Lenovo and Motorola have announced Smart Connect, a software solution for a multi-device ecosystem experience. Users can soon look forward to using Smart Connect features such as notification sync, cross control, smart clipboard, and more on compatible products from the brands across phones, tablets, and PCs. Exact device compatibility and requirements will be announced later
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Lenovo has revealed a variety of laptops at MWC 2024. The company’s most eye-catching product is the ThinkBook Transparent Display concept. The manufacturer also announced a variety of other commercial laptops. Lenovo is a fixture at trade shows, and the company had several announcements up its sleeve for
Read MoreFast Company notes that “the deadly impacts of Pegasus and other cyberweapons — wielded by governments from Spain to Saudi Arabia against human rights defenders, journalists, lawyers and others — is by now well documented. A wave of scrutiny and sanctions have helped expose the secretive, quasi-legal industry behind these tools, and put financial strain
Read MoreWhen Apple released iOS 16, it shocked many users by introducing major changes to the Lock Screen Experience. iOS 16 has a feature called Photo Shuffle that allows users to make their iPhone wallpaper shuffle between a pre-selected range of photos with a simple tap of a screen. On iOS 17.1, Apple enhanced the existing
Read MoreImage: Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Ford has halted shipments of the new 2024 F-150 Lightning electric truck as of February 9th while it carries out quality inspections. Several outlets reported the pause on Friday, but none could say what prompted the check. In the meantime, Ford is still manufacturing the Lightning at the Rouge
Read MoreStreaming content online has never been more popular than it is now, from YouTube to Twitch there are all kinds of creators around with interesting streams across a wide spectrum of interests. With that gold rush comes plenty of people selling figurative shovels as well, with audio mixing gear, high-quality web cams, and dedicated devices
Read MoreSpotlight is Apple’s smart search indexer for macOS. Here’s how to use its metadata utilities to get more information about your documents. Spotlight metadata. Spotlight runs in the background on your Mac or iOS device and silently indexes and scans the contents of your documents, so when you search for something, it can find results
Read MorePopular Science points out that for encoding data, “optical disks almost always offer just a single, 2D layer — that reflective, silver underside.” “If you could boost a disk’s number of available, encodable layers, however, you could hypothetically gain a massive amount of extra space…” Researchers at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology
Read MoreJulia 1.0 was released in 2018 — after a six-year wait. And there’s now another update. LWN.net gets you up to speed, calling Julia “a general-purpose, open-source programming language with a focus on high-performance scientific computing.” Some of Julia’s unusual features: – Lisp-inspired metaprogramming – The ability to examine compiled representations of code in the
Read MoreFast Company notes that “the deadly impacts of Pegasus and other cyberweapons — wielded by governments from Spain to Saudi Arabia against human rights defenders, journalists, lawyers and others — is by now well documented. A wave of scrutiny and sanctions have helped expose the secretive, quasi-legal industry behind these tools, and put financial strain
Read MoreAvenir Telecom’s Energizer Hard Case P28K is an 27.8mm thick smartphone with a 28,000mAh battery in it. | Photo by Jon Porter / The Verge Four years ago, my then-colleague Vlad brought you news of an 18,000mAh battery with a phone in it. Well, I am delighted to inform you that Avenir Telecom is at
Read MoreLily Gladstone, one of the stars of the Apple TV+ movie “Killers of the Flower Moon,” has won the Best Actress category at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. Lily Gladstone with her SAG Award [Apple] The 30th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards took place on Saturday night, and Apple TV+ walked away with one gong
Read MoreYou can listen to plenty of broadcast radio these days. There’s a lot of choice too, with stations on AM, FM, and digital broadcasts to boot. However, if you want the broadest possible choice, you want an internet radio. If that’s your bag, why not build a fun one like [indoorgeek’s] latest design? The build
Read MoreElon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur and CEO of X (formerly Twitter), recently hinted that it plans to launch its new email service, XMail. Elon Musk To Launch Gmail’s Alternative, XMail With XMail, Musk is looking to release an alternative and direct competitor to Google’s most popular email service, Gmail, which boasts over 1.8 billion active
Read MoreWhile working over the internet, we usually deal with hundreds of different file types. Although Windows 11 supports most popular file formats out of the box, sometimes you need special software for opening specific file formats like RAR. RAR is a very popular file format for compressing files into an archive. The file format is
Read Morejd (Slashdot reader #1,658) writes: The Register has been running a series of articles about the evolution of Unix, from humble beginnings to the transition to Plan9. There is a short discussion of why Plan9 and its successors never really took off (despite being vastly superior to microkernels), along with the ongoing development of 9Front.
Read MoreCNN reports: AT&T is reimbursing customers for the nearly 12-hour network outage on Thursday, the company announced in a news release. The mobile network will issue a $5 credit to “potentially impacted” AT&T Wireless customers, which it says is the “average cost of a full day of service.” The credit will be applied automatically “within
Read MoreAn anonymous reader shared this report from Electrek: Renewable developer Clearway Energy Group has completed a 452-megawatt (MW) solar farm in West Texas — and it’s huge… It’s built on around 5,000 acres of land and features over 1.1 million solar panels… Texas Solar Nova will generate enough electricity to power over 190,000 homes annually.
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Apple’s future roadmap for wearables may include AI-powered smart glasses, as well as AirPods with cameras, according to Mark Gurman in today’s Power On newsletter for Bloomberg. Both concepts are in the exploratory phase inside Apple, representing more of a look at the company’s future plans than discreet products. The smart glasses
Read MoreNetflix’s new sci-fi drama Spaceman centers on Czech astronaut Jakub Procházk, described by Polygon as “painfully introverted, emotionally repressed, and above all, quiet… so muted and compressed, he seems like a trauma victim.” The film, adapted from the 2017 novel Spaceman of Bohemia written by Czech author Jaroslav KalfaÅ(TM), is a solemn drama in the
Read MoreCredit: Supplied by Infinix Infinix has shown off a new cooling system for gaming phones at MWC 2024. This system sees a Dimensity 9300 chipset coupled with a cooling fan and more. Infinix also says it’ll launch a new flagship gaming phone later this year, but don’t hold your breath for the Dimensity chip and
Read MoreJust ahead of MWC 2024, Xiaomi launched the Xiaomi 14 and Xiaomi 14 Ultra to a global audience and I got to spend a little time with the latter. Not a lot of products live up to the original meaning of the word Ultra (“beyond”), but I will say the Xiaomi 14 Ultra goes beyond
Read MoreCredit: Supplied by Infinix Infinix has shown off a new cooling system for gaming phones at MWC 2024. This system sees a Dimensity 9300 chipset coupled with a cooling fan and more. Infinix also says it’ll launch a new flagship gaming phone later this year, but don’t hold your breath for the Dimensity chip and
Read MoreA new report claims that the show runner of Apple TV+ epic “Foundation” is shifting duties after some behind-the-scenes drama about production and budget cuts. Foundation poster (Source: Apple TV+) It’s not clear exactly what’s going on, beyond some issues with production and budgeting. A report originally claimed that co-creator David S. Goyer was not
Read MoreA U.S. government auction site was breached by an Oklahoma man, reports NBC News. So when it came time to pay up on his winning bids, he “falsified the true auction price to $1,” according to the U.S. attorney’s office. He defrauded the government out of more than $150,000 between Jan. 31 and March 21,
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