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Google Photos is adding another feature intended to make your cherished memories more easily accessible and enjoyable. In addition to the recently expanded rollout of automatic Stacks (which organize similar photos together), Google has unveiled a new setting called “Activity-based personalization.” This powerful feature enhances the app’s “Memories” section.What is activity-based personalization?The “Memories” section, which you might recognize as that carousel of photos and videos at the top of the Google Photos app, can now be set to learn from your actions within it. Activity-based personalization learns about the way you engage with Memories — those you linger on and…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Introducing: the Hidden Worlds issue A hidden world is fundamentally different from the undiscovered. We know the hidden world is there. We just can’t see it or reach it. Hidden worlds exist in the great depths of the ocean and high above us in the planets of the night sky. But they are also all around us in the form of waves and matter and microbes. Technology has long played the spoiler to these worlds in hiding. We…
Did you miss out on the chance to get your hands on the fantastic Galaxy Watch 6 Classic via Amazon’s head-turning deal? Don’t worry; it appears you won’t have to play the waiting game too long. With Amazon’s deal having expired super-quickly, now Samsung.com picks up the ball and runs with it, offering the LTE-enabled 47mm Galaxy wearable at $80 off its price tag before trade-ins. Since this is the Samsung store, you can probably guess that you can save much more than just $80, so long as you provide a suitable trade-in. Right now, the merchant offers an extra…
“There are many examples in biology where an event triggers a long downstream cascade of events, which then causes a specific cellular function,” says Edward Boyden ’99, MEng ’99, a professor of biological engineering and of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, who is the senior author of a paper on the work. “We wondered, could you simply watch it happen?” In 2020, Boyden’s lab developed a way to simultaneously image up to five different molecules within a cell by targeting the fluorescent tags to distinct locations. This approach, known as “spatial multiplexing,” allows researchers to distinguish signals for different…
Do you miss the old days when you could find not just a phone but also a charger inside the box? If you live in the UK and are willing to settle for something other than an Apple, Samsung, or OnePlus, we might be able to help you out. We just found out that Amazon UK resurrected its Honor 90 deal from last month, once again shaving a cool £100 off its price tag. As mentioned, we first saw the Honor phone sporting a tempting £100 cheaper price tag a month ago. Mind you, this Android phone has seen even…
Catch up with China 1. Two influential Chinese bloggers in exile have been sharing uncensored news about the country on overseas social media. Now the police are tracking down their followers in China, one by one. (Associated Press) “Teacher Li,” one of the bloggers, rose to prominence in late 2022 when he tirelessly collected and shared information on the White Paper protests in China. I talked to him at the time about the toll the work had taken on him. (MIT Technology Review) 2. Leaked internal documents from a Chinese cybersecurity firm suggest it has been surveilling ethnic minorities in…
We are back with another sweet deal on a tablet that won’t break the bank. At this very moment, Lenovo itself has its Tab P12 tablet on sale at a lovely 22% price cut, letting you snag this bad boy for $269.99 instead of its usual price of $349.99. That’s right! You’ll score sweet savings of $80 on this handsome fella if you don’t waste time and take advantage of this offer while it’s still up for grabs. The version of the Lenovo Tab P12 that’s currently enjoying the awesome discount at Lenovo is the one with a 128GB variant…
Washington — The Biden administration is proposing regulations to help the Justice Department stop data brokers from selling Americans’ personal information to “countries of concern,” the White House announced Wednesday.President Biden is issuing an executive order that will for the first time propose guardrails that shield bulk biometric and healthcare data and financial information collected by businesses inside the U.S. and that are aimed at preventing the material from being transferred to foreign adversaries, including China, Russia, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela and North Korea. The data — including genomic and geolocation information — are collected by tech companies and sold by…
