The COVID-19 crisis has thrust the issue of remote working to the top of corporate agendas globally, with online communication and collaboration tools gaining traction. But many companies already operated remote “distributed” workforces — WordPress parent Automattic has long embraced remote working, as have GitLab, GitHub, and Basecamp. Last year, payments giant Stripe launched a new remote…
Android 11 DP3: Google Pay now works as normal
April 24, 2020
While using a pre-release version of Android sounds like an exciting experience, we usually don’t recommend the average joe to install Developer Preview builds, as they come with flaws. One of the usual flaws, the inability to use Google Pay, is actually no longer the case…
The iPhone SE is incredibly similar to the iPhone 8 it replaces in Apple’s lineup, packing the same 4.7-inch design. Now, an early teardown video shared on YouTube offers a closer look at the internal similarities between the two devices.
As first discovered by Rico Cerva…
If you are not content with the most recent Android 11 Developer Preview build on your Google Pixel, it’s probably music to your ears knowing that you can downgrade your OS to a stable Android 10 build if you encounter any major problems.
We’ve shown you how to install the first Developer Preview, so it’s only fair that we show you how to downgrade from this experimental Android…
PSA: A viral text string with an Italian flag and Sindhi characters will crash your iPhone [U]
April 24, 2020
Every so often, a bug in iOS emerges where a certain string of text will cause your iPhone or iPad to crash. This week, another such string of text is going viral, and a fix from Apple is not yet publicly available.
The string of text, which we aren’t going to share…
We first told you about a new Settings pane called “Battery Share” in Android 11 back in mid-February. Today, in the 3rd Developer Preview of Android 11, Google added a nice animation to go along with the feature. It’s a nice animation. But it tells us nothing new of…
Want to learn guitar, bass, ukelele with your extra time? Check out the Fender Play iOS app
April 23, 2020
Looking to pick up a new skill with the extra time on your hands? Follow along for a look at how to learn to play guitar, bass, and ukelele with the Fender Play app on iPhone and iPad, as well as some other options.
Whether you want to pick up a new instrument for the very first time or have dabbled with guitar, bass, or ukelele in the past, Fender Play uses mini lessons to get you playing your…
The latest Android 11 Developer Preview is now available for those with a compatible device but for those with the Pixel 4, a bug is causing the time and battery within the status bar to be cut off.
For those that are happy to install essentially pre-beta software, bugs…
Super Mario Maker 2’s latest update reveals that almost no one knows how to make a fun Mario stage. This was once easy to ignore, because that’s not actually what you should go to Super Mario Maker for. Instead, this series has always provided players with a familiar…
In a newly published paper, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) researchers propose a system for training and running AI models in a way that’s more environmentally friendly than previous approaches. They claim it can cut down on the pounds of carbon emissions involved to “low triple digits” in some cases, mainly by improving the computational efficiency of…
