While a UK regulator continues to say iPhone browsers rules are anticompetitive, Apple’s detailed response says these findings are wrong and unlawful, plus proposed remedies will create the problems they are supposed to solve. Safari, Apple’s browser In November 2024, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) released a preliminary report asserting that Apple’s rules
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Niantic, the company behind the 2016 hit Pokemon Go, is in talks to sell its video-game business to Saudi Arabia-owned Scopely, according to several people familiar with the discussions. A deal could be announced in coming weeks. The price being discussed is about $3.5 billion, according to
Read MoreWhen the Samsung Galaxy S25 series launched in January, I talked a lot about how disappointing it was that Samsung barely changed the phones’ designs. I mentioned this in my hands-on with all three Galaxy S25 phones, my launch day video, my full review, and my video review, which you can see up top. And you know what? I will
Read MoreA $300 phone that looks like it costs way more, comes packed with flagship-level conveniences, and still nails the basics of an affordable phone — that’s the Moto G Power 2025 in a nutshell. It’s the premium pick in Motorola’s G series lineup this year, and I have to admit, it surprised me with just
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Samsung has confirmed that it’s looking into the possibility of adding a 24MP photo option to the camera app. The downloadable Expert RAW app currently lets users shoot at this resolution. This comes a while after Apple first offered the option to shoot at 24MP by default. Samsung’s Expert
Read MoreThe country is one of the last in the EU to become a CERN member, applying to join only in 2023. Read more: Ireland finally accepted into CERN as an associate member
Read MoreAndroid 16 adds the ability to customize keyboard shortcuts. We previously spotted evidence for this feature in Android 16 Beta 1, but it’s now live in Android 16 Beta 2. While you can’t assign custom key combinations to every available shortcut, you can customize many of them. As part of its efforts to make Android
Read MorePython’s asynchronous programming functionality, or async for short, allows you to write programs that get more work done by not waiting for independent tasks to finish. The asyncio library is a set of tools included with Python for asynchronously processing disk or network I/O. asyncio provides two kinds of APIs for dealing with asynchronous operations:
Read MoreShivani Shah discusses how digital twins are often misunderstood and the potential to aid industrial sites in the move towards sustainability. Read more: Digital twins and transitioning to a greener, safer industrial sector
Read MoreLate Tuesday afternoon, the White House confirmed that it would not proceed with laying off more than 1,000 probationary employees at NASA. “NASA had sought exemptions for all of these employees, who comprise about 6 percent of NASA’s workforce,” notes Ars Technica. “The Trump administration has sought to fire federal employees at several federal agencies
Read MoreCredit: Humane Humane is discontinuing the AI Pin, halting software support for the device, and deleting all customer data. Early customers who purchased the $700 device will not get any refunds. The company has been acquired by HP. It’s almost been a year since I first encountered Humane’s AI Pin at MWC 2024. Back then,
Read MoreYouTube on Android TV is adding a new Display option for music videos. Selecting this allows you to toggle between the video, an album-art view, and lyrics. Millennials of a certain age will reminiscence fondly about the good old days when MTV actually played music videos — but don’t listen to them. Waiting around for
Read MoreCredit: Humane Humane is discontinuing the AI Pin, halting software support for the device, and deleting all customer data. Early customers who purchased the $700 device will not get any refunds. The company has been acquired by HP. It’s almost been a year since I first encountered Humane’s AI Pin at MWC 2024. Back then,
Read MoreThe Enhanced Visual Search in the iOS Photos app sends encrypted, anonymized data from photos to Apple. Here’s what that means and how to turn it off. Apple’s Enhanced Visual Search scans photos for landmarks. Apple’s Enhanced Visual Search (EVS) is a new ML-based technology in iOS 18, iPadOS, and macOS Sequoia. Using EVS you
Read MoreNvidia has confirmed on its forums that the RTX 50 series GPUs no longer support 32-bit PhysX. Tom’s Hardware reports: As far as we know, there are no 64-bit games with integrated PhysX technology, thus terminating the tech entirely on RTX 50 series GPUs and newer. RTX 40 series and older will still be able
Read MoreBrazilian regulator CADE is holding a public hearing on February 19 to discuss Apple and Google and their competitive digital market ecosystems. App Store regulation continues An antitrust complaint was filed against Apple in 2022 by Brazilian regulator Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Economica, or CADE. After an investigation and a bad ruling for Apple, an
Read MoreMeta’s WhatsApp messaging service has surpassed 45 million users, earning the designation of a “Very Large Online Platform” under the EU’s Digital Services Act. Bloomberg reports: WhatsApp’s open channels, which are feeds affiliated with news outlets or public figures that under the DSA are comparable to a social network, averaged about 46.8 million monthly average
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Gaming handheld consoles are fantastic. These little portable machines can play games that needed a whole gaming computer just some years ago! They are also getting pretty affordable, especially if you can catch them on a hot sale. Today, we have a couple of great deals on the
Read MorePresident Donald Trump kicked off the first day of his presidency by signing a flurry of executive actions, including halting enforcement of the TikTok ban and rolling back the Biden administration’s artificial intelligence order. Having already run the country once before, Trump entered the presidency with the goal of hitting the ground running, having already
Read MoreAt least eight ongoing lawsuits related to the so-called Department of Government Efficiency’s alleged access to sensitive data hinge on the Watergate-inspired Privacy Act of 1974. But it’s not airtight.
Read MoreHUAWEI launched the Mate XT internationally today at an event in Malaysia. Mate XT sales will expand from China to Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. HUAWEI has yet to confirm specific plans for European sales, but has shared a price: €3499. The most desirable smartphone is always the model you
Read MoreGoogle Meet’s Gemini-powered note-taking feature is getting a bit more useful for Workspace teams. It will now generate a checklist of suggested next steps at the end of your meetings, going as far as assigning due dates and attaching a primary stakeholder to the task. The note-taking feature was initially launched in August last year.
Read MoreBig players, including Microsoft, with Copilot, Google, with Gemini, and OpenAI, with GPT-4o, are making AI chatbot technology previously restricted to test labs more accessible to the general public. How do these large language model (LLM) programs work? OpenAI’s GPT-3 told us that AI uses “a series of autocomplete-like programs to learn language” and that
Read MoreThe White Lotus, The Pitt, and Dune: Prophecy are just a few of the shows you need to be watching on Max this month.
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Code discovered in the latest Google TV Streamer update suggests Google is working on native support for backlit remotes. The hidden settings include three backlight modes, offering users more control over their remote’s lighting. While the current Google TV Streamer remote lacks backlit keys, Google might release a new
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