Today, NASA operates a fleet of 27 spacecraft to study the sun. NASA even sent a probe to scoop up plasma and touch the sun’s surface, where the temperature registers 10,300 °F. With all that technology, however, total solar eclipses still offer rare insight. Uniquely in our solar system, Earth’s moon is just the right size and distance from the planet to fully cover the sun’s face and only its face, briefly exposing the roots of coronal discharges and solar winds for observation and measurement. “Even our best instruments have a hard time getting down to the connection at the…
6G is upon us, and it’s going to be AI-driven! Things began with 2G all the way back in 1991, which was then followed by 3G in 2001, 4G in 2009, and 5G in 2018. The release of 6G hasn’t been set just yet, but given how quickly time flies, it’ll be here sooner than we anticipated.Experts are forecasting that sixth-generation (6G) mobile networks, powered by artificial intelligence (AI), will merge communication and computing into a seamlessly interconnected realm of digital and physical realms. Qin Fei, for example – president of the communications research institute at vivo – says: “Previously,…
Awesome news! During our 24/7 deal hunting, we noticed that Amazon is still selling the budget-friendly Moto G Power 5G 2023 at a sweet 33% price cut. This means you can still score sweet savings of $100 on this affordable phone if you pull the trigger on this offer now! Being a pocket-friendly handset, the Motorola Moto G Power 5G 2023 doesn’t offer out-of-this-world performance; however, its MediaTek Dimensity 930 silicon, 6GB of RAM, and 256GB of storage space on board provide it with good enough performance for daily tasks such as web browsing and video streaming. The phone…
Samsung announced today that the security and management framework that we find these days on just about every Galaxy device, Knox, is going to be installed on its newest smart TVs too. Meant to provide complex security and privacy for both businesses and end users, Samsung Knox recently achieved “Common Criteria” (CC) certification ahead of its launch on smart TVs.The South Korean company notes that it has now received CC certification for Samsung Knox for 10 consecutive years, which feels like an incredible achievement for Samsung’s IT and security solution.Of course, Knox has been available on Samsung’s smart TVs for…
Remember the Pokémon GO craze that got people all over the planet to go haywire? Well, another Pokémon game is coming to your mobile phone this year: the Pokémon Trading Game Card.Shares in Japan’s developer DeNA jumped 24% in Tokyo trading after the gaming company said it will launch a mobile version of the PTGC (Pokémon Trading Game Card). This 24% jump clearly shows that investors think the game will become a hit (via Reuters).Coming in 2024 to iOS and Android devices!There’s an official announcement on the Pokémon Trading Game Card Pocket site that reads:Experience the fun of collecting Pokémon…
Is it too early in the year for iOS 18-related guarantees? Probably. But that can’t stop the rumor mill from spinning, and although said spinning is not completely out of control yet, a number of recent reports have painted the next OS version a very promising picture in terms of its importance, and now a new puzzle piece is (allegedly) falling into place to put a big smile on the faces of owners of a few outdated Apple devices.We’re talking about the 2018-released iPhone XR, XS, and XS Max, all of which ran iOS 12 out the box before receiving…
Apple is still expected to release iOS 17.4 early in March to beat the March 8th deadline imposed by the EU for Apple to deliver all of the changes coming to Safari, the App Store, and iOS in the 27 EU member countries. Those in the EU will be able to use a browser with a non-WebKit engine, select a third-party default contactless payment app, choose an alternative third-party app store to install apps from, and much more. Today, Apple released the Release Candidate (RC) version of iOS 17.4 which means that the software released today will probably remain the…
The multi-billion dollar project, known inside Apple as Project Titan, began in 2014 with plans for the vehicle to be fully autonomous, run on electricity, feature voice navigation, and have a luxurious interior like a limo. Apple kept changing the personnel leading the team and found that building a self-driving car was tougher than it thought it would be. Starting in 2017, Apple road-tested several vehicles using a Lexus SUV exterior. But there was one issue staring Apple in the face: demand for EVs has been falling.According to Swiss investment bank UBS AG, growth in the electric vehicle market will…