In this week’s top stories: Apple hid a Lightning connector in the Apple TV 4K, new iOS 13.2 beta, Dark Mode’s affect on battery life, and more. Read on for all of this week’s biggest news.
A new video from PhoneBuff this week put Dark Mode to the test in terms of battery life. The end result is actually quite impressive. ’s test found that the iPhone XS using Dark Mode drained the battery…
Google Assistant is ready to find your Tile tracker
October 27, 2019
As promised, Google Assistant can now help find your Tile trackers with very little effort. Link the Bluetooth gadget in the Google Home app, set up Voice Match in Assistant and you can ask the voice helper to locate your trackers (and hopefully, the items attached to…
Fortnite’s blank screen propels a social video comeback
October 27, 2019
It’s an accomplishment to get millions of gamers to watch a blank screen, as Fortnite did during the weekend of October 12.
As audiences were expecting news about Season 11, they were met with a black hole and a blank screen — an explosion, then a significant amount of…
Facebook AI can 'hide' people from facial recognition
October 27, 2019
Facebook has already stopped using facial recognition by default, but now it might have a way for people to dodge facial recognition altogether. Its researchers have developed an AI system that can “de-identify” people in real time, including live videos. The approach pairs an adversarial auto-encoder with a trained face classifier to ever-so-slightly distort a person’s face…
You may remember that, back in July, Apple released rare bug-fix updates for older versions of its operating system: iOS 10.3.4 and iOS 9.3.6. This was necessary to help keep older iPhones and iPads maintain accurate location functionality as the GPS network goes through a…
Chinese report suggests ‘AirPods Pro’ will come in multiple colors, perhaps to match iPhone 11
October 26, 2019
The rumours around new AirPods continue to build. A Chinese report today from Economic Daily News indicates that Apple will sell the ‘AirPods Pro’ in multiple colors, like black, white and midnight green. This would be significant as obviously the current AirPods only…
This has been a big week for Rich Communicator Services with the four largest US carriers announcing (a Google-less) plan to roll out the SMS/MMS successor. Today, a trick has emerged that appears to enable RCS on any Android device and carrier.
Posted to Reddit (u/NashRadical, u/sh0ch, u/LinkofHyrule), this trick to enable RCS in Messages appears reliant on Google’s implementation. The…
Windows 10X leak reveals a mix of desktop and mobile interfaces
October 26, 2019
Microsoft has already teased a few details for Windows 10X, but a leak has revealed a whole lot more. Well-known sleuther WalkingCat discovered a (since-pulled) document cache detailing Windows 10X’s interface, and it’s clear the changes extend far beyond the…
In this week’s top stories: some Pixel phones pick up the “Rules” feature spotted in Android 10 betas, Google releases six experimental digital wellbeing apps, a firmware update inadvertently bricks some Google Home speakers, and more.
This week, some reported that the…
Microsoft leak reveals Windows 10X will be coming to laptops
October 25, 2019
Microsoft has accidentally published an internal design document for its upcoming Windows 10X operating system. Spotted by WalkingCat, the document was briefly available online today and provides some more detail about Microsoft’s plans with Windows 10X. The software giant originally unveiled Windows 10X as the operating system powering the company’s new Surface Neo hardware, but it will…
