On the bottom, you'll find a striking addition. The drive includes a MagSafe connector—the first I have seen on an SSD—that lets you attach the unit to compatible devices, such as an Apple iPhone 15 or later.

The Core Ultra Series 3 lineup, especially the flagship Core Ultra X9 388H equipped with 12 Xe3 graphics cores, delivers a level of gaming performance previously unseen from Intel silicon. Based on my testing, that leap is immediately apparent. Paired with Intel’s revamped upscaling technology, Xe Super Sampling (now branded as XeSS 3), I experienced smooth, responsive gameplay even in demanding titles like Cyberpunk 2077. Taken together, Intel's advances in integrated graphics signal a potentially transformative moment for PC gaming.

In Pathologic 3, you play as the Bachelor, a traveling doctor who aids a plague-ridden town. Unravel the mystery behind the bizarre sickness, manage your resources, and make critical patient diagnoses in this narrative-driven, survival-horror title.

Apple Creator Studio, which bundles together the company’s creative tools under a monthly subscription, not unlike Adobe’s Creative Cloud, rolled out earlier this month. The bundle gives users access not only to Apple’s music-editing software Logic Pro and its video-editing software Final Cut Pro, but also to image editor Pixelmator Pro, motion-graphics tool Motion, file-conversion app Compressor, and live-performance companion MainStage.

But at CES 2026, an Estonian startup named Donut Lab announced that it had not only solved solid-state batteries, which replace the usual liquid or gel electrolyte between a battery’s cathode and anode with a solid material, but had them in production. And it brought along a high-end electric motorcycle from its partner firm Verge powered by that battery technology, on sale now with deliveries set for Q1.

Online multiplayer play isn’t always a pleasant experience, especially when it comes to communication. Listening to random, faraway strangers screech obscenities at you can be enough to make you want to burn your gaming headset. However, conducting epic MMO raids or coordinating shooter tactics with teammates wasn’t possible in the era before online chat. And today, Discord is the service that people turn to for effective online gaming chat.

As first reported by Wired, the flaw was discovered by researchers at Belgium’s KU Leuven University, who dubbed it WhisperPair. It affects Bluetooth headphones from a range of brands that support Fast Pair, including Sony, Google, OnePlus, Nothing, Xiaomi, Marshall, Anker, Jabra, and Harman. (See the list below.)

Ever since the tech giant started automatically installing Copilot across Windows 10 and 11 PCs in 2023, Microsoft has allowed users to disable Copilot temporarily. But it’s been impossible to uninstall it completely.

It can be hard to avoid AI in Microsoft products these days, with Copilot leading the charge. Some PC users, however, want to stick to the basics. As Neowin reports, Winslop is here for those who want to stay on Windows without the AI mess. It's not the prettiest tool, but it works.

The free ChatGPT and ChatGPT Go plans will have advertisements, which is the biggest news, given ChatGPT Go has already launched in 171 countries since August. For $8 per month, it offers more access to messaging, image creation, file uploads, and memory. The pricier plans, including ChatGPT Plus ($20) and Business and Enterprise, will not include ads. You also won't see ads if you're not logged in, which could be a way to good way to avoid them—for now.

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon co-star alongside newly minted Golden Globe winner Teyana Taylor in this new flick from Joe Carnahan. They play Miami cops who find millions of dollars in cash during a raid on a stash house and have to count it all before leaving the scene to make sure it's not misplaced. But when word gets out that the money is there, suddenly everybody's a suspect and time starts to run short. Looks like a lot of fun.

The policy says SpaceX might harness a customer’s personal information to "train our machine learning or artificial intelligence models for the purposes outlined in this policy." In addition, the company might share some customers' personal information with third parties "for training artificial intelligence models, including for their own independent purposes," it adds.

As 9to5Mac reports, X user TiinoX83 spotted "a new setting that allows carriers to enable encryption for RCS" in iOS 26.3 beta 2. The user, who lives in France, posted a screenshot showing a "SupportsE2EE” string in the code.

The problems first appeared on Friday morning when X.com and the app failed to retrieve new tweets. If you try to refresh the page, it says: "Cannot retrieve posts at this time. Please try again later." As a result, the timeline on the X app seems to remain static.

Apple waved the white flag on the AI battlefield this week by selecting Google to be its AI partner. Apple's business model relies on a closed ecosystem that runs on homegrown products, but it's had to reckon with a harsh reality over the past few years: Its AI models are not the best in the biz. Its bread and butter is design, hardware, and user experiences.

The biggest thing you might notice, though, is that cybercrime is big business now. You’re less likely to be hacked by an individual in their mom’s basement than you are to get duped by a convincing phishing attack originating from a cubicle farm somewhere across the globe. Criminals operate entire offices full of workers deploying ransomware on any system they can access, sending thousands of phishing texts (here’s how to put a stop to those), or, as we reported this week, stuffing emails with malicious QR codes to convince you to hand over sensitive information.

This bundle has previously included ESET Password Manager, and technically still does for existing users. However, ESET discontinued new sales of the password manager in October 2025 and will eliminate it in October 2027. The parental control system for Android is likewise in limbo, set to die in June of 2026.

Microsoft confirmed the issue in a Windows release health update on Jan. 16, as spotted by Bleeping Computer. The problem stems from a bug within an update that began rolling out on Jan. 13, but it doesn't affect all Windows 11 users.

First launched in 2021, before Facebook rebranded as Meta, Horizon Workrooms introduced a virtual space where colleagues could meet when wearing VR headsets. This launched near the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, when many workers were adapting to remote meetings.

Running out of storage space, or looking for a smart way to back up your Mac? We've tested the top options to help you choose the best Apple-friendly SSD or hard drive for your needs.