Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge In an announcement today, Chatbot service Character.AI says it will soon be launching parental controls for teenage users, and it described safety measures it’s taken in the past few months, including a separate large language model (LLM) for users under 18. The announcement comes after press scrutiny and two
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Galaxy owners will now be able to play games in the Samsung News app. The Six is the first game coming to the app, but more experiences will follow. Users can start playing The Six starting today. An interesting change is coming to the Samsung News app on Galaxy
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority A new leak suggests that Samsung hasn’t dropped plans to offer its Galaxy S series flagships with an Exynos chipset. The company now allegedly plans to equip Galaxy S26 series devices with its in-house silicon. Recent rumors suggest that it may also have an Exynos-powered Galaxy Z Flip model
Read MoreEpic and Telefonica have announced that the Epic Games Store will be preinstalled on millions of Android phones. This will allow Android phone owners in Europe and Latin America to more easily download Fortnite and several other titles. However, this could be the third app store on many smartphones, following the Play Store and OEM
Read MoreApple has now launched its Tap to Pay on iPhone service in both Egypt and Chile, making a total of 20 countries that have received the feature since it started in 2022. Tap to Pay on iPhone lets merchants take payments without a separate contactless device Following quickly on the heels of its launch in
Read MoreApple has now launched its Tap to Pay on iPhone service in Chile, making a total of 19 countries that have received the feature since it started in 2022. Despite previous local reports, however, the service has not launched in Egypt. Tap to Pay on iPhone lets merchants take payments without a separate contactless device
Read MoreLanguage-Integrated Query, or LINQ for short, brings a query execution pipeline directly into C# and the managed environments of .NET Framework and .NET Core. LINQ provides several ways to execute queries and handle complex data manipulation tasks. Chunking is one feature of LINQ that simplifies the way you manage collections. In this article, we’ll examine
Read MoreIT Search director David Shanahan talks about the most in-demand roles to be expected in the tech industry in the year ahead. Read more: What are the 10 hottest tech jobs for 2025?
Read MoreThe company has also announced plans to expand into the US next year. Read more: UCD medtech spin-out LaNua Medical nabs €6m in funding
Read MoreAn anonymous reader shares a report: Amazon Web Services said in a post earlier this month that developers report spending an average of “just one hour per day” on actual coding. But that doesn’t mean these workers twiddle their thumbs the remaining seven hours per day. Instead, developers spend the majority of their time on
Read MoreAn anonymous reader shares a report: Amazon Web Services said in a post earlier this month that developers report spending an average of “just one hour per day” on actual coding. But that doesn’t mean these workers twiddle their thumbs the remaining seven hours per day. Instead, developers spend the majority of their time on
Read MoreApple provides parental controls in iOS and iPadOS to set content and behavior restrictions for children’s devices. Here’s how to get started. How to set parental controls on iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 Most of the settings for content and privacy restrictions fall under Screen Time. Introduced in iOS 12, Screen Time records how much
Read MoreHobbyist 3D printers have traditionally run the open source Merlin firmware, but as printers are being pushed to the limits, more capable firmware Klipper are being developed. This is why the aptly named ‘Danger-Klipper’ fork of the Klipper firmware comes with the motto ‘I should be able to light my printer on fire’. Because the
Read MoreCredit: Ryan McLeod / Android Authority Stepping into the VR world can get expensive really quickly. For example, the PlayStation VR2 usually costs $549.99, by itself. Today, we’re taking a look at an amazing deal on the PlayStation VR2 Horizon Call of The Mountain Bundle, which usually costs $599.99. Amazon has this bundle on sale
Read MoreCredit: Ryan McLeod / Android Authority Stepping into the VR world can get expensive really quickly. For example, the PlayStation VR2 usually costs $549.99, by itself. Today, we’re taking a look at an amazing deal on the PlayStation VR2 Horizon Call of The Mountain Bundle, which usually costs $599.99. Amazon has this bundle on sale
Read MoreCredit: Roland Quandt New dummy units of the Galaxy S25 have emerged. These dummy units appear to lack camera rings and a periscope camera module. If you can’t wait for Samsung to reveal the Galaxy S25 series, hopefully, the mountain of leaks throughout most of this year has helped make the wait a little easier.
Read MoreCredit: Roland Quandt New dummy units of the Galaxy S25 have emerged. These dummy units appear to lack camera rings and a periscope camera module. If you can’t wait for Samsung to reveal the Galaxy S25 series, hopefully, the mountain of leaks throughout most of this year has helped make the wait a little easier.
Read MoreAn anonymous reader shares a report: Russia has reportedly cut some regions of the country off from the rest of the world’s internet for a day, effectively siloing them, according to reports from European and Russian news outlets reshared by the US nonprofit Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and Western news outlets. Russia’s
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority ID Pass is rolling out for Google Wallet starting today. Users will be able to create and store a digital version of their US passport. The app is also adding support for New Mexico driver’s licenses or state IDs. Update, December 11, 2024 (03:52 PM ET): Being able to
Read MoreRumors of an M4 update to the MacBook Air in 2025 have been boosted, thanks to a leak buried inside Apple’s macOS Sequoia 15.2 update. MacBook Air Typically, rumors and leaks are spread online, sourced from third-party manufacturers, analyst predictions, and hearsay. However, there is sometimes the rare instance of Apple itself dropping the ball.
Read MoreMusicians can now easily create dual-layer tracks in Voice Memos and export the recording to Logic Pro later. Image Credit: Apple On Wednesday, Apple released iOS 18.2, a new update that brings even more features to the iPhone. While the features are numerous, Apple has chosen to highlight one specific new one in a video.
Read MoreMeta sites like Facebook and Instagram are experiencing significant service interruptions. It’s possible this could be part of a wider internet connectivity failure. Non-meta sites like Reddit and Google may also be suffering. Outage reports have been spiking over the past hour across multiple sites and services online. The incidents we first noticed, and where
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is going to let Xbox Insiders who also subscribe to Game Pass Ultimate test the ability to stream some Xbox games they already own to their Xbox starting today. The feature could be useful if you want to jump into a game without having to install the
Read MoreUpdated December 11, 2024 (01:00 PM ET): The final four round has ended! We are now left with just two phones to duke it out for the top prize: the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra and the Google Pixel 9 Pro. Yesterday, when we announced the final four lineup, the Google Pixel 9 Pro was in
Read MoreFollowing its launch of four iPhone 16 cases with MagSafe at the launch of the iPhone 16 range, Beats by Dre is back with two more colors. The original iPhone 16 cases that Beats released were ones with a hard plastic back panel and softer side panels. They came with the distinctive Beats logo, and
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