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Apple News+ Food will land in April with iOS/iPadOS 18.4.

It’s time to get hungry. Apple News+ will soon be the place to go to solve the age-old problem of what’s for dinner.

It's simple to reduce the size of your PDFs with these online tools.

If you need to share PDF files online, compressing them is a must. Smaller PDFs are quicker to upload and download, easier to email, and take up less storage space. Luckily, plenty of free web-based tools can shrink your PDFs in seconds—no installation required.

Photoshop might be doing more harm than good to your process.

Lightroom and Photoshop are two of the best photo-editing tools, but while many professionals use both together, you only need Lightroom as a casual photographer. Using both is often overkill and can be overwhelming.

You no longer have to individually ask other users in your phone plan to pay their share.

AT&T is introducing a new feature that automatically splits and texts members of a phone plan when the bill is due. This makes managing bill payments easier for the primary account holder and also ensures that everyone pays their part of the phone bill.

Maybe you're just not the target audience.

The iPhone 16e is Apple's long-awaited successor to the iPhone SE (2022). Despite the hype, however, it seems Apple may have only intended the device for a very specific group of buyers.

Adding Apple Intelligence to the Vision Pro won't do much for either.

Instead of doing the one thing that might actually make the Vision Pro more popular—dropping the ridiculous $3,499 retail price—Apple is bringing the less-than-stellar Apple Intelligence to the headset.

It will drop some features, but also be available at a lower monthly fee.

YouTube is launching a more affordable subscription that lets you watch videos and podcasts without ads. While this does not include music videos, that likely won’t be a problem if you already have a different music subscription like Spotify.

You'll wonder how you lived without it.

Windows 11 is packed with features, but it also has some quirks. You can easily fix some of those issues—and take advantage of new features and mods—with third-party tools like Windhawk.

Sometimes simple is best.

I've tried a lot of Android launchers over the years as a tech writer. While most are perfectly adequate, there's one that I always find myself going back to.

The Rise of the Half Moon manages to be both fun and educational.

There are countless mobile games vying for your attention these days. But most of them aren't able to bag a spot on the top of the Google homepage. Unlike this Google Doodle game.