Starlink satellites now work with iPhone, but the change has caused confusion and concern. Here’s what the feature means, how it works, and how you can disable it if you so choose. Starlink satellites are now supported on iPhone The recent iOS 18.3 update contained a number of new features for iPhone users. We saw
Read MoreTikTok is mostly back online after briefly going dark in the US to comply with the divest-or-ban law that went into effect on January 19th. On January 20th, Donald Trump issued an executive order “instructing the Attorney General not to take any action to enforce the Act for a period of 75 days from today.”
Read MoreCredit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority For one reason (coffee) or another (a small child), I constantly find myself with full hands. Simultaneously, the organization of the day relies heavily on a carefully curated alarm schedule. As a result, I am often left desperately trying to dismiss my buzzing smartwatch with just one hand. While
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority The brand-new Home Assistant Yellow box had been collecting dust in my “gadgets to install” cardboard box for four months, with me randomly sighing and proclaiming to my husband, “We should set up Home Assistant one of these days.” Weeks came and went until one day, he took
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority The brand-new Home Assistant Yellow box had been collecting dust in my “gadgets to install” cardboard box for four months, with me randomly sighing and proclaiming to my husband, “We should set up Home Assistant one of these days.” Weeks came and went until one day, he took
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Samsung One UI is absolutely packed with features, but what if you need even more functionality on your Galaxy phone? Well, that’s where the company’s Good Lock suite of apps comes in. Good Lock apps bring extra settings and features to Samsung phones like the Galaxy S25 series. Need
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: If you watched the 2007 documentary King of Kong or followed the controversy surrounding score-chaser Billy Mitchell, you know all about Donkey Kong’s famous kill screen. For over four decades, no one was able to pass the game’s 117th screen (aka level 22-1) due to a
Read MoreLive Caption lets you easily add captioning to any media you consume on your phone, but so far captions have been forced to use a solid background. Google is currently in the midst of rolling out a new option that allows you to set a transparent background for captions. Right now it’s only available on
Read MoreRing Fit Adventure can help you hit your fitness goals if you’re allergic to the gym.
Read MoreSellers and shoppers on the two sites say they saw items disappear and prices go up after President Donald Trump implemented tariffs on Chinese imports.
Read MoreAndroid will soon be able to alert you when your device’s time zone has been automatically updated. This alert will come in the form of a notification. The feature isn’t live yet in the latest Android 16 preview, but when it does go live, it’ll be opt-in. Telling you what time it is is one
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority The Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge will apparently be slimmer than initially reported. The phone could be 5.84mm thick compared to the previously reported 6.4mm figure. Unfortunately, the phone will reportedly pack a smaller battery than even the Galaxy S25 and Z Flip 6. Samsung launched the Galaxy S25
Read MoreMacworld Be honest with us—do your iPhone’s screen time notifications make you question how you’re spending your free time? You’re not alone in this. We all could develop better phone usage habits, but not without help from Zario AI. This iOS app is designed to help you break your phone addiction and improve your focus and
Read MoreCredit: Rushil Agrawal / Android Authority OnePlus and OPPO could purportedly drop the alert slider feature on their phones. The brands would apparently switch to a remappable hardware button instead. This would be a major change for OnePlus in particular, as almost all its flagship phones have the feature. OnePlus has offered alert sliders on
Read MoreWater water everywhere, nor any drop to drink… without a filter like this. Access to water is always a concern when heading off the grid in my van â not when Iâm home in Amsterdam, a city surrounded by the stuff. That certainty changed recently when government ministers began quietly prodding citizens to stock up
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google is testing a change to the Google Maps UI in beta versions of the Android app. This tweak sees the icons for your saved places turning into dots when you zoom out. This would make for a cleaner view of your map. Google Maps lets you save places
Read MorePlayStation Network (PSN) has been experiencing a multi-hour outage that started Friday evening. According to Sony’s PSN status page, account management, gaming and social, PlayStation Video, PlayStation Store, and the PlayStation Direct website are all dealing with issues. For gaming specifically, Sony says that “you might have difficulty launching games, apps, or network features.” Sony
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In today’s issue of Nature, a team at Oxford University describes using quantum teleportation to link two pieces of quantum hardware that were located about 2 meters apart, meaning they could easily have been in different rooms entirely. Once linked, the two pieces of hardware could
Read MoreMaine’s overwhelmingly popular right-to-repair law is under attack by automakers through lawsuits and lobbying efforts aimed at weakening or delaying enforcement. While the law remains in limbo due to industry influence and legal challenges, broader enforcement issues persist across multiple states, with corporations often ignoring right-to-repair laws despite their legal passage. Techdirt reports: A little
Read MoreThe Register’s Thomas Claburn reports: Google’s overhaul of Chrome’s extension architecture continues to pose problems for developers of ad blockers, content filters, and privacy tools. […] While Google’s desire to improve the security, privacy, and performance of the Chrome extension platform is reasonable, its approach — which focuses on code and permissions more than human
Read MoreOpenAI says it’s investigating after a hacker claimed to have stolen login credentials for 20 million OpenAI accounts and advertised the data for sale on a dark web forum. Though security researchers doubt on the legitimacy of the breach, the AI company stated that it takes the claims seriously, advising users to enable two-factor authentication
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputer: Hospital Sisters Health System notified over 882,000 patients that an August 2023 cyberattack led to a data breach that exposed their personal and health information. Established in 1875, HSHS works with over 2,200 physicians and has around 12,000 employees. It also operates a network of physician practices
Read MoreMissed out on all the terrific TV deals we saw during Black Friday and Cyber Monday? That’s okay, because the weeks leading up to the Super Bowl have historically been one of the better times of the year to snag a discounted set. In fact, Amazon, Best Buy, Woot, and a number of retailers are
Read MorePresident Donald Trump kicked off the first day of his presidency by signing a flurry of executive actions, including halting enforcement of the TikTok ban and rolling back the Biden administration’s artificial intelligence order. Having already run the country once before, Trump entered the presidency with the goal of hitting the ground running, having already
Read MorePresident Donald Trump kicked off the first day of his presidency by signing a flurry of executive actions, including halting enforcement of the TikTok ban and rolling back the Biden administration’s artificial intelligence order. Having already run the country once before, Trump entered the presidency with the goal of hitting the ground running, having already
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