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The latest Pixel Camera update adds an option to enable Astrophotography mode manually. You can set the Astrophotography mode duration to as long as four minutes. Sideload the latest Pixel Camera release to get access to manual Astrophotography mode right away. Google's Pixel Camera app strikes a great balance between...

You can finally enable Astrophotography mode manually on your Pixel phone

Michael Fisher’s latest video has a great interview with Google devices boss Rick Osterloh. When asked whether Google has interest in creating a more affordable flip-style Pixel, Osterloh suggests that Samsung and Motorola have that foldables category pretty well handled for now. As for adopting Qi2 wireless charging, he...

Don’t expect a Pixel Flip: Google says Samsung and Motorola have that covered.

At its latest Made By Google event last week, Google introduced a handful of new Pixel smartphones and the Pixel Watch 3. During the event, Google also announced that it will soon roll out an offline Google Maps feature for Wear OS devices. As promised, the search titan has finally started rolling out the new feature to the Pixel Watch series smartwatches. In addition, the new offline Google Maps functionality is available for Samsung’s Galaxy Watch series devices.

Wear OS watches get support for offline Google Maps

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The tabletop device is expected to serve multiple purposes, allowing users to control their smart home systems, attend video calls, monitor home security, and more.

Apple could develop device with robot arm for smart home command center

Some time ago, I denounced my love for the Pixel phones. That was challenging since I've had one since the beginning. But, as Google made its plans clear that the Pixel 9 line of phones would be all about AI, I decided I'd had enough. Also: Everything announced at Made...

5 reasons why Pixel 9 stopped me from ditching Google phones for Nothing

Laura Mae Martin is a big believer in the settings menu. As Google’s executive productivity advisor, Martin spends much of her time working with other Googlers on improving their productivity and communication systems — and one of the things she often recommends is taking a few minutes to poke through the options. “With your phone, with your email, your Slack, all these things, the features are there, but we don’t take the time to dive into them,” she says. She even thinks you should maybe have to look at settings before you can use the app. “Like, you can’t get into the app unless you spend 10 minutes figuring out what it can do.”

A Googler’s guide to getting things done

There’s a new Raspberry Pi 5 in town: a 2GB variant that knocks the price of the microcomputer down to $50. The lower RAM doesn’t necessarily mean it comes with fewer capabilities, just that it won’t be up to some RAM-intensive tasks. Raspberry Pi Foundation CEO Eben Upton says the device is “functionally identical to its predecessor.”

Raspberry Pi 5 gets a cheaper 2GB option

The company closed the waitlist for its “prototype” generative search product, sending out emails like the one below to signed-up users who weren’t chosen to test it. The company has said only 10,000 users will get access at first, which could help it if its searchbot gives bad recommendations like gluing slippery cheese to pizza.

OpenAI is fresh out of SearchGPT.

It can be tough shopping for a TV when there are just so many good options. The marketplace is extremely crowded in 2024, and be that as it may, Sony is still one of the top brands to go with if you're looking to get some of the best performance and features. With that said, if you're looking to buy a top-end TV, OLED is going to be the way to go, and we think the Sony Bravia 8 is going to be right up your alley.

Sony's 65-inch Bravia 8 OLED smart TV gets stellar discount at $800 off for a limited time

It’s increasingly rare to hear what the power players of Silicon Valley really think these days. Over the last decade, armies of PR professionals and lawyers have cocooned tech executives with talking points they’re trained to never deviate from. Sometimes, though, a slipup still happens and the quiet...

Eric Schmidt says the quiet part out loud

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A check from an Irvine business was intercepted from the mail around May 3, according to the Irvine Police Department . This man is suspected of depositing the stolen check into an ATM account. The investigation is ongoing, but it would be helpful to the investigation to identify this suspect.

Man wanted for stealing a $20K check in Irvine and depositing it at an ATM

Apple Inc., a company renowned for its history of revolutionary products like the Mac, iPod, iPhone, and iPad, has been relatively quiet on the innovation front in recent years. While products like the Apple Watch and AirPods have seen success, they haven’t been the life-changing devices that previous Apple innovations were. The company’s recent foray into virtual reality with the Vision Pro, though groundbreaking, is priced too high to become a mainstream success. Now, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple is setting its sights on an entirely new frontier: robotics.

Apple Is Getting into Robotics, Starting With a Home Table-Top Robot: Bloomberg

Instagram is testing a potentially major change to profile pages: making