Fortunately, it shouldn’t take too much extra space. ZikG/Shutterstock This week will see a shift in the calculations Google uses for account storage. Beginning July 7, all data in your Android backups will count toward the storage limit on your Google account. Under the company’s previous approach to backups, only media uploaded to […]

Microsoft is cutting 3,200 jobs in divisions outside of Xbox today, mostly targeting the organization’s Commercial Business segment. The layoffs come in addition to a large but expected firing spree that also hit Microsoft’s Xbox arm on Monday, July 6. Microsoft EVP and Chief People Officer Amy Coleman announced the Commercial Business layoffs in a blog post

When I first started testing Vizio’s 65-inch Mini LED Quantum TV, I thought the big story was that Vizio was back and that it had a quantum-dot TV for under $398 — the cheapest on the market. Vizio’s been pretty quiet since it was acquired by Walmart in 2024, so putting out a TV with

While many TVs released between 2010 and 2015 supported 3D, using the feature required clearing a series of annoying hurdles. You had to buy 3D glasses, which ranged from $10 to $20 for passive frames, to upwards of $50 for active glasses that required constant charging. You had to make sure your Blu-ray player supported

Baking sourdough bread is inherently old-fashioned, relying on natural fermentation and wild yeast instead of the simple, predictable commercial stuff. So it might sound anathema to bring a gadget into the mix. The trick to the Sourdough Sidekick — backed and branded by King Arthur flour — is that it promises to automate the boring

Anything released after 2028 will still be digital-only. frantic00/Shutterstock Sony’s move to abandon physical game discs may have elicited the “Everyone disliked that” response from the gaming world, but there’s a small consolation for game developers. As reported by Game File, Sony shared a private message to PlayStation developers and publishers that said they

The Ikko MindOne Pro is delightfully small. I keep calling it a square phone, which isn’t quite right; the screen is square, but the phone itself is slightly rectangular. The camera flips up so you can use it for selfies — you can even open it partway to use as a stand or a kind

This week marked the beginning of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time, a massive effort to observe the sky that comes more than two decades in the making. It could help us to better understand our own solar system and the mysteries of the cosmos, from dark energy and dark

I know a vocal group of people who swear by the number pad on their keyboard. And yet, for years I haven’t cared about using one — until I put my hands on the Epomaker RT98. It’s a mechanical keyboard with a charming retro aesthetic, a fun CRT-like screen, VIA compatibility, a nice typing feel,

A robotic spacecraft called LINK will soon tug the telescope to a higher orbit. NASA The NASA Swift Boost mission has launched from Marshall Islands on July 3 at 4:36AM Eastern time after a couple of delays, and the agency has started preparing it for its ultimate goal: To rescue the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory,