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After Google released its second Android 16 Developer Preview, a discovery was made about a new "screen-off fingerprint unlock."
Once toggled, the feature lets users unlock their devices with…
A well-known leaker of consumer electronics information shared a doozy on Thursday: Lenovo — which has for years been showing off a proof-of-concept rollable laptop display — will debut it in a few weeks at CES in Las Vegas.
Though Leno…
Niagara Launcher, one of the most popular apps in the Google Play Store, has received a significant update. It now includes a backup feature, which many users have requested. The news about Niagra’s “Winter Update” was announced on X.
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Editing your Instagram videos will soon be as simple as typing out a text prompt, thanks to a new generative AI tool the company hopes to release in 2025, CEO Adam Mosseri announced Thursday.
The upcoming tool, which leverages Meta’s …
PlayStation uploaded a video yesterday of Mark Cerny presenting a PS5 Pro Technical Seminar at Sony Interactive Entertainment HQ. The system architect provided a deep dive into Playstation 5 Pro's new hardware and chose to clarify some rum…
Honda is officially introducing two Series 0 electric vehicle prototypes at CES next year, and the company says they'll be available for purchase around the world sometime in 2026. The vehicles will be based on the futuristic-looking con…
For its penultimate 12 Days of OpenAI announcement, the company revealed a trio of updates to ChatGPT’s app integration on Thursday, which should make using the AI in conjunction with other programs on your desktop less of a chore.
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The latest Windows 11 update, codenamed 24H2, has been a troubled rollout for Microsoft, but one thing’s been clear from the beginning: PC gamers should wait to install it. Let’s add another issue to the list, shall we?
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There is only one reaction anyone has ever had to witnessing a big, modern micro-LED display in person. It goes something along the lines of “whoa!” They are, quite simply, stunning to behold.
It’s no surprise, then, that when popular T…
LG’s new transparent OLED television set is nearly here and you can pre-order it now. The TV can display both transparent and opaque video and it does so wirelessly. And if you want this new fancy TV, you just have to shell out $60,000.
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“Reminder: You've still got a money request!” That was the subject line of the messages flooding my husband Barry’s inbox for weeks. The first couple were concerning, then it was just downright annoying.
He’s not the only one getting th…
YouTube is teaming up with one of the world's largest talent agencies, CAA, to help its high-profile actors and athletes monitor their AI likenesses. "Through this collaboration, several of the world’s most influential figures will have …
Online game Fortnite has released a Skibidi Toilets skin and bundle inspired by the popular internet series.
The "Skibidi Toilet Bundle" is now available on the game's shop through Saturday, Dec. 28 at 4 p.m. the user's local time.
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Global communications platform Infobip (www.Infobip.com) has reported record-breaking communications interactions during Cyber Week, underscoring the rising importance of conversational experiences. The platform recorded 11.6 billi…
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Google detailed its recent Play Store and Play Services updates, which sees the retiring of a feature: Share apps.
The changelog states users will no longer be able to share apps with friends…
Smart glasses have come a long way since the failed launch of Google Glass just over 10 years ago. Right now, the shining star among smart glasses is the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses a well-performing pair that nearly earned a perfect score …
A new hard drive based on the long-promised heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology is almost here. Tom’s Hardware reported that a new sales page popped up on the Seagate website announcing a new Exos M 30TM and 32TB hard disk…
Apple launched Apple Maps for the web five months ago, but it was in beta and had limited features. As it gradually builds it up to become a serious competitor to Google Maps, Apple has now added Look Around, its own version of Street Vi…
Threads is previewing yet another significant new feature before the end of the year. The app will “soon” begin testing the ability for users to schedule posts ahead of time, according to an update from Meta exec Adam Mosseri.
Mosseri…
My wife is perfect (obviously) except for this one thing: She can lose track of her phone mere seconds after putting it down. I'll often catch her hunting room to room, trying to figure out if she left it on the kitchen counter or in the…
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's kids are royally adorable.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex shared a holiday card that included a rare photo of their 5-year-old son Archie Harrison and 3-year-old daughter Lilibet "Lili" Diana—and the pic…
I've been on a bit of a quest to replace all the LCD panels in my life with OLED. I recently swapped an aging (and shattered) iPad Pro with a Samsung Galaxy Tab S9, which is much easier on the eyes when watching late-night, trans-Atlantic …
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The Technology Innovation Institute (TII), a leading global applied research center under Abu Dhabi’s Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), has unveiled Falcon 3, the latest iteration of its open-source large language model (LLM) se…
It’s official: the OnePlus 13 will launch on January 7, 2025. Preempting the anticipated event by several weeks, OnePlus has officially confirmed the date we’ll see its next major smartphone release outside of China. Additionally, it has…
Google has yet another AI tool to add to the pile. Whisk is a Google Labs image generator that lets you use an existing image as your prompt. But its output only captures your starter image’s “essence” rather than recreating it with new …
Who doesn’t love a good ThinkPad? Well, apparently the Lenovo ThinkPad X13 2-in-1 Gen 5 because it doesn’t deliver the goods.
