Apple is increasingly focusing on building its own devices and expanding its ecosystem by taking steps towards a more native experience for users and relying less on third-party accessories. While the Cupertino-based tech giant's HomePod and AppleTV have left quite the mark in the smart home category, it generally relies more on outsourcing cameras and other hardware for smart homes. Now, a new report suggests that the company intends to create a fully integrated experience by developing its own smart home accessories. Gurman hints about Apple working on making smart home products like security cameras for a more integrated experience […]
We’re continuing our Best of Black Friday posts today with a look at the best current deals on power stations and their respective bundle options. Folks across the country and beyond have been steadily investing more and more in the industry for a vari...
Blizzard has announced that two decades after its release, World of Warcraft is finally going to let players build a home and live in it. The feature has long been requested by WoW players and now it’s finally coming in the game’s next expansion.Read m...
Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds will receive the Godspawn update, adding a new 50-player boss battle, a new 10-player raid, and a legendary spear. Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds is getting the first major update "Godspawn" on November 19th, expanding the story with new story chapters The MMORPG Guild Wars 2 by ArenaNet is receiving its first major update for the Janthir Wilds expansion soon. It's the first of three major updates, and it'll land on November 19. The update will add new content to the game for the players. The Janthir Wilds expansion DLC was released in August this year, […]
The iPhone range has always lagged behind the competition in battery charging speeds, and we cannot confirm whether Apple introduced this limitation to increase longevity or if it did so because it adopts the newest standards slower than the rest of the industry. Fortunately, where the iPhone 16 family is involved, it is possible that we see wired charging speeds supported up to 45W, thanks to the latest certification leak. Last year’s iPhone 15 series could not even touch 30W, iPhone 16 finally competes with Samsung’s Galaxy S24 models in this regard A regulatory body called China Quality Certification Centre […]
One hardware consistency with the iPhone 16 series is that all of them feature a chipset that takes advantage of TSMC’s second-generation 3nm process. In short, Apple is giving the less expensive models the flagship treatment in this regard, but to introduce some contrast between the ‘Pro’ and ‘non-Pro’ variants, the company resorted to chip binning, which is a common practice in this industry. The technology giant has followed this approach before, and possibly repeated it this year, as you will soon read about. The only difference between the A18 and A18 Pro is a single GPU core; everything else […]
An early single-core and multi-core result of the A18 running in the iPhone 16 was rather disappointing, showing that the SoC was slightly slower than the A17 Pro featured in the iPhone 15 Pro Max. Fortunately, the updated scores are here, with the multi-threaded scores displaying an almost 28 percent higher figure compared to the previous benchmarking run. A18’s single-core score also sees an improvement, but Geekbench 6 was tested on a different iPhone 16 The new scores were shared by @negativeonehero, showing that the A18 obtained a single-core score and multi-core score of 3,409 and 8,492. Compared to the previous […]
Prior to the "Its Glowtime" event, many reports surfaced that suggested that this September might be the first time Apple would be updating its entire Apple Watch series. However, much to the user's dismay, the focus of yesterday's announcement remained on the Apple Watch Series 10 and the new color option for the Apple Watch Ultra 2. Contrary to our expectations, we did not see a new Apple Watch SE or the Apple Watch Ultra 3 being rolled out. An analyst now suggests the two models will be coming out in 2025. Apple Watch Ultra 3 was missing from yesterday's […]
The A18 Pro exclusively powers the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max, with Apple making bold statements about its top-end 3nm chipset for mobile devices. One of them was hardware-accelerated ray tracing, which is a feature that was supported by last year’s A17 Pro. While we should get a decent gaming performance bump with the latest SoC compared to the previous generation, the technology giant says that that difference could be twice as much in hardware-accelerated ray tracing. With the A18 Pro, Apple says that with Game Mode enabled, users can expect better sustained framerates for prolonged gaming […]
It has yet to be 24 hours since Apple announced the new iPhone 16 series, and we have already spotted the first single-core and multi-core results for one of the newly unveiled models. Unfortunately, the results are much lower than what you would expect from an A18 or A18 Pro, but there is little cause for worry, as you will soon find out. Apple’s M4 also displayed some anomalies in early Geekbench 6 results, so the benchmarking app could be updated to reflect the iPhone 16’s actual performance One of the newest benchmark listings on Geekbench 6 that was spotted […]
