Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Samsung has revealed that you can now use the Bixby voice assistant to activate some Galaxy AI features. You can activate live translation, summarization functionality, and more via your voice. Some Galaxy AI features aren’t supported via Bixby, though. Samsung announced a variety of Galaxy AI features alongside the
Read MoreCredit: Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority Apple has updated its battery health guidance for the iPhone 15 series, claiming that its battery now lasts for 1000 cycles before it reaches 80% of its original capacity. In comparison, the iPhone 14 series and prior models last for 500 cycles before reaching 80% of their original capacity.
Read MoreMacworld No matter what your project is, a website is one of your best tools to get the word out. An iBrave lifetime hosting subscription gives you an unlimited tool kit for your website, with a special price this week only. iBrave has no limits on bandwidth, site storage on solid-state drives, email addresses, subdomains,
Read MoreThe beta feature lets Signal users keep their phone numbers hidden when they connect with others. Read more: Signal launches usernames to keep phone numbers private
Read MoreThe Clock app on your iPhone is of great use. It tells you the time and allows you to set alarms. The Alarm option of Apple’s Clock app has all the features you need to get up early in the morning, including the Snooze function. If you don’t know, the Snooze function on an Alarm
Read MoreDisney is outsourcing its DVD and Blu-ray disc business to Sony Pictures Entertainment. Variety reports: As part of the deal, Sony will market, sell and distribute all Disney’s new releases and catalog titles on physical media to consumers through retailers and distributors in the U.S. and Canada. Disney will continue to manage its own digital
Read MoreFrom the frying pan of finance to the fire of leading a pharma team through a pandemic, Aileen Kinsella, global exec at West has worked in lots of sectors. Read more: A challenge but rewarding: Leading a pharma team through the pandemic
Read MoreThe SwitchBot K10+ is a small, hard-working robot vacuum that promises to support Matter in a future update. But unless you have the SwitchBot Hub 2, it won’t be HomeKit compatible. SwitchBot Mini Robot Vacuum K10+ review: K10+ stationed at its base charging SwitchBot, a company most famously known for creating the Smart Switch Button
Read MoreMacworld Ever since cellphones were a thing, we’ve been dropping them in water. And while today’s iPhones are resistant to splashes, dips, and dunks, there are still times when they get too wet and the dreaded liquid-detection alert appears on your screen. For years, we’ve turned to a simple household staple when we need to
Read MoreImage: Hugo Herrera / The Verge A wholesale switch to electric vehicles would be a tremendous boon to the health of many people around the world. But a new report from the American Lung Association highlights the particular advantages for children, especially those vulnerable to respiratory illness. Based on a model in which all new
Read MoreCredit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority Google is now turning Assistant into Gemini by default. When you download the Assistant Android app, you get Gemini instead, complete with a different app icon. You’ll have to manually switch back to Assistant to continue using the digital assistant. Google introduced the Gemini Android app recently. It gives
Read MoreAs electronics have advanced, they’ve not only gotten more powerful but smaller as well. This size is great for portability and speed but can make things like repair more inaccessible to those of us with only a simple soldering iron. Even simply figuring out what modern PCBs do is beyond most of our abilities due
Read MoreCredit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority Samsung says Galaxy AI will come to select Galaxy wearables in the near future. The company did not confirm a list of devices, but our best guess is that the rollout will start with the Galaxy Watch lineup. Galaxy AI will power intelligent health experiences on Samsung’s wearables. Samsung
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday ruled that frozen embryos are “children,” entitled to full personhood rights, and anyone who destroys them could be liable in a wrongful death case. The first-of-its-kind ruling throws into question the future use of assisted reproductive technology (ART) involving in
Read MoreMeta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that it’s working on a finger tracking neural wristband that will be ready to ship “in the next few years.” UploadVR reports: Appearing on the Morning Brew Daily talk show on Friday, Mark Zuckerberg said “we’re actually kind of close to having something here that we’re going to have in
Read MoreIn a new report today, Nielsen found that YouTube is once again the overall top streaming service in the U.S., with 8.6% of viewing on television screens. Netflix was a close second at 7.9% of TV usage. TechCrunch reports: In a blog post celebrating the achievement, the Google-owned streaming service announced that viewers now watch
Read MoreSurface density of the benchmark run disc (in g cm−2). The disc becomes gravitationally unstable and fragments. Four of the fragments or protoplanets are followed until they reach density 10−3 g cm−3. (Credit: Fenton et al., 2024) While the very idea of a flat planet millions of years after its formation is patently ridiculous, recent modelling shows that
Read MoreAlthough Telegram is a niche messaging service in the US and Canada, it’s absolutely gigantic worldwide, with over 104 million users in India alone. If you’re new to the service, stats like that can be a little intimidating — but they shouldn’t be, at least not on their own. Here’s what you need to know
Read MoreInternet service provider Cox Communications has been cleared of a $1 billion jury verdict in favor of several major record labels that had accused it of failing to curb user piracy. “The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, ruled on Tuesday that the amount of damages was not justified and that a
Read MoreThis blue medium-size Amazon bag has handles just like a reusable grocery store bag. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge As skeptical as I am of Amazon the company, it knows its packaging. Its paper-tape cardboard boxes are wonderfully easy to rip apart for recycling, its paper mailers are promising (though missing firm
Read MoreIn 14th Century Japan, there was a shortage of straight lumber for building and flat land on which to grow it. Arborists there developed a technique that looks like growing trees on top of trees, called daisugi. Similar to the European practice of pollarding for firewood and basket materials, daisugi has been likened to bonsai
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Tom’s Hardware: An interesting new attack on biometric security has been outlined by a group of researchers from China and the US. PrintListener: Uncovering the Vulnerability of Fingerprint Authentication via the Finger Friction Sound [PDF] proposes a side-channel attack on the sophisticated Automatic Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS). The
Read MorePhoto Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images In the seemingly endless fight between record labels and ISPs over music piracy, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia decided Tuesday that $1 billion is too much for Cox Communications to pay record labels in damages. Instead, as reported by Reuters, a new
Read MoreMichael Larabel reports via Phoronix: With Valve’s release today of the Steam Audio SDK 4.5.2 they have made the software development kit fully open-source under an Apache 2.0 license. Steam Audio 4.5.2 may not sound exciting in the context of a version number but as described in the release announcement is now “the first open
Read MoreThe Verge Disney is ending Disney Movie Club, the subscription service and online store where fans could buy Blu-ray or DVDs of films from the House of Mouse. The Digital Bits is reporting that the closure follows a new deal that Disney has signed with Sony, under which Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will take over
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