Nanoleaf’s smart holiday string lights are compatible with Matter, so they can work with a wide range of smart home platforms. | Image: Nanoleaf If you’ve got a holiday party or gathering coming up, Nanoleaf’s Essentials Matter Smart Holiday String Lights will help set the mood without putting a dent in your wallet. Typically $119.99,
Read MoreNicholas Sutrich / Android Central: Microsoft launches the basic Office suite on the Meta Quest store for free; all three apps run in a MR environment and all Quest headsets are supported — Now you can tweak spreadsheets while playing Xbox, all in VR. — What you need to know — Meta Quest users can
Read MoreThe Discover Samsung Winter Sale is coming to a close this Sunday. While that gives you the weekend to shop, it’s worth noting that today is the last day you can order to get your new tech shipped in time for Christmas. That includes this excellent deal on the Samsung Galaxy Buds 2 Pro, which
Read MoreIf you’ve got a so-called uninterruptible power supply (UPS) on your system, you’re probably painfully aware that the “uninterruptible” part has some pretty serious limits. Most consumer units are designed to provide power during a black out only long enough to gracefully shut down your system. But with a few hacks like these, you can
Read MorePhoto Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Google will soon store Maps users’ location history locally on their devices instead of in the cloud, a big change that will make it more difficult for law enforcement to access the data. Controversial “geofence warrants” allow law enforcement to gather tech companies’ data on mobile
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Mere days after Twitch updated its content policy to permit certain kinds of sexual content, the platform has withdrawn the portion of the policy permitting “artistic nudity.” “Effective today, we are rolling back the artistic nudity changes,” the update read. “Moving forward, depictions of real or fictional nudity
Read MoreHighly caffeinated drinks have become a cultural staple. But following a death allegedly related to Panera Bread’s Charged Lemonade, has our collective obsession with energy drinks become unsafe?
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority A leaker has posted purported design-related details about the Nothing Phone 2a. It’s believed the phone could get a Galaxy S10-like rear camera design. Otherwise, the phone is said to borrow design elements from the Nothing Phone 1 and 2. We recently heard murmurings that a cheaper Nothing
Read MoreBuddy is an iPhone app that gives you clarity about your spending, income, and savings.
Read MoreEarlier this week, Netflix finally released viewership numbers for nearly all of its shows and movies. Bottom line: Expect a lot more The Night Agent.
Read MorePlaying the guitar is an art form. But the good vibrations you hear are a science.
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Nothing has begun rolling out Nothing OS 2.5 based on Android 14 to the Nothing Phone 2. This update bumps up the base Android platform version to Android 14, and includes a bunch of new features around the glyph interface, new widgets, and more. Nothing’s recent Nothing Chats-Sunbird
Read MoreTesla’s wireless charger is stupid-expensive. It’s also astonishingly convenient for juicing up phones, earbuds, and more.
Read MoreB cells are prolific producers of antibodies, but for the first time, scientists have modified them to make other proteins to counteract a serious genetic disease.
Read MoreInspired by many months of hours-long load shedding in South Africa, [JGJMatt] decided to make a portable speaker that can play tunes for hours on a single charge and even charge off the integrated solar panel to top the charge off. None of this should sound too surprising, but what differentiates this speaker is the
Read MoreMarc Corfmat was a teenager when he began to compete for Lego’s ultimate prize: the chance to design an official set. He and his brother Nick had been building custom Lego creations ever since they were kids, sometimes in California, sometimes during vacations at their grandparents’ home in La Rochelle, France. They shared their models
Read MoreHighly caffeinated drinks have become a cultural staple. But following a death allegedly related to Panera Bread’s Charged Lemonade, has our collective obsession with energy drinks become unsafe?
Read MoreJoseph Cox / 404 Media: Cox Media Group claims it can listen to conversations of consumers through microphones in smartphones, smart TVs, and other devices and use it to target ads — “What would it mean for your business if you could target potential clients who are actively discussing their need for your services in
Read MoreThe U.S. government agency wants to ensure companies provide consumers with an easy way to cancel digital subscriptions
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority The Play Store could get a dedicated search tab, according to newly discovered evidence. This search tab could replace the search bar seen at the top of the Play Store. Searching for content on the Google Play Store is an easy endeavor, as you simply use the search bar
Read MoreA new report says the 2024 M3 OLED iPad Pro will be followed by a new MacBook Pro with OLED in 2025.
Read MoreThis marketing agency has confirmed your phone is spying on you and they want to sell recordings to businesses.
Read MoreWe’re so used to reverb effects being simply another software plugin that it’s easy to forget the electromechanical roots of the effect. Decades ago, a reverb would have been a metal spring fed at one end with a speaker and attached at the other to a microphone. You may not see them often in the
Read MoreLily Hay Newman / Wired: How Microsoft’s 10-year-old Digital Crime Unit uses unique legal tactics and the company’s technical reach to disrupt global cybercrime and state-backed actors — Ten years in, Microsoft’s DCU has honed its strategy of using both unique legal tactics and the company’s technical reach …
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority The Samsung Galaxy S24 series is expected to launch next month, and the chipset situation isn’t quite straightforward. It looks like the Galaxy S24 Ultra will have a Snapdragon processor in all regions, while the Galaxy S24 and S24 Plus could be powered by Exynos or Snapdragon chips depending
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