The Wink Hub has been offline for two weeks, the longest ever for the smart home platform. | Image: Wink Wink, the once-innovative smart home platform, has been down for two weeks with no sign of a fix. The outage has left customers of the Will-i-am-owned company — who pay $5 a month for the…
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Enlarge (credit: Google) Google is quickly marching toward the next release of Android. The company announced the “final” Android 13 beta yesterday, beta 4, with word that an official release is “coming in the weeks ahead.” After the massive overhaul of Android 12, Android 13 seems to be a smaller release focusing on various improvements…
Enlarge / Preparing to rip a CD in the new Windows Media Player app. (credit: Microsoft) If there’s one thing Windows 11 has been good for, it has been the renewed attention and useful updates to the built-in apps that ship with Windows. Sometimes this means new features for long-neglected apps, like Notepad and Paint….
Don’t get sucked into a mindless scrolling routine. Becca Tapert/Unsplash The habit of doomscrolling—idly flicking through social media, consuming content that isn’t necessarily good for our mental health—is all too easy to fall into. At the back of our minds we know there are more productive ways to fill our time, and yet we keep…
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The leading influential technology lobby group in India is turning its back on advocating for crypto in a major setback for the local ecosystem in the South Asian nation. Internet and Mobile Association of India, an 18-year-old lobby group, said Thursday it is dissolving the Blockchain and Crypto Assets Council, its four year endeavour to…
Six years ago, Dan Finlay and Aaron Davis met while working at Apple and conjured an idea around making a web extension backing the layer-1 blockchain Ethereum so developers could play with it. That project became MetaMask, now the world’s largest non-custodial crypto wallet. What was supposed to be a short project for Finlay and…
After an exhausting fourth season, Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale is back for a fifth outing. And it looks like the girlbosses are heading for a showdown. June (Elisabeth Moss) deals with the aftermath of killing Commander Waterford (Joseph Fiennes) by going head-to-head with his wife Serena Joy (Yvonne Strahovski). In a chilling voiceover, she declares,…
If you’re a daily commuter on one of the best folding e-bikes, you know how much heavier they can be than a conventional folding bike. While great tools to take the sweat out of cycling, you might end up breaking that sweat after lugging it onto trains and up stairs. Brompton’s new Electric P-Line announced…
Google has removed eight Android apps found to be carrying malware from its mobile app store. The apps, which include camera apps, video editors, emoji keyboards, and similar, have had more than three million downloads between them, and were reported to the company more than a year ago. In June 2021, cybersecurity researchers from Evina…