spring cleaning” on a schedule so that you can work worry-free: MacCleanse. This tool is available…

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MiTAC/Tyan Shows Off Motherboard and Servers for Intel’s Xeon 6 CPUs

Later this year Intel is set to introduce its Xeon 6-branded processors, codenamed Granite Rapids (6x00P) and Sierra Forest (6x00E). And with it will come a new slew of server motherboards and pre-built server platforms to go with it. On the latter note, this will be the first generation where Intel won't be offering any pre-builts…

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Apple adds more video chat presentation tools in macOS Sequoia

Online presentations on Mac will get a bit better in macOS Sequoia Apple's WWDC keynote included a few macOS Sequoia changes to help with video calls. Here's how Presenter Preview and Background Replacements can help you in your online meetings. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, remote working and working from home has become normalized. With many…

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