Google Play Protect will remove permissions for unused apps. Developers can exempt their apps to preserve functionality. Google is making a significant change to how Play Protect works, automatically removing permissions for unused apps. According to Statista, 25% of apps downloaded by mobile users are only used once and never again. Unfortunately, with the sheer
Read MoreAnother damning IPCC report insists that to reduce emissions, humanity will need more political willpower and help from nature’s carbon-sequestering powers.
Read MoreClosing your eBay account is final, as you’ll no longer be able to sell on the site or access My eBay. While you can always create a new account, you’ll lose any feedback and your purchase and sales history used to build your reputation. So be sure that you want to delete your eBay account
Read MoreImage: Epic Games Epic Games has announced a new smartphone app that can construct 3D models of objects from a series of smartphone photos. The idea is that you’ll be able to use the app, called RealityScan, to scan an object in the real world — say, a chair — and then bring the scan
Read MoreIt’s unclear what the exact plan for the Royal Mint NFT is. | Image: Her Majesty’s Treasury The United Kingdom’s treasury minister has tasked the Royal Mint with creating an NFT as “an emblem of the forward-looking approach” Her Majesty’s Treasury says it’ll take toward cryptocurrencies and blockchains. The project was announced in a speech
Read MoreAssociated Press: Research: RT en Español is the third-most shared site on Twitter for Spanish-language info about Russia’s invasion and saw a boost in Facebook likes in March — Disinformation about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is surging in Spanish, as stories crafted for a Latin American audience gets a boost from the Kremlin
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon reportedly plans to add a content filter to an internal messaging app in the making and would ban words that reflect the company’s working conditions or pertain to organizing a union, according to internal documents obtained by The Intercept. With the filter in place, the app would
Read MoreWhat you need to know Hulu has added support for Apple’s new SharePlay feature. The feature was rolled out for the iOS and iPadOS apps. Users can now watch shows and movies in sync over FaceTime. SharePlay continues to pop up in your favorite apps. SharePlay, the feature that allows you to enjoy content remotely
Read MoreDepending on your item, the value can change drastically over time. So, if you’re not sure how much you should charge or how much you should pay for something on eBay, you can view completed listings to estimate a reasonable price. Here’s how to see sold items on eBay. Read more: How to create an
Read MoreAbove our heads, the atmosphere is a complex and unpredictable soup of gasses and charged particles subject to the influence of whatever the Sun throws at it. Attempting to understand it is not for the faint-hearted, so it has for centuries been the object of considerable research. A new project from the European Space Agency
Read MorePhoto by Chris Welch / The Verge It’s only been a couple of weeks since Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro devices started receiving Google’s March Pixel drop of new features, improvements, and fixes, and now the company has started the rollout of an April update (via 9to5Google). According to Google, wireless charging updates and
Read MoreAre you having issues getting PlayStation Remote Play to work with your iPad? Don’t worry – there’s a couple of different things that could be going on. Your iPad may not compatible with Remote Play if it’s a much older model. It’s also possible that Remote Play wasn’t set up correctly in the first place.
Read MoreMicrosoft’s excellent Surface Headphones 2 are on sale for $208.99 at Amazon, their best price this year. | The Verge With more people working from home than they used to, owning a good pair of noise-canceling headphones has become more appealing than ever. However, they can be expensive and difficult to shop for due to
Read MoreSpotify is testing a new feature that brings popular user-created playlists to the app’s homepage. If you’re a part of the test, the recommended playlists will appear in their own Featured Curator carousel. Spotify says it’s piloting the feature in “select markets” but doesn’t specify where exactly it’s rolling it out or on which devices.
Read MoreWhat comes after a historic win? | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Amazon Labor Union (ALU) scored a historic victory on April 1st when it became the first-ever union to successfully organize Amazon employees. Christian Smalls, a fired worker motivated by what he viewed as poor treatment, rallied his co-workers through the
Read MoreApple’s second-gen AirPods are down to $99.99 and the AirPods Pro down to $174. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge We’ve got a pair of excellent deals to start things off at The Verge this week. If you’ve been holding out for Apple’s true wireless earbuds to drop in price, both the second-gen
Read MoreCredit: Jimmy Westenberg / Android Authority The April 2022 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 MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Mailchimp, the veteran email marketing platform, has confirmed that hackers used an internal tool to steal data from more than 100 of its clients — with the data being used to mount phishing attacks on the users of cryptocurrency services. The breach was confirmed to the press by
Read MoreEmily Baker-White / BuzzFeed News: Former ByteDance employees say the company scraped Instagram, Snap, and others to make fake accounts on TikTok predecessor Flipagram, later renamed Vigo Video — In 2017, TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, scraped short-form videos, user names, profile pictures, and profile descriptions from Instagram …
Read MoreCheck out all the great LEGO titles available on your Nintendo Switch! If you are a fan of LEGO but you don’t want to run the risk of stepping on one of those notoriously unforgiving bricks in the middle of the night, you could always play with LEGO virtually with your Nintendo Switch. There are
Read MoreUltrasonic levitation — the practice of creating a standing wave between two ultrasonic sources and positioning lightweight objects such that they can float in the pressure minimums between them — has been a source of fascination to more than one experimenter. [Peter Lin] demonstrated this in the video below the break, by creating an ultrasonic
Read MoreWhat you need to know Apple is said to have been surprised by the lack of demand for smaller iPhones, causing iPhone 13 mini to be the last such device. Apple is now reducing its orders of iPhone SE devices as a result of lower than expected demand. Increased iPhone 13 orders are being made.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A former employee at DeepMind, the Google-owned AI research lab, accuses the company’s human resources department of intentionally delaying its response to her complaints about sexual misconduct in the workplace, as first reported by the Financial Times. In an open letter posted to Medium, the former employee (who
Read MoreWhat you need to know Apple TV+ is working on a documentary about Lewis Hamilton. Hamilton says he hopes the documentary will have a “positive impact” on viewers. There’s an Apple TV+ documentary in the works and it’s all about Lewis Hamilton. Formula One racer Lewis Hamilton says that he hopes his upcoming Apple TV+
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Opinion post by Rita El Khoury The clamshell foldable Huawei P50 Pocket is an impressive piece of hardware, but the one element that grabbed my attention from the moment that I held it is the outer display. When the phone is closed, you can see two massive circles:
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