When Apple introduced iOS 14 last year, it unleashed a whole new rush of amazing widgets, both from third-party developers and Apple itself. Apple’s own apps and now its own widgets are supposed to serve as examples for other developers to be inspired by. But many of Apple’s stock apps don’t actually have widgets yet. Meanwhile, widgets are still static and can’t be made interactive.
Facebook announced it’s launching new ways to inform people if they’re interacting with content that’s been rated by a fact-checker, as well as taking stronger action against people who repeatedly share misinformation on the platform.
Before a user likes a page that…
Pokémon HOME for iOS teases new Catch Calendar feature with Bulbasaur and Squirtle as gifts
May 27, 2021
Pokémon HOME launched in 2020 for iOS and Android users as a way to store pocket monsters from the Nintendo DS games to your phone and then to the Nintendo Switch. Today, The Pokémon Company teased a major update coming this June for iOS users.
According to a blog post…
Another exploit found in WebKit hasn’t yet been fixed in the latest iOS and macOS versions
May 27, 2021
Apple released iOS 14.5.1 and other software updates in late April that brought important security fixes to WebKit, which is the engine behind Safari and other web browsers on iOS. However, security researchers point out that there is still an exploit in WebKit that is active even in the latest versions of iOS and macOS.
As pointed out by security firm Theori (via ArsTechnica), the vulnerability…
If gaming is the most important thing you do on your smartphone, Asus has the option for you. Following its reveal earlier this year, the Asus ROG Phone 5 has just arrived in the United States with a hefty price tag in tow.
Asus ROG Phone 5 delivers one heck of a package…
Google’s 2021 hardware lineup is shaping up to be pretty exciting, with leaks showing off a completely revamped hardware design and the “Whitechapel” chip. Now, evidence points to a GPU performance upgrade for the Pixel 6.
One major complaint about Pixel 5 was its…
Love it or hate it, one of the tweaks coming with Android 12 is the addition of an iOS-like stretch effect when scrolling past the edge of a page. It seems that Android 12’s stretchy scrolling is also coming soon to Chrome for Android.
Stretchy scrolling — the elastic effect used to help show that you’ve scrolled too far — has already been available in Chrome in a limited form but only…
At the end of 2019, Google Duo and WebRTC creator Justin Uberti became a high-ranking engineer for Stadia. The Google Distinguished Engineer announced today that he was joining Clubhouse, the audio social media app.
Justin Uberti (right in the above image) was “Chief…
I/O 2021 introduced a flurry of productivity-oriented features to bring Workspace apps closer together. Gmail is now adding a convenient “Save to Google Photos” shortcut for consumers.
On the web, attachments appear after the body of a message as a row/grid. When…
OnePlus has new Android TV models incoming, reportedly w/ an external camera for Google Duo
May 27, 2021
Over the past couple of years, OnePlus has debuted a collection of Android TV devices in India that deliver high-end panels and unique features but at pretty reasonable prices. Now, it appears a new OnePlus TV is on the horizon with one really timely addition — a built-in camera.
The “OnePlus U1S TV” series is expected to arrive in India in the not-too-distant future, according to tipster…
