Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority One UI 7 could bring a useful AI Search feature to Samsung’s Gallery app. The software’s beta was expected in late July, but we might finally hear about it today. Samsung is hosting its annual developer conference in San Jose, and we’re hoping One UI 7 will make
Read MoreAfter fifteen years of fighting to make the web safer and more accessible, the World Wide Web Foundation is shutting down. From a report: In a letter shared via the organization’s website, co-founders Sir Tim Berners-Lee — inventor of the World Wide Web — and Rosemary Leith explain that the organization’s mission has been somewhat
Read MoreThe Voyager 2 spacecraft’s energy budget keeps dropping by about 4 Watt/year, as the plutonium in its nuclear power source is steadily dropping as the isotope decays. With 4 Watt of power less to use by its systems per year, the decision was made to disable the plasma spectrometer (PLS) instrument. As also noted by
Read MorePhoto by Dan Seifert / The Verge Did you, like me, buy a Ring Alarm system for your home because it offered the most affordable professional 24/7 monitoring around, at just $10 a month or $100 a year? Then I expect you — like me — just got an email stating you’ll now pay twice
Read MoreCisco is exiting the LoRaWAN market for IoT device connectivity, with no migration plans for customers. “LoRaWAN is a low power, wide area network specification, specifically designed to connect devices such as sensors over relatively long distances,” notes The Register. “It is built on LoRa, a form of wireless communication that uses spread spectrum modulation,
Read MoreImage: The Verge Charter’s Spectrum TV Select cable plan will include a free ad-supported Peacock Premium subscription next year, reports Reuters. The addition comes as Charter announced today that it has reached a new “multi-year deal” with NBCUniversal, which owns Peacock, to keep its TV channels in Charter’s cable lineup. Charter recently lined up a
Read Moreschwit1 shares a report from The Independent: Thousands of Bank of America customers reported trouble accessing their bank accounts Wednesday afternoon as the financial institution faced a widespread outage. On social media, customers said they could not view their account balances. Those who could view their accounts said they were met with an alarming $0
Read MoreBehold, my new flying machine: this table attached to a bird.
Read MoreWith a few steps, you can put live sports scores on your iPhone lockscreen and stay on top of your team’s race to the playoffs. | Image: Samar Haddad / The Verge When it introduced iOS 16, Apple added a feature called Live Activities as part of a broader update to notifications and the lockscreen.
Read MoreAmazon is set to roll out a greater number of ads [non-paywalled link] across its blockbuster television shows and movies on Prime Video next year as the US tech giant steps up its push into ad-funded streaming services. Financial Times: The company said it had not seen a sharp drop in subscribers since it introduced
Read MoreApple’s iOS 18 update has introduced changes to contact sharing that could significantly impact social app developers. The new feature allows users to selectively share contacts with apps, rather than granting access to their entire address book. While Apple touts this as a privacy enhancement, developers warn it may hinder the growth of new social
Read MoreXbox co-founder J Allard joined Amazon last month, as a vice president in the company’s devices and services team. In an email to The Verge, Allard confirmed his new role but says it’s “too early to have anything to say” about what he’ll be working on at Amazon beyond “new ideas.” Allard will be reporting
Read MoreMacworld Microsoft has released Office 2024, the latest version in its suite of apps that includes Excel, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word. While the trend with software is to sell it on a subscription model, Microsoft offers customers the option to make a one-time purchase. Subscribers to Microsoft 365 automatically get the new version. Office
Read MoreApple Intelligence is coming. It’s not coming terribly quickly, and it won’t arrive all at once, but soon enough, compatible iPhones will get an infusion of AI capabilities. Some of those features will look similar to the ones we’ve seen launched by Google and Samsung, too, which is reason enough for iOS fans to get
Read MoreThough we’ve yet to see just what kinds of features DC Studios has been cooking up under James Gunn and Peter Safran’s co-leadership, the company has already announced yet another big movie built around a (pair) of Gotham’s heroes. Last night, Gunn — who recently wrapped filming on his upcoming Superman reboot starring David Corenswet
Read MoreOpinion post by Robert Triggs Looking at the new Apple iPhone 16 series, it’s hard to tell what’s new at a glance. Year after year, we’ve seen minor variations on inoffensive colors (with the occasional exciting addition), the familiar boxy metal trim, and an ever-growing camera island. An iPhone always looks like an iPhone, and that’s
Read MoreA new standalone release of Microsoft Office 2024 for macOS is available, giving users an alternative to paying for a Microsoft 365 subscription. Microsoft Office 2024 Standalone versions of Microsoft Office are an occasional release, giving users permanent access to the productivity suite for a one-time purchase. On Monday, Microsoft introduced its newest version for
Read MoreNow that the EU’s ruling on Apple’s back taxes in Ireland is final, the country’s government says the $14 billion could be “transformational.” Apple’s European headquarters, located in Cork, Ireland. For a decade, Ireland has sided with Apple against the European Union and worked with it to protest that no laws or regulations were broken.
Read MoreWriter/director Jon Watts’s “Wolfs,” starring Brad Pitt and George Clooney, had the most successful opening weekend of any Apple TV+ movie since the streamer’s start in 2019. Brad Pitt and George Clooney in ‘Wolfs’ “Wolfs” had some mixed fortunes with Apple TV+ with the streamer cutting back its promised theatrical release, but simultaneously green-lighting a
Read MoreArtificial intelligence has been something of a fiesta for programmers for the last few years, and one language—Python—has been the undeniable belle of the ball. Java and other languages have been a bit sidelined. But now we are entering a new phase where AI models are the key component of machine learning, and the key
Read MoreCredit: Motorola Motorola has launched the ThinkPhone 25 smartphone. The new device is effectively a smaller ThinkPhone with mid-range performance and a telephoto camera. The phone costs ~$552 in Europe and won’t be available in the US. Update: October 2, 2024 (3:50 AM ET): Motorola has confirmed to Android Authority that the newly announced ThinkPhone
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Google is opening up Gemini Nano access to all Android app developers, signaling more apps will soon gain AI smarts. Developers can experiment with Gemini Nano through the AI Edge SDK, which was previously limited to a closed preview. This move allows developers to integrate Gemini Nano into various
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority T-Mobile offers segmented rate plans that offer a discounted price on mainline prices to specific segments of consumers, such as those 55 and above, First Responders, and the Military. As per a leaked report, T-Mobile will soon carve out exclusions on promotional discounts for these segments, offering them a
Read MoreCredit: Adamya Sharma / Android Authority OnePlus phones are again unavailable in Germany following a fresh patent dispute. The OPPO-backed company is now entangled in a patent battle with InterDigital, which develops key mobile communication technologies. OnePlus says it will continue to negotiate with InterDigital to resolve the matter. OnePlus’ European innings aren’t going so
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney opened the Unreal Fest Seattle event today with an update on news that included a blistering criticism of monopolistic platform owners. Sweeney is a big proponent of open platforms and the open metaverse. In fact, he will talk about that subject in
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