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You can set Spotify as your default music player in iOS 14.5 beta

Apple has finally offered the ability to set Spotify as your default music player for Siri commands. This was previously only available on HomePods, and was a feature we asked for back in 2019. The new behavior appears in the beta of iOS 14.5. The first time you ask Siri to play something, it lists all the streaming services you have installed on your device and ask you which of them you want to…
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Here’s Russ Hanneman from ‘Silicon Valley’ on a Cameo praising Google Flutter [Video]

Flutter is a development framework for creating applications on Android, iOS, web, and desktop. While it’s increasingly being used, the UI toolkit is not really meant to have a high profile to end users. That said, there exists a short video of Silicon Valley’s Russ Hanneman talking about Google’s Flutter. Chris Diamantopoulos played Hanneman in HBO’s Silicon Valley — as well as the…
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Low-cost SONDORS electric motorcycle seen real-world riding in first range test video

A recently shared video is giving us our first look at the SONDORS Metacycle electric motorcycle performing real-world riding. It also finally provides us with some insight into the affordably priced electric motorcycle’s real-world range. The highly anticipated SONDORS Metacycle electric motorcycle was unveiled earlier this year. The bike’s (relatively) low price of $5,000 combined with its…
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Exynos 2100 vs Snapdragon 888: Benchmarking the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra versions

For quite some time now Samsung has been releasing two versions of most of its premium smartphones – one with a Qualcomm chipset and another one with its own Exynos chips. We won’t be delving into the whole story of why that is right now, but one natural consequence has always been comparing the performance and characteristics of the two. Granted, it’s more of a curiosity-driven…
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