After months of rumors, Apple has officially announced Creator Studio, a software suite that bundles several of its key creative apps under one subscription platform. The tech giant says that Apple Creator Studio is launching in the App Store on January 28th.

The Office Lens app launched in 2015. Microsoft is removing its Lens scanner app from iOS and Android in the coming months. Microsoft Lens, or Office Lens as it's known to most, will no longer be supported on February 9th, and the app won't be functional after March 9th.The portable scanner features of Lens are available in OneDrive instead, making a dedicated app redundant for Microsoft. You'll still be able to capture pictures of whiteboards, documents, and receipts and save and edit them digitally in OneDrive. Pictures can then be converted into Word or PDF documents and properly cropped and rotated.Microsoft first launched its Office Lens app for iOS and Android in 2015, …Read the full story at The Verge.

President Donald Trump made an unconventional pick for his nomination to the Federal Trade Commission: WeatherTech founder and CEO David MacNeil.MacNeil founded the company, which makes weather-resistant car floor mats, in 1989, according to its website, and he owns 100 percent of the company. WeatherTech has made it a mission to keep its manufacturing and workforce in the US. FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson congratulated MacNeil on X and called him an "outstanding businessman and great patriot," sharing a clip from a news segment where MacNeil shared his commitment to manufacturing in the US. If confirmed, MacNeil become the third member of the …Read the full story at The Verge.

One of the most profitable and competitive markets in technology is the mobile phone market. One reason is that nearly everyone in the rapidly advancing technological world has one. While mobile phone manufacturers typically launch new models annually, each model normally upgrades key features such as camera quality, battery life, and aesthetics.

For the last couple of years, GPU value has been framed almost entirely around what's new and novel in the market. The moment a new hardware cycle is completed, it is labeled "last-generation" regardless of how capable the silicon remains. And naturally, this phenomenon is doubly true for cards that have been moved into legacy support or are no longer supported by manufacturers.

Getting online is simple, but if you want to surf using protection, the answer becomes slightly more complicated. There are a number of ways you can keep your data safe, like running your own VPN, but we think most people are going to opt in for some sort of subscription service.

The weird thing about putting Easter eggs in software is that the developers need to hit a very fine balance. If you make it too easy to find, then it's not really an Easter egg as much as it is a novelty. Make it too hard, and nobody will find it, but there's also the slim chance that someone will find it on a whim nearly three decades later, which is pretty cool. And while you can always nudge people to find it if it goes unnoticed, it feels very against the whole spirit of Easter eggs.

AI was still prevalent at CES, and while a lot of companies continued to beat that drum, Dell was not one of them. During a Q&A period, Dell's head of product, Kevin Terwilliger, confirmed that this wasn't an accident. With regard to AI PCs, Terwilliger said, "What we've learned over the course of this year, especially from a consumer perspective, is [consumers] are not buying based on AI." This is a huge departure from the previous push to integrate AI into literally every aspect of the device experience, and honestly, it's a welcome one.

As of today, you can do almost everything on Linux through a graphical interface. You can install applications from an app center, change system settings, and search for files using a file manager, all without touching the terminal. For most users, this is more than enough.

PCIe 5.0 SSDs have been around since 2023, and today, it seems like almost everybody wants to upgrade just to improve their loading times a little bit. It makes sense when you see that the advertised speeds are twice as fast as those of older Gen 4 drives. That kind of jump should translate into noticeably faster loading times and snappier performance in open-world games, but that's not how it actually plays out. In reality, the gains from raw throughput hit a wall much sooner than most people realize.

Everyone can relate to the desire for our computers to be faster and perform at the best of their capabilities all the time. We depend on these devices not only for work, but also for entertainment, and no one likes having to sit around waiting for something they want or need to do.

In late December, notable SSD and memory brand Micron announced that its Crucial brand would be leaving the consumer memory industry by the end of January as the company shifted its focus to supplying memory to far more lucrative tech giant AI data centers. Given this leaves SK hynix and Samsung as the two remaining consumer DRAM makers, this move is expected to make the ongoing memory shortage even worse.