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Two-stroke streetbikes have never sold well at auction – but in the last few weeks, something strange has been happening. Kawasaki's Mach IV H2, the notorious 750cc "Widowmaker," is setting record prices after a flurry of sales to a single buyer. To some people, any two-wheeler is a death trap. But even among hardened motorcyclists, there are some bikes that have built a reputation for being uniquely violent and barely controllable. The H2's older and smaller 500cc H1 sibling is top of that list, and it earned the…

Buying all the 194 paid apps available for Apple’s Vision Pro will only set you back $1,100.08, according to app intelligence firm Appfigures. Considering you just coughed up $3,500 to buy the company’s newest headset, that’s kind of a bargain.Hands-On With Meta Quest 3Appfigures analyzed the 730 apps optimized for the Vision Pro—which includes apps exclusive to the headset as well as iOS apps that added a native Vision Pro experience—to get a better understanding of how developers were responding to Apple’s newest…

Smartphones can take on the roles of many other gadgets—cameras, calculators, e-readers, dictaphones, and all the rest—and they can also do double duty as webcams. In fact, this functionality is now built into both Android and iOS, so it’s easier than ever to use a phone as a webcam when it’s connected to your computer.Is USB-C Finally Coming To iPhone?You might want to do this for a few reasons, not least because you might not already have a webcam hooked up to your computer. Or perhaps you do, but the quality isn’t very…

This story is part of our new Future of Gaming series, a three-site look at gaming’s most pioneering technologies, players, and makers.“Apple and gaming.” For decades, you’d be laughed at trying to use those two words together in a sentence. You might think that one of the world’s biggest PC brands would also be one of the best avenues for gaming, especially with all its bespoke components like the Mac-centric M-series and iPhone 15’s A17 Bionic chips boasting all that pint-sized power on a 3nm processor. But no: The…

Like anything mechanical—your car, for example, or your washing machine—your laptop or desktop computer will benefit from being regularly maintained, it’ll last longer and perform better, and the regular jobs you need to do to keep it in the best possible condition won’t take you too long or need too much expertise.The Hunger Games Director Francis Lawrence on Adapting a PrequelThe earlier you can start on these tasks, the better—if you’ve got a wheezing, sluggish computer that’s been neglected for years, it might be too…

Photo: Shiva Photo (Shutterstock)Earlier this week, we urged Apple users to make sure they properly downloaded the company’s latest Rapid Security Response update. The update, which was pushed out to user devices on Monday, was supposed to protect against a serious software vulnerability that hackers might be trying to exploit. However, hours after Apple sent out the security patch, it was revealed that some software changes were causing serious trouble for the Safari browser. As a result, Apple pulled its update from…

Photo: GizmodoYesterday, we strongly advised users of iPhones, iPads, and Macs to update their devices with Apple’s latest Rapid Security Response to patch a critical software vulnerability. But just hours after Apple released the RSR, the company had to pull the update, as it was found to be causing incompatibilities with several popular websites in Safari.How To Prep Your iPhone or iPad Before SellingFirst introduced last year, Apple’s Rapid Security Response system allows the company to push important software updates…

Photo: Tada Images (Shutterstock)If you own an iPhone, iPad, or a Mac, I’d highly recommend updating your device ASAP. Apple just released one of its new Rapid Security Response updates in an effort to patch a software vulnerability that the company says may be seeing active exploitation in the wild.How To Prep Your iPhone or iPad Before SellingThe bug in question—which impacts Apple’s Safari WebKit browser engine—could lead to arbitrary code execution. Hypothetically speaking, what this means is that a cybercriminal…

The easiest way to avoid a costly repair job on your vehicle is to take it in as soon as warning lights pop up on your dashboard, but that assumes you understand what each dashboard symbol means—and when your car is reaching out for help. You can do one of two things to ensure you know what your car is saying: read through the manual or upgrade to iOS 17 when it’s available,which will turn your iPhone into a translator for your sick car.The iPhone SE Offers Almost Everything You Want In An iPhoneAccording to a Reddit…

The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has announced that the world's fastest hypersonic wind tunnel is up and running, a detonation-driven shock tunnel that'll allow aerodynamic testing for aircraft, spacecraft and missiles at air speeds up to Mach 30. The idea of a wind tunnel is simple enough: if you want to know how a shape will perform at a given air speed, you build the shape, then hold it still in a test chamber and observe as air is blown past it at the desired speed. If all you're testing is a car, you can get…