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Dan Riccio, a longtime Apple executive formerly in charge of hardware, is retiring from the company this month, Bloomberg reports. Riccio has been with Apple for 26 years. Before becoming the SVP of hardware engineering in 2012, he led the company’s iPad division. As the company’s hardware head, he oversaw some of the company’s most successful products, including the AirPods …

X is making a big change to how creators can earn money from the platform. Since last year, X has shared ad revenue with creators based on how many verified users see ads in replies to their posts. But the company announced today that creators are instead going to be paid based on “engagement with your content from Premium users.” …

After winning a fight to get Google’s search business declared an unlawful monopoly, the Department of Justice has released its initial proposal for how it’s thinking about limiting Google’s dominance — including breaking up the company. The government is asking Judge Amit Mehta for four different types of remedies to Google’s anticompetitive power in search engines. They include behavioral remedies, or …

Amazon is continuing many of its best headphone and earbud discounts on the second day of its October Prime Day sale. If you want to get a jump on your holiday shopping — or just treat yourself to a new upgrade — this is a great opportunity to do so.

RetroTime has found a good use for the expansion port Nintendo included on the underside of the NES but never utilized. Its NES Hub connects to that port and adds Bluetooth connectivity, allowing up to four wireless controllers to be connected to the almost 40-year-old console. The NES Hub is currently available for preorder through 8BitMods for $57.28 and is …

Nvidia will reportedly announce its RTX 5070 GPU alongside the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 at CES 2025 in January. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang will be holding a CES keynote on January 6th, and now Wccftech claims Nvidia will showcase a trio of next-generation RTX 50-series GPUs during Huang’s keynote. Rumored specs of the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 leaked …

One of the favorite series on this site — at least, as far as many of our staff are concerned — is “What’s on your desk?” where we look at the home workspace of some of the people here at IMR. (For one thing, it’s reassuring to know that most of us share the same clutter syndrome, and that’s after cleaning the …

Amazon Prime Day is still going, but sometimes it’s the deals at the outskirts of the multi-day sales event that surprise us. Like the Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 Pro popping up for sale at Amazon-owned Woot for $151.99 ($98 off) when you use checkout code SAVE20. The deal is good on both the space-y silver and the oh-so-AirPods-looking white colors, …

Microsoft is holding a technical alpha later this month for the upcoming Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 release. The technical alpha will be held over an unspecified weekend in October to test the game’s core services ahead of its debut on November 19th. Participants in the test phase will need a capable PC gaming rig to try out Microsoft Flight Simulator …

Threads is working on a new community feature that will seemingly allow users to group together around particular topics and interests, TechCrunch reports. Developer Chris Messina spotted references to “Loops” in the code for Threads’ latest app update, which vaguely describes something similar to the “Communities” feature on X or even subreddits. The code mentions things like the ability to …