Apple on Wednesday stopped signing iOS 15.5 and iPadOS 15.5, exactly one week after the company released iOS 15.6 and iPadOS 15.6 to all users. As a result, iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch users can no longer downgrade from iOS 15.6 to iOS 15.5, which may affect users waiting for jailbreak.
iOS 15.5 was released on May 16 with minor improvements to Apple Cash and Apple Podcasts, plus other bug…
Apple is toning down iOS 16’s vaunted iMessage edit and unsend features. The company has released fourth developer betas of iOS 16, iPadOS 16 and macOS Ventura that limit you to five edits for a given message within the available 15 minutes, and shrink the unsend window…
Google feels it is ‘important’ to be able to share Nest Cam recording with police, but never has [U]
July 28, 2022
Having a security camera in or around your home can be both useful and a source of peace of mind, but there’s always a concern that the footage captured could end up somewhere you don’t intend it to. As it turns out, with Google’s Nest cameras, some emergency…
Chromecast with Google TV finally supports streaming live video from new Nest Cams, Doorbell
July 28, 2022
To mark this week’s ninth anniversary of the Chromecast line, Google has announced that the Chromecast with Google TV is finally getting support for watching live video feeds from the newest Nest Cam devices.
This covers the almost one-year-old Nest Cam (outdoor or indoor, battery), Nest Cam (indoor, wired), Nest Cam with floodlight, and Nest Doorbell (battery). This has been a glaring ecosystem…
Last year’s OnePlus Watch wasn’t much of a success, leaving a lot to be desired in the software department. It looks like OnePlus is in for round two with another wearable branded the “Nord Watch,” seen in recently leaked screenshots.
The OnePlus Watch came out in…
It seems like it doesn’t need to be said, but you should never just toss your old Android phone in the trash. Whether or not you can get money out of it, it’s always a good thing for an old phone to be recycled and repurposed into a new one down the road. This guide will…
Google was originally planning to get rid of third-party cookies in its browser by 2022, but that was later pushed back to 2023. That cookies deadline for Chrome is now being delayed to 2024
The Privacy Sandbox is Google’s initiative to replace third-party cookies — as well as cross-site tracking identifiers, fingerprinting, and other covert techniques — once privacy-conscious alternatives…
Source: Galaxy Buds 2 Pro will cost $230, as Galaxy Watch 5 offers up several color options
July 28, 2022
Samsung Unpacked is coming up in two weeks, and we’re all anxious to know what Samsung has up its sleeves for us. We know Samsung is planning the upcoming Galaxy Z Fold 4 and Z Flip 4 along with a new Galaxy Watch 5 and Galaxy Watch 5 Pro.
A source in retail tells us the…
Google is rolling out an update to the Pixel Camera app a month after the last release, with version 8.6 introducing a handful of Material You tweaks.
The primary visual change today is to the “Modes” tab at the end of the carousel. The buttons for Panorama, Photo…
“Look and Talk” for the Nest Hub Max launched at I/O 2022, and Google has now detailed how exactly the camera-based, “Hey Google” replacement works.
Google calls “Look and Talk” — which is very amusingly codenamed “Blue Steel” after Zoolander — the “first multimodal, on-device Assistant feature that simultaneously analyzes audio, video, and text to determine when you are…
