Enlarge / The (customized) lock screen in iOS 16. (credit: Samuel Axon) For the past couple of years, Apple’s annual iOS updates have laser-focused on one feature for an overhaul while making smaller tweaks to everything else. Last year, Focus was the, well, focus. The year before that, it was the home screen. This time…
Enlarge / The people in this room are smiling because they know that little Wi-Fi hub on the ceiling could power a whole bunch of cameras and access points over Ethernet. Amazon-owned Eero announced today that its latest Echo devices can serve as Wi-Fi mesh extenders for Eero networks, using built-in hardware to expand a…
Amazon’s Kindle Scribe is a 10.2-inch e-ink e-reader with a bundled pen and handwriting support. [credit: Amazon ] Earlier this month, Amazon announced an update to its entry-level Kindle, but at the company’s product event today, the focus was on a new flagship product that includes handwriting support and a stylus—not a new feature for…
Open up live view and you can search for things (at the bottom) like Restaurants, ATMs, and shopping locations. (Next in the gallery is Google’s animated gif of this in action.) [credit: Google ] Google Maps loves augmented reality. After launching augmented reality walking navigation in 2019 and indoor AR navigation in 2021, it’s now…
‘Ring Nation’ now airs somewhere in syndication across the country almost every day. Ring Despite advocacy groups’ efforts—including a petition with over 40,000 signatures delivered to Amazon-owned MGM Studios via in-person protest—Ring Nation finally premiered across the country on Monday, barely a month after the two companies first announced their take on America’s Funniest Home…
At a Google Search-focused event this morning, Google announced that it will soon introduce ways to translate news coverage directly from Search. Starting in 2023, English users, for example, will be able to search and see translated links to news results from Spanish-language publishers in countries such as Mexico, in addition to links to articles…
Movie and TV reviews site Rotten Tomatoes is releasing a card game in early 2023 called “Rotten Tomatoes: The Card Game,” a fast-paced party game that challenges cinephiles by making them guess what rating a movie has—a.k.a the Tomatometer score, which reflects the percentage of positive professional critic reviews for a movie. This is the…
As of early Wednesday afternoon ET, Hurricane Ian was a dangerous Category 4 hurricane, with winds of up to 155 miles per hour just off the coast of Florida, and moving toward the U.S. mainland after battering Cuba on Tuesday. At 12:35 p.m. ET, Ian’s intensity was increasing to the upper limits of Category 4,…
TikTok continues to combat growing concerns around the prevalence of misinformation on the platform by assuring us that it’s fighting the good fight. According to a new report, TikTok is the fastest growing news source in the UK, with seven percent of people over the age of 18 getting their news from the platform. Additionally,…
Google is adding new ways for users to choose sustainable options when searching, with a suite of new information panels and eco-friendly markers placed directly in search results. Based on an increase in search interest for terms like “electric vehicles,” “solar energy,” and “thrift stores,” along with the escalating climate crisis, the search engine will…