Credit: Damien Wilde / Android Authority Gboard is finally getting a pop-out floating window for typing in landscape mode. The smaller, rectangular window can be placed anywhere on the screen, depending on the apps you’re using. The feature is now available to all beta testers of the Gboard for Android app. Gboard has finally heard
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority The iPhone 16 series might not have any major hardware upgrades in 2024. Apple could therefore be counting on iOS 18 to sell these new phones. The new software is tipped to arrive with generative AI features. The iPhone 15 series was a pretty decent upgrade, bringing new chipsets,
Read MoreHannah Lang / Reuters: In a major policy change, banks on payment app Zelle have started refunding scam victims as of June 30, 2023, after pressure from US lawmakers and the CFPB — Banks on the payment app Zelle have begun refunding victims of imposter scams to address consumer protection concerns raised …
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority A US court has rejected an appeal in a privacy suit against several automakers. The complaint alleged that car infotainment systems illegally store text messages and call logs from a connected smartphone, with no way for users to delete them. The court has said this practice by car
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority The recently leaked Photo Stack feature is now being pushed out to Google Photos. This feature groups together similar images taken at the same time. We recently heard about a Photo Stack feature coming to Google Photos, and it looks like the feature is now landing on devices. Redditor
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Google Photos is working on integrating reminders within itself. Google Photos will prompt users to create a reminder on images that have text or date in them. The reminder shows up in Google Calendar and will link to the photo in the text field. Google Photos can do many
Read MoreOne of amateur radio’s many interests comes in portable operation, taking your radio to an out of the way place, usually a summit, and working the world using only what can be carried in. Often this means using the HF or shortwave bands, but the higher frequencies get a look-in as well. A smaller antenna
Read MoreMark Gurman / Bloomberg: A look at Apple’s work on its “ambitious and compelling” OS updates for 2024, paused for a week after hitting a key milestone in iOS 18 and macOS 15 development — Apple’s recent software development delay underscores the need to get ambitious 2024 updates right.
Read MoreSomebody must really have it in for Cruise, because the bad press just keeps piling up for the robo-taxi company. We’ve highlighted many of the company’s woes in this space, from unscheduled rendezvous with various vehicles to random acts of vandalism and stupid AI pranks. The hits kept coming as California regulators pulled the plug
Read MoreData science is a relatively new term for a relatively old discipline. Essentially, it is data analysis, particularly for large data sets. It involves techniques as wide-ranging as statistics, computer science, and information theory. What to know more? Stanford has a “Data Science Handbook” that you can read online. Topics range from how to design
Read MoreReuters: Chinese chipmaker YMTC filed a lawsuit against Micron on November 9, 2023 in California, alleging that the US chipmaker infringed eight of its patents — Chinese chipmaker Yangtze Memory Technologies Co (YMTC) has filed a lawsuit against U.S. rival Micron Technology (MU.O) alleging infringement of eight of its patents.
Read MoreCharlotte Yang / Bloomberg: Xiaomi is up 60%+, gaining about $20B in market value since June 2023 on the back of strong Xiaomi 14 series sales and its foray into EV and other businesses — – Xiaomi up more than 60% from June low on new smarthphone push — JPMorgan sees ‘trading opportunity in the
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority A privacy expert is filing a criminal complaint against YouTube for its ad blocker detection scripts. The expert argues that these scripts enable unlawful spying on EU citizens. A civil complaint has also been filed against YouTube with the Irish Data Protection Commission. A privacy consultant is in the
Read MoreThe Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones 700 are one of the products we’re always eyeing for deals in the holiday season. As the best Bose headsets you can buy, any price drop is worth a look, so a record discount is not to be missed. The epic cans are at an all-time low price on Amazon
Read MoreImage: Dan Seifert / The Verge Apple started using OLED screens in the iPhone X back in 2017, and before that, in the first Apple Watch. And the Touch Bar, of course (RIP). But it’s been slow to move away from LCD elsewhere, like its iMacs, MacBooks, standalone displays, and iPads. I want OLED on
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Opinion post by Dhruv Bhutani Tim Cook getting up on stage and claiming that Apple’s made the best iPhone ever is almost tradition at this point. Which if you think about it, is a pretty dumb statement to make. You wouldn’t expect any smartphone maker to make a phone
Read MoreKate Irwin / Decrypt: Esports leaders discuss ongoing industry challenges, including VC bubbles, layoffs, and ageism, and call for wealthy game studios to take on more responsibility — Decrypt’s investigation reveals ongoing challenges in the young esports industry—including VC bubbles, layoffs, and ageism—and where it’s going.
Read MoreBefore the Internet, if you wanted to hear news from around the world, you probably bought a shortwave receiver. In the golden age of world band radio, there was a great deal of high-quality programming on the shortwave bands and a large variety of consumer radios with shortwave bands. For example, the Sony CRF-160 that
Read MoreShanti Das / The Guardian: Investigation: the UK biomedical research database Biobank shared the sensitive health data of ~500K volunteers with insurance companies despite pledging not to — Observer investigation reveals UK Biobank opened its biomedical database to insurance firms despite pledge it would not do so
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Many Threads users are now saying they have the ability to opt out of having their posts shown on Instagram and Facebook. To keep Threads posts from showing up Meta’s other platforms, tap the two lines in the top right of the Threads app > Privacy > Suggesting posts on other apps
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Opinion post by Hadlee Simons Google One storage is the default cloud storage service on Android phones globally, and it makes for a pretty seamless backup experience. The service also means quick-fire access to all your data across loads of devices — convenience at its finest. There’s one complaint
Read MoreWes Davis / The Verge: Many Threads users report that the app now has a privacy option that lets them opt out of having their posts show up on Instagram and Facebook — Many Threads users are now saying they have the ability to opt out of having their posts shown on Instagram and Facebook.
Read MoreIf you are reading this on an IBM PC-compatible computer, it is a certainty that its graphics card will support the lowest common denominator of PC displays, the Monochrome Display Adapter, or MDA. This was a video card which delivered a text-only display in black-and-white that was an option fitted to the very first PC
Read MoreWhat’s the worst part about packaging up a whole lot of the same basic thing? It might just be applying the various warning stickers to the outside of the shipping box. Luckily, [Mr Innovative] has built an open-source automatic sticker dispenser that does the peeling for you, while advancing the roll one at a time
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Opinion post by Dhruv Bhutani Tim Cook getting up on stage and claiming that Apple’s made the best iPhone ever is almost tradition at this point. Which if you think about it, is a pretty dumb statement to make. You wouldn’t expect any smartphone maker to make a phone
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