One of the greatest things about the iPhone is the wealth of accessibility features available straight out of the box, and one of the most robust features made available in the iPhone’s accessibility suite is voice commands. Here’s how to set up voice commands in iOS 17. iPhone’s robust settings allow for users to set
Read More“A Canonical engineer has been experimenting with implementing a Linux scheduler within the Rust programming language…” Phoronix reported Monday, “that works via sched_ext for implementing a scheduler using eBPF that can be loaded during run-time.” The project was started “just for fun” over Christmas, according to a post on X by Canonical-based Linux kernel engineer
Read More“Researchers at the University of Sydney Nano Institute have developed a small silicon semiconductor chip that combines electronic and photonic (light-based) elements,” reports SciTechDaily. “This innovation greatly enhances radio-frequency (RF) bandwidth and the ability to accurately control information flowing through the unit.” Expanded bandwidth means more information can flow through the chip and the inclusion
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Opinion post by Rita El Khoury Ever since Google announced it was removing over 20 features from Google Assistant last week, I’ve been trying to get to grips with why I’m so disappointed by this move. It’s not that any of the features were essential; I wasn’t using any
Read MoreInstagram Filters has the potential to transform your images and videos in no time. While Snapchat was the first app to introduce this concept, the ability to put filters in images/videos became viral after the arrival of TikTok. Now, Instagram has Reels, a competitor of TikTok, which allows users to record and share short videos
Read MoreThe Washington Post looks at “a small but growing group of commercial medium-to-heavy-duty truck drivers who use electric trucks.” “These drivers — many of whom operate local or regional routes that don’t require hundreds of miles on the road in a day — generally welcome the transition to electric, praising their new trucks’ handling, acceleration,
Read MoreToday’s top deals include 50% off an Anker PowerExpand 12-in-1 media dock, 14% off an Apple Magic Mouse, 50% off Apple Watch Series 6, 56% off a Shark 3-in-1 Clean Sense HEPA air purifier, and more. Save $200 on an M3 Pro MacBook Pro The AppleInsider staff scours the web for amazing deals at online
Read MoreCredit: Samsung The Galaxy S24 and Galaxy S24 Plus ship with different processors, depending on your region. For one, the two phones are powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 in the US and several other locales. Meanwhile, devices in Africa, parts of Asia, Europe, and India have the Exynos 2400 chip. In a market
Read MoreAs the art of film photography has gained once more in popularity, some of the accessories from a previous age have been reinvented, as is the case with [tdsepsilon]’s radar rangefinder. Photographers who specialized in up-close-and-personal street photography in the mid-20th century faced the problem of how to focus their cameras. The first single-lens reflex
Read MoreYouTube, Spotify, and Netflix will not offer standalone apps for Apple’s upcoming mixed-reality headset, Vision Pro, when the device launches on February 2, 2024. No YouTube, Spotify, and Netflix For Apple Vision Pro According to a new Bloomberg report by Mark Gurman, YouTube, Spotify, and Netflix, three of the most popular video and music services,
Read MoreIt’s “a free and open-source, software-defined storage platform,” according to Wikipedia, providing object storage, block storage, and file storage “built on a common distributed cluster foundation”. The charter advisory board for Ceph included people from Canonical, CERN, Cisco, Fujitsu, Intel, Red Hat, SanDisk, and SUSE. And Nite_Hawk (Slashdot reader #1,304) is one of its core
Read MorePitaka’s MagEZ Car Mount Pro 2 is an excellent evolution of its original car charger with the added benefit of NFC-powered Shortcuts automation. Pitaka MagEZ Car Mount Pro 2 review Car chargers don’t seem like a place waiting for disruption. MagSafe made them much better at device presentation and charging, so there wasn’t much else
Read MoreGoogle has quietly updated the description of its Chrome browser’s Incognito Mode to clarify how data is collected by websites and services, including Google, even while browsing in Incognito Mode. Google Chrome Updates Incognito Mode Advice After $5M Lawsuit MSPoweruser discovered the new message displayed by Google in the latest Canary build of Google Chrome,
Read MoreThe Hubble Space Telescope’s discovery of GN-z11 in 2016 marked it as the most distant galaxy known at that time, notable for its unexpected luminosity despite its ancient formation just 400 million years after the Big Bang. Now, in a paper published in Nature, astrophysicist Roberto Maiolino proposes that this brightness could be due to
Read MoreSoftware flaws were allegedly hidden from lawyers of wrongly convicted UK postal workers.
Read MoreSafari can make the Vision Pro sing… if Apple lets it. | Image: Apple In the days ahead of the Vision Pro’s launch, Apple has heavily promoted some of the apps destined for its spatial computing headset. Download Disney Plus and watch movies from Tatooine! Slack and Fantastical and Microsoft Office on your face! FaceTime
Read MoreRenders showing what the 12.9-inch iPad Air could look like have surfaced, with the supposed CAD drawings proposing it may not have many design changes, aside from physical size and a new camera bump. A CAD drawing of what could be the 12.9-inch iPad Air [91 Mobiles] Rumors have promoted the idea that Apple will
Read MoreWelcome to the 518th edition of Android Apps Weekly, where we discuss the latest in mobile news and take a closer look at some of the most interesting new apps and games. Let’s jump right in and take a look at some of the biggest highlights from the last week: Google has begun testing and
Read MoreApple Vision Pro’s release is imminent, and there are lot of things for developers to consider when building apps for the headset. Here’s what you should think about when making visionOS apps. Apple Vision Pro in a cold environment. The Apple Vision Pro is an interactivity departure for Apple. Unlike apps for Mac or iOS,
Read MoreOpinion post by Robert Triggs There was a time, not too long ago, when Google and Samsung appeared to be at loggerheads over Android. Samsung seldom mentioned Big G during its past launches, and Tizen was intermittently dangled as a breakaway “threat” to the whole Android ecosystem. In a nutshell, these mobile tech titans haven’t
Read MoreOnce upon a time, about twenty years ago, there was a Linux-based router, the Linksys WRT54G. Back then, the number of useful devices running embedded Linux was rather small, and this was a standout. Back then, getting a hacker device that wasn’t a full-fledged computer onto a WiFi network was also fairly difficult. This one,
Read MoreImage: Netflix Co-directors Daniel Kaluuya and Kibwe Tavares’ new action drama is a masterclass in using near-futuristic, sci-fi storytelling to illustrate harsh realities about our present. Continue reading…
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority The Galaxy S24 Ultra brings a major change to the Ultra line, as Samsung ditches the 10x 10MP camera in favor of a 5x 50MP camera. That’s a big deal as the 10x camera has been around since the S21 Ultra. What do you think of this change, though?
Read MoreApple has opened up its Apple Store in Hongdae, South Korea, bringing its total store count in the Asia-Pacific region up to 100. The queue outside the Apple Hongdae store Apple opened its Apple Store in the Hongdae neighborhood of Seoul, South Korea on Saturday, which is both the 100th Apple Store in the Asia-Pacific
Read MoreThe Asus Zephyrus G14 and G16 are chunky and funky no more. | Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge [Editor’s note: Monica Chin is The Verge’s former senior laptop reviewer, currently taking a break from tech journalism. But some things are hard to quit.] Once upon a time, in the olden days
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