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Don’t worry, Apple hasn’t run out of iconic California locales to name its desktop and laptop operating system after just yet. macOS 13 will officially be known as Ventura when it arrives in a few months, but as usual, it’s far more than just a name change and some new pretty wallpapers. Here’s everything Apple has improved.Stage Manager Will Better Organize Multiple WindowsScreenshot: AppleMission Control has long been a useful macOS tool for seeing all of your open windows and applications at a glance, but Stage Manager…

M2Image: AppleFueling the new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro 13 is Apple’s second-generation processor, the M2. Built on the same platform as its predecessor, the M2 boasts speeds and memory bandwidth to enable significantly faster performance—at least, according to Apple.We should be getting our hands on the new laptops running M2 in the future, at which point we’ll put the chip through some rigorous benchmarking. In the meantime, we’ll have to take Apple’s word that the M2's 20 billion transistors will drive significantly…

Every year at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, the company reveals how its expanding the capabilities of its software and applications, and that often includes new features and functionality that feel eerily similar to existing apps from third-party developers and other companies. It’s a way for Apple to let…Read more... Every year at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, the company reveals how its expanding the capabilities of its software and applications, and that often includes new features and…

Who put these donuts in my search bar?Screenshot: Michelle EhrhardtLast night, I was cleaning out my C drive on my Windows 10 PC, as you do, and decided to restart when I was all done. After putting off a series of Windows updates for the past few weeks because I didn’t want to go through the agonizing, 10 second long process of a restart, I thought this would be a great opportunity to get my OS up-to-date. But when I logged back in, I found that my Windows search bar now had these damn, unasked for donut images clogging…

iPhone 13Photo: Caitlin McGarry/GizmodoWhen revealing a new product, Apple often spends time talking about how much faster it is than the previous model and how favorably it stacks up against the competition. Claims like “the Macbook Air is faster than 98% of PC laptops,” make headlines, whether they’re accurate or not. It’s an effective marketing approach, but one Apple might choose to avoid when it launches the next MacBook Air and iPhone 14.If recent reports are accurate, the iPhone 14 Pro’s A16 chip will use the same…

There are now a lot of truly excellent handhelds that let you enjoy the retro games of your youth anywhere, but none are as simple and streamlined as the Evercade, which is getting a major upgrade later this year with the Evercade EXP. This new model has Wifi and a better screen, but more notably includes extra buttons, allowing the console to be played sideways for games requiring a portrait-oriented screen.When we first heard about the Evercade back in 2019, we were skeptical about its use of cartridges, since most…