Apple iPhone 14 vs iPhone 14 Pro: How does the Pro compare with the base model?

The Apple iPhone 14 is the base model of the 2022 models, available in five color options and a sturdy design with an IP68 rating. It’s one of the most affordable iPhones available and offers decent performance for browsing, emails, and other daily tasks. iPhone 14 Pro Apple’s iPhone 14 Pro gets everything right. From the luxurious and durable finish, to cameras and display, it was - up until the iPhone 15 Pro - Apple’s best phone to date....

August 9, 2025 · 12 min · 2482 words · Tiffany Cowan

Apple Pencil and Smart Keyboard deliveries slip to 4-5 weeks, Apple promises ‘regular shipments’

If you’re in the market for an iPad Pro and are considering purchasing Apple’s $99 Pencil or the $169 Smart Keyboard to take full advantage of the tablet’s new features for creatives and mobile workers, you’re in for some serious waiting as shipping times for these accessories have slipped to 4-5 weeks on the Apple Online Store. In a statement to Mashable, the company didacknowledgelimited supply of the Apple Pencil and Smart Keyboard in its own retail stores and promised “regular shipments”....

August 9, 2025 · 2 min · 301 words · Isabel Jones

Apple's HomeKit architecture refresh is ready for a second attempt

Apple is getting ready to have a second attempt at updating the architecture that its HomeKit smart home system uses, it’s been reported. Applestarted rolling out an option for people to update the Home app’s “underlying architecture” with iOS 16.2, but later paused that rollout. It wasn’t specified why that pause happened, but it’s thought that Apple discovered an issue that made it go back to the drawing board. Some users who had completed the upgrade program reported that their devices were stuck in the “updating” status and refused to work....

August 9, 2025 · 2 min · 322 words · James Vazquez

Arrested Development Season 5 Shoots This Summer, Jason Bateman Will Return

Netflix is bringing backArrested Developmentfor a season 5 and Jason Bateman has officially closed a deal to star as Michael Bluthe once more.Arrested Developmentoriginally aired on Fox from 2003 to 2006 before getting canceled after winning Emmy and Golden Globe awards and gaining acult audience. Netflix revived the show in 2013 for a 4th season and 15 episodes, but it’s been relatively quiet on any official news of a 5th season until now....

August 9, 2025 · 3 min · 491 words · Matthew Lopez

Baldur’s Gate 3: How to get Dimension Door (BG3)

Dimension Door is a powerful transportation spell inBaldur’s Gate 3. It lets you transport yourself and one other ally to another space you can see. This is understandably a very strong ability to have as it’s essentially a more powerful version ofMisty Step. And just like Misty Step, there are quite a few ways to cast Dimension Door.. Baldur’s Gate 3: How to get Dimension Door Dimension Dooris alevel 4 Conjuration spellthat can be learned by the spellcasting classes inBaldur’s Gate 3....

August 9, 2025 · 2 min · 387 words · Edwin Walsh

Best tracks in Forza Motorsport, ranked

Forza Motorsport boasts quite a few different tracks in the latest entry, which also serves as a sort of reboot to the franchise. From iconic tracks such as Suzuka Circuit to wholly original ones like Maple Valley, there are a bunch of tracks here, and that’s not even talking about the different variations on them. This means finding your favorite track can be a bit hard, but that’s what we’re here to talk about today, as we’re going to be discussing the best tracks in Forza Motorsport, ranked by how much we like them as tracks to race on....

August 9, 2025 · 4 min · 654 words · Ryan Brooks

CES 2024: Android Automotive Is Finally Getting A Long Anticipated Feature: Here's Which Car Gets It First

CES 2024: Android Automotive Is Finally Getting A Long Anticipated Feature: Here’s Which Car Gets It First If you aren’t familiar with Android Automotive, it’s an operating system for an entire car integrated from the factory into the vehicle’s native hardware. For example, the Volvo and Polestar lineup of cars use Android Automotive. Rather than just running as an applike Android Auto, Android Automotive is the basis of the car’s entire infotainment, navigation,and other systems....

August 9, 2025 · 3 min · 491 words · Gregory Schaefer

Chinese Scientist Faces Prison For Editing Baby Genes

AChinese court has sent the scientist He Jiankui and two of his associates to prison after finding them guilty of illegal medical practices and carrying out human gene editing for reproductive purposes. Jiankui, a biophysics researcher trained at Stanford, made it to the news headlines last year after publishing a paper and revealing that his team has managed toedit human geneswith the help of CRISPR/Cas9 tool. He claimed that the research led to the birth of the world’s first gene-edited babies....

August 9, 2025 · 2 min · 292 words · Donald Acevedo

Dual screen phones: Nonsense or the anti-notch future?

It’s deep into 2018, a year that’s seen the notch normalised for many smartphone designs. But manufacturers aren’t sitting tight on such design compromise: we’ve seen a surge of slider phones from Chinese makers, opting for pop-up cameras to maximise screen-to-body ratio. The year isn’t done with weird and wonderful innovation yet either, with Vivo announcing its NEX Dual Display Edition on 11 Dec in Shanghai, China. Vivo is far from the first manufacturer to produce a dual screen phone....

August 9, 2025 · 6 min · 1157 words · Timothy Doyle

Echo Spot review: Sleek and smart for under $100

You don’t need to pour in hundreds of dollars to upgrade your home to a smart home. A modern smart system doesn’t always mean a brand new security system oroutdoor lights, or even a newpet feeder. Especially when it comes to the modern multi-functional smart speaker, there are smaller smart solutions for your budget and space. The newest smart speaker from Amazon falls into its Echo lineup as the new Echo Spot is a small and compact version compared to some of the other previous iterations....

August 9, 2025 · 6 min · 1175 words · Adrienne Powell

Elon Musk Wants To Kill The Twitter Deal

Elon Musk Wants To Kill The Twitter Deal Elon Musk has notified Twitter that he’s terminating the buyout deal for the social media platform. Musk originally planned to buy Twitter at a price of $54.20 per share, in a deal valued at approximately $44 billion. However, the Tesla chief is now pulling out of the expensive commitment citing “misleading representations,” claiming that Twitter misguided him and his team about the platform’s bot problem (viaNPR)....

August 9, 2025 · 3 min · 450 words · Jessica Chase

Family feud: Huawei P30 Pro vs. P20 Pro vs. Mate 20 Pro camera shootout

TheHuawei P30 Prohas a lot to live up to, thanks to its impressive family lineage. Its predecessor is theHuawei P20 Pro, a smartphone that gave the world Night mode, a monochrome lens, 3x zoom, and it’s still capable of taking some very special images. Then, theHuawei Mate 20 Proarrived with a wide-angle lens, and more artificial intelligence to add to the creative ability of the phone. Can the P30 Pro, with its up to 50x zoom and incredible low-light ability, surpass these two?...

August 9, 2025 · 8 min · 1522 words · Joshua Berry

Final UX3000 review: Affordable ANC bliss

When we think of the Final brand, we immediately think of its high-end audiophile gear. With the UX3000, though, we’re seeing something completely different. While the company’s extravagant (and painfully expensive) Sonorous series ofheadphonesare the kind of cans that have their own dedicated listening room and wires that have to be handled with satin gloves, the UX3000 are ones you would happily rock on your morning commute. These areANC Bluetooth headphonesat a very affordable price point....

August 9, 2025 · 6 min · 1266 words · Michael Perez