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For many years, Apple has taken the stance that touchscreens and laptops don’t go together—Cupertino will happily point you toward its iPad line for that functionality. However, according to a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple engineers are actively engaged in a project to add touchscreens to Macs. According to anonymous people familiar with the plans, the first touch-capable Macs, which might also work with gestures, could arrive in 2025 as part of a larger update to the MacBook Pro....

Bloomberg reports that Blevins made the regrettable statement in a September 5 video for Daniel Mac, part of a series where the TikTok and Instagram creator asks owners of expensive vehicles what they do for a living. Blevins was coming out of a Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren, which can be bought for between $300,000 and $500,000, at a Pebble Beach, California, car show when Mac asked about his occupation. “I have rich cars, play golf, and fondle big-breasted women, but I take weekends and major holidays off,” Blevins said, adding that he also had a hell of a dental plan....

With Apple expected to announce the iPhone 14 series at their special “Far Out” event on September 7, rumors are still going strong. The latest leak comes from a short hands-on video posted on the Chinese social media website Weibo by Chinese tipster DuanRui, which hints at the iPhone 14’s radical redesign and new colors. The dummy iPhone Pro 14 unit could resemble the final design, as it reaffirms previous leaks, such as the move from a notched to a punched-hole design....

The sixth-generation iPhone has finally landed following months of rumors and speculation, and this time there are plenty of changes internally and aesthetically. It addresses a number of concerns that critics have raised over the past year, but as with any high-profile launch (and especially with Apple products), new complaints have already surfaced. We’ll investigate these and more as we put the iPhone 5 under the microscope. Apple has almost completely redesigned the iPhone’s exterior, yet it still looks very much like the iconic handset everyone is familiar with....

Apple’s redesigned MacBook Air is still on track for release later this year, even though it won’t sport an M2 chip or a Mini LED display. Like the latest MacBook Pro 14 and MacBook Pro 16, it will bring back the beloved MagSafe charging port and possibly fast charging along with it. The rumor mill has long hinted at the existence of a larger, 15-inch MacBook Air as an internal project that supposedly encountered several roadblocks over the past few years....

Previous App Store guidelines prevented reader apps from linking to their website counterparts. Presumably, this was to influence developers to use its payment system in their apps so the App Store could take a 30-percent cut. However, it only prompted these players to add pop-up notices saying they could not perform transactions within the app. Last September, Apple agreed to start letting certain apps link to their corresponding websites to close an antitrust investigation in Japan....

Okay now for the fun, or should I say “frustrating” part of our review: testing the Lucid HydraLogix engine. We had big plans to run numerous graphics card configurations to show you what the controller is capable of. Unfortunately, those plans were crushed. Testing this portion of the the Asus Crosshair IV Extreme quickly became a nightmare and for whatever reason, we weren’t able to get the HydraLogix engine working correctly....

There are just 16 PCI Express lanes integrated onto the CPU die, so Crossfire or SLI must use a dual x8 configuration. In theory, single graphics card performance on the LGA1156 platform will not suffer, whereas dual and triple card configurations might. However because PCI Express 2.0 is being used, we get double the bandwidth, and therefore an x8 lane will deliver 4.0GB/s of bandwidth. This means dual card configurations using current generation graphics cards should work rather well on P55 motherboards, though triple and quad card configurations should see a noticeable performance loss....

Street Fighter IV is one of the least demanding games that we are testing with and therefore the Radeon HD 5570 was able to render 58.5fps at 1920x1200. This allowed the Radeon HD 5570 to match the Radeon HD 4670, but was 11% slower than the Radeon HD 3850 and 26% slower than the GeForce 9600 GT.

Starting with CPUs, August was another period in which Intel scored a rare win over AMD as team blue’s processor share among participants rose by 1.65% to 67.91%. AMD had enjoyed many months of chipping away at Intel’s lead in this area, but Lisa Su’s company has experienced both rises and falls since the release of Alder Lake. Don’t be surprised to see an uptick in AMD CPU owners following the Ryzen 7000 launch on September 27, though....

