A traditional button in place of a cutout. | Image: Bellroy Two months after some case makers were wrong-footed by Apple’s decision to replace the mute switch with an Action Button on the iPhone 15 Pro lineup, Bellroy has released an updated range of cases. Unlike the first run, which had a cutout over the
Read MoreIt’s that time of year when the PR people are after me to listen to their client’s predictions for next year. It’s always obvious and uninteresting stuff, but they keep trying. Remember that I’m not necessarily happy with the forecast of my own predictions. I’m not promoting anything in particular, to the surprise of some
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google Messages is preparing to add a new Noise Cancelation feature for voice messages. The feature reportedly helps reduce background noise in voice recordings. It should roll out widely soon. Google Messages is constantly getting new features. The platform recently rolled out Profile Discovery, and it’s now preparing to
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google has announced that Manifest V3 will roll out on Chrome in non-stable branches as early as June 2024. This will deprecate Manifest V2, which many ad-blockers like uBlock Origin use for their functionality. uBlock Origin devs have released a Lite version that is Manifest V3-compliant, but it is
Read MoreNothing CEO Carl Pei praised Apple for its decision to adopt RCS messaging. Pei said Nothing Chats is still in the pipeline and defended its utility by pointing out how green bubbles are here to stay. A day after Nothing announced it’s bringing iMessage compatibility to the Nothing Phone 2 with Nothing Chats, Apple went
Read MoreCharlotte Yang / Bloomberg: Alibaba’s market value drops to $201B, about half of Tencent’s $391B, as it faces sluggish demand and increased competition; Alibaba was valued at $850B in 2020 — – Companies’ values widen after Alibaba cloud announcement — Alibaba now trades at eight times forward earnings multiples
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Apple could be working on a new Graphene-based heat dissipation solution for the iPhone 16 series. The company might also be planning to use a metal shell for the batteries of the Pro iPhone 16 models. A new leak suggests Apple will improve the thermals on the iPhone 16
Read MoreIf you’d have asked us for odds on whether you could successfully turn a canned ham into an amateur radio antenna, we’d have declined the offer. Now, having seen [Ben Eadie (VE6SFX)]’s “hamtenna” project, we’d look at just about any “Will it antenna?” project with a lot less skepticism than before. To be painfully and
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Sources: Thrasio, which acquires third-party Amazon sellers, is preparing to file for bankruptcy as it deals with a post-pandemic slump in online spending — The e-commerce startup has been working with retail turnaround adviser Holly Etlin — Thrasio, a startup that raised billions …
Read MoreWhat do you get when you mix rigid and elastic polymers with a laser-scanning 3D printing technique? If you are researchers at ETH Zurich, you get robot hands with bones, ligaments, and tendons. In conjunction with a startup company, the process uses both fast-curing and slow-curing plastics, allowing parts with different structural properties to print.
Read MoreJon Victor / The Information: Sources: Google told some cloud customers not to expect access to its Gemini AI model until Q1 2024, after previously saying they would get access by Nov. 2023 — Google’s company-defining effort to catch up to ChatGPT creator OpenAI is turning out to be harder than expected.
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Information spreading on Reddit suggests YouTube is implementing some new address verification policy for YouTube Premium family plan subscribers. A user of the service recently received an email to verify their address or risk losing access to Premium. However, this is a policy YouTube enforced for a while now.
Read More404 Media: Forever Companions, which let paying users speak to an AI girlfriend modeled after influencer Caryn Marjorie, stopped working after CEO John Meyer was arrested — “CarynAI being down has really caused an uproar within my community,” Caryn Marjorie said.
Read More404 Media: Forever Companions, which let paying users speak to an AI girlfriend modeled after influencer Caryn Marjorie, stopped working after CEO John Meyer was arrested — “CarynAI being down has really caused an uproar within my community,” Caryn Marjorie said.
Read MoreChance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple says green bubbles will be used for RCS messages, while iMessages will be blue to denote what it considers the safest way for iPhone users to communicate — Earlier today, Apple announced its plans to bring RCS support to the iPhone in 2024. Since I published my story on the
Read MoreChance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple says green bubbles will be used for RCS messages, while iMessages will be blue to denote what it considers the safest way for iPhone users to communicate — Earlier today, Apple announced its plans to bring RCS support to the iPhone in 2024. Since I published my story on the
Read MoreJoseph Menn / Washington Post: A US judge rejects X’s bid to overturn a May 2022 FTC order imposing restrictions on its data security practices and declines to stop a deposition of Elon Musk — SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge on Thursday rejected an attempt by Elon Musk’s social media company to overturn a
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Apple just announced that RCS messaging would finally be coming to iMessage, theoretically making for a more modern texting experience between iPhones and Android phones.
Read MoreMike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Meta unveils new AI tools to edit images and generate videos from text instructions, based on its image generation model Emu announced in September — Artificial intelligence researchers from Meta Platforms Inc. said today they have made significant advances in AI-powered image and video generation.
Read MoreIllustration: Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube has adjusted its ad-friendly content guidelines to allow breastfeeding videos with nudity — but only in cases when a child is present — as well as videos with twerking, grinding, and other “sensual” types of dancing. The platform updated its guidelines on Thursday with the changes, which will
Read MoreKarissa Bell / Engadget: The web version of X’s job search tool is live for all users, with iOS and Android availability expected “soon”; applications are completed on third-party sites — You’ll still need to use third-party websites to complete an application. — The LinkedIn-like job search tool …
Read MoreImage: Epic Games Fortnite just started showing age ratings for every experience you can play in the game, but as a result of those changes, some in-game outfits can’t be used in experiences that are rated Everyone or Everyone 10 Plus, according to a blog post from the Fortnite team. For example, while writing this
Read MoreImage: Valve Valve’s new Steam Deck OLED just went on sale today, but there are goodies for the original LCD model, too — the company is now rolling out a stable build of SteamOS 3.5.5 with a hefty list of fixes, changes, and upgrades. Some of the biggest are ones we’ve already seen in a
Read MoreAmong First World Problems, there can be few worse than running out of toilet paper. The horror! If you’re not able to do as we did yesterday and borrow a pack until more can be bought, then you’re not without options. A handy copy of the Daily Mail could be cut into squares and hung
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