Ugreen/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways DisplayPort cables are designed to transfer power to monitors. With cheaper options, misaligned pins may cause power failures. You can avoid this by opting for a VESA-certified DisplayPort cable. The DisplayPort “Death Pin” issue, or more formally known as the Pin 20 Problem,…
For decades, buying stock in a hot startup meant being allowed to invest in the funds run by the top VCs. But with the AI boom causing an investment frenzy, more family offices and private wealth are skipping the VC middlemen to get directly onto the cap table. “Companies are staying private longer, and there are…
Adobe Acrobat has largely catered to professionals with its recent AI features. Now, the company is turning its attention to students by making Acrobat more useful with the launch of a new AI tool called Student Spaces. The tool will allow students to create presentations, flash cards, and quizzes from study materials such as PDFs,…
The Trump administration is planning to cut the budget of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) by at least $707 million for 2027. The proposed budget cut [pdf] was released late last week as part of an omnibus budget proposal that includes the privatization of airport security. The Trump administration claims the reduction…
Google is rolling out new features to make it easier for users to contribute local knowledge to Maps, the company announced on Tuesday. Most notably, Gemini can now create captions when users are looking to share a photo or video about a place. Once users select photos that they want to share, Gemini will analyze…
Update (April 7, 10:30 PM PT): The company has updated the app store listing and removed references to the Android app. But it also added that the iOS keyboard is coming soon. Google on Monday quietly released an offline-first dictation app called “Google AI Edge Eloquent” on iOS to take on the likes of Wispr…
On Tuesday, Amazon announced that Uber was expanding its contract for AWS cloud services to run more of its ride-sharing features on Amazon’s chips. Uber will particularly expand its use of AWS’s Graviton (a low-power, ARM-based server CPU) and start a new trial testing Trainium3, AWS’s Nvidia competitor AI chip. This deal is a bit…
A new movie- and TV-tracking app, Binge, hailing from the indie developer behind other creative apps like the social app Mammoth, and AI news reader Bulletin, has a clever feature: It will warn you when the jump scares are coming. To do so, the app takes advantage of Apple’s Live Activities — the feature that…
After years of resisting, Google Chrome is finally adopting vertical tabs — a feature more recently popularized by the Arc browser, a predecessor to the AI browser Dia. Google announced on Tuesday that Chrome users will have the option to enable vertical tabs, which will move the tabs to the side of the browser window,…
Apple’s first foldable iPhone is on track to debut in September alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, according to a new report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The news follows a report from Nikkei Asia on Tuesday that raised concerns the company’s foldable iPhone could be delayed due to challenges during the phone’s engineering…