Self-driving cars may one day be the future, but as it stands today, they’re still figuring out the conditions of roads. This includes roads in San Francisco, where Google has been testing out its Waymo cars for quite some time now. Lately, though, some residents of the city have noticed that tons of Waymo vehicles have kept ending up in the same dead-end street.
Local news station KPIX…
Chrome OS will soon have a way to set your wallpaper to one of your favorite images or albums from Google Photos.
Across Pixel phones, Chromecasts, and Nest smart displays, Google has made it all too easy to set your wallpaper to your favorite shot from Google Photos or…
Google directly running Galaxy Z Fold/Flip 3 ads on its main YouTube channel [Update: More]
October 15, 2021
In recent years, the Android team has released partner videos with Samsung highlighting how the OS takes advantage of new hardware, like foldables. Google today released a curious trio of ads about its apps running on the Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Flip 3.
Update 10/14: Google…
Twitter is testing inserting ads into conversations on iOS
October 14, 2021
Twitter has announced it’s conducting a new test with some users in which ads start to appear in the middle of conversations.
The announcement was made by Twitter’s revenue product lead Bruce Falck (via the Verge). According to Falck, if you’re part of this global test, you’ll see ads after the first, third, or eighth reply under a tweet.
He says that Twitter sees “a big opportunity to…
Samsung is chugging along with its work on bringing its take on Android 12 to the public, and the company has also quietly introduced a new weather widget for the homescreen.
The new “Dynamic Weather” widget comes with Samsung’s Android 12 update, though it’s…
Just because Apple refuses to make the switch to USB-C on its phones doesn’t mean all users are left despaired. Enter – a Master’s degree student of robotics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) who single-handedly converted a regular Lightning-equipped…
Apple cuts iPhone 13 production estimates due to chip shortage
October 14, 2021
The ongoing chip crisis is apparently now big enough to even reach Apple – and this time we’re not talking about smartwatches, but the company’s main cash cow, the iPhone.
According to a new report from , Apple is likely to slash its projected production targets for the iPhone 13 family for 2021 by as many as 10 million units. This is happening because of prolonged chip shortages, which are…
One of the subtle but valuable new features with iOS 15 is that Siri works even when offline for some commands. That means faster performance, but offline requests won’t work for everything. Let’s look at what does and doesn’t work with offline Siri in iOS 15.
Apple…
The article has been removed. The original source of this story was a tweet of a screenshot of an email purporting to be from Apple security. It has since come to our attention that the screenshot was spoofed and the bug does not appear to actually exist.
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Update: iOS 15.1 beta 4 is now available to public beta testers as well.
The iOS 15.1 beta process continues today as Apple is now rolling out iOS 15.1 beta 4 to developers. This comes one week after the last update, which added ProRes support and a new Auto Macro toggle for iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max users.
With Apple having scheduled a special event for next week on October 18, we…
