Instagram lets you edit your DMs after sending, pin your chats, and save your favorite stickers

Instagram direct messages (DMs) are getting a bunch of new features. First up, editing – this can be done up to 15 minutes after a message is sent. To edit a message, simply press and hold on it and then choose “edit” from the dropdown menu. Speaking of DMs, read receipts can now be turned […]

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WhatsApp could make sending high-quality media more convenient

Social media apps are notorious for drastically reducing the quality of pictures and videos when they’re shared. It was a long-standing issue on WhatsApp as well until the Meta-owned app finally decided to add the option to share HD versions of photos and videos, but the way that option works is rather inconvenient. Right now, […]

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Apple Starts Sending ‘Batterygate’ Settlement Payments to iPhone Users

Apple in 2020 agreed to pay up to $500 million to settle a class action lawsuit in the U.S. that accused the company of “secretly throttling” some iPhone models, and payouts finally started going out this week to individuals who submitted a claim. The website for the so-called “batterygate” settlement said payments would likely start […]

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WhatsApp Gets ‘HD Photos’ Option for Sending High-Res Images

WhatsApp has released an update allowing iPhone and Android users to send photos over the messaging platform in high resolution, finally addressing the service’s low quality image sharing limitation. Previously, WhatsApp users sending photos would see the images automatically compressed and the resolution reduced to 920 x 1280 to save storage space and keep image-sharing […]

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Apple Releases New visionOS Beta Ahead of Sending Out Vision Pro Dev Kits

Apple today released a second beta of visionOS, the software that will run on the future Vision Pro headset. The first beta came out in June, so it has been available to developers to experiment with for a full month. Because no developers have access to Vision Pro headsets at this time, testing on an […]

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Gain battery life on your Galaxy device by not sending Google data

If you experience high battery life usage on your Galaxy phone or tablet, there might be a not-so-obvious solution to your problem. In the Google Play Store, there’s an option to send app usage data to Google about which parts of an app you use. It helps Google make apps faster to install, open, and […]

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Apple Blocks Coinbase Wallet App From Sending NFTs Because of In-App Purchase Dispute

Popular NFT and cryptocurrency app Coinbase Wallet today said that Apple required an NFT-sending feature to be removed from the app due to an in-app purchase dispute. Apple’s App Store review team apparently told Coinbase that the “gas fees required to send NFTs need to be paid through in-app purchase.” Apple wanted a cut of […]

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PSA: Apple Sending Emails About Apple One, Apple Music, and Apple TV+ Pricing Increases

Apple last week announced pricing increases for Apple Music, Apple TV+, and the Apple One bundles that include those services, and customers are now receiving emails making them aware of the changes. In the United States, ‌Apple Music‌ is $1 more expensive for individual users and $2 more expensive for families, while ‌Apple TV+‌ is […]

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Why DeepMind Is Sending AI Humanoids to Soccer Camp

“This didn’t really work,” says Nicolas Heess, also a research scientist at DeepMind, and one of the paper’s coauthors with Lever. Because of the complexity of the problem, the huge range of options available, and the lack of prior knowledge about the task, the agents didn’t really have any idea where to start—hence the writhing […]

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Samsung’s sending out updates to 500 million+ old phones

A handful of old Galaxy smartphones that are no longer officially supported got updated earlier this month, but that was only the beginning. As it turns out, Samsung is rolling out a similar firmware update with GPS fixes for millions of other aging Galaxy phones, including the Galaxy S5 Neo, the Galaxy Alpha, the Galaxy […]

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Apple Erroneously Sending iTunes Connect Email to Users

Apple is erroneously sending emails to users asking them to update their iTunes Connect banking information, but the users receiving the emails often have no content being distributed via the service. Users have flocked to Twitter to share their confusion over the email, which reads, “we’re reaching out because your banking information in iTunes Connect […]

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Apple Sending Out Additional Invites for WWDC Developer Viewing Event at Apple Park

Apple today started sending out additional invites to developers who applied to attend the Worldwide Developers Conference viewing event at Apple Park, filling the spots of previous invitees who did not respond or who were unable to attend. The viewing event is set to take place on Monday, June 6, and developers who are invited […]

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Apps possibly sending data to US intelligence authorities could be on your Galaxy phone

A number of Android apps got removed from the Google Play Store recently after researchers have discovered that the apps contained data-harvesting code obtained from a company based in Panama called Measurement Systems. Researchers have found that the latter collaborates with United States security agencies, and it’s also using a subsidiary company called Packet Forensics LLC […]

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