Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority We mostly focus on smartphones here at Android Authority, but there are plenty of other categories we cover as well. Bluetooth audio is one of these categories, with our sister website SoundGuys comprehensively covering all things audio as well. We’ve collectively spent plenty of time with earbuds and headphones
Read MoreApple’s second-gen AirPods Pro offers better noise cancellation and sound quality than their predecessor. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Did you give up on your New Year’s resolution to get fit a long time ago? Hey, join the club! The good news is spring brings with it sunnier days, so the idea
Read MorePhoto by Juho Sarvikas / HMD Global I miss the phone. No, not that slab in my pocket that we call the smartphone. Yes, that device can act like a phone. But it also doubles as a portable laptop, camera, alarm, console, TV, wallet, and so many other things — I’m not sure what it
Read MoreIn California, the bodies of four furry swimmers tested positive for a strain of toxoplasmosis first seen in mountain lions.
Read MoreThe Ring Video Doorbell Pro 2 is one of many Sidewalk bridges that can help extend connectivity beyond your home’s Wi-Fi. | Image: Dan Seifert / The Verge Last week, Amazon opened its Sidewalk protocol to third-party developers. Sidewalk is a large mesh network that draws on people’s home internet connections across the US. It’s
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Opinion post by Ryan Haines I love clamshell foldable phones. The nostalgia of slapping the display closed when I’m done and the convenience of slipping the phone comfortably back into my pocket hasn’t worn off even a little bit. However, the one aspect of devices like the Samsung Galaxy
Read MoreThe latest XPS 13 is good enough — but no longer good enough to top the market. Continue reading…
Read MorePlus: Kobo’s new E Ink tablet is made for doodling, Google moves podcasts into YouTube Music, and Peloton connects to Android watches.
Read MoreWelcome to The Weekly Authority, the Android Authority newsletter that breaks down the top Android and tech news from the week. The 239th edition here with Pixel Tablet connectivity specs, a look at that huge Galaxy Z Flip 5 cover screen, ASUS Rog Phone 7 leaks, ASUS’ Steam Deck competitor, and a Furby world takeover.
Read MoreEaster weekend brings discounts on some of our favorite Amazon devices, plus Google Pixel phones.
Read MoreApple TV has been skating aimlessly for so long now, that we asked ourselves what it needs to feel relevant in the TV space.
Read MoreThere was a time when a digital camera was a surprisingly simple affair whose on-board processor didn’t have much in the way of smarts beyond what was needed to grab an image from the sensor and compress it onto some storage. But as they gained more features, over time cameras acquired all the trappings of
Read MoreJoel Khalili / Wired: A look at the increasing complexity of the operating environment for crypto companies in the US, as a regulatory turf war between the SEC and the CFTC escalates — US agencies are sparring over who gets to oversee the crypto industry, and companies are stuck in the middle.
Read MoreThe story behind the fight over this game’s rights is as complex as the game itself.
Read MoreBenj Edwards / Ars Technica: Experts say when ChatGPT confabulates, it is reaching for information that is absent from its training data and filling in blanks with plausible-sounding words — A look inside the hallucinating artificial minds of the famous text prediction bots. — Over the past few months …
Read MoreIf you enjoy old military hardware, you probably know that Harris made quite a few heavy-duty pieces of radio gear. [K6YIC] picked up a nice example: the Harris RF-130 URT-23. These were frequently used in the Navy and some other service branches to communicate in a variety of modes on HF. The entire set included
Read MoreSega had some hit consoles in the 1980s and 1990s. It lost a bit of steam in the 2000s, but plenty of people still want to play games from Sega consoles. The purpose of this list is obvious. We’re going to talk about the best Sega emulators for PC and Mac. We’ll cover most of
Read MoreIllustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is barring users from running game emulations on the Xbox Series X | S. On Thursday, Twitter user @gamr12, who’s involved with the distribution of the RetroArch emulation software on Xbox, posted the error message they received when attempting to launch emulated content. “Unable to launch this game
Read MoreIllustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter has started marking links to Substack as unsafe. If you click on a link on Twitter with substack.com in the URL, Twitter will show a separate notice warning you that “the link you are trying to access has been identified by Twitter or our partners as being potentially
Read MoreThe Verge: Twitter starts marking Substack links with a warning that the link “has been identified by Twitter or our partners as being potentially spammy or unsafe” — Twitter has started marking links to Substack as unsafe. If you click on a link on Twitter with substack.com in the URL …
Read MoreImage: 343 Industries Joseph Staten, a Bungie veteran who worked on the first three Halo games and was brought on to help get Halo Infinite over the finish line, is leaving Microsoft, the company confirmed to IGN on Friday and Staten himself confirmed on Twitter. “Hey folks, I am indeed leaving Microsoft,” Staten said. “I’ll
Read MorePreetika Rana / Wall Street Journal: How Uber revamped its app, attracting more drivers and extending its lead on Lyft; YipitData: Uber’s US market share grew from 62% in early 2020 to 74% now — Dara Khosrowshahi and other executives realized drivers’ complaints were valid. They revamped the app, helping Uber attract workers and extend
Read MoreA recent paper published by researchers at the university of Tel Aviv in Cell on the sounds they captured from ‘stressed’ plants had parts of the internet abuzz with what this meant, with some suggesting that this was an early April Fools prank. The fun part here is the news item is not that plants
Read MoreIris Deng / South China Morning Post: Tencent and ByteDance’s Douyin sign a deal authorizing Douyin to distribute Tencent’s video content, after years of copyright disputes between the two companies — Tech giant Tencent Holdings and Douyin, the short video app operated by ByteDance, have agreed a partnership deal …
Read MoreAt first glance, the Raspberry Pi Pico might seem like a bit of a black sheep when compared to the other offerings from the Raspberry Pi Foundation. While most of the rest of their lineup can run Linux environments with full desktops, the Pico is largely limited to microcontroller duties in exchange for much smaller
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