Credit: Eric Zeman / Android Authority Google will fix the Android 14 storage bug on Pixel phones with an upcoming OTA update. It is also working on a way to restore lost data on affected devices. The company has advised users not to create or log into a secondary user profile on Pixels until the
Read MoreHave you ever wanted to be the best Super Mario Brothers speedrunner, but you just couldn’t do the frame-perfect inputs? Fear not, because [Gregory Strike] is here to save the day with his automatic NES controller! In his previous video, [Greg] already made an automatic controller that plays a sequence of inputs at the perfect
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Whitwam / Android Authority Samsung is now rolling out the stable Android 14-based One UI 6 update to the Galaxy S23 in Germany. The information comes from multiple users on X (formerly Twitter) who have received the update. Update: October 30, 2023 (1:40 AM ET): Minutes after we published the original article below,
Read MoreSamsung is finally rolling out One UI 6 to its smartphones and tablets, starting with the Galaxy S23 series. One UI 6 is based on Android 14 and brings in several changes and improvements. The update started rolling out in Germany but is now available in other regions including the UK, Norway, Finland, and more.
Read MoreCredit: Samsung The new Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 Retro edition pays homage to the iconic flip-style phone, the SGH-E700. The Flip 5 Retro is a limited edition release with indigo blue and silver colors on the phone. The box would include a Flipsuit case, three Flipsuit cards, and a collector’s card. The Galaxy Z
Read MoreCredit: Austin Kwok / Android Authority A research team at Google has developed a new technology that can turn any existing ANC earbuds into cardiac monitors. Called APG, it’s an acoustic sensing system that can be uploaded to existing earbuds with a software update. Google claims it has minimal impact on battery life and even
Read MoreSteven Kurutz / New York Times: A look at blue-collar influencers, including a trucker, a shepherd, and a fisherman, who have amassed large audiences by posting short videos of their workday — A new crop of popular social media personalities includes a trucker, a shepherd and a commercial fisherman.
Read MoreRecently [Roberto Barrios] got his hands on a Rohde & Schwarz EB200 monitoring and surveillance receiver that, despite its late 90s vintage, was in mint condition. Aside from damage to the main dial, that is, which was very much broken. With no off-the-shelf replacement available in 2023, the obvious answer was to get a close-enough
Read MoreSamsung’s One UI has come a long way over the years and has quickly become one of the most popular Android skins. The new One UI 6 update based on Android 14 continues to refine Samsung’s formula, though it’s expected to focus more on polish and refinement than introducing major new features. Here’s everything we
Read MorePresident Joe Biden issued a wide-ranging executive order on artificial intelligence with measures to boost US tech talent and prevent AI being used to threaten national security.
Read MoreSpatiotemporal data, which comes from sources as diverse as cell phones, climate sensors, financial market transactions, and sensors in vehicles and containers, represents the largest and most rapidly expanding data category. IDC estimates that data generated from connected IoT devices will total 73.1 ZB by 2025, growing at a 26% CAGR from 18.3 ZB in
Read MoreIn the previous installment of this series, we delved into the intricacies of the PaLM API and its seamless integration with LangChain. The great advantage of LangChain is the flexibility to swap out the large language model (LLM) with only slight changes to our code. As we have seen, within the LangChain framework, the LLM
Read MoreImage: The Verge YouTube’s NFL Sunday Ticket streams have been plagued with buffering and pixelation, making afternoon games today unwatchable, according to many, many posts. The @TeamYouTube account acknowledged the issue at 1:53PM ET. The team wrote that they’re aware YouTube is having issues and they are working to fix them, but acknowledged that “YouTube
Read MoreWe’ve previously reported from the UK about the Online Safety Bill, a piece of internet safety legislation that contains several concerning provisions relating to online privacy and encryption. UK laws enter the statutes by royal assent after being approved by Parliament, so with the signature of the King, it has now become the law of
Read MoreRebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Elon Musk says X posts corrected by Community Notes will be “ineligible for revenue share” in order to “maximize the incentive for accuracy over sensationalism” — X posts that are corrected by Community Notes, the platform’s crowd-sourced fact-checking system …
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge OpenAI is rolling out new beta features for ChatGPT Plus members right now. Subscribers have reported that the update includes the ability to upload files and work with them, as well as multimodal support. Basically, users won’t have to select modes like Browse with Bing from the GPT-4 dropdown — it will
Read More“As California goes, so goes the nation.” That adage has been true on and off for the last 100 years or so, and it’s true again now that GM’s Cruise self-driving car unit has halted operations across the United States, just a couple of days after California’s DMV suspended its license to conduct driverless tests
Read MoreKristi Hines / Search Engine Journal: ChatGPT Plus users report an “All Tools” feature and capabilities for analyzing docs like PDFs have been added, potentially sidelining 3rd-party ChatGPT plugins — OpenAI to release updated version of ChatGPT that gives users access all GPT-4 tools – including browsing and DALL
Read More[Matt Vella] has had a talking, non-posable skeleton knocking around for years. As cool as that sounds, [Matt] is really tired of its three stock phrases. Fast forward to this year — [Matt] got a posable skeleton and decided to go all out on this, the hackiest of all holidays. The result? Hack Skellington. Between
Read MoreGeorge Hammond / Financial Times: An interview with Vinod Khosla on the investor frenzy around AI, why the US should use all the tools at its disposal to win the AI race with China, and more — Many are ‘investing because everybody else is’ and most will lose money, claims Vinod Khosla — Artificial intelligence
Read MoreBrian Heater / TechCrunch: Q&A with Amazon Robotics Chief Technologist Tye Brady on testing Agility’s bipedal robot Digit at Amazon, coding robotic systems with CodeWhisperer, and more — A version of this post first appeared in TechCrunch’s weekly robotics newsletter, Actuator. Subscribe here.
Read MoreRon Amadeo / Ars Technica: Android 14 review: an unexciting release for consumers, featuring a lightly customizable lock screen and improved back button functionality — Android 14 offers a lightly customizable lock screen and not much else. — Does anybody care about Android 14?
Read MoreThe Citizen Lab: Research details how vulnerabilities in signaling protocols used by mobile network operators for international roaming can be exploited to geolocate devices — Table of Contents — 2. Geolocation Attacks Against Telecommunications Networks — 4. Incentives Enabling Geolocation Attacks
Read MoreRebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Elon Musk says X posts corrected by Community Notes will be “ineligible for revenue share” in order to “maximize the incentive for accuracy over sensationalism” — X posts that are corrected by Community Notes, the platform’s crowd-sourced fact-checking system …
Read MoreCredit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority Opinion post by Kaitlyn Cimino Google’s second-generation smartwatch tracks sleep, counts beats and monitors my sleep stages. It even calculates my real-time running pace so I can then calculate how much longer I’ll be huffing and puffing until the end of my 4-mile loop. It also fires off emails,
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