Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Google will reportedly require specific hardware standards for foldable phones. This includes a minimum of 200,000 folds and unfolds for devices. Google could also mandate slightly longer software update pledges for foldables. 2023 has been a major year for foldable phones, as Samsung finally has competition from other brands
Read MoreThe July 24 update to macOS Ventura 13.5 messes with your location permissions – here’s what you need to know.
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Google is working on a feature to link your Android devices together when they are signed into the same Google account. This could then enable features like call switching between these devices and even internet sharing. These features are similar to Continuity features in the Apple ecosystem. One of
Read MoreCredit: Weibo/Xiaomi Xiaomi has confirmed that the Redmi K60 Extreme Edition will launch next week. It added that the phone will pack up to 24GB of RAM and 1TB of storage. It’s believed that this device will launch outside China as the Xiaomi 13T Pro. Xiaomi previously confirmed that the Redmi K60 Extreme Edition smartphone
Read MoreIn simulated environments, smell is often the neglected sense. Scentient’s wearable device aims to bring a whiff of authenticity to virtual reality.
Read MoreA new band is arguably the fastest way to switch up the look of your favorite wearable, and when it comes to the Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 Classic, looks are everything. The Classic’s raised, rotating bezel leaves a traditional impression best matched with an elegant strap. To help narrow down the options, we rounded up the
Read MoreThere are some projects that initially don’t seem to make sense, but actually turn out to have valid use cases. ChimeraOS appears to be one of those. The idea is that if you own a gaming PC, but it is not necessarily located where you want to be all the time (like in a gaming
Read MoreLorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: Researchers deployed exposed Windows servers as honeypots for hackers, recording 190M events and 100 hours of video of their actions, like installing malware — Imagine being able to sit behind a hacker and observe them take control of a computer and play around with it.
Read MoreCredit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority The first One UI 6 beta is finally rolling out for the Galaxy S23 phones after a few hiccups and delays. The update should now be available in the US, Germany, and South Korea. Update: August 11, 2023 (12:02 AM ET): It looks like Samsung is finally rolling out
Read MoreImage: Instagram A new Instagram feature allows users to add music to their grid posts — and Olivia Rodrigo is the first person to do it. The feature was introduced today by Rodrigo, who used it to unveil her new song, “bad idea right?” Instagram users can attach a song of their choice to soundtrack
Read MoreThe Verge The Twitter Blue — pardon me — X Premium Ads Revenue Sharing payouts that were supposed to roll out last week have been delivered, as the @Support account tweeted the news Monday night. Asked about the delay, X employee Eric Farraro said the late Friday announcement of a delay came only once the
Read MoreAndy Greenberg / Wired: Teens replicated a 2008 hack of Boston’s subway fare system and were invited to present their work, a contrast to the transit authority’s response 15 years ago — In 2008, Boston’s transit authority sued to stop MIT hackers from presenting at the Defcon hacker conference on how to get free subway
Read MoreOnce ubiquitous, the incandescent light bulb has become something of a lucerna non grata lately. Banned from home lighting, long gone from flashlights, and laughed out of existence by automotive engineers, you have to go a long way these days to find something that still uses a tungsten filament. Strangely enough, this lamp-stabilized LM386 Wien
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority WhatsApp will soon let you schedule group calls in advance. The feature is now available for the Android version of the app in beta. It should roll out to all WhatsApp users in the near future. WhatsApp is borrowing a feature from Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams —
Read MoreThe Verge The Twitter Blue — pardon me — X Premium Ads Revenue Sharing payouts that were supposed to roll out last week have been delivered, as the @Support account tweeted the news Monday night. Asked about the delay, X employee Eric Farraro said the late Friday announcement of a delay came only once the
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Read MoreLink building is a critical SEO method for bolstering website visibility in search engine result pages. And actually, one innovative way to facilitate more efficient and long-term results is through white label link building. This approach entails collaborating with other businesses, through private services or outside agency partnerships, to skillfully acquire quality backlinks in an
Read MoreYueqi Yang / Bloomberg: Circle says it has $1B+ in cash and had $779M in revenue in H1 2023, vs. $772M for all of 2022, as USDC in circulation has fallen to ~$26B from ~$45B in January — – CEO expects payments, financial firms to push for stablecoins — USD Coin market cap plunges this
Read MoreIf it’s at all possible, you should avoid tossing out a laptop, no matter how old it is. E-waste is a serious issue — the materials in computers can be polluting or outright dangerous if they’re just tossed in a heap. With that in mind, here are 8 ideas for handling an old laptop, many
Read MoreCommercial industrial agriculture is responsible for providing food to the world’s population at an incredibly low cost, especially when compared to most of human history when most or a majority of people would have been involved in agriculture. Now it’s a tiny fraction of humans that need to grow food, while the rest can spend
Read MorePhoto by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Waymo and Cruise were approved to operate their robotaxi services 24/7 in San Francisco after a contentious six-hour public hearing in which residents voiced their support and opposition to the vehicles. It’s a big win for autonomous vehicle operators, who have spent tens of billions on the technology with very
Read MoreFrederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Oracle, SUSE, and CIQ launch the Open Enterprise Linux Association to foster RHEL-based distributions development, after Red Hat limited RHEL source code access — The fallout from Red Hat’s recent decision to make it harder to access to the source code of its flagship Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distribution continues.
Read MoreAndrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: The California Public Utilities Commission allows Waymo and Cruise to operate driverless cabs 24/7 throughout San Francisco, after a contentious public hearing — Waymo and Cruise were approved to operate their robotaxi services 24/7 in San Francisco after a contentious six-hour public hearing …
Read MoreRobotaxis can offer paid rides in San Francisco around the clock after Alphabet’s Waymo and GM’s Cruise got approval from California’s Public Utilities Commission.
Read MoreReuters: Filing: Bittrex agrees to pay $24M to settle US SEC claims that the crypto exchange failed to register with the agency; Bittrex doesn’t admit to the allegations — Bittrex has agreed to pay $24 million to settle claims by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that the cryptocurrency exchange failed …
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