Testing Battlefield 3 was somewhat of a nightmare due to the clumsy system used to find games which relies on an external web browser. Rather than feature an in-game finder Battlefield 3 beta cannot be accessed until the player has found and joined a game. This means it’s not possible to change settings until the player is actively playing on a map. We used Fraps to measure frame rates during a minute of gameplay from the multiplayer map Operation Metro....

For testing CPU performance we are using Battlefield V’s 64-player Conquest mode, which creates a number of challenges for accurate testing, but nonetheless we threw ourselves at the task. Fluctuation between runs can be quite large compared to our Battlefield V single player GPU benchmark, which often delivers the same average frame rates and 1% low results over and over again. With high-end hardware a deviation of more than a few frames is rare, though testing with multiplayer we were often seeing up to a ~10 fps difference for the average frame rate....

The Pentium G3258 crushes the Athlon X4 860K in Grand Theft Auto V when using the R9 285, offering an average of 46.6fps, 25% faster than the X4 860K’s 37.2fps. The Athlon looked much better when paired with the GTX 960, but still the Pentium G3258 was clearly faster with a 7% performance advantage. The G3258 was around 5% faster than the X4 860K when testing The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt with both the R9 285 and GTX 960....

Thief has never been kind to AMD processors (without Mantle enabled) so it isn’t that surprising for the Pentium G3258 to beat the Athlon X4 860K by an 18% margin when both are overclocked to 4.4GHz. With the GTX 960, installed the performance margin favoring the Pentium is extended, as it now leads the Athlon by a 25% margin. The overclocked G3258 averaged 55.1fps in Watch_Dogs using the R9 285, making it just 2% or 1....

Last month, the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) officially canceled this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). That’s unfortunate for gamers and the industry alike, but as they say, “the show must go on.” Days later, Geoff Keighley announced that Summer Game Fest would return this June. Keighley’s Summer Game Fest returns for its third year. If past events are any indication, this year’s show will be packed full of game news and announcements from the world’s leading game creators....

This week, Bethesda announced that it would start letting its PC game client users start migrating their purchases and wallets to their Steam accounts in early April. The launcher will no longer be accessible beginning in May. Bethesda will provide details on migrating games when the feature becomes available, but it won’t cost anything. Save files will also transfer. Most will carry over to the new platform automatically. However, users might have to move some manually....

If you’re in the market for a new phone and don’t have a ton of money to spend, most companies would want you to look at their collection of mid-range and entry-level handsets. But that’s not always the smartest move. If you know where to look, the flagship phones of yesteryear can provide considerably better hardware and value at a price comparable to brand new budget and mid-range phones ($100+ to $350)....

Bitcoin finally passed the $20,000 mark over the weekend, having languished below that milestone since the start of November. BTC is currently at $21,161, and while that’s around $20,000 less than it was 12 months earlier and far from the near-$69,000 all-time high, it’s still a positive sign for investors who have endured crypto’s most difficult year to date. Bitcoin’s price over the last 12 months Last year’s crypto winter kicked off when TerraUSD collapsed in May and was exacerbated by the implosion of exchange FTX....

The real key to the practicality of a tablet or smartphone today are the apps that come with it and the availability of more apps to expand its usefulness. Apple’s iPad has over 65,000 apps ready to go in the iTunes App Store, as well as strong email, contact, and calendar apps pre-installed. Google’s Android 3.0 Honeycomb platform only has a handful of tablet specific apps currently, but it does provide stellar core apps to manage email, IM, contacts, and calendar and can run existing Android smartphone apps....

The days of a BlackBerry being the definitive smartphone are gone. The BlackBerry Z10 debuts at a time when smartphones are as much about play as they are productivity, and this phone can thrive in this era only if it can strike a balance between entertainment and enterprise. Can the BlackBerry Z10 be the savior that BlackBerry - the company and operating system - so desperately needs? Hardware & Design The BlackBerry Z10 has what many might consider a generic appearance....