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A budget flip phone stuck in place

A budget flip phone stuck in place

[ad_1] Verdict The Razr 70 is a neat and tidy flip phone with a relatively approachable price point. However, it doesn’t move things along all that much from the Razr 60, and it feels a little too mid-range for its own good in the performance and camera departments. Affordable price Appealing, tactile design Good quality …

Meta lays off thousands of employees to offset AI investments

Meta lays off thousands of employees to offset AI investments

[ad_1] Meta has reportedly notified thousands of employees that they’ve been laid off as the company attempts to compensate for its hefty AI investments. In an email from Meta management shared by Business Insider, impacted staffers were told that the planned headcount reduction was part of the company’s “continued effort to run the company more …

Wear OS 7 battery life upgrades are more important than you think

Wear OS 7 battery life upgrades are more important than you think

[ad_1] Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority Google has been busy reshaping its wearable strategy. Earlier this month, the company launched the new Fitbit Air, a screenless fitness tracker anchored by multi-day battery life. Then at Google I/O this week, Google announced Wear OS 7, including battery optimizations that could improve Pixel Watch battery life by …

OnePlus resumes OxygenOS rollout after boot issues

OnePlus resumes OxygenOS rollout after boot issues

[ad_1] OnePlus has resumed the rollout of two OxygenOS updates that the company paused last week after internal monitoring flagged abnormal behaviour in one of the builds before it reached end users. The updates in question are versions 16.0.7.XXX and 16.0.5.XXX and they were pulled from distribution after a small number of devices showed signs …

General Catalyst just led a $63M bet on India’s travel payments market

General Catalyst just led a M bet on India’s travel payments market

[ad_1] Scapia, an Indian startup that combines travel booking with co-branded credit cards and mobile payments, has raised $63 million in a funding round led by General Catalyst, with existing investors Peak XV Partners and Z47 also participating. The deal comes despite a broader slowdown in fintech dealmaking. The all-equity round values assigns the startup …

Android 17 will bring a smarter media app switcher

Android 17 will bring a smarter media app switcher

[ad_1] Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Android 17 QPR1 Beta 3 has a new media app switcher UI in notifications and on the lock screen. It replaces the old carousel-style layout with a new card layout. Apart from swiping, users can also tap cards to switch between media apps. Google released Android 17 QPR1 …

Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Answers for May 21

Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Answers for May 21

[ad_1] Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today’s Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Need some help with today’s Mini Crossword? The clue that threw me off was 7-Across, but I eventually figured it out. …

Scientists Warn AI Slop Is Wreaking Havoc in the Research World

Scientists Warn AI Slop Is Wreaking Havoc in the Research World

[ad_1] Scientific papers rely on readers trusting their information. That’s why it’s disturbing that a new study by researchers connected with Cornell and UCLA found 146,900 AI-generated fake citations in scientific papers hosted across four major research databases.  A key limitation of large language models such as Gemini and ChatGPT is their tendency to produce plausible-sounding but …