iOS 13.2 can be pretty aggravating to use when you have to multitask across several apps, according to various user anecdotes. Even worse, that seems to be the case even if you have an iPhone 11 Pro or an iPad Pro. MacRumors has collected a bunch of user complaints from various sources, talking about the mobile platform’s aggressive RAM management system. Apparently, iOS 13.2 tends to reload…
Nintendo President: Switch Lite isn’t cannibalizing the Switch
November 1, 2019
Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa said in a briefing for analysts that the Nintendo Switch Lite isn’t cannibalizing sales of its older sibling Nintendo Switch.
The more compact and lightweight Switch Lite is a dedicated handheld which cannot be used to display games on…
Messages trick for enabling RCS breaks on some Android phones
November 1, 2019
A hack that enabled Rich Communication Services on any Android phone and carrier emerged last weekend. According to reports over the past 24 hours, the RCS trick has stopped working for some users.
Oddly, the first wave of reports consistently came from OnePlus owners. The…
Apple promotes several senior directors to VP positions, early iPhone marketing exec returns
November 1, 2019
Apple has made several changes at the executive level recently. Bloomberg reports today that Apple has promoted a handful of employees to the vice president level, which is described as “a key title reserved for the most influential players.”
Paul Meade has been named a vice president of hardware engineering, while Jon Andrews is now the vice president of software engineering. According to…
Google Podcasts rolling out Material Theme player on Android
November 1, 2019
Back in September, we first enabled a Material Theme redesign of Google Podcasts for Android. A revamped player that’s larger and fits in with the company’s current design language is now rolling out.
The first change is apparent before you expand audio controls. From…
Watch Google’s AI teach a picker robot to assemble objects
October 31, 2019
Manipulating objects in a range of shapes isn’t machines’ forte, but it’s a useful skill of any robot tasked with navigating the physical world. To advance the state-of-the-art in this domain, researchers at Google, Stanford, and Columbia recently investigated a…
Google is four years into making its own self-branded Android smartphones and, for the most part, they’re all great devices with one or two glaring flaws. Unfortunately, even after four years, Google’s Pixel 4 is another device with that same problem, but at the end of the day, it’s also the best experience you can get on an Android smartphone – for a limited time only.
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'PUBG Mobile' Payload Mode adds helicopters and airstrikes
October 31, 2019
PUBG on your phone is about to get decidedly more lethal. Tencent has introduced a promised Payload Mode to PUBG Mobile on Android and iOS that adds both aerial combat and the means to defend yourself. You can fly in attack helicopters to wreak havoc on the ground, and…
The Defense Innovation Board, a panel of 16 prominent technologists advising the Pentagon, today voted to approve AI ethics principles for the Department of Defense. The report includes 12 recommendations for how the U.S. military can apply ethics in the future for both…
When it rains, it pours. Just minutes after the first official-looking image of the folding Motorola Razr phone hit the web, another leak reveals more images of the device, as well as some of its key specs.
posted a gallery of images of the upcoming Razr smartphone, which pretty much bares all when it comes to the design of the device. Based on one of the images, we’re…
