I’ve tested a few BenQ products lately. My favorite has been their and a more affordable price. The most fun? A new category for me: projectors. The GP520 4K HDR model BenQ loaned me to test alleviated my concerns about the practicality of a projector instead of a TV.
Over the last two weeks, I've sought to uncover why the Nintendo Switch 2 didn't work with a host of USB-C accessories that worked perfectly fine with other devices, including third-party docks and some of the best-reviewed webcams. But today, I have first-hand confirmation that existing gadgets can work - as long as their manufacturers issue the right firmware updates, and as long as Nintendo doesn't break compatibility from here on out.
You shouldn't necessarily need to buy a brand-new gadget to plug a TV or video glasses into your Nintendo Switch 2. Three manufacturers have already proven that firmware updates are enough for now, and hop …
Prime Day 2025 is the best time this year to get a big-screen TV. Sure, there are deals in the weeks leading up to the Super Bowl, but those are generally on the previous year’s TV because most new models haven’t been released yet. Prime Day, however, comes after most major TV refreshes — including the 85-inch TCL QM8K, available for a limited time at Amazon and Best Buy for $2,499.99 ($1,300 off).
For its size and overall brightness, especially if you’re looking for a bright-room TV, the QM8K is one of the best buys during the next few days of sales.
TCL has built some great midrange TVs for the past few years, but the 2025 models are a step above its previous models. The QM8K, especially, brings TCL into strong competition with Samsung, LG, and Sony. It can get incredibly bright, making it an excellent choice for a sunny room where ambient light is difficult to control. When I recently had one in for testing, I measured a peak output of over 3,400 nits from a 10 percent window in Filmmaker Mode, the TV’s most accurate picture mode. To put that into perspective, the LG G5 tops out at a little over 2,400 nits with the same test. Under certain circumstances, the TCL QM8K can reach a brightness of 5,000 nits.
TCL’s panel advancements also allow it to limit blooming — where the light from bright images creeps into the surrounding black space of an image — which is an inherent drawback of mini-LED technology. With the QM8K, a new lens design better focuses the light toward the viewer. The optical distance between the backlight and the diffuser plate is smaller than in previous models, so the light has less opportunity to spread into dark areas, providing a sharper delineation between bright and dark.
One of the draws of getting a big-screen TV like the 85-inch TCL QM8K is to share it with your friends for game day or movie nights. Another improvement made with the QM8K is an increase in viewing angles, so the image vibrancy and brightness for those off to the left and right of your seating area is still close to what the person directly in front sees.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office just granted Apple U.S. Patent No. 12,353,649, suggesting the company is thinking well beyond the iPad when it comes to the future of the Apple Pencil. Here are the details.
Apple CEO Tim Cook is about to take over one of the most significant parts of Apple’s business: its design team. The team currently reports to COO Jeff Williams, but once Williams begins his just-announced retirement “late in the year,” the design team “will then transition to reporting directly to Cook,” Apple says.
The company is currently in the midst of a huge software design transition with its new “universal” Liquid Glass design language, which will roll out across the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and other devices later this year. It uses real-time rendering to show things like content scrolling under glassy buttons.
Liquid Glass “combines the optical qualities of glass with a fluidity only Apple can achieve, as it transforms depending on your content or context,” according to Alan Dye, Apple’s VP of Human Interface Design. “It lays the foundation for new experiences in the future and, ultimately, it makes even the simplest of interactions more fun and magical.”
Apple calls Liquid Glass its “broadest software design update ever,” taking inspiration from the Vision Pro’s AR interfaces with heavy doses of transparency and glass shine effects everywhere. But recent beta releases have slightly toned down the glass effect with more frost applied for readability.
Mark Gurman has reported for Bloomberg that the glass concept will also extend to its hardware, like the “Glasswing” 20th anniversary iPhone in 2027 that’s rumored to have slim bezels, curved glass sides all around, and no cutout section in the screen.
When former chief design officer Jony Ive left Apple, the company announced that Dye and Evans Hankey, who headed up hardware, would report to Williams. Hankey eventually left Apple and is now working on OpenAI’s design team following its acquisition of Ive’s hardware company.
It’s Tuesday, July 8, 2025, and we’re back with your daily tech funding snapshot—a quick pulse on where the money’s flowing and which startups are gaining serious traction across sectors and borders. Today’s lineup is anything but narrow. From AI-powered […]
X is facing backlash over Grok spewing antisemitic outputs after Elon Musk announced his "politically incorrect" chatbot had been "significantly" "improved" last Friday to remove a supposed liberal bias.
Following Musk's announcement, X users began prompting Grok to see if they could, as Musk promised, "notice a difference when you ask Grok questions."
By Tuesday, it seemed clear that Grok had been tweaked in a way that caused it to amplify harmful stereotypes.
From 2019 to 2023, Sims and Reynoso allegedly lured thousands of victims worldwide to purchase "investment packages" from OmegaPro using cryptocurrency.
To further support the ongoing effort, Sinclair has deployed 10 journalists and additional resources from other markets to assist with comprehensive coverage across all platforms.
In a significant albeit preliminary win for the president, the Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to go ahead with its plans to drastically reshape federal agencies by laying off employees en masse.
The unsigned decision lifts a lower court ruling that briefly stopped the Trump administration from cutting down the federal workforce while a legal challenge worked through the court system. The Supreme Court is now allowing federal agencies to slash jobs even before the legality of Trump’s plan has been decided.
A February executive order directed the heads of federal agencies to “promptly undertake preparations to initiate large-scale reductions in force (RIFs).” A coalition of unions, local governments, and nonprofit organizations soon filed suit, alleging that Trump’s attempt to reorganize the federal government was unlawful.
“Today’s decision has dealt a serious blow to our democracy.”
In May, a US District Court Judge Susan Illston from San Francisco granted a preliminary injunctionpausing the mass layoffs while the lawsuit proceeds. “Agencies may not conduct large-scale reorganizations and reductions in force in blatant disregard of Congress’s mandates, and a President may not initiate large-scale executive branch reorganization without partnering with Congress,” the order reads.
The Supreme Court is now lifting that injunction on the basis that the Trump administration is “likely to succeed” in its argument that the executive order is lawful. But it chose not to weigh in on the legality of any individual agency’s RIF plan for now.
“Today’s decision has dealt a serious blow to our democracy and puts services that the American people rely on in grave jeopardy,” the coalition of groups that sued Trump said in a press release today.
Jeff Williams, often considered Tim Cook’s successor, is leaving Apple. Sabih Khan, a 30-year veteran of the company, is Apple’s next chief operating officer. Does Khan taking Cook’s old job make him CEO-designate? Jeff Williams retiring certainly clears the path for Khan to climb up the succession planning ladder. However, I would wager that Apple’s CEO succession plan isn’t changing.
