Gemini, Google’s ambitious new AI for phones, will make its way to Pixel 8 Pros next week. On the Apple side, we might begin to see M3-powered iPads and MacBook Airs hitting store shelves a lot sooner than we expected. Gizmodo’s consumer tech team has all the latest news and more. Here’s a roundup of …
I reviewed the first Surface Laptop Studio (SLS) back in 2021 and walked away confused about what the device aimed to accomplish. Unfortunately, the Surface Laptop Studio 2 maintains that confusion and supplements it with better internals. Sure, the SLS2 is faster than the original SLS, but beyond that, it’s just as bizarre a device …
Smartphones could soon be webcams on Windows too (symbolic image, image: Apple) Attention Windows users: your own smartphone could soon be used as a webcam on a PC, which in most cases is likely to be a very strong webcam. A corresponding function is to be rolled out soon. With Microsoft Phone Link, Microsoft provides …
Oppo smartphones will soon work better with PCs and laptops running on Microsoft’s Windows 11 and Windows 10 operating systems, thanks to the addition of support for Phone Link and Link to Windows. At the recently concluded 2023 Oppo Developers Conference, both companies announced that support for the two apps was coming to Oppo, OnePlus, …
If you think Microsoft is keen to get faithful Windows 10 users to upgrade their PCs to Windows 11 – or even fork out for a shiny new computer to get the latest software – then you might be surprised to hear the tech giant intends to bring one of Windows 11’s newest high tech …
TL;DR OneDrive’s latest update on Windows 11 now requires users to provide reasons for quitting the app, without which you cannot close the app. This is the latest tactic from Microsoft to promote its services within Windows heavily. OneDrive is a good competitor to Google Drive, and it makes a lot of sense for Microsoft …
Microsoft has extended support for several of its Windows-running Surface PCs from four years to six, ensuring that many models launched since 2021 will be kept up to date for longer. The US tech giant is promising to provide all Surface computers released in or since 2021 with firmware and driver updates that should help to …
While Diablo 4 has been finding its feet again of late, if you’re feeling like a break then a Torchlight Steam sale is the perfect opportunity to get some distance from Blizzard’s game and discover two of the best Diablo-style releases ever. With the first two games in the series, both boasting 9/10 Steam user …
Doom 3 might not be like the rest of the series when looking back at it, but when the survival horror take on the most iconic FPS game of all time is available for free, there’s very little reason to complain about giving it a go for the first time. If you’re an Amazon Prime subscriber …
Windows 12 release date might have been leaked recently and could arrive on computers in the coming months. Microsoft’s purported successor to Windows 11 is expected to be the next major refresh after Windows 11 was released in October 2021 with visual changes elements like the taskbar, Windows Explorer, as well as support for widgets. …