Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Welcome to Wallpaper Wednesday! In this weekly roundup, we’ll give you a handful of Android wallpapers you can download and use on your phone, tablet, or even your laptop/PC. The images will come from folks here at Android Authority as well as our readers. All are free to use and come … Read More “Wallpaper Wednesday: Android wallpapers 2026-04-22” »
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. Today’s Mini Crossword features some Earth Day-specific clues. Read on for all the answers. And if you could use some hints and … Read More “Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Answers for April 22” »
Something I didn’t understand for a while is that the process of turning row-oriented data into column-oriented data isn’t a totally bespoke, foreign concept in the realm of databases. It’s still of the relational abstraction. Or can be. As an example, say we have this data: data = [ { “name”: “Smudge”, “colour”: “black” }, … Read More “Columnar Storage is Normalization • Buttondown” »
Introduction and specs Oppo’s top-tier Find X series flagship finally goes global. The Oppo Find X9 Ultra steps onto the global arena and helps nurture a growing Ultra competition, and it does so at a crucial moment – right when vivo’s X300 Ultra is also about to launch globally. The Find X9 Ultra is also … Read More “Oppo Find X9 Ultra review” »
Lil Katz / Android Authority TL;DR Anker is introducing its Thus chip for on-device AI. Thus utilizes a compute-in-memory architecture to minimize power requirements. The first Thus-powered earbuds will debut next month, but Anker plans to get Thus into a whole lot more products. To listen to some of the most vocal AI proponents, these … Read More “Anker launches new Thus chip for powerful on-wearable AI” »
Apple CEO Tim Cook (left) and Steve Jobs (right) at an event in 2007. James Martin/CNET Fifteen years ago, Apple’s last leadership transition was more somber. For years, off and on, Tim Cook had been stepping in to take on more of Apple’s day-to-day operations as the ailing then-CEO Steve Jobs went on successive medical … Read More “Tim Cook to Step Down After 15 Years as Apple CEO” »
All good, right? Except that I’m honestly tired of hearing about Pixels and battery issues. It’s been 10 years, we’ve gone through everything from Qualcomm Snapdragon to Google Tensor processors, from smaller batteries to larger ones, from Android 7.1 Nougat to Android 16, and there’s always an issue with the Pixel battery. It’s high time … Read More “Google Pixel’s battery problems are unforgivable after 10 years” »
The Apple Watch‘s blood oxygen sensor has been at the center of what feels like a never-ending tennis match of legal back-and-forth. In 2020, the Apple Watch Series 6 launched with the sensor that measures your blood’s oxygen saturation (SpO2), which is how much oxygen red blood cells pick up from your lungs and transport … Read More “A Previously Banned Apple Watch Health Feature May Soon Make a Comeback” »
Alongside the Find X9 Ultra, today Oppo has also launched the Find X9s for global markets and the Find X9s Pro for China. The Find X9s comes with a 6.59-inch AMOLED screen with 1256×2760 resolution, 120Hz refresh rate, 240Hz touch sampling rate, and Gorilla Glass 7i on top. It’s powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 9500s … Read More “Oppo Find X9s and Find X9s Pro are official for different markets” »
In 2019, a 36-year-old Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), newly elected to Congress, was photographed for the inaugural Time 100 Next List, wearing a dashing eye patch and looking upwards with hope. A Harvard-educated Navy SEAL who’d lost his legs while fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, Crenshaw was in rarefied company, listed among the magazine’s candidates … Read More “Behind the unraveling of Dan Crenshaw” »
