Google Home cannot currently access its Activity feed nor the app’s Settings Device controls and routines still work as normal. Update, October 4, 2024 (05:58 PM ET): We’ve still yet to hear back from Google about what may have caused this glitch to half-break the Home app, but as of this evening the Activity feed
Read MoreRobotaxi firm Waymo will build its self-driving tech into the Ioniq 5. But what about its relationship with Chinese automaker Zeekr?
Read MoreNorthern Ireland-based Apple Store, Apple Victoria Square, is moving to a new location in Belfast’s central shopping district. Image Credit: Apple Apple Victoria Square will close on October 15 and reopen on Corn Market on October 18 at 9:00 am local time. The old location will be permanently closed. The new Apple Store is located
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Google improved its security for the Pixel 9 series. To tighten up the security, the company focused on securing the device’s baseband. The baseband has increasingly become a common attack vector by hackers. With smartphones being such an important part of our lives, keeping them safe from security risks
Read MoreIllustration: Cath Virginia / The Verge After months of waiting, now Android users can take the Arc Search app for a spin. It’s now available as an open beta on the Google Play Store after developers teased an Android version of the app in August. Arc is The Browser Company’s take on web browsing, billing
Read MoreA Pixel 9! In a Mous case! If you’ve spent any amount of time reading about phones, you’ve probably seen those annoying Mous ads. If not, I’m sorry to say that after opening this page it’s only a matter of time.
Read MoreApple just fixed a duo of security bugs in iOS 18.0.1 and iPadOS 18.0.1, one of which might cause users’ saved passwords to be read aloud. It’s hardly an ideal situation for the visually impaired. From a report: For those who rely on the accessibility features baked into their iGadgets, namely Apple’s VoiceOver screen reader,
Read MoreIf you are looking to make a change in your profession but don’t know how to go about it, why not consider career coaching to give you the guidance you need to take the next step? Read more: Is career coaching the correct choice for you?
Read MoreGoogle is working on a new trade-in mode for Android. This feature will make it easier for the people inspecting your phone to run automated diagnostics. Trade-in mode will hopefully speed up phone inspections so you can get your refund faster. The best Android phones can easily run you a thousand dollars or more, but
Read MoreDespite opposition from Germany, the European Union will start imposing tariffs as high as 45 percent on Chinese-made electric vehicles. Elon Musk’s marque takes the smallest hit.
Read MoreCredit: Ryan-Thomas Shaw / Android Authority Samsung has acknowledged the recent bootloop issue faced by users of older Galaxy devices. The cause of the bootloop is an update to the Samsung SmartThings app. Affected customers should contact Samsung Support to help fix the issue. Alternatively, experienced users can try a data wipe. Users of certain
Read MoreCredit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority Apple Watch users have been complaining about excessive battery drain following the watchOS 11 update. Apple has now released watchOS 11.0.1 to address the widespread bug. The update also fixes an issue that caused certain Apple Watches to reboot randomly. A few weeks ago, Apple seeded watchOS 11.0, packing
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Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority The Google Home app could soon add a temperature display to the Climate header on the Favorites tab. Google is also refreshing the QR code scanner within the app for device setup, although the new UI is not very different.
Read MoreAlthough not as famous as Chrome and Edge, Arc is still a great modern web browser designed to make browsing feel more personal and organized. However, the problem with the Arc browser is that it requires a user account to function. Without an account, you can’t simply use the web browser. Since the Arc browser
Read MoreThe Register’s Thomas Claburn reports: Buck Shlegeris, CEO at Redwood Research, a nonprofit that explores the risks posed by AI, recently learned an amusing but hard lesson in automation when he asked his LLM-powered agent to open a secure connection from his laptop to his desktop machine. “I expected the model would scan the network
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority The Arc Search browser is reportedly launching on Android today (October 4). The app has a Browse For Me button that effectively gives you a comprehensive overview for desired searches. Apple iPhones occasionally get new apps before Android phones, and one of these apps is the well-received Arc Search
Read MoreThe company aims to use its technology to address current electricity grid challenges and could play a key role in the transition to decarbonisation. Read more: Dublin-based SuperNode secures €8m to develop its tech
Read MoreWhile AI can be assistive technology to an under resourced pathology sector, Ireland is falling behind when it comes to applying these innovations. Read more: Bringing tech to healthcare: Ireland has ‘a lot of red tape’
Read MoreWhat is with all the wasted space on keyboards? There’s a whole back side just sitting there doing nothing. But how can you use the back at the same time as the front? All the board sandwiches must be wired together like this, natch. Just when we think Google Japan can’t possibly produce another weird,
Read MoreWhatsApp is introducing Private Mentions and likes to its Status feature. Users can now privately tag their friends in their WhatsApp Status, which is resharable by the tagged person. A new green heart button will now show under a WhatsApp Status for privately liking updates. WhatsApp is introducing new social capabilities to its status feature.
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Leaker Ice Universe suggests that Samsung will launch the Galaxy S25 in January 2025 with One UI 7.1 and not 7.0, even though betas for the Galaxy S24 series will begin in December with One UI 7.0. Samsung had mentioned at SDCC that the Galaxy S25 series would
Read MoreThe one-and-done nature of 23andMe is “indicative of a core business problem with the once high-flying biotech company that is now teetering on the brink of collapse,” reports NPR. As 23andMe struggles for survival, many of its 15 million customers are left wondering what the company plans to do with all the data it has
Read MoreThe macOS Dock displays apps you add to it or that you run. Here’s how to make it display only apps that are currently running on your Mac. The Dock The macOS Dock app originated in macOS’s early OS precursor NeXTStep and OpenStep, which were created at Steve Jobs’ other company, NeXT Computer. In 1997
Read Morefjo3 shares a report from the BBC: They can walk, hover and the males can even sing love songs to woo mates — all this with a brain that’s tinier than a pinhead. Now for the first time scientists researching the brain of a fly have identified the position, shape and connections of every single
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