USB-C is now a widely used port in the industry due to its compatibility across multiple devices and the faster data processing and transfer speed. Apple has been slowly making the shift from its Lightning port to the more in-trend standard for charging and data transfer. This transition could be seen when the iPhone 15 lineup came out and continued with the iPhone 16 and 16 Pro models. While the company has pivoted in terms of the physical port, the charging speeds still continue to be the same in the newer models. iPhone 16 and 16 Pro might still have […]
Both iPhone 16 models come with the new A18 Pro chip, and according to Apple, it is 15 percent more powerful than the A17 Pro chip that came before it. The company has achieved a great feat this time around by offering the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max with the same specifications and features. Previously, the smaller 'Pro' model of the iPhone always got left behind in a few features due to its size and from factor. This time, though, the company has kept them at the same level, but there are two major aspects that still […]
The iPhone 16 and 16 Pro are the company's flagship devices that feature desktop-class performance thanks to the new A18 and A18 Pro chips. The new SoC is a significant step up from the previous A17 Pro chip, delivering better computational and graphical performance alongside a much more capable Neural Engine for advanced machine learning. This brings us to ask actually how fast Apple's new A18 Pro chip is compared to last year's A17 Pro chip in terms of performance and efficiency. Apple says that its A18 Pro chip is 15 percent faster than last year's A17 Pro while being […]
Supporting the latest wireless standards was always taken at a snail’s pace by Apple, but with the iPhone 16 launch, the company has decided to take things up a notch and adopted Wi-Fi 7. In fact, every single model that was announced during the ‘It’s Glowtime’ event supports the new technology, bringing in a wave of improvements and advantages to the table. Wi-Fi 7 is not just speedier than previous-generation standards, but it operates on a different channel, resulting in reduced interference The international Wi-Fi Alliance consortium unveiled the Wi-Fi 7 standard earlier this year, and it did not take […]
Today, Apple has seen fit to seed the first release candidate build of its forthcoming iOS 18, iPadOS 18, watchOS 11, macOS 15 and other updates. The latest updates arrive soon after the company announced the new iPhone 16 lineup alongside the new Apple Watch Series 10, which, to be fair, are pretty major upgrades compared to their predecessor. Apple seeds release candidate build of iOS 18, macOS 15, watchOS 11, and additional updates to developers Apple has also announced that it will be releasing the final version of iOS 18 for the general public on September 16, making it […]
Apple has been reported on several occasions to introduce an 8GB RAM upgrade for all iPhone 16 models, but there was always a sliver of a chance that the company would hit the audience with a nasty surprise. Thankfully, that was not the case here, as information uncovered in the latest version of Apple’s developer tool Xcode 16 revealed the memory count for the four models. This pretty much means that now, customers do not have to spend a premium if a RAM upgrade was at the top of their purchasing priorities. Introducing 8GB RAM as a standard specification for […]
Vampire Survivors draws tons of inspiration from Castlevania, so it is no surprise that the new Ode To Castlevania DLC is fantastic. I’m here to guide you through unlocking each Hero and evolving each weapon, because that’s how you’ll end up accessing ...
I started playing Overwatch in 2019. By the time I was pushing payloads and getting Play of the Game with a well-placed Tactical Visor, a lot of the old hero kits and team compositions that were infamous when the hero shooter launched in 2016 were more...
The iPhone range has always lagged behind the competition in battery charging speeds, and we cannot confirm whether Apple introduced this limitation to increase longevity or if it did so because it adopts the newest standards slower than the rest of the industry. Fortunately, where the iPhone 16 family is involved, it is possible that we see wired charging speeds supported up to 45W, thanks to the latest certification leak. Last year’s iPhone 15 series could not even touch 30W, iPhone 16 finally competes with Samsung’s Galaxy S24 models in this regard A regulatory body called China Quality Certification Centre […]
One hardware consistency with the iPhone 16 series is that all of them feature a chipset that takes advantage of TSMC’s second-generation 3nm process. In short, Apple is giving the less expensive models the flagship treatment in this regard, but to introduce some contrast between the ‘Pro’ and ‘non-Pro’ variants, the company resorted to chip binning, which is a common practice in this industry. The technology giant has followed this approach before, and possibly repeated it this year, as you will soon read about. The only difference between the A18 and A18 Pro is a single GPU core; everything else […]
An early single-core and multi-core result of the A18 running in the iPhone 16 was rather disappointing, showing that the SoC was slightly slower than the A17 Pro featured in the iPhone 15 Pro Max. Fortunately, the updated scores are here, with the multi-threaded scores displaying an almost 28 percent higher figure compared to the previous benchmarking run. A18’s single-core score also sees an improvement, but Geekbench 6 was tested on a different iPhone 16 The new scores were shared by @negativeonehero, showing that the A18 obtained a single-core score and multi-core score of 3,409 and 8,492. Compared to the previous […]
