Huge wearables growth and strong figures for services and iPad set new records. Apple’s quarterly earnings calls have fallen into a predictable pattern for the past year or two: iPhone revenues are declining year-over-year, and the Mac mostly remains stagnant, but all of Apple’s other businesses—wearables and services most notably—are ballooning. That was the case […] Read More
Nest Wi-Fi’s strength is doing many things well, not doing one thing the best. Google says its new Nest Wi-Fi isn’t just Google Wi-Fi plus a smart speaker—it’s new, improved, and with better coverage. This is good news—despite the impressive sales numbers Google says it has for the original Google Wi-Fi, the product never ranked […] Read More
The Xiaomi Mi Watch combines Apple design with Wear OS and a CPU from 2011 Xiaomi has gone back to its roots as a purveyor of shameless Apple ripoffs, and hot off the photocopier is the Xiaomi Mi Watch, a new wearable that is decidedly Cupertino-inspired. The Mi Watch is an Apple Watch clone, but the design […] Read More
Project Silica extends storage reliability goals from “decades” to “centuries.” Ars spoke Tuesday with Dr. Ant Rowstron, a principal researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK, about an innovative cold storage project called Silica. Silica aims to replace both tape and optical archival discs as the media of choice for large-scale, (very) long duration cold storage. Microsoft […] Read More
Ars tests a bunch of docks and hubs to see which are worthy of a spot on your desk. The introduction of USB-C and Thunderbolt 3 ports and the transition away from legacy ports hasn’t been smooth. PC and smartphone OEMs began using the USB-C port a few years ago because it allowed companies to […] Read More
DJI’s latest drone is its lightest and smallest model ever. The foldable Mavic Mini weighs in at just 249 grams, and comes with a bunch of features designed to make drone flying and aerial photography fun and accessible to everyone, without skimping on quality. And it’s so small that you needn’t bother getting FAA registration for it, either. The […] Read More