Welcome to The Weekly Authority, the Android Authority newsletter that breaks down the top Android and tech news from the week. The 244th edition here and it’s that time of year again, Google I/O! If you missed Wednesday’s big event, we’ve got all the updates. Also in this week’s TWA, we’ve got loads of Motorola
Read MoreA thermoelectric generator (TEG) can turn a temperature difference into electricity, and while temperature differentials abound in our environment, it’s been difficult to harness them into generate practical and stable sources of power. But researchers in China have succeeded in creating a TEG that can passively and continuously generate power, even across shifting environmental conditions.
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Law firms and companies’ legal teams are experimenting with AI tools that can handle work done by entry-level lawyers, potentially reducing billable hours — Lawyers start to use GPT-4 technology to do legal research, draft documents and analyze contracts — Big law firms …
Read MoreAs digital photography has become so good, perhaps just too good, at capturing near-perfect pictures, some photographers have ventured back into the world of film. There they have found the imperfections requiring technical skill to cope with that they desire, but they’ve also come face-to-face with the very high cost and sometimes sketchy availability of
Read MoreJoseph Cox / VICE: Sources, former sellers, and court records shed light on “No. 1 BC”, a company that loads an encrypted messaging app on phones for use by organized crime groups — A collaborative investigation reveals alleged members of the mafia are using encrypted phones from “No. 1 Business Communication.”
Read MoreAs digital photography has become so good, perhaps just too good, at capturing near-perfect pictures, some photographers have ventured back into the world of film. There they have found the imperfections requiring technical skill to cope with that they desire, but they’ve also come face-to-face with the very high cost and sometimes sketchy availability of
Read MoreJoseph Cox / VICE: Sources, former sellers, and court records shed light on “No. 1 BC”, a company that loads an encrypted messaging app on phones for use by organized crime groups — A collaborative investigation reveals alleged members of the mafia are using encrypted phones from “No. 1 Business Communication.”
Read MoreSarah Scire / Nieman Lab: A look at The Athletic’s live audio rooms, a Twitter Spaces-like feature in the outlet’s app for beat reporters to have postgame conversations with subscribers — The Athletic’s first live room took place in September 2021. By January 2022, they’d done 100. Today, they’re closing in on 1,000.
Read MoreGenerative AI is the new thing right now, proving to be a useful tool both for professional programmers, writers of high school essays and all kinds of other applications in between. It’s also been shown to be effective in generating images, as the DALL-E program has demonstrated with its impressive image-creating abilities. It should surprise
Read MoreWall Street Journal: A look at Apple’s unusual approach to building its MR headset, which took seven years to develop and which will still be an experimental product at launch — Apple’s soon-to-be-revealed mixed-reality device will likely cost $3,000, requires a separate battery pack and is still experimental
Read MoreNilay Patel / The Verge: An interview with Sundar Pichai on the future of Search, AI being one of the deepest platform shifts, his vision for Google, merging DeepMind, and more — AI is one of the deepest platform shifts ever, says Google’s CEO, and he’s not worried about being first. — Sundar Pichai is
Read MoreNilay Patel / The Verge: An interview with Sundar Pichai on the future of Search, AI being one of the deepest platform shifts, his vision for Google, merging DeepMind, and more — AI is one of the deepest platform shifts ever, says Google’s CEO, and he’s not worried about being first. — Sundar Pichai is
Read MoreGenerative AI is the new thing right now, proving to be a useful tool both for professional programmers, writers of high school essays and all kinds of other applications in between. It’s also been shown to be effective in generating images, as the DALL-E program has demonstrated with its impressive image-creating abilities. It should surprise
Read MoreOne of the more popular trends in the ham radio community right now is operating away from the shack. Parks on the Air (POTA) is an excellent way to take a mobile radio off-grid and operate in the beauty of nature, but for those who want to take their rig to more extreme locations there’s
Read MoreTracy Wang / CoinDesk: Binance announces its exit from Canada, saying the country’s “new guidance related to stablecoins and investor limits” makes the market “no longer tenable” — The world’s largest crypto exchange by volume said new guidance related to stablecoins and investor limits prompted the exit.
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Read MoreNilesh Christopher / Rest of World: Current and former employees say Foxconn has hired ~10K contract workers in Chennai, India, since November 2022, paying between ~$190 and ~$225 per month — Every Saturday, a clutch of engineering colleges in south India turn into venues for walk-in interviews for Apple contract manufacturers.
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Google has updated the Sounds app after launching the Pixel 7a. The update brings a new ringtone to the Sounds app. The ringtone plays smooth jazz in the style of Kenny G. There are many ways to customize your Pixel phone to have it match your personality. One of
Read MoreKirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: Autonomous delivery startup Nuro will lay off 30% of its workforce, or ~340 people, as part of a restructuring; Nuro laid off 20% of its staff in November 2022 — Autonomous delivery robot startup Nuro will lay off 30%, or about 340 employees, across the company as part of a restructuring
Read MoreIf you are the kind of person who reads Hackaday, you probably spent time in school doodling little design day dreams. [Allen Pan] gets it, and he’s taken it upon himself to make some of those daydreams into reality. You can see how it worked out — or didn’t — in the video below. The
Read MoreAmazon is looking to improve on its current home robot Astro by adding ChatGPT-like features to future versions | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge As a smart home reviewer of a certain age, all I’ve ever wanted for my home is a Rosie the Robot. The Jetsons’ mechanical housekeeper was the example
Read MoreEcho Wang / Reuters: Sources: e-commerce marketing platform Klaviyo confidentially files for a US IPO; source: the firm seeks to raise $750M+; Klaviyo was valued at ~$9.5B in 2021 — Data and marketing automation firm Klaviyo Inc confidentially submitted paperwork on Friday with U.S. regulators for an initial public offering …
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Google has updated the Sounds app after launching the Pixel 7a. The update brings a new ringtone to the Sounds app. The ringtone plays smooth jazz in the style of Kenny G. There are many ways to customize your Pixel phone to have it match your personality. One of
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Read MoreThis 2019 preowned Nissan Leaf SV is the only electric vehicle at a dealership in Milford, Massachusetts, on July 13th, 2022. | Photo by Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Electric vehicles just aren’t easy to find in American car dealerships, a survey by the environmental group Sierra Club confirms. Two-thirds of car dealerships
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