What you need to know Google is reportedly in the middle of a megadeal with Apple that see its AI-powered chatbot, Gemini, being used as the default AI assistant on the iPhone. Despite Microsoft’s early investment and adoption of AI, Google might end up dominating mobile market share across search and now as the default […]
Read MoreMatter is now the world’s most important smart home ecosystem standard, backed by almost all important tech brands, including Amazon, Apple, Google, LG, and Samsung. It was released for consumers a few months ago, and several older smart home devices are yet to get support for Matter. To improve that situation, Google has announced that […]
Read MoreWhether your iPhone or iPad is long overdue a battery replacement, or you just want to get more juice out of a single charge, here’s a way to keep your device’s Low Power Mode on all the time. Most iPhone and iPad users will be familiar with the way their device throws up a prompt […]
Read MoreThe far north is both a massive carbon sink and a potent environmental time bomb. The region stores a huge amount of CO2 in boreal forests and underlying soils. Organic peat soil, for instance, covers just 3 percent of the Earth’s land area (there’s some in tropical regions too), yet it contains a third of its terrestrial […]
Read MoreThe second beta of iOS 16.4 that was introduced to developers today appears to have a limited number of new features, but it does have a major update for those who use Apple Books – it reintroduces an option for the page turning animation. With iOS 16, Apple revamped the Books app and removed the […]
Read MoreTracking blood pressure could become as natural to us wearable users as getting our 10,000 steps, according to Steven LeBoeuf, the president of Valencell. At CES 2023, Valencell unveiled the world’s first cuffless blood pressure tracker – one which doesn’t require validation and paves the way for a future where wearables can automatically track blood […]
Read MoreSamsung’s global laptop market share is around 1% and the company is on a mission to increase that. It launched new laptops alongside the Galaxy S23 series last week for precisely this reason. Customers seem to be loving the new products. The company has introduced multiple models, including a Pro 360, to provide customers with […]
Read MoreThis story originally appeared on High Country News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Last summer, scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration observed dust blowing 85 miles from its source, Lake Abert and Summer Lake, two dried-up saline lakes in southern Oregon. This has happened before: Saline lakebeds are some of […]
Read MoreIn the last few weeks, some hawk-eyed Adobe users grew outraged when they noticed a new setting appeared in their accounts’ privacy and personal data section. This new setting, known as content analysis, automatically allows “[user] content to be analyzed by Adobe for product improvement and development purposes.” This means video, audio, images, text, and […]
Read MoreThis story originally appeared on High Country News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Dozens of once crystal-clear streams and rivers in Arctic Alaska are now running bright orange and cloudy, and in some cases they are becoming more acidic. This otherwise undeveloped landscape now looks as if an industrial mine has been […]
Read MoreGoogle finally made the Pixel 7, Pixel 7 Pro, and Pixel Watch official today, but there was another product that it initially teased alongside all of these back in May: the Pixel Tablet. As revealed even then, this isn’t coming until 2023, but today the company thankfully decided to share a few more details about […]
Read MoreAn optional new accessibility feature allows the upcoming iPhone 14 models to play a sound while turning on and off, according to assistive technology expert Steven Aquino, who compared the feature to the Mac’s iconic startup chime. Twitter account @AppleSWUpdates shared a preview of the sound based on a file from the iOS 16 Release […]
Read More“You could actually exacerbate the drought situation,” says Gabriel Collins at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy in Texas, arguing that excessive future water transfers could lead to two large swathes of the country becoming prone to seasonal water shortages, rather than just one. He adds that while other technologies, such as desalination, might […]
Read MoreApple today announced that popular music identification service Shazam launched 20 years ago today. To celebrate the milestone, Apple shared a playlist featuring the most Shazamed song of each calendar year for the past 20 years. “Featuring everything from Train’s ‘Hey, Soul Sister’ to Sia’s ‘Cheap Thrills,’ the playlist is a true reflection of the […]
Read MoreMotorola is coming back with a brand new foldable phone to compete with the Galaxy Z Flip 4. Unlike previous years, when RAZR phones had mid-range hardware, this year’s RAZR is filled with high-end hardware, including a high-refresh-rate screen and bigger camera sensors. The Lenovo-owned firm was supposed to launch the RAZR 2022 and the […]
Read MoreSamsung’s yearly Unpacked events are going through some exciting changes. These launch events have been the best place to be for Samsung fans since 2009, and over the past couple of years in the COVID era, the formula shifted from offline to online events for safety concerns. Now, as the Galaxy Z Fold 4 and […]
Read MorePeloton is switching to Apple suppliers like Quanta and Pegatron as it attempts to turn its business around, Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman reports. Peloton will no longer produce its bikes and treadmills at its own factories and rely solely on manufacturing partners in a desperate attempt to simplify its operations and reduce costs, according to the […]
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