Welcome to the 480th edition of Android Apps Weekly. Here are the big headlines from the last week: Google Pay users benefited from a bug this week. Google Play paid out way too much money for rewards. Some payments even reached more than $1,000. Google fixed the bug but also told users to keep the
Read MoreMakoto Shinkai attends the Los Angeles red carpet premiere of Suzume. | Photo by Victoria Sirakova / Getty Images Suzume director Makoto Shinkai sees his latest film as an invitation to young theatergoers to build relationships with the past. Continue reading…
Read MoreImage: Bluesky Bluesky is really, really fun. Yes, the platform is essentially just Twitter but decentralized. And yes, the Jack Dorsey-backed Bluesky is one of many services emulating how Twitter looks right now. But after spending a few hours in Bluesky since getting my beta invite this week, it’s so far the service where I
Read MoreWhen the Pixel 7 Pro launched in October of 2022, it seemed like Google had pulled a magic trick and finally got things right with a phone. Great features and a realistic price were topped by rave Pixel 7 Pro reviews, so much so that it won both our Editor’s Choice and Reader’s Choice awards
Read MoreArthur C. Clarke said that “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”. He was a sci-fi writer, though, and not a security guy. Maybe it should read “Any sufficiently advanced tech has security flaws”. Because this is the story of breaking into a car through its headlight. In a marvelous writeup, half-story, half CAN-bus
Read MoreChristopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: How Apple’s commitment to supporting old iPhones allowed it to capture a part of the US market once cornered by the inexpensive Android phones — It’s not just lavish marketing and the threat of green bubbles—Apple’s commitment to supporting old phones has allowed it to capture a part …
Read MoreMakoto Shinkai attends the Los Angeles red carpet premiere of Suzume. | Photo by Victoria Sirakova / Getty Images Suzume director Makoto Shinkai sees his latest film as an invitation to young theatergoers to build relationships with the past. Continue reading…
Read MorePlus: Hackers claim to have stolen 10 TB from Western Digital, a new spyware has emerged, and WhatsApp gets a fresh security feature.
Read MoreFor the past month, I’ve been using the Unihertz Titan Pocket, a phone released in 2021 that rocks a 3.1-inch display above a full Qwerty keyboard. To be clear, it’s been by choice — my editors didn’t assign me to do this as a prank (in fact, some of them have clowned on me for
Read MoreThe iPod may be, in Apple’s eyes, a dead device, but mine is alive and kicking harder than ever before. But why?
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Mobile gaming is a bit of an umbrella term, covering everything from filling the time on public transport to competitive e-sports tournaments. If you’re at the more serious end of the mobile gaming scale, you might have looked into one of the best gaming smartphones to gain a competitive
Read MoreThe 17-inch MacBook was a marvel, is it time we got a bigger laptop from Apple?
Read MoreP R Sanjai / Bloomberg: Indian streaming service JioCinema plans to add 100+ films and TV series and charge for content; JioCinema had 22M viewers for an IPL cricket match on April 12 — Billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s streaming service will add more than 100 films and TV series to its platform, building on the popularity
Read MorePlus: Google Maps enhances coverage within US national parks, SwiftKey with Bing Chat lands on iPhones, and we track the rise of the AI voice clones.
Read MoreA muddy trek reveals the last remnants of the Rwenzori Mountains’ once-sprawling ice fields, a loss for scientists studying the climate record.
Read MoreHigh capacity, high suction, and exceptional maneuverability mean my fabulously fluffy rabbit has finally met her vacuum match.
Read MoreA recent paper (PDF) in Physical Review Letters by T. Niwase and colleagues covers a fascinating new way to both create and effectively examine isotopes by employing a cyclotron and a mass spectrograph. In the paper, they describe the process of multinucleon transfer (MNT) and analysis at the recently commissioned KEK Isotope Separation System (KISS),
Read MoreAndroid Studio Flamingo, the latest version of the official IDE for Android app development, is available in a stable release. New features include Jetpack Compose and Material 3 templates, live editing for Compose UIs, and new app inspection capabilities. Accessible from developer.android.com and based on JetBrains’ IntelliJ IDEA 2022.2 IDE, Android Studio Flamingo is numbered
Read MoreWe also found nice discounts on ebikes and a Microsoft Surface laptop.
Read MoreThe technology made it possible to detect pregnancy early. But after Roe, antiabortion activists and lawmakers have weaponized this access to information.
Read MoreThe recent crop of laser cutters are nothing short of miraculous. For a few hundred dollars you can get a machine that can easily engrave and — subject to materials — cut well, too. [Nate] has been taking advantage of a laser to make boxes that join together using finger joinery. The problem is, the
Read MoreWelcome to The Weekly Authority, the Android Authority newsletter that breaks down the top Android and tech news from the week. The 240th edition here with the first Android 14 beta for Pixel owners, Pixel 8 display news, the ROG Phone 7 launch, over 20 minutes of FFXVI gameplay, and more. This week I’ve been
Read MoreCredit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority Even with its powerful ecosystem, unmatched app support, and highly-accurate health and fitness sensors, the Apple Watch Series 8 still falls short in one major area. Battery life on the company’s wearables remains a frustrating oversight. Apple’s latest smartwatch is currently on shelves (and wrists) with a new temperature sensor
Read MoreBlake Brittain / Reuters: A San Francisco federal judge rules Google must face trial, set for May 8, over Sonos’ patents, but invalidates two of four patents and narrows Sonos’ claims — Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O) received a mixed ruling on Thursday from a San Francisco federal judge in a patent lawsuit brought by Sonos Inc
Read MoreMalathi Nayak / Bloomberg: Court filings in California’s suit against Amazon say the company blocked sellers from offering lower prices on rival sites despite claiming to end the policy — Amazon.com Inc. continued blocking sellers from offering lower prices on rival sites, despite assuring antitrust enforcers it ended …
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