Spotify's HiFi service is still being worked on, with the chronically-late lossless music streaming plan set to launch later in 2023, but not in the United States at first.Spotify logoOriginally floated in February 2021, Spotify's HiFi plan hoped to offer the same sort of lossless audio that Apple Music provides to subscribers. While it has yet to actually become available to subscribers of Spotify, the company hasn't given up on the plan at all. Read more...

Apple has recruited A-Cold-Wall designer Samuel Ross to work on its Beats brand, a move that may change the appearance of future releases from the personal audio brand.A 2021 Beats and A-Cold-Wall collaboration on Studio3 Wireless headphonesRoss is a British artist and designer who operates the street fashion brand A-Cold-Wall and the industrial design company SR_A, who has previously worked with Apple on a limited-edition Beats Studio3 Wireless release. Now, Ross is to take a bigger role in shaping the future of Beats itself. Read more...

With the power of Apple silicon, users experience incredible graphics performance on every Mac. And now, tens of millions of Macs with Apple silicon can run demanding games with great performance, long battery life, and breathtaking visuals. Developers continue to take advantage of Metal 3, bringing exciting new titles to Mac, including DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR’S CUT, Stray, Fort Solis, World of Warcraft: Dragonflight, HUMANKIND, Resident Evil Village: Winters’ Expansion, The Medium, ELEX II, Firmament, SnowRunner, Disney Dreamlight Valley, No Man’s Sky, Dragonheir: Silent Gods, and Layers of Fear. To make it easier to port games from other platforms to Mac, Metal introduces a new game porting toolkit, eliminating months of upfront work and enabling developers to see how well their…

Apple this month introduced the 15-inch MacBook Air, the world’s best 15-inch laptop. With an expansive 15.3-inch Liquid Retina display, the incredible performance of M2, up to 18 hours of battery life, and a silent, fanless design, the new MacBook Air brings power and portability — all in the world’s thinnest 15-inch laptop. Measuring only 11.5mm thin, the new MacBook Air is the world’s thinnest 15-inch laptop. With an all-new six-speaker sound system, the 15-inch MacBook Air delivers immersive Spatial Audio, along with a 1080p FaceTime HD camera, MagSafe charging, and the power and ease of macOS Ventura for an unrivaled experience. Tthe 15-inch MacBook Air is available beginning today, Tuesday, June 13th. Mark Spoonauer for Tom’s Guide: the 15-inch…

Illustration by Samar Haddad for The Verge Everybody is talking about smart homes these days — but what exactly does that mean? If you have one or two Amazon Echo smart speakers in your apartment or a Google Nest router along with a speaker, do you have a smart home? Or is your home only smart if you’ve got a smart camera monitoring your smart doorbell, your smart lights automatically waking you while your smart blinds roll up, and your smart AC going on just in time to cool your office for the day’s work? In our special Smart Home Week articles, we give you the down and dirty (or, if you have a robovac, the down and clean) on…

Illustration by Samar Haddad for The Verge Everybody is talking about smart homes these days — but what exactly does that mean? If you have one or two Amazon Echo smart speakers in your apartment or a Google Nest router along with a speaker, do you have a smart home? Or is your home only smart if you’ve got a smart camera monitoring your smart doorbell, your smart lights automatically waking you while your smart blinds roll up, and your smart AC going on just in time to cool your office for the day’s work? In our special Smart Home Week articles, we give you the down and dirty (or, if you have a robovac, the down and clean) on…