How to make your smartphone last longer

Replacing a smartphone every two years is partially why billions of phones go into landfills each year. If stacked flat atop one another, that many handsets would reach farther than the ISS. But we’ve become accustomed to tha

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Here's how to pre-order the new Apple iPad and iPad Air M3

Apple announced a number of new products recently, despite its last on-stage event being held last September. On the iPad side of things, both the

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How to pre-order the new Apple MacBook Air M4

Among the slew of Apple announced news from the previous few weeks is a refreshed

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Apple MacBook Air M4 13-inch and 15-inch review: Minimal upgrades at a much better price

At the risk of repeating myself from Engadget's MacBook Air M1, M2 and M3 reviews: The M4-equipped MacBook Air is a nearly flawless ultraportable. Even better, it now starts at $999, which is $100 less than before. While I'd still like to see more ports and a faster screen refresh rate, the MacBook Air still remains heads and shoulders above the competition. And when companies t

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The first Xbox handheld might not come from Microsoft

It took a few years of dealing with poorly optimized handheld PCs, but Windows Central reports Microsoft may finally be working on an Xbox handheld. The company could an

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Bluesky adds 3-minute video uploads and inbox management features

Bluesky continues to beef up its video capabilities. The app’s latest update adds support for uploads of up to 3 minutes, a notable expansion from its previous limit of one minute. The change should give video creators on Bluesky much more flexibility in what they can post. It will also likely be appreciated by fans

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Elon Musk says a 'massive cyberattack' is to blame for X being down

Perhaps like the loser of the proposed cage fight between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg that's never, ever happening, X has been down and out for much of Monday. Down Detector saw a spike in outage reports from users between around 5:30 AM and 6:30AM ET. There were two more prolonged spikes, denoting more significant outages, later in the morning. Team Engadget has n

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A surprise Control update brings Hideo Kojima and HDR to the PC version

The fantastic third-person adventure Control, developed by Remedy Entertainment, just got a surprise software update. The biggest news here is HDR support, which should be a real boon for graphics-minded gamers.

Interestingly, HDR support started as a

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PlayStation's Mark Cerny says a version of FSR 4 could be implemented on the PS5 Pro

AMD just debuted its new FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 (FSR 4) upscaling tech on the latest Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 Ti GPUs, and it so

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Volunteer photographers are fixing Wikipedia's terrible celebrity headshots

Go to a profile of any celebrity on Wikipedia and it's quite possible that you'll be met with a terrible photo of them. Such images are often old or out of focus, perhaps captured candidly on a smartphone at a public event. A group of volunteer photographers has set out to fix that, as

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