It’s been known for a little while now that Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Z Fold 5 will be launching with a brand-new hinge design, and it seems that new design will lead to a drastically thinner folding smartphone, as Samsung has been able to cut down on the thickness considerably.
Samsung’s past few iterations of the Galaxy Fold have left us with moderately thick smartphones. The Galaxy Z…
Google TV’s biggest partner, TCL, is overtaking LG as the world’s second-largest TV brand
February 24, 2023
The biggest partner for Google TV, TCL, has reportedly surpassed LG as the largest TV brand (behind Samsung).
Business Korea reports, citing data from Omdia, that the TV market currently sees TCL as the second-place slot in terms of units sold. TCL makes up 11.7% of the…
Satellite connectivity is going to be commonplace in many future smartphones, but as of today, it’s really only in Apple’s iPhone 14 series. But for an affordable price, the Motorola Defy Satellite Link adds this valuable connectivity to existing Android and iOS…
Earth and Venus are rocky planets of about the same size and rock chemistry, so they should be losing their internal heat to space at about the same rate. How Earth loses its heat is well known, but Venus’ heat flow mechanism has been a mystery. A study that uses three-decade-old data from NASA’s Magellan mission has taken a new look at how Venus cools and found that thin regions of the…
NASA recently built two weather instruments to test the potential of small, low-cost sensors to do some of the work of bulkier, pricier satellites. Both instruments have exceeded expectations as trial runs, and they are already delivering useful forecast information for the…
AI has taken the world by storm in recent months, and the next steps are still to come. For Google, though, further expansion of AI in Search by way of Bard could represent a huge increase in cost.
Bard was announced earlier this month as Google’s AI model for Search…
In its first major update of 2023, Google TV is revamping its homescreen to remove multiple tabs from the homescreen, but also introducing better curation for movies and shows.
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Rolling out starting today, the Google TV homescreen will be removing the “Movies”…
Google Docs adding stopwatch, Calendar template, and other Smart Chips
February 24, 2023
Google Docs is adding a bunch of new features to Smart Canvas, which aims to boost integration between apps, like a stopwatch and Calendar template.
Google Drive, Docs, and other Workspace websites getting Material You redesign
Existing Smart Chips, which can be accessed…
One of the best video editors from iOS, LumaFusion, is today officially launching on Android with support for ChromeOS.
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LumaFusion first…
Canada is preparing a new bill that, if signed into law, would require Google to pay publishers for using information from their content. In response, Google is testing a complete block of news content in Search in Canada with a subset of users.
The “Online News Act” or Bill C-18 is a bill in Canada that would require tech giants such as Google to make deals with news organizations in the…
