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CNET Most Popular ProductsApr 01, 2025
Not Ready for AI? How to Turn Off All or Part of Apple Intelligence
iOS 18.4 adds new features to Apple Intelligence, but you can opt out of the still-beta technology.

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CNET Most Popular ProductsApr 01, 2025
McDonald's Launches Minecraft Happy Meals, Plus a 'Nether' Hot Sauce for Nuggets
The promotion is tied into A Minecraft Movie and is now available.

Yahoo TechnologyApr 01, 2025
Global deal activity disappoints, M&A revenue falls as Trump pursues tariffs


Mac RumorsApr 01, 2025
Visa and American Express Vying to Win Apple Card Deal in 'Fierce' Fight
Visa wants to pay Apple approximately $100 million to be the new payment network for the Apple Card, reports The Wall Street Journal. As of right now, the ?Apple Card? is on the Mastercard payment network, but that is set to change because Apple is ending its partnership with Goldman Sachs.


GizmodoApr 01, 2025
Arkansas Judge Kills Social Media Age Verification Law, Says It Violates the First Amendment


"Arkansas takes a hatchet to adults' and minors' protected speech alike though the Constitution demands it use a scalpel," the judge said.


GizmodoApr 01, 2025
It's One Particle Accelerator, Michael. What Could It Cost—$17 Billion?


CERN says there are no technical issues with plans for its Future Circular Collider—though the expected costs are exorbitant.


GizmodoApr 01, 2025
Meta's $1,000 Smartglasses Will Likely Have a Tiny Display and a Potential Problem with Interoperability


Meta's 'Hypernova' glasses could cost well over $1,000 and include a tiny display on one lens with its own, tiny app tray.


GizmodoApr 01, 2025
Longtime Writing Community NaNoWriMo Shuts Down After AI Drama


National Novel Writing Month is no more (at least formally).


GizmodoApr 01, 2025
Substack Says It Will Protect Writers Targeted by Trump's Government


The promise comes as a Tufts student faces deportation over an op-ed.


PC World Latest NewsApr 01, 2025
Coolify's ‘holographic' PC case fans are now available to buy

Well, "holograms," in quotes. Coolify has apparently put those spinning LED displays—the ones that are a bit flickery and sort of transparent since they're made with spinning bars—on a PC case fan. PCWorld's Mark Hachman spotted them at Computex in 2024:




EngadgetApr 01, 2025
TikTok's ban deadline is coming. What happens next?
TikTok's deadline to sell off or cede its US operations is once again approaching. The 75-day extension delaying the enforcement of a nationwide TikTok ban is set to run out Saturday, April 5, unless the company finally reaches an agreement to find a new owner. Who might buy it, and what happens if no deal is reached? Here's the shape of things right now:

Potential buyers President Donald Trump has suggested that "a deal" is imminent and could be reached before that deadline. What such an agreement will look like is still extremely unclear. A number of interested buyers have come forward, including YouTuber MrBeast, Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian and Perplexity AI. Oracle, which almost bought TikTok in 2020 and was a key part of TikTok's earlier negotiations to address national security concerns, is also in the running.

Depending on which bid wins out, TikTok could end up looking very different. ByteDance, TikTok's Chinese owner, won't allow another company to take control of the app's coveted recommendation algorithm. That means a new owner would have to rebuild TikTok's central feature. Perplexity AI, for example, has said it would take on this task of reverse-engineering the app's "For You" feed, making it


PC World Latest NewsApr 01, 2025
Windows 10 holdouts are finally starting to switch to Windows 11

As it turns out, March was a particularly bad month for Windows 10. The aging operating system saw its biggest drop in user base to date, a whopping 4.43 percentage points. Windows 10 is now running on 54.23 percent of Windows computers worldwide.

On the other hand, Windows 11 saw its biggest user growth in three years. The share of Windows 11 users grew by 4.53 percentage points, to 42.66 percent of all Windows desktop users. That's still significantly behind Windows 10, but it's the rate that's important here.

It seems Microsoft's constant alerts about Windows 10 reaching end of support in October are finally showing results. With just six months to go, users are running out of time.

If you're still on Windows 10, you'll need to upgrade to Windows 11 or pay to extend Windows 10 support. If you do neither, you'll stop receiving security updates and your PC will become increasingly vu


GizmodoApr 01, 2025
This Mini Spy Camera Is Amazon's Best-Seller, Now Available at a Price That's Too Good to Pass Up


Regardless of your needs, this hidden camera can prove to be incredibly useful.


PC World Latest NewsApr 01, 2025
Annoyed by the new Plex app? Change these 4 settings

Yes, all this sounds familiar, although it's not yet clear if we're seeing a typical rough landing for an app revamp or a Sonos-level dumpster fire. Plex does have a laundry list of issues it plans to address in the coming weeks (again, déjà vu), and the laggy, stuttering app performance will hopefully improve over time. We'll be watching. 

In the meantime, there are some Plex "new experience" issues we can tackle right now, starting with the Live TV, Discover, and On Demand tabs at the bottom of the screen. You can't swap them out with other options, unfortunately, but you can make them go away. 

Another "new experience" feature we can hide are the user reviews for movies and TV shows in your Plex library. If you love seeing what random folks thought about the content on your Plex media servers, then hey, leave ‘em be. Want to hide them? No problem. 



ResearchBuzzApr 01, 2025
Less Than 1000 Followers, Apple iOS, Zorin OS, More: Tuesday ResearchBuzz, April 1, 2025
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CNET Most Popular ProductsApr 01, 2025
Plex Rolls Out Updated Mobile App
The improvements arrive ahead of a Plex Pass price hike.

