Facebook and the services owned by the social media giant have been hard hit by a massive outage this afternoon that has seen all of those services down for almost four hours at this point. Caught up in that mess, though, is Google’s 8.8.8.8 DNS service, which has slowed down amid the Facebook outage.
DNS, or Domain Name System, essentially acts as a way of allowing browsers to translate an IP…
Gaming on the go has gotten quite a boost, thanks to cloud gaming services, and it seems Lenovo has plans to cash in on that trend with a new piece of hardware. This week, the “Lenovo Legion Play” has leaked as a “cloud gaming console” that runs Android.
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The Gmail side panel today provides quick access to Calendar, Keep, and Tasks. Google is now bringing Contacts to the sidebar for Workspace and personal customers using Gmail.
Update 10/4/21: The Google Contacts shortcut/tool is now coming to the Chat, Calendar, Docs…
Shut down in 2019, Google+ was never really a favorite for most in the social media landscape. However, during today’s massive and extended Facebook outage, Google+ came to mind for quite a few people.
On Twitter this afternoon, Google+ picked up some steam with thousands of tweets referencing the now-defunct social network in the aftermath of the Facebook outage. Twitter’s recap of the…
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.
The most recent…
We recently reported on an ophthalmologist using the iPhone 13’s new macro photography feature to document patient progress.
Thanks to the Macro mode, Dr Tommy Korn can take extremely detailed photos of the eyes, which lets him observe and record important details about…
A teardown analysis by TechInsights shows that the iPhone 13 Pro has a higher build cost when compared to the iPhone 12 Pro. The report says that the semiconductor shortage affected the iPhone 13 production as the A15 Bionic cost more to produce, as well as the NAND memory, the display subsystem price, and an increase in the main enclosure cost.
TechInsights also compared the iPhone 13 Pro and…
Filmic Pro updated with support for ProRes video capture on iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max
October 4, 2021
Today Filmic Pro version 6.17 is being released with full support for ProRes video for the iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max, making it the first iOS app available with support for capturing ProRes. ProRes video, which is hardware-accelerated by the A15 Bionic chip, is one…
WhatsApp for iOS working to improve voice message player
October 4, 2021
After releasing different playback speeds for audio messages, WhatsApp is now working on a global voice message player for its app.
According to always reliable WABetaInfo, the global voice message player “allows listening to voice messages when you leave chats. It’s…
According to some rumors, Android 12 is set to arrive today but while it is not technically official yet, we asked you what Android version you were running on your device and now we have the results.
As we mentioned, Google no longer provides official up-to-date information on the distribution data of the world’s biggest mobile OS. We’re under no illusions that a quick poll or survey would…
