Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Owners of the fourth-generation Nest Learning Thermostat are complaining about the brightness of the display. Users have noticed that the thermostat becomes very dim when the room is dark. The brightness can’t be changed by the user, unlike with earlier models. Earlier this month, Google launched the Nest Learning
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: Thousands of Tennesseans were illegally denied Medicaid and other benefits due to programming and data errors in an algorithmic system the state uses to determine eligibility for low-income residents and people with disabilities, a U.S. District Court judge ruled this week. The TennCare Connect system — built
Read More.NET Aspire 8.2, a new version of Microsoft’s cloud stack for building distributed applications, has arrived. The latest version features improvements for onboarding and testing. Developers can download the release, announced August 29, from learn.microsoft.com. With this release, .NET Aspire components now are called Integrations. These are packages to be added to an app that
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Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Google is rolling out barcode and QR code support in Circle to Search. The feature automatically scans barcodes and QR codes and presents a chip that takes you to the result. Circle to Search is getting better with each passing day. Google recently added a new Share button to
Read MoreImage: The Verge A senior CrowdStrike executive will testify before the House Homeland Security Committee next month about the IT outage that grounded planes and workplaces to a halt globally on July 19th. Adam Meyers, CrowdStrike’s senior vice president of counter adversary operations, has agreed to appear before the panel on September 24th at 2PM
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority WhatsApp could soon add a new chat filter to help users quickly sift through their inboxes. The filter is related to another in-development feature that will let users generate custom lists to organize their contacts and groups. It will narrow down chats and groups based on the contacts and
Read MoreMaybe you’ve downloaded a video from the internet and want to post it on Instagram. But before posting, you want to make minor edits, like adjusting the colors, adding texts, or removing the audio. While editing videos is easy with the right sets of apps, what if you just want to remove the audio from
Read MoreTo bridge the inevitable skills gap in the tech sector, companies need to invest in upskilling for their employees. Here’s how some are stepping up to the challenge. Read more: Learning on the job: How companies upskill their staff
Read MoreIn a letter to Congress, the Meta CEO echoed what many right-wingers have claimed for years: that some of the company’s content decisions amounted to censorship.
Read MoreYou mean it’s all copyright? | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images The huge leaps in OpenAI’s GPT model probably came from sucking down the entire written web. That includes entire archives of major publishers such as Axel Springer, Condé Nast, and The Associated Press — without their permission. But for some reason,
Read MoreRachel Graf / Bloomberg: A federal judge dismisses a lawsuit claiming Elon Musk and Tesla pumped up Dogecoin into a “pyramid scheme”, finding that Musk’s statements were “aspirational” — Investors who lost tens of thousands of dollars investing in the cryptocurrency faulted Musk for promoting …
Read MoreLacey still faces about 30 other charges related to prostitution facilitation and money laundering. | Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images Michael Lacey, a founder of the defunct classified site Backpage.com, received a five-year prison sentence on Wednesday and was fined $3 million. Lacey was found guilty of money laundering last
Read MoreA public service veteran, Breslin was secretary-general of the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science until last year. Read more: Jim Breslin appointed chair of Renewable Energy Ireland
Read MoreApple and Nvidia, two of the world’s most valuable companies along with Microsoft, are now also expected to back the latest funding round. Read more: ChatGPT active users double as OpenAI funding talks continue
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Google has confirmed the Pixel 9 Pro Fold can’t be charged with the Pixel Stand or Pixel Stand 2. The company explained that the foldable’s charging coils had a different position compared to previous Pixel phones. The Google Pixel Stand is a novel way to wirelessly charge your
Read MoreA recent indictment (PDF) of an Alaska man stands out due to the sophisticated use of multiple encrypted communication tools, privacy-focused apps, and dark web technology. “I’ve never seen anyone who, when arrested, had three Samsung Galaxy phones filled with ‘tens of thousands of videos and images’ depicting CSAM, all of it hidden behind a
Read MoreA recent indictment (PDF) of an Alaska man stands out due to the sophisticated use of multiple encrypted communication tools, privacy-focused apps, and dark web technology. “I’ve never seen anyone who, when arrested, had three Samsung Galaxy phones filled with ‘tens of thousands of videos and images’ depicting CSAM, all of it hidden behind a
Read MoreA recent indictment (PDF) of an Alaska man stands out due to the sophisticated use of multiple encrypted communication tools, privacy-focused apps, and dark web technology. “I’ve never seen anyone who, when arrested, had three Samsung Galaxy phones filled with ‘tens of thousands of videos and images’ depicting CSAM, all of it hidden behind a
Read MoreGoldenmate’s UPS is a simple but effective solution for keeping your setup safe from outages and surges with 800W of load power. Goldenmate 800W UPS review Outages, voltage sags and spikes, and power surges are dangerous on sensitive equipment like your computer. Having a UPS can go a long way to protecting your expensive electronics
Read MoreHyundai N Vision 74 Concept shown along with the Pony Coupe Concept from 1974 | Image: Hyundai The N Vision 74 coupe was a slick embodiment of Hyundai’s “high-performance vision of electrification” two years ago that we have hoped to see as a real vehicle. That seems way more likely now that it got namechecked
Read MoreAccording to The Information (paywalled), Meta plans to ship an extremely light mixed reality headset in 2027, codenamed Puffin. It follows a report that the company canceled a high-end headset planned for the same year, which previous reports speculated as being a Quest Pro 2. UploadVR reports: Puffin reportedly resembles “a bulky pair of glasses”
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google recently started letting you use its Gemini AI chatbot to ask questions about your Gmail inbox on the web, and now, that feature is coming to mobile. The company says its Gmail Q&A feature is starting to roll out on Android and that the feature will be
Read MoreYelp has filed a federal suit against Google, citing monopolistic practices in local search. The review site would like to see Google forced to prioritize the best results for users, even if those don’t come from Google itself. Yelp hopes that its efforts will see the court level the playing field for companies competing with
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from overkill.wtf: The team behind popular emulation tool EmuDeck is today announcing something rather special: they’ve spent the first half of 2024 working on their very first hardware product, called the EmuDeck Machine, and it’s due to arrive before the year is out. This EmuDeck Machine is an upcoming,
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