GizmodoApr 01, 2025
That Tweet About Elon Musk's Botched Penis Being Real Is Fake


Ashley St. Clair didn't actually confirm the rumors.


EngadgetApr 01, 2025
Amazon Spring Sale tech deals: The best sales you can still get from Apple, Bose, iRobot, Dyson and others
This year's Amazon Spring Sale has ended, but there are still some deals floating around that you can take advantage of. While this shopping event focused the discounts on household, outdoor and fashion gear, a number of our favorite gadgets made it into the sale. In line with the "spring" theme, we found great discounts on cordless vacuums, robot vacuums, air purifiers and other smart home tech, along with solid deals on headphones, streaming devices, mesh Wi-Fi systems and more. Here, we've collected the best Amazon Spring Sale deals you can still get today even after the event has ended.

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PC World Latest NewsApr 01, 2025
Finally! Microsoft brings most Copilot AI features to AMD, Intel PCs

If you've been paying attention, you know that the Windows world is badly fragmented. Not only are users split between Windows 10 and Windows 11, but Windows 11 users aren't even all on the same version. Now, over the past year, AI has added another wrinkle with Microsoft mainly developing its Copilot PC features for Qualcomm's Snapdragon X platform while neglecting AMD's Ryzen AI 300 and Intel's Core Ultra 200 series processors.

Fortunately, that's changing. On Monday, Microsoft wrote in a blog post that PCs powered by AMD Ryzen AI 300 series, Intel Core Ultra 200V, and Snapdragon X series processors are all eligible for "exclusive Copilot PC experiences like Live Captions, Cocreator, Restyle Image, and Image Creator." The word "like" offers some wiggle room, since other AI-powered experiences—such as the ability to resize photos—is only available in the Photos app on PCs running on a Snapdragon chip.

Still, it's a major step up for AMD and Intel. Microsoft and its partners launched Copilot PCs in May 2024, showing off all of its favored AI features on Snapdragon machines. Although Microsoft promised that it would soon bring those features to Copilot PCs powered by AMD and Intel, months passed… Microsoft then eventually released Windows Recall for Copilot Snapdragon PCs, then offered that feature


EngadgetApr 01, 2025
British authors want Meta to answer for alleged copyright infringement
Creatives in the UK are once again speaking out against AI developers accessing copyrighted material. The Society of Authors have published an open letter calling for UK Secretary of State Lisa Nandy to hold Meta accountable for possible copyright infringement regarding its LLM, Llama 3. Signatories of the letter include successful British authors Richard Osman, Kazuo Ishiguro, Val McDermid and Sarah Waters. 

A March 20 article in The Atlantic served as the letter's impetus. It reported that Meta had used LibGen, a pirated collection of over 7.5 million books, to train its AI models. Anyone on the internet over the last few weeks has likely seen videos of distraught authors learning that their work is available on the database (and potentially used by Meta without their permission). A lawsuit in the US alleges Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg approved the use of LibGen's data to train its AI. The lawsuit's plaintiffs include writers Sarah Silverman and Ta-Nehisi Coates.

"These cases are shining a light on the unscrupulous behaviour exhibited by global tech companies which seemingly exploit copyright-protected material, safe in the knowledge that they will not be held to account," the Society of Authors' letter stated. "This must change, and global tech companies


PC World Latest NewsApr 01, 2025
There's finally a replacement for Adobe Acrobat, and it lasts for life

Many of the most popular PDF apps switched to subscriptions, meaning you're functionally paying to be able to use an extremely common file type. If you don't want to pay every month for as long as you need to use PDFs, then replace your subscription to Acrobat with a perpetual license to SwifDoo.

This all-in-one PDF app can edit, annotate, rearrange, scan, and do a whole lot more to any PDF file, and you only pay for it once. It's normally $129, but right now, a SwifDoo Perpetual License is on sale for $29.97.

How to use PDFs without a subscription SwifDoo is a simple tool. It lets you work with PDFs about as easily as if they were Word docs. You can edit text, add annotations, convert between different file types, or just sign documents. SwifDoo also lets you encrypt PDFs, compress them for easier file transfers, and rearrange pages. The OCR can even recognize text on documents that you couldn't edit before. So all those hard copies lacking an original can finally go digital again.

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EngadgetMar 31, 2025
Amazon Spring Sale vacuum deals: This iRobot 2-in-1 vacuum and mop is still on sale for $149
If you're looking for a budget-friendly robot vacuum that can handle both vacuuming and mopping, iRobot's Roomba Combo Essential just hit its lowest price ever. Thanks to the Amazon Spring Sale, it's down to $149 from $275, matching the lowest price we've seen. It previously dipped to $149 during the holiday season and earlier this year, but it's unclear how long this deal will stick around this time.

As you can see in our roundup of the best budget robot vacuums, we've consistently rated iRobot's machines highly for their reliability and ease of use. The Roomba Combo Essential is a simple, no-frills option that both vacuums and mops, making it a solid pick for small apartments, dorm rooms or anyone who wants a cleaner floor without spending a fortune


Mac RumorsMar 27, 2025
'iPhone Fold' to Feature Metallic Glass Hinge That Resists Deformation
Last week, we covered a report claiming that Apple's book-style foldable iPhone (or "iPhone Fold," as we are provisionally calling it here) will use liquid metal hinges to improve durability and help minimize screen creasing. Today, a Chinese leaker provided more details on the properties of this hinge material that help to clarify why Apple chose it for its first foldable device.

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