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Read MoreCredit: David Imel / Android Authority The October 2021 Android security patch is here! If you own a recent Google Pixel smartphone, you can perform a software update check now in System Settings to grab it. You can also update manually or simply wait for the OTA notification. Related: How Google Pixel prices for phones changed
Read More(Photo:Mike Baumeister/Unsplash)In November of 2020, Google announced it would be offering mobile-optimized bank accounts, called “Plex” accounts, in partnership with Citigroup and the Stanford Federal Credit Union. Now the company is pulling back on its plan, saying logistical setbacks and the departure of its executive sponsor are to blame. Plex accounts were originally intended to
Read MoreRing brings spooky ringtones to its video doorbells in time for Halloween. | Image: Ring Following in the now annual tradition of the spooky smart home, Ring has released its seasonal ding dongs. In honor of the festive season, you can turn your Ring Video Doorbell’s interior Chime’s tone to a screeching cat, a creaky
Read MoreCredit: Oppo Oppo has announced the availability of Color OS 12 for the Find X3 Pro. This is only available in two countries for now though. Oppo has also revealed new policies for OS and security updates. Oppo’s Color OS has made steady improvements in recent times, bringing plenty of features and a ton of
Read MoreThe iMore show brings you everything you need to know about the week in iPhone, iPad, Watch, TV, Mac, and Apple! This week on the iMore Show, we dive into what we think about our new devices and discuss when we might actually see the Apple Watch Series 7 (Oct 15). Listen now Subscribe in
Read MoreThe retailer’s Epic Daily Deals event promises “Black Friday-Worthy Deals” today. Here are a few that almost meet that bar.
Read MoreAs long as 3D printers have been around, it seems as though many of us have dreamed about nozzle-sharing solutions for multicolor 3D prints. Just because Prusa’s MMU has had the spotlight for some time doesn’t mean that there’s no space to design something original. If you’re craving something new to feast your eyes upon,
Read MoreHarrison Weber / dot.LA: In a blow to online streaming services, over 50,000 backstage movie and TV workers vote to authorize a strike after their union’s demands were not met — Ratcheting up the stakes in an already tense labor battle, members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) …
Read MorePhoto by Joe Raedle/Getty Images Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey appears to be getting just as much schadenfreude out of today’s global Facebook outage as anyone. The microblogging chief is tweeting through Facebook’s DNS issues by dunking on the company amid its latest round of scrutiny from The Wall Street Journal, 60 Minutes, and lawmakers. WhatsApp
Read MoreThe Apple Watch Series 7 features larger screens. | Image: Apple Like clockwork, Apple announced a new Apple Watch model at its September “California Streaming” event alongside the iPhone 13, iPad, and iPad Mini. The Apple Watch Series 7 is the latest flagship and sits atop Apple’s current lineup of smartwatches, which still includes the
Read MoreUse Hide My Email, so your personal data is no longer shared online. Hide My Email is a new tool in iCloud+ that makes it possible to use random email addresses that are then forwarded to your personal inbox. In doing so, you can hide your real details when filling out a form on the
Read MorePeople resting in a lawn on a hot summer day, at Rajpath near Vijay Chowk, on June 30, 2021 in New Delhi, India. As the monsoon continued to play truant, heatwave in Delhi NCR turned severe recording the highest maximum temperature of the season at 43.5 degree Celsius. | Photo by Sanjeev Verma/Hindustan Times via
Read MorePhoto by Becca Farsace / The Verge Now that OnePlus is a sub-brand of the Oppo family, the two companies not only merged their R&D departments in early 2021, but they are also consolidating code for their two Android-based operating systems. While OxygenOS 12 will be used on global OnePlus phones, ColorOS 12 will only
Read MoreThe Backblaze 4U storage pods can save up to 480 TB of user data. New data from Backblaze suggests that the reliability gap between hard drives and SSDs is not as large as previously thought and does not favor SSDs to the degree some had believed. The previous degree of difference between SSDs and HDDs
Read MoreThe ESA/JAXA space probe BepiColombo made its first flyby of Mercury over the weekend and beamed back some excellent photos to mark the occasion. It’s a big milestone for the orbiter, which has been working its way toward Mercury since it launched nearly three years ago, on October 20, 2018. While the probe has successfully
Read MoreThe emergence of artificial intelligence has taken the world by storm. It has brought huge advancement in the field of tech, precisely by automating several processes with pinpoint accuracy. That is the primary reason why it is also called the new-age technology. Today, every tech giant is moving towards artificial intelligence to bring advanced automation
Read MoreLorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: Syniverse, which routes billions of texts annually for AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, China Mobile, and others, says in May it found it was hacked starting in 2016 — Syniverse handles billions of text messages a year, and hackers had unauthorized access to its system for years. — Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Read MoreIf you want to track a snail, you need a tiny instrumentation package. How do you create an entire data acquisition system, including sensors, memory, data processing and a power supply, small enough to fit onto a snail’s shell? Throughout history, humans have upset many ecosystems around the world by introducing invasive species. Australia’s rabbits
Read MoreCredit: Jimmy Westenberg / Android Authority The Android 12 stable launch just hit the Android Open-Source Project (AOSP). This is a significant milestone in the release cycle. However, it will be at least days or even weeks before we see it arrive on phones. Last year, Google pushed out the Android 11 stable release at
Read MoreDogecoin (CCC:DOGE-USD) sure knows how to keep its head above water. The meme crypto has seen nearly all there is to see regarding volatility, and it floats on without fail when it encounters a rough patch. Through the summer, developers have looked into ways to bulk up the ecosystem, mostly through upgrades. Today, one of the
Read MoreMichael Tobin / Bloomberg: Tinder will test in-app “coins”, obtained by remaining active and other activities, which can be used to buy perks to boost matches, starting in Australia — – ‘Coins’ can be used to buy perks to boost chances of a match — Virtual currency seen as useful in gifting digital goods
Read MorePhoto by Cameron Faulkner / The Verge Google’s latest major Android update, Android 12, isn’t available to the general public just yet, but it’s getting closer. The company wrote on its Android Developers site that it pushed the source to Android Open Source Project (AOSP) and is “officially” releasing the update. Despite Android 12 being
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Read MoreImage: Blue Origin In an attempt to recreate SpaceX’s success, executives at spaceflight venture Blue Origin once praised the rival company’s “burnout” culture as a working labor strategy, with some managers arguing that Blue Origin needs to “get more” out of employees and encourage them to come in on the weekends. The grueling working strategies
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