The easiest way to protect your new iPhone 16e

Macworld A great iPhone needs a great case Apple’s brand-new iPhone 16e has caused a huge stir in the tech community. Nominally replacing the iPhone SE from 2022, the new handset is far more powerful, has a far newer look, and features a raft of cool features that SE owners could only dream of. That’s…

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An AI companion site is hosting sexually charged conversations with underage celebrity bots

Botify AI, a site for chatting with AI companions that’s backed by the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, hosts bots resembling real actors that state their age as under 18, engage in sexually charged conversations, offer “hot photos,” and in some instances describe age-of-consent laws as “arbitrary” and “meant to be broken.” When MIT Technology…

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5 useful upgrades for your PC’s unused PCIe slots

Despite the trend in shrinking PC sizes, larger desktop towers with ATX motherboards are still popular — and for fiends who want to get the most out of their systems, these have a secret weapon: PCIe slots. If you built your PC, or if you ever took a peek inside at your gaming PC’s motherboard,…

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Trump’s tariff on China is going up to 20 percent

President Trump said Thursday that he plans to raise the tariff on imported good from China to a new high of 20 percent, potentially raising the prices of imported technology products even higher. A Trump post on the Truth Social network said that he would impose tariffs of 25 percent on goods imported from Canada…

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