Apple unveils iOS 18, adding more Home Screen customization, a dark mode that tints app icons, a revamped Control Center, scheduled send for Messages, and more
Apple unveils iOS 18, adding more Home Screen customization, a Dark Mode for app icons, an updated Control Center, scheduled send for Messages, and more
iOS 18 has officially been announced. The update includes new home screen customization, improvements to dark mode, and more.
Google's fix for a Pixel phone storage bug, the second one in the past four months, is a very technical manual process requiring access to developer tools
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Google's fix for a Pixel phone storage bug, the second one in the past four months, is a very technical manual process requiring access to developer tools
Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica :
As Beeper Mini experiences an outage, Beeper CEO Eric Migicovsky says that “all data indicates” Apple found a way to cut off the app's ability to function
Was it too good to be true? Beeper, the startup that reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users …
Humane's Ai Pin seems like a bizarre cross between Google Glass and a pager, the lack of apps feels extremely limiting, and the $699 price is hard to understand
and more importantly their team—a massive disservice. I would be devastated if I was an employee. It's low energy. … Casey Newton / @crumbler : I tried out Humane's long-awaited ...
Humane's Ai Pin seems like a bizarre cross between Google Glass and a pager, the lack of apps feels extremely limiting, and the $699 price is hard to understand
The Humane AI pin has no screen, no apps, and a creepy in-your-face camera. — Not since Magic Leap has a “next-generation” …
A Pixel Fold reviewer says the device's flexible OLED screen died after four days of light use, starting at the bottom and moving upwards, likely due to debris
The closed display halves almost touch, and that can smash debris into the screen. — A flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Tim Cook unveils Apple Vision Pro, a “spatial computing” headset controlled with the user's eyes, hands, and voice, coming to the US for $3,499+ in early 2024
Apple has announced an augmented reality headset called Apple Vision Pro that “seamlessly” blends the real and digital world.
Sources: Google halted construction of its 80-acre campus in San Jose, California, after the first demolition phase, and doesn't plan to revive the project soon
- Google has halted construction of its proposed 80-acre campus in San Jose, California, after the first demolition phase.
Google unveils the circular Pixel Watch with a 41mm case, a curved display, Fitbit health features, and Wear OS, $350 for Wi-Fi and $400 for LTE; preorder now
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Google unveils the circular Pixel Watch with a 41mm case, a curved display, Fitbit health features, and Wear OS, $350 for Wi-Fi and $400 for LTE; preorder now
Brian Heater / TechCrunch :
Google plans to shut down Stadia on January 18, 2023, and will refund hardware, software, and DLC purchases; members of the Stadia team will be reassigned
which scary games do you have queued up? @slimefiend : but... game streaming is the future https://twitter.com/... @wario64 : “We will be refunding all Stadia hardware purchases ma...
Google plans to shut down Stadia on January 18, 2023, and will refund hardware, software, and DLC purchases; members of the Stadia team will be reassigned
which scary games do you have queued up? @slimefiend : but... game streaming is the future https://twitter.com/... @wario64 : “We will be refunding all Stadia hardware purchases ma...
Samsung says hackers stole some customer data, including names, contact and product registration information, in a breach of its US systems in late July 2022
Samsung says hackers stole some customer data, including names, contact and product registration information, in a breach of its US systems in late July 2022
U.S. electronics giant Samsung has confirmed a data breach affecting customers' personal information.
Google launches Get The Message, a campaign to pressure Apple to support RCS over SMS/MMS, highlighting low-resolution photos and videos, no e2ee, and more
For the past year, Google has been increasingly calling out Apple for not adopting RCS (Rich Communication Services) on the iPhone. Source: Android .
Google launches Google TV for iOS, after moving the Movies and TV section from the Play Store to the Google TV app, letting users use their phone as a TV remote
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch :
Linux developers fix Dirty Pipe, a high-severity vulnerability in the kernel that let hackers carry out a host of malicious actions, like installing backdoors
Dirty Pipe has the potential to smudge people using Linux and Linux derivitives. — Linux has yet another high-severity vulnerability …
Google will wind down Currents, the paid and private Google+ for enterprises, starting in 2023; Google shut down the consumer version of Google+ in April 2019
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