Director Edward Berger wears a Vision Pro headset in the trailer for Submerged. | Screenshot: YouTube Apple just released the trailer for Submerged, the first scripted immersive video for the Vision Pro. The short, written and directed by Edward Berger, is set inside a WWII submarine as its crew deals with “a harrowing torpedo attack.”
Read MoreArc Search is now available for Android and iPhone, allowing users to make the most of it. It’s a bit different from a modern web browser; it’s lightweight, fast, and offers amazing features. Due to the unique content it offers, many Android and iPhone users want to make Arc Search their phone’s default web browser.
Read MoreMacworld The latest version of macOS–Sequoia–arrived on Macs in September 2024, but the beta development continues and if you are a registered developer or registered as a public beta tester, you can continue to get the latest updates and try out new features still not available to the general public. In this article, we’ll explain
Read MoreU.S. exchanges’ four-character limit for ETF tickers is creating fierce competition in the $10 trillion industry, particularly for single-stock funds. With 456,976 possible combinations, options narrow drastically when built around existing company tickers. MicroStrategy-inspired ETFs, for instance, leave issuers with just 52 choices using ‘MST’. Memorable tickers are crucial for differentiation and can improve stock
Read MoreGoogle is working on a new version of Chrome for Android that supports browser extensions. Specifically, the company is experimenting with “desktop” builds of Chrome for Android. These “desktop” builds are currently intended for Chromebooks as they transition to use more parts of Android, but there’s hope the work will benefit mobile devices, too. There
Read MoreJosh Millet discusses how qualified and often ‘atypical’ job candidates are frequently being overlooked, due to CVs that show only a fragment of a person’s character and skill. Read more: Are applicant résumés failing to show the full picture?
Read MoreOn this episode of the HomeKit Insider Podcast, eufy launches a new Apple Home camera system, Sonos makes a pledge, and more gear is released. HomeKit Insider Podcast As we start to recap the news, we kick it off with the latest news from Sonos. After last adding alarms back to the app in their
Read MorePhoto by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The iPhone 16 Pro’s camera upgrades may be the true highlights of this year’s phone. So, for the past three weeks, The Verge supervising producer Vjeran Pavic has been testing out everything the camera has to offer. Apple’s new Camera Control button may be the headline feature, but
Read MoreWe do everything on our smartphones now, and given how essential they’ve become, a phone that isn’t working will likely send you into a panic spiral. Unless you’re manually installing custom ROMs and tweaking software, official updates that render your device unusable are, luckily, quite rare. It does happen, though, considering the news of a
Read MoreImage: Calligram Studio In Phoenix Springs, it’s not so much the ravishing hand-drawn visuals that first grab the attention, but the voice of narrator and protagonist Iris. Befitting her name, she behaves like a roving eye, investigating and describing her surroundings with a clinical, almost robotic detachment. Yet Iris is no blank slate: you quickly
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority The Google Play Store could soon show you your Google Play Points on the app download page. We also managed to activate the warning that the Play Store will show when downloading apps that have not updated their watch faces to Wear OS’s new Watch Face Format. Most users
Read MoreCredit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority A OnePlus executive apparently suggested that the OnePlus 13 could get cases with magnetic functionality. This would follow in the footsteps of the Find X8 phones, which also require cases for magnetic capabilities. OPPO previously confirmed that the Find X8 series would get a variety of magnetic accessories, following
Read MoreThe application deadline for the ‘Green-tech in healthcare’ call is 17 November and winners will be announced next February. Read more: Competition opens for green tech to ‘future proof’ Irish healthcare
Read MoreAn anonymous reader shared this post from the blog It’s FOSS It has been more than two years since K-9 Mail (an open-source email client for Android) joined the Mozilla Thunderbird project. Instead of making a new mobile app from scratch, Mozilla decided to convert K-9 Mail slowly into the new Thunderbird Android app. While
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority The FCC has temporarily approved SpaceX and T-Mobile’s satellite service for smartphones in areas hit by Hurricane Helene. This service will broadcast emergency alerts to all smartphones in North Carolina, but the duo might also test texting functionality on T-Mobile. SpaceX and T-Mobile announced a partnership a while back
Read MoreWhen we think of assembling a PCB, we’re almost always thinking about solder. Whether in paste form or on the spool, hand-iron or reflow, some molten metal is usually in the cards. [Stephen Hawes] is looking for a solderless alternative for prototyping, and he shows us the progress he’s made toward going solderless in this
Read MoreThe M4 MacBook Pro has leaked in an unboxing video. The new machine is expected to double the RAM on the base model and feature an extra Thunderbolt 4 USB-C port. The key performance metrics of the M4 chip have also leaked. Apple is gearing up to launch the new M4 MacBook Pro later this
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority The Google Play Store could soon start highlighting apps optimized for large-screen devices like tablets and compatible with cars. These are likely the result of the Google Car-ready mobile apps program announced at Google I/O 2024 that aimed to bring tablet apps to car infotainment screens for use when
Read More“Ho, hum,” I thought in response to the release of the OpenAI o1 models. “Yet another stochastic parrot.” I was wrong. In fact, I tried the o1-preview model on one of my standard programming tasks, and found it to be surprisingly good. The recently released ChatGPT o1-preview model is an early version of the much-rumored
Read More“Ho, hum,” I thought in response to the release of the OpenAI o1 models. “Yet another stochastic parrot.” I was wrong. In fact, I tried the o1-preview model on one of my standard programming tasks, and found it to be surprisingly good. The recently released ChatGPT o1-preview model is an early version of the much-rumored
Read MoreLong-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shared this report from Australia’s public broadcaster ABC: Ecovacs robot vacuums, which have been found to suffer from critical cybersecurity flaws, are collecting photos, videos and voice recordings — taken inside customers’ houses — to train the company’s AI models. The Chinese home robotics company, which sells a range of popular
Read MoreLong-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shared this report from Australia’s public broadcaster ABC: Ecovacs robot vacuums, which have been found to suffer from critical cybersecurity flaws, are collecting photos, videos and voice recordings — taken inside customers’ houses — to train the company’s AI models. The Chinese home robotics company, which sells a range of popular
Read MoreAn anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post: Hundreds of Americans have been arrested after being connected to a crime by facial recognition software, a Washington Post investigation has found, but many never know it because police seldom disclose their use of the controversial technology… In fact, the records show that officers often
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority AI-generated images are more impressive than ever, with some even winning photography awards and fooling experts in the process. The best part? You don’t need to be a professional artist or have any technical skills to create them. But not all AI image generators are created equal — some
Read MoreAmazon launched “cashierless checkout” stores In 2018, reports CNBC — but by 2020 it was licensing the “Just Walk Out” technology to other stores in airports, hospitals, and stadiums. In April, Amazon announced it was removing cashierless checkout from its U.S. Fresh stores and Whole Foods locations… In place of Just Walk Out, which typically
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