[ad_1] iOS 26 landed in September with a long list of headlining features — Liquid Glass, call screening, Apple Intelligence updates — but tucked away into the Maps app is a tool that deserves a closer look before you tap through the setup prompts. Visited Places is a new feature that logs the restaurants, shops, … Read More “iOS 26’s Visited Places Feature Is Logging Everywhere You Go. Here’s How to Stop It” »
Month: May 2026
[ad_1] Listen and watch now on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple. See the episode transcript at the top of this page, and timestamps for the episode at the bottom. • Antithesis – verify your system’s correctness in the development loop. Build, extend and deploy mission-critical systems: without human review or traditional integration tests, all while avoiding … Read More “TypeScript, C# and Turbo Pascal with Anders Hejlsberg” »
[ad_1] Stephen Headrick / Android Authority TL;DR Social features on the Fitbit app are being paused in preparation for the Google Health app transition. You will not be able to send messages, view leaderboards, or add or remove friends. Access to a new social experience will open up when you’re in the Google Health app. … Read More “Google is hitting pause on the Fitbit app’s social features” »
[ad_1] Thanks to Reddit, one of the best little secrets of the Valve Steam Controller has been discovered. Now I can’t stop dropping it, because it turns out it makes a Wilhelm scream if it does. I tested it, and can confirm. You don’t even need the controller paired to anything to make it happen. … Read More “The Steam Controller Wilhelm Scream Easter Egg Is Incredible” »
[ad_1] Move over, Chromebooks, Googlebooks are coming. That’s right – Googlebooks. These aren’t just laptops, you see – they are “designed for Gemini Intelligence”, which sounds like Google desperately wanted to have a name that sounds close enough to Apple Intelligence, but maybe we’re reading too much into it. Anyway, Googlebooks will help Google move … Read More “Google introduces Googlebooks running Android” »
[ad_1] DealHunt / Android Authority Samsung didn’t do anything too radical with the Galaxy S26 series hardware, which means stepping back to the 2025 models isn’t much of a compromise. Right now, the Samsung Galaxy S25 Plus is available for just $699.99, saving you $300 on the retail price. DealHunt / Android Authority This smartphone … Read More “Act fast: The Galaxy S25 Plus is on sale for just $699.99” »
[ad_1] Headspace is bringing its mental health tools right to your wrist. The company on Wednesday launched and updated the Apple Watch app that uses biometric data to figure out when you need to take a deep breath. With your permission, the app analyzes your heart rate variability data from Apple Health to identify moments … Read More “Headspace’s New Apple Watch App Uses Your Heart Rate to Know When You Need a Break” »
[ad_1] Despite being incredibly poor in heavy elements, LAP1-B has an unusually high amount of carbon; its carbon-to-oxygen ratio is higher than our Sun’s. The researchers think the answer might lie in how these massive first-generation stars died. According to our models, when a massive, Population III star reaches the end of its life, its … Read More “Gravitational lens shows a galaxy just 800 million years post-Big Bang” »
[ad_1] AI workloads are exposing the limits of what most databases were designed to handle. Databases will need to process petabytes of data, millions of writes per second, and data types like vectors – all while delivering consistent sub-millisecond P99 latency. Join ScyllaDB co-founders Dor Laor (CEO) and Avi Kivity (CTO) to explore what real-time … Read More “High Performance Rate Limiting at Databricks” »
[ad_1] Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Following a major update last week, the new Snapseed 4.0.1 adds a Camera home screen shortcut. This shortcut can be accessed by pressing and holding on the Snapseed icon. Google’s photo editing app Snapseed got a big update on Android last week, revamping the app’s design language and … Read More “Snapseed gets handy new shortcut in second update this month” »