For $1,451, the ThinkPad offers a colorful 13.3-inch screen, a punchy keyboard, and a smooth touchpad. However…
People worry all the time about how artificial intelligence could destroy humanity. How it makes mistakes, and invents stuff, and might evolve into something so smart that it winds up enslaving us all.
But nobody spares a moment for the…
The Magic Mouse has gone a long time without any major changes to its design beyond things like dropping the AA batteries and gaining a USB-C port, but Apple is now reportedly planning an overhaul. In the Power On newsletter, Mark Gurman…
With iOS 18.2 and iPadOS 18.2 now available, iPhone and iPad users have access to a slew of new features that make use of Apple Intelligence. That includes Genmoji, a new type of AI-generated emoji that was first introduced at WWDC 2024.
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With over 60 million PS5s sold, Sony is so far dominating this generation of game consoles. Four years since the PlayStation 5 debuted, the company has rounded out its gaming lineup with the refined PS5 Slim (both with and without a disc d…
As reported by FlatpanelsHD.com, it looks like LG is pulling out of the Blu-ray player market. Searching LG’s website will bring up individual pages for Blu-ray players, such as the UBK80 and BP350, but every selection is listed as “Discon…
BeReal, the in the moment social media platform, is far from its 2022 heyday, but that hasn't stopped one organization from going after it. Austrian advocacy group Noyb has filed a complaint surrounding the platform's data consent banner…
The U.N. technology agency has created a new body to boost protection for submarine cables, aiming to help shore them up against damage and accelerate repairs after a series of high-profile failures.
Sub-sea cables carry over 99% of int…
Huawei has launched a new folding phone, the Mate X6, and it looks great, but alongside it has come a “normal” phone called the Nova 13 that’s actually more interesting. What could possibly be more interesting than a foldable? I’ll explain…
AI is opening new career tracks for software developers who want to shift to different roles.
Developers at an AI roundtable said that the tech job market is fluctuating rapidly with gen AI.
This articl…
Apple iPhone users in two additional locations in the U.S. can now access digital driver’s licenses and state IDs through the Apple Wallet app. New Mexico and Puerto Rico residents can take advantage of this service, bringing the total n…
Epic Games has struck a deal with Telefónica to have its mobile storefront pre-installed on millions of compatible Android devices. As such, those who buy a phone from a Telefónica network such as O2 or Movistar in Spain, the UK, Germany…
Apple Music just announced that it's expanding its live radio offerings and adding three new stations to the lineup. These channels are hosted by actual people and are available to everyone, even those without a paid Apple Music subscripti…
Earlier today, Google debuted Gemini 2.0. The company says its new machine learning model won’t just enhance its existing products and services. It will also power entirely new experiences. To that point, Google previewed Project Mariner…
The battle for AI supremacy is heating up. Almost exactly a week after OpenAI made its o1 model available to the public, Google today is offering a preview of its next-generation Gemini 2.0 model. In a blog post attributed to Google CEO …
In our continuing quest to chronicle the release of the Samsung Galaxy S25, we wrote yesterday about how it might end up being more expensive than the previous generation. However, now we’re seeing other information that suggests the situa…
Google has been hard at work improving Project Astra since it was first shown during Google I/O this year. The AI bot that understands the world around you is slated to be one of the major updates to arrive with Gemini 2.0. Even more exc…
Apple's iOS 18.2 update launched Wednesday with new AI features and improvements.
The new Apple Intelligence features include ChatGPT integration, Genmojis, and Image Playground.
They're available for i…
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Google's upcoming mid-range Pixel 9a surfaces again with real-life images.
The device appears to be carrying a new design, as seen in earlier leaked renders.
The Pixel 9a featur…
Wearing a camera on your face can make you and others uncomfortable. That’s something Solos has addressed in its latest pair of smart glasses, the Solos AirGo Vision.
While the frame has a camera in it, the unusual modular design means …
Support for lock screen widgets may soon come to an end on Samsung devices. As discovered by a Reddit user (via Android Authority), this feature is missing in the latest One UI 7 beta version. If this change is carried over into the firs…
Video creators on Instagram now have a new way to test out content. The app is introducing “trial Reels,” which allows creators to publish Reels that bypass their followers’ feeds and are instead recommended to non-followers.
Given th…
When most people think of generative AI, their thoughts immediately jump to popular AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot — all of which do basically the same sorts of generative things, just wearing different hats.
In reality, …
Google has unveiled a new chip which it claims takes five minutes to solve a problem that would currently take the world's fastest super computers ten septillion – or 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years – to complete.
The chip is t…