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Figuring out the best iPad for you can be tricky. Apple's lineup now includes three 11-inch tablets and two 13-inch ones, each with key differences in pricing, specs and accessory support. The iPad mini is still hanging around, too. If you're looking to upgrade, we've tested each current iPad and broken down which ones will best fit certain needs, whether you want a laptop replacement or just a big screen for casual streaming and reading.
Editor's note (3/4/25): Apple has announced updated versions of the iPad Air and
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 Apple CEO Tim Cook yesterday teased that there was "something in the air" this week, and it turns out that could be "things" plural. Following today's announcement of a new iPad Air with an M3 chip, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman now says that Apple plans to announce the long-rumored MacBook Air with the M4 chip tomorrow.
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 Apple's new iPad Air contains the M3 chip, upgraded from the M2 chip in the previous generation, so how much better really is M3?
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 Apple today updated the entry-level iPad with an A16 chip. Unfortunately, however, the device continues to lack support for Apple Intelligence.
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 Apple today announced the newest additions to its tablet family, the 11th generation iPad and M3 iPad Air. Alongside these refreshes, the company has introduced a Springtime refresh of iPhone cases and Apple Watch bands, introducing bright new colorways for the new season.
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world's top semiconductor manufacturer, has pledged to invest another $100 billion over the next four years to boost advanced semiconductor manufacturing in the United States. The company's chairman and CEO C.C. Wei has announced its expanded investment in the US at the White House with President Donald Trump. TSMC was originally going to invest $40 billion into building chip-making facilities in Arizona, which it then raised to $65 billion after it was announced as a CHIPS Act recipient getting $6.6 billion in grants under the Biden administration. This announcement is for an additional $100 billion, bringing the company's total planned investment to $165 billion. TSMC called it "the largest single foreign direct investment in US history."
During the announcement at the White House, Trump reportedly said that his threat to impose new tariffs on chip imports prompted TSMC to invest more into its US manufacturing efforts. The president previously told reporters that his administration could collect 25 percent in taxes, or higher, for chip imports. The tariffs could go substantially higher over the course of a year, he said.
The company's original investment already included plans for three fabrication factories in Arizona. This expansion will allow TSMC to build three more fabrication plants, two advanced packaging facilities and a major research and development center. TSMC's facilit
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The billionaire oligarch is creating a roadmap for foreign adversaries.
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But the real question for hardcore gamers is… how do they handle Fortnite? We show you in the latest PCWorld YouTube video. (Okay, maybe that's only a question if you're the kind of degenerate PC gamer who still plays Fortnite after you've gotten gray hairs. I'm in that particular brigade, as is my fellow Fortnite fan Will Smith.)
Will loaded up a Fortnite replay — a recorded session that renders in the game's live engine — and applied the recommended competitive settings from Reddit at 4K, then let the test bench rip with all the new RTX 50-series cards, plus the RTX 4090 for comparison's sake. Adam assisted on whiteboard duty, showing off the technical side of these breakdowns.
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Samsung's Display division is demonstrating these new OLED panels independently of Samsung's mobile hardware at the show, which is interesting since MWC is generally an event laser-focused on smartphones and other small devices. Among many other OLED panels, the most compelling offering for PC gamers is definitely "the world's first 500Hz QD-OLED monitor." That's only a hair faster than the current 480Hz record for OLEDs, while still lagging behind the fastest LCDs on the market. OLED is turning more heads for monitor upgrades at the moment, thanks to its vibrant colors and perfect contrast.
Samsung is also showing off a 15.6-inch 240Hz OLED for laptops, pushing the tech into a faster format for gaming machines, which still mainly rely on LCD panels for their higher refresh rates. Yet while OLEDs look great, faster OLED panels could complicate matters for a laptop that needs to mind its power efficiency.
Note that these announcements come from Samsung Display, the division that provides OEM hardware to other companies. While i
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Need internet while traveling? You can stay connected in the sky with these airlines.
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iFixit today shared one of its traditional teardown videos, taking apart the new iPhone 16e to take a closer look at the internal components.
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NEW RESOURCES Found on LinkedIn: the Western North Carolina Housing Guide. From the front page: "Where do I go for housing repairs? How do I find trusted information about the recovery process? […]
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Elon Musk's U.S. DOGE Service is implementing a burn-and-rebuild strategy the billionaire honed in his business empire.
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