I’ve been using the top-of-the-line big iPhone for two years now. I shifted to the iPhone 13 Pro Max due to its amazing battery life – which inspiredmy favorite phone of 2022article. I tried getting back to the non-MaxiPhone 14 Pro, but Icouldn’t stay long due to the weak battery life. Since then, I’ve shifted to theiPhone 14 Pro Max. After using the Pro Max iPhones for over 18 months, here’s what I think the next big Pro iPhone — the iPhone 15 Pro Max — must improve on to deserve the best phone of the year tag again....

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A year ago, a rather interesting camera tool came out from the house of Lux, makers ofthe fantastic Kinoand Halide apps. The tool is calledProcess Zero, which essentially ripped the images of Apple’s computational adjustments and delivered a pristine photo. I evencompared the current-gen iPhone with the iPhone 6sand realized the ills of computational photography. What I noticed repeatedly was that algorithmic processing makes the photos look sharper and more colorful, but they aren’t always accurate....

AMD may soon be able to do more than offer credible competition for Intel with its Ryzen hardware. By 2019, it may leapfrog Intel entirely, skipping ahead a die shrink by offering 7nm CPUs and graphics cards whileIntel struggles to reach mass-production yieldsof its long-promised 10nm Cannon Lake CPUs. LeakedAMD roadmapsmade it online earlier in 2018, showing us a planned progression of the company’s Zen architecture through Zen+ chips in 2018 — the Ryzen 2000 series — to Zen 2 in 2019....

It’s been a busy year for Mercedes-AMG. Mercedes-Benz’s performance division introduced a gasoline-electric hypercar namedProject Oneas a 50th birthday present to itself, it played a sizable role in reinventing theG-Classfor the 21st century, and it introduced a stand-alone sedan aimed right at thePorsche Panamera. While AMG’s lineup is broader than it’s ever been, the brand’s top executive isn’t concerned about it becoming too big. “It’s not a question of volume. Credibility comes with the product....

Self-driving boats have a future in city canals. A five-year program to test the functions these autonomous boats inAmsterdam’scanals kicked off with an announcement on Monday, according toThe Verge. TheAmsterdam Institute for Metropolitan Solutions(AMS) has partnered withMIT,Delft University of Technology, andWageningen University and Research. The project, called Roboat, has $27 million in funding to see develop robot boats for a wide range of purposes. The group expects to have the initial prototypes on the canals by 2017....

Over two years ago, it was reported that Apple was preparing to launch a hardware subscription service for theiPhone— to give people a way to pay a monthly fee to get a new iPhone every year. It wasn’t a bad idea, especially with more and more companies moving toward subscription models. However, it looks like that program is no longer happening. Fast-forward to December 2024, andBloomberg is now reportingthat the never-released iPhone subscription has been scrapped for good....

Avatar: The Last Airbender ruined one of its fan favorite characters Fans of Avatar: The Last Airbender have began to point out how the Netflix’s adaptation ruined one of their favorite characters. Netflix‘s adaptation of the hit animated seriesAvatar: The Last Airbendercontinues to be beloved by some fans despitemaking some major changes from the source material. Set in a fictional world where people can bend the elements,the fate of humanity rests on the shoulder of Aang, a preteen air bender, and his two friends Katara, a water bender, and Sokka, a water tribe warrior....

Baldur’s Gate 3 devs reveal most popular & strangest choices players keep making Baldur’s Gate 3 developer Larian Studios has revealed statistics regarding the most popular and strangest choices players have made since launch. The developers ofBaldur’s Gate 3have been keeping tabs on the fanbase since the Early Access version of the game, with stats & feedback flowing back to them. This information promoted changes to the game, such as thecompanions’ personalities being tweaked over time....

Baldur’s Gate 3’s Auntie Ethel has the most brutal class insults Baldur’s Gate 3 is filled with clever insults, and Auntie Ethel saves her most cutting remarks for certain character classes. Since its launch,Baldur’s Gate 3has received nothing but praise for its writing. The poignant storytelling sits at the center of the acclaim, of course, yet even someminor lines of dialoguehave garnered applause. Reddit userpeparonyrecently highlighted the mocking comments Auntie Ethel delivers when conversing with specific character classes....

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Chipotle fans praise restaurant prices after seeing how meals are prepped After a TikToker showcased a video of how they prep the food at Chipotle, people couldn’t believe the work that went into the whole process. Chipotle prices have been the subject of debate for a long time, with many fans complaining that the prices are far too high. In December, an actual Chipotle employee warned fans that they were being skimped, claiming that the chain was doing it on purpose....

Common Side Effects Episode 10 trailer might have given away plans for Season 2 We haven’t even seen the season finale yet, but the trailer for Common Side Effects Episode 10 has given us the best idea yet of Season 2’s direction… if it happens. If you haven’t seen the hit Adult Swim series yet, it’s a world away fromRick & Mortyand Robot Chicken. Common Side Effects is essentially ananimatedCSI of its own kind, following two former high school lab partners who stumble on a mushroom that can heal almost anything....