Prior to the "Its Glowtime" event, many reports surfaced that suggested that this September might be the first time Apple would be updating its entire Apple Watch series. However, much to the user's dismay, the focus of yesterday's announcement remained on the Apple Watch Series 10 and the new color option for the Apple Watch Ultra 2. Contrary to our expectations, we did not see a new Apple Watch SE or the Apple Watch Ultra 3 being rolled out. An analyst now suggests the two models will be coming out in 2025. Apple Watch Ultra 3 was missing from yesterday's […]
The A18 Pro exclusively powers the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max, with Apple making bold statements about its top-end 3nm chipset for mobile devices. One of them was hardware-accelerated ray tracing, which is a feature that was supported by last year’s A17 Pro. While we should get a decent gaming performance bump with the latest SoC compared to the previous generation, the technology giant says that that difference could be twice as much in hardware-accelerated ray tracing. With the A18 Pro, Apple says that with Game Mode enabled, users can expect better sustained framerates for prolonged gaming […]
It has yet to be 24 hours since Apple announced the new iPhone 16 series, and we have already spotted the first single-core and multi-core results for one of the newly unveiled models. Unfortunately, the results are much lower than what you would expect from an A18 or A18 Pro, but there is little cause for worry, as you will soon find out. Apple’s M4 also displayed some anomalies in early Geekbench 6 results, so the benchmarking app could be updated to reflect the iPhone 16’s actual performance One of the newest benchmark listings on Geekbench 6 that was spotted […]
USB-C is now a widely used port in the industry due to its compatibility across multiple devices and the faster data processing and transfer speed. Apple has been slowly making the shift from its Lightning port to the more in-trend standard for charging and data transfer. This transition could be seen when the iPhone 15 lineup came out and continued with the iPhone 16 and 16 Pro models. While the company has pivoted in terms of the physical port, the charging speeds still continue to be the same in the newer models. iPhone 16 and 16 Pro might still have […]
Both iPhone 16 models come with the new A18 Pro chip, and according to Apple, it is 15 percent more powerful than the A17 Pro chip that came before it. The company has achieved a great feat this time around by offering the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max with the same specifications and features. Previously, the smaller 'Pro' model of the iPhone always got left behind in a few features due to its size and from factor. This time, though, the company has kept them at the same level, but there are two major aspects that still […]
The iPhone 16 and 16 Pro are the company's flagship devices that feature desktop-class performance thanks to the new A18 and A18 Pro chips. The new SoC is a significant step up from the previous A17 Pro chip, delivering better computational and graphical performance alongside a much more capable Neural Engine for advanced machine learning. This brings us to ask actually how fast Apple's new A18 Pro chip is compared to last year's A17 Pro chip in terms of performance and efficiency. Apple says that its A18 Pro chip is 15 percent faster than last year's A17 Pro while being […]
Supporting the latest wireless standards was always taken at a snail’s pace by Apple, but with the iPhone 16 launch, the company has decided to take things up a notch and adopted Wi-Fi 7. In fact, every single model that was announced during the ‘It’s Glowtime’ event supports the new technology, bringing in a wave of improvements and advantages to the table. Wi-Fi 7 is not just speedier than previous-generation standards, but it operates on a different channel, resulting in reduced interference The international Wi-Fi Alliance consortium unveiled the Wi-Fi 7 standard earlier this year, and it did not take […]
Today, Apple has seen fit to seed the first release candidate build of its forthcoming iOS 18, iPadOS 18, watchOS 11, macOS 15 and other updates. The latest updates arrive soon after the company announced the new iPhone 16 lineup alongside the new Apple Watch Series 10, which, to be fair, are pretty major upgrades compared to their predecessor. Apple seeds release candidate build of iOS 18, macOS 15, watchOS 11, and additional updates to developers Apple has also announced that it will be releasing the final version of iOS 18 for the general public on September 16, making it […]
Apple has been reported on several occasions to introduce an 8GB RAM upgrade for all iPhone 16 models, but there was always a sliver of a chance that the company would hit the audience with a nasty surprise. Thankfully, that was not the case here, as information uncovered in the latest version of Apple’s developer tool Xcode 16 revealed the memory count for the four models. This pretty much means that now, customers do not have to spend a premium if a RAM upgrade was at the top of their purchasing priorities. Introducing 8GB RAM as a standard specification for […]