Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Apple is making it harder for iPhone thieves to access your personal information if they get ahold of your device’s passcode. As reported by The Wall Street Journal, Apple includes new Stolen Device Protection in its iOS 17.3 beta that, when enabled, would require authentication through Face ID
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Yesterday, we opened up voting for this year’s Reader’s Choice Award to figure out what YOU think is the best smartphone of 2023! We had a whopping 32 phones in the initial vote. Just 24 hours later, however, we have whittled that down to the final four. These are
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority TSMC, Intel, and Samsung are fighting to be the first to deliver 2nm chips to their clients. TSMC might be ahead of the others, possibly becoming the supplier for Apple’s iPhone 17 Pro in 2025. Samsung is reportedly trying to tempt its clients with a discount. The race to
Read MoreElura Nanos / Law & Crime: A US judge rules to allow a class action lawsuit to proceed over Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, which alleges Musk lied about bots to manipulate its stock — A federal judge ruled to allow a class-action lawsuit over the acquisition of Twitter to proceed against Elon Musk Monday
Read MoreImage: BBC Russell T. Davies’ hearts are in the right place, but the introduction of Ncuti Gatwa’s new Doctor Who was marked by a number of questionable decisions and racist tropes. Continue reading…
Read MoreWhatsApp debuts pinned messages. | Image: WhatsApp WhatsApp is adding the ability to pin a message to the top of your chats for up to 30 days. Meta says that the feature, which its mobile Facebook Messenger app already has, is rolling out to users now, so not everyone will see it right away. Meta
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Apple rolls out Stolen Device Protection in an iOS beta that, if enabled, restricts actions like Apple ID password resets while not in a “familiar location” — Stolen Device Protection can prevent criminals from using your passcode to change your Apple account
Read MoreCredit: Oliver Cragg / Android Authority The TicWatch Pro 3 series and TicWatch E3 are getting the Wear OS 3 update. Mobvoi constructed an entirely new architecture for the update. Updated watches no longer need to use the Wear OS by Google companion app. Mobvoi, the maker of TicWatch smartwatches, has finally announced the much-awaited
Read MoreIt’s not often that we see a December deal that surpasses the Black Friday offers, but Best Buy has dropped a tasty one today. A new deal on the Motorola Razr Plus (2023) has not only discounted it by $300, but you also get a free $50 gift card to supplement your holiday shopping. Motorola
Read MoreSimon Cohen / Digital Trends: Bose confirms the company is “in the process of phasing out” its Bose Frames line of audio glasses, launched in 2018 as part of Bose’s AR initiative — Bose has confirmed to Digital Trends that it is discontinuing its Bose Frames line of audio glasses.
Read MoreParker Ortolani / The Verge The Tesla Cybertruck has been out for a little more than a week, and already people are ready to declare it a safety nightmare. “Guideless missile” and “death machine” are some of the loaded phrases being tossed around. Safety experts are “raising concerns” about the truck’s crumple zones (or lack
Read MoreNomad has today debuted the Stand One Max MagSafe charger, a 3-in-1 charging solution for iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods.
Read MoreJordan Novet / CNBC: OpenAI’s nonprofit arm reports $44,485 in revenue in 2022, even though the company is worth billions, avoiding California’s $2M threshold for audited financials — – OpenAI’s nonprofit organization generated $44,485 in revenue in 2022, almost entirely from investment income …
Read MorePhoto illustration by Alex Parkin / The Verge Ten years after healthcare.gov, the fed’s tech consultancy wants you to help with the next big thing. Continue reading…
Read MoreIvan Mehta / TechCrunch: WhatsApp now lets users pin a message within one-on-one and group conversations for 24 hours, seven days, or 30 days, limited to one pinned message at a time — WhatsApp is rolling out the ability to pin chats within one-on-one and group conversations. The company said users can pin …
Read MoreKif Leswing / CNBC: Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney discusses beating Google, attributing the win to a jury trial and Google deleting chats, and says “Apple didn’t write anything down” — – The verdict is a significant win for Epic Games and its CEO Tim Sweeney, which have been fighting against mobile app stores and
Read MoreWhen we think of bacteria, we think of simple single-celled organisms that basically exist to consume resources and reproduce. They don’t think, feel, or remember… or do they? Bacteria don’t have brains, and as far as we know, they’re incapable of thought. But could they react to an experience and recall it later? New research
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority WhatsApp pinned messages are rolling out now to all users. You can choose a specific message in a chat and pin it to the top. Pinned messages last for 24 hours, seven days, or one month, with seven days being the default. You’ve been able to pin entire chats
Read MoreBloomberg: Sources: KKR is in advanced talks to buy payroll and HR tools maker Iris Software for ~£3B, in what could be 2023’s biggest buyout of a European tech company — The investment firm has pulled ahead of other bidders and is negotiating final terms of an agreement with Iris’ private equity owner Hg, the
Read MoreUgreen has just announced a brand new power bank, giving tonnes of charge for a great price.
Read MoreAfter leaving the fate of Firehouse 51’s brave crews shrouded in uncertainty, NBC’s beloved drama Chicago Fire is all set to return for its twelfth season. We’ve been waiting for answers for long enough. The months-longer-than-expected wait can be traced to industry strikes that have now ended. The new season promises to address the many
Read MoreJust tap the blue dot for more control. Google Maps has gotten some fun updates recently, and now it’s offering some more privacy-forward tweaks as it adds more ways to control your location data. It starts, as so many journeys do with that little blue dot in Google Maps: aka, you… or, your current location
Read MoreThe Stand One Max is a handsome charging station, but I think it could have maintained its good looks even with better spacing to accommodate StandBy mode. | Image: Nomad After releasing various MagSafe chargers, cheaper MagSafe-compatible Base and Stand chargers, and a 3-in-1 MagSafe Base One Max charger, Nomad is further filling out its
Read MoreCredit: Damien Wilde / Android Authority Nothing has announced an event for February 2024 at Mobile World Congress. In 2023, Nothing held a similar event and announced the processor for the Nothing Phone 2. It’s possible this 2024 event could be the initial tease for the Nothing Phone 3. Mobile World Congress 2024 is only
Read MoreCredit: Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority Google released a hands-on video demonstrating the voice response capabilities of Gemini in “real-time.” Google later admitted that the video demo didn’t actually happen in real-time with spoken prompts. A YouTuber used GPT-4 Vision to recreate the Gemini demo and do it in real time. After Google released its
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