Throughout its first three generations, Samsung’s flagship foldable phone has made massive leaps and improvements. Simply putting together the original Fold with its flexible OLED screen was a triumph of engineering, even though it had some obvious flaws. Then on the Z Fold 2, Samsung got rid of the selfie notch, increased the size of the Cover Screen and redesigned the hinge to better withstand…

Google was originally set to phase out Chrome support for old Manifest v2 extensions in 2023, but that’s now being postponed. In 2021, Google announced its deprecation plans and last provided an update this September. On Friday, the company said that the “Manifest V2 deprecation timelines are under review and the experiments scheduled for early 2023 are being postponed.” The original plan…

ARCore gained a Geospatial API at Google I/O 2022 to let developers more easily place virtual content in the real world. To encourage adoption, Google is starting the ARCore Geospatial API Challenge. This addition to ARCore lets third-party apps use the same global localization technology powering Google Maps Live View to add virtual content to real world coordinates and elevations in over 100…

Back in May, Google closed I/O 2022 with a sneak peek at its work on augmented reality hardware. AR glasses that look like normal frames are still a long ways away, but Google is already exploring using ring and bracelet form factors to control them. The various generations (Explorer, Enterprise Edition 1, and Enterprise Edition 2) of Google Glass are primarily controlled by a touchpad that…