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Most smartphones, including the iPhone, come with lithium-ion batteries, which degrade over time. This means that they have a limited lifespan and with time, their capability to hold charge will decrease. Apple had previously stated that the iPhone 15 range’s battery would maintain up to 80 percent of its capacity after completing 500 charge cycles. The Cupertino giant has now revised its estimates.Apple told 9to5Mac that the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro’s battery lifespan is better than the initial estimates. Battery lifespan refers to the amount of time a battery lasts before it dies. As a battery ages, its capacity…
Inaugurated all the way back in 2011 and praised for striking a pretty much unrivaled balance between power and affordability essentially right off the bat, Amazon’s Fire (formerly known as Kindle Fire) tablet family needed more than a decade for some reason to add an extra-large “Max” variant to 7, 8, and 10-inch models.But even though Prime Day, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Christmas are all (long) gone, the Android-based mid-range giant is now cheaper than ever before, setting you back $139.99 in brand-new, unused, unopened, and undamaged condition for an undoubtedly limited time.Technically, this sweet new Woot deal is…
YouTube has solidified its position as the leading streaming service in America. According to Nielsen, the global powerhouse in audience measurement, YouTube has held the #1 spot in watch time for a full year. This translates to 12 months of users regularly turning to the platform for content from YouTubers, artists, and other media sources.YouTube shared the news today on its blog, and attributes this honor to the platform’s unique strengths that keep viewers continuously engaged and returning. Now that traditional boundaries between professional and user-generated content are blurring, audiences are more driven than ever to the platform. In a recent…
Do you remember the good old days when almost every new product from a leading tech brand would get a fancy launch event at a trade show like CES, MWC, or IFA following a decent amount of buzz gathered in the rumor mill?Things… have actually not changed that much for certain companies, but for some reason, OnePlus saw the need to squeeze in an “introduction” of its next-gen smartwatch between the typical rumor run and a “grand entrance” that is now officially scheduled to take place in Barcelona on February 26 during the 2024 edition of the Mobile World Congress.Here’s…
Thousands of Wyze camera customers recently had images of their homes, and, in some cases video, made visible to strangers, due to “a security event,” involving third-party caching and crossed wires, the company said Tuesday on its user forum. Wyze Labs, maker of smart home cameras, informed customers who experienced a service outage Friday that 13,000 camera users received video thumbnails of other people’s homes, according to an update posted by co-founder Dave Crosby. “We can now confirm that as cameras were coming back online, about 13,000 Wyze users received thumbnails from cameras that were not their own and 1,504 users tapped…
We have been waiting for the impending release of Asus’ next flagship, the Zenfone 11 Ultra for some time now, and today the company has officially made an announcement. Asus took to its social channels today to confirm that a global launch event will be taking place on March 14th at 8pm Taipei time — that is 8am on the United States East coast. The post on X indicates that this event will be specific for the live online unveiling of the Zenfone 11 Ultra and, not surprisingly, that it will be an AI-integrated flagship. The announcement on the Asus website also…
What are the pros and cons of neural implants? What are the pros and cons of neural implants? 06:54 The first person with a brain chip implanted by Neuralink appears to have recovered and can control a computer mouse using their thoughts, according to Elon Musk, the company’s founder. “Progress is good and the patient seems to have made a full recovery, with no ill effects that we are aware of. Patient is able to move a mouse around the screen just by thinking,” Musk said late Monday in a Spaces event on his social media platform X. The company implanted a…
Following Google’s announcement — alongside the Samsung Galaxy S24 launch — that Android Auto AI summaries were on the way, the company has now published more information on how this feature would work. This feature will allow Google Assistant to summarize those long texts and lively group chats for safer driving.Initially announced just as an ‘Android Auto’ feature, Google has clarified that its powerful Google Assistant AI will actually power these helpful summaries. This makes sense since Android Auto heavily relies on Assistant for voice interactions. Additionally, Google’s support documentation notes the feature could work on “Assistant-enabled Android devices,” potentially…
