iPhone 16 Lineup Could Feature Slimmer MagSafe Components

iPhone 16 Lineup Could Feature Slimmer MagSafe Components

This year’s iPhone 16 lineup could see a slight change to the MagSafe alignment magnets compared to previous generations, according to images shared by French case company ShopSystem [Google Translate]. Casemaking molds for the ‌iPhone 16‌ lineup appear to show a thinner design for the attachment ring magnets and for the single alignment magnet, relative … Read more

Orico Thunderbolt 3 dock keeps MacBook Pro and PC in play

Orico Thunderbolt 3 dock keeps MacBook Pro and PC in play

Another Mac and PC computer setup stands in the spotlight today — this time a MacBook Pro and PC laptop driving a 4K display and an array of peripherals through an Orico Thunderbolt 3 dock bristling with 15 ports. The setup emphasizes gaming, too, with a PlayStation 5 mounted under the desk. We’ll take a … Read more

Fujifilm Instax Mini 99 Review: An Instax Camera Photographers Will Love

Fujifilm Instax Mini 99 Review: An Instax Camera Photographers Will Love

Fujifilm’s New Instax Mini 99 is an Instax camera for those who love manual controls and creative effects. It’s not the sharpest Instax I’ve tested—that remains the Mini Evo—but it might be the most analog and the most capable. The $200 price tag is well above the entry-level point-and-shoot Instax cameras, but here you get … Read more

Who’s making chips for AI? Chinese manufacturers lag behind US tech giants

Who’s making chips for AI? Chinese manufacturers lag behind US tech giants

Nvidia chief executive officer Jensen Huang shows off the new Blackwell GPU chip (left) at an 18 March event in San Jose, California.Credit: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty The rapid advance of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has sparked a global technological race to produce computer chips that power the models. A US ban on selling … Read more

Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft may finally take its first crewed flight next week

Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft may finally take its first crewed flight next week

Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule, which has been and cost overruns amounting to roughly $1.5 billion, is about to take its first flight with humans on board. Boeing was chosen 10 years ago alongside SpaceX to develop a spacecraft that could ferry astronauts from US soil to the International Space Station (ISS), thus allowing NASA to … Read more

7 new movies and TV shows to stream on Netflix, Prime Video, Max, and more this weekend (May 3)

7 new movies and TV shows to stream on Netflix, Prime Video, Max, and more this weekend (May 3)

Sometimes, a weekend comes along that’s so stacked with new movies and TV shows to stream, we have a hard time narrowing down our list of recommendations to seven entries. This weekend is one of those weekends, so rather than tease our chosen titles in today’s introduction, we thought we’d rattle off the four series … Read more

France’s research mega-campus faces leadership crisis

France’s research mega-campus faces leadership crisis

Paris-Saclay University formed from a merger of several institutions.Credit: Alain Jocard/AFP via Getty The board of directors of Paris-Saclay University, one of Europe’s biggest research campuses, has failed to elect a president after three rounds of voting. The result reflects an ongoing row over the leadership and management structure of Paris-Saclay, which was formed by … Read more