Home screen widgets are one of the best and easiest ways to customize your new iPhone’s home screen. You can add widgets for Apple applications, as well as third-party apps. Here are some of our favorite third-party apps that offer home screen widgets.
We’ll be updating this post throughout the next few weeks with new apps and features. If you’re a developer with an app to share, get in…
How to customize your new iPhone’s home screen with Smart Stacks and Siri Suggestions
December 27, 2020
Widgets have proven to be the most popular iOS 14 feature, allowing users to give their home screens an added layer of personalization. iOS 14 includes two built-in widget options that aim to use Siri intelligence to help further personalize your iPhone home screen widgets.
Quick Charge Podcast: December 26, 2020
December 27, 2020
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players.
New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on…
Apple isn’t the only major brand removing the charger from the box of its latest flagship phone. As noticed on Reddit, Xiaomi has announced that its upcoming Mi 11 phone won’t include a charger. The rationale is familiar. Many people already have old chargers on hand, and this answers demands for a “more environmentally friendly” device with less waste and smaller packaging.
Xiaomi said…
Google Camera 8.1 disabled using the Pixel 5 and 4a 5G’s ultrawide lens for astrophotography
December 27, 2020
An ultrawide lens is the Pixel 5 and Pixel 4a 5G’s distinguishing camera hardware addition, and at launch it could be used to take wide astrophotography shots. With Google Camera 8.1 in November, that capability was quietly removed.
Astrophotography lets you take…
Tesla has pushed its ‘holiday update’ and it enables owners to turn their cars into a boombox, as well as a few other improvements.
As we have been reporting over the last few weeks, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been teasing a ‘fire’ holiday update to be pushed…
Elon Musk says Tesla can still achieve milestone of 500,000 cars in 2020, but will need to ‘go all out’
December 27, 2020
Elon Musk told Tesla employees in a new email obtained by Electrek that the automaker can still achieve its milestone of 500,000 electric cars delivered in 2020, but it will need to ‘go all out’ in order to achieve it.
Tesla is nearing the end of its end-of-year delivery push as it aims to deliver a record number of vehicles this quarter to achieve 500,000 deliveries in 2020 – a long-time…
Fujifilm Created a Magnetic Tape That Can Store 580 Terabytes
December 26, 2020
Fujifilm has announced that it has set a new world record by creating a magnetic storage tape that can store a staggering 580 terabytes of data.
The breakthrough, developed jointly with IBM Research, uses a new magnetic particle called Strontium Ferrite (SrFe), commonly used…
AI research survey finds machine learning needs a culture change
December 26, 2020
The machine learning community, particularly in the fields of computer vision and language processing, has a data culture problem. That’s according to a survey of research into the community’s dataset collection and use practices published earlier this month.
What’s…
Depending on the earbuds, set up could be as simple as bringing the Bluetooth accessory near your Android phone. This is made possible by Fast Pair, which Google updated in recent weeks to take after iOS.
Since Fast Pair’s launch in 2017, the process has started with a standard notification that includes a thumbnail of the device in question. Appearing at the top of your screen, a simple tap…