Late last year he wrote a book, called Taming Silicon Valley, which is coming out this fall. It is his manifesto on how AI should be regulated, but also a call to action. “We need to get the public involved in the struggle to try to get the AI companies to behave responsibly,” he says. There’s a bunch of different things people can do, ranging from boycotting some of the software until people clean up their act to choosing electoral candidates around their tech policies, he says. Action and AI policy are needed urgently, he argues, because we are in…
“What’s that thing that costs as much as a flagship (or more), yet it doesn’t pack the latest and greatest?”To which we can say: “Yeah, but it sure feels nice to rock a foldable phone!”Here’s a phone that folds in two, yet after buying it your wallet will stay full enough not to fold in two as well: the ZTE Libero Flip, a brand-new clamshell.It’s now in Japan (apparently, it’s been launched in the land of the rising sun first and China will follow soon) and it’s sold for approximately $420. Nice number, although $399 would be even nicer. Pre-orders…
Marcus does much of his tweeting on scenic walks around his hometown of Vancouver. Our senior AI reporter Melissa Heikkilä decided to join him on one such stroll while she was visiting the city, to hear his thoughts on the latest product releases and goings-on in AI. Here’s what he had to say to her. This story is from The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter all about AI. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Monday. The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 A new class of satellites could change everything 🛰️They’re armed with…
As if Garmin wasn’t already extremely well-represented on our list of the best smartwatches money can buy in 2024, the wearable industry veteran has just formally unveiled (and commercially released) yet another phenomenal Apple Watch alternative that seems to strike a nearly flawless balance between power and affordability.Conceived as a long overdue sequel to 2021’s entry-level Forerunner 55, the hot new Forerunner 165 looks an awful lot like the decidedly higher-end Forerunner 265… while costing much less in both “standard” and Music variants.Who said that budget smartwatches need to be rudimentary?Not Garmin, that’s for sure, which is incredibly charging a…
We shared with you that Best Buy currently has a really lovely deal on the Pixel Fold, letting you snag this awesome foldable for a whopping $400 off its price. However, in case you are in the market for a more compact clamshell foldable phone, we suggest you pull the trigger on this deal you are currently reading.Both Amazon and Motorola are currently selling the 256GB version of the high-end Motorola Razr+ 2023 for $300 off, allowing you to get this bad boy at its lowest price ever. Moreover, you can trade in your phone with Motorola for extra savings…
If you need a pair of really loud ANC earbuds at a reasonable price, we recommend you check out the fantastic OnePlus Buds Pro 2. These give you the whole shebang with their good sound, fine-tuning options, Bluetooth Multipoint, fast charging, and decent battery life. And, while you’d typically have to cough up $179 for them, Amazon is treating you to yet another opportunity to get a pair at $50 off. As you might have already guessed, we’ve seen these awesome earbuds at that price before. In fact, they’ve been even cheaper during the Black Friday festivities of yesteryear. Still,…
Last month, Samsung dropped its latest flagship Galaxy S24 series, packed with Galaxy AI that brings in multiple AI features. The company also gave us a sneak peek at a new smart device – the Galaxy Ring. Earlier buzz hinted that Samsung’s first-ever smart ring would make its debut later this year at the next Unpacked event, and recent signs are backing up that idea.Well-known tipster Revegnus posted on X that, according to the Korean media outlet ET News, Samsung is gearing up to unveil the Galaxy Ring at its Unpacked event in the latter half of July this year,…
Not everyone is fully on board. Some theorists worry that the approach will only yield more false alarms from the collider—more tentative blips in the data like “two-sigma bumps,” so named for their low level of statistical certainty. These are generally flukes that eventually disappear with more data and analysis. Koren is concerned that this will be even more the case with such an open-ended technique: “It seems they want to have a machine that finds more two-sigma bumps at the LHC.” Nachman told me that he received a lot of pushback; he says one senior physicist told him, “If…