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(Image credit: Nintendo) A Major gaming hardware manufacturer and publisher has predicted the Nintendo Switch 2 launch window Nacon suggests it will be between April and September 2025 Nintendo has confirmed the console is coming this year, but not provided any further information on its release Major gaming hardware manufacturer and publisher Nacon has predicted that the Nintendo Switch 2 could launch as early as April. In its most recent quarterly report , Nacon stated that it was expecting a successful first half of the 2025/26 fiscal year, which runs from April to September 2025, thanks to “several positive […]

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Photograph: Apple MacOS Sequoia, also known as macOS 15, is the latest version of Apple’s desktop operating system. The new OS packs a ton of new capabilities onto the Mac, including a password management app, videoconferencing tools, and updates to Safari as well as all the features that come with Apple Intelligence —the company’s new artificial intelligence-powered system. Below, we break down how to download it and all the latest goodies in this software update. Be sure to check out our iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 roundup for all the new features coming to your iPhone and iPad, and […]

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Members of the Libertarian Party chanting and demanding the release of Ross Ulbricht at the party’s national convention in Washington, DC, in 2024.Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images A little over 11 years and three months ago, Ross Ulbricht was arrested in the science fiction section of a public library in San Francisco, caught with his laptop still logged in to the Silk Road , the world’s first dark-web drug market that he created and ran under the pseudonym the Dread Pirate Roberts. Now, after being sentenced to life in prison and spending more than a decade behind bars, Ulbricht will […]

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Meta Mark Gurman at Bloomberg has released a report about Meta’s next steps in hardware, crediting sources familiar with the company’s work. According to these insiders, Meta is developing at least three new smart glasses models and has set a roadmap toward releasing its first true augmented reality glasses. The company is reportedly also continuing efforts to implement AI tools in a wrist wearable and in earbuds. Meta already sells smart glasses in partnership with Ray-Ban, a product line internally called Supernova. Gurman reports that this existing lineup will be introduced to new markets, although he didn’t offer specifics […]

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(Image credit: Ann in the uk/Shutterstock) Parents want nothing more than to protect their kids and keep them safe – both in real life and in the online world. The best parental control apps for iOS and Android make it easy for you to know how your children are spending their time online. In addition to showing you what they do on their phones and tablets, many parental control apps come with Windows and Mac software for their computers as well. We spent dozens of hours testing the apps below, installing and uninstalling them on multiple phones, testing all […]

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The Nintendo Switch 2 could avoid its predecessor’s stock shortage issues The company is expected to supply around 20 million units in year one That’s likely enough to cover first year demand worldwide The Nintendo Switch 2 is expected to be readily available when it launches later in 2025, with analysts predicting a huge improvement to supply over the original Switch console. As reported by Bloomberg , analysts are expecting Nintendo’s suppliers to ship around 20 million units to retailers in the console’s first year on the market. This appears to be a big jump from the original Nintendo […]

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(Image credit: Shutterstock) A blog post hinted that the free Windows 11 upgrade might only be available for a limited time Microsoft has taken down that blog post The software giant clarified in no uncertain terms that the free upgrade does not have any time limit attached The free upgrade to Windows 11 won’t be canned when Windows 10 runs out of support, as a recent hint dropped by Microsoft seemed to indicate might be a possibility. This stemmed from a blog post written about the free upgrade to Windows 11, where in the headline, the author had noted […]

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Photograph: Getty Images In olden times, people dug holes in the ground to look for gold. They called it mining. But why is gold valuable, anyway? Well, mostly because humans decided it was valuable. Yeah, but why gold ? Well, one cool thing about element 79 is that it doesn’t interact with the oxygen in the air, so it stays shiny all the time. Also, it’s rare enough to be a status symbol. But really, money is just a social convention—we decide to make stuff worth other stuff. What about cryptocurrency? This is also made up by humans. You […]

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(Image credit: Huawei) When I first heard of the Huawei Mate XT back in September 2024, I wasn’t quite sure what to make of it. I’d believed that larger folding displays were the key to truly gamechanging foldable devices for some time, spurred on by my fervent appreciation of the OnePlus Open , but seeing one come to reality took a moment to sink in. Looking back, I suppose I had a case of what you could call the first-generation jitters – cast your mind back to 2019 and the original Samsung Galaxy Fold , an unreliable and fragile […]

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