From PC Mag: Apple’s latest earnings results included its best-ever iPhone sales period. The new iPhone 17 series helped set the record-breaking results, plus Apple continued to see strong sales of existing iPhone 16 devices despite reportedly weaker-than-expected interest in its experimental iPhone...

From PC World: Google recently announced in a statement that it has disrupted the “world’s largest residential proxy network.” It was able to remain undetected for a long time, hijacking innocent users’ private devices (including smartphones, PCs, and smart home devices) and using them as gateways...

From CNET: It's reported that Apple is preparing to show off the new Gemini AI enhanced Siri Voice Assistant as early as the second half of February. This is exciting news for Apple users, and it was reported by Mark Gurman at Bloomberg, who has a proven track record with Apple rumors.

The reveal...

From PC Mag: Samsung plans to release its long-anticipated augmented reality (AR) glasses before the end of the year. In its Q4 2025 earnings call, a Samsung representative briefly spoke about the new form factor and how it will form part of the brand’s AI and AR expansions.

Seong Cho, head of...

From PC World: Nvidia might be driving up the cost of PC gaming to fuel the ever-hungry gullet of the “AI” boom, but at least it offers a somewhat affordable alternative to expensive GPUs. GeForce Now is a great choice for game streaming, if you have a good internet connection and a beefy Steam...

From CNET: Android users, take note: On Tuesday, Google reached a preliminary settlement in a class action lawsuit over illegal data collection. If it goes through, Google will pay out $135 million to Android phone users, possibly the largest settlement of this kind in history.

According to the...

From PC Mag: Amazon has announced it is cutting approximately 16,000 roles across the company. This comes just three months after it cut 14,000 jobs and warned that further reductions were on the way.

The reason for the new round of layoffs is the same as the last one: "reducing layers, increasing...

From PC World: Google is planning to replace ChromeOS—the operating system that currently powers Chromebooks—with a new one called Aluminium OS. It promises to combine the strengths of ChromeOS and Android into a single, cross-platform operating system… and though it’s far from an official release...

From CNET: Belkin is ending support for most of its Wemo smart home devices, a move that will shut down the Wemo app and cloud services and significantly reduce the functionality of many popular smart plugs, switches and sensors.

The change takes effect at the end of January, so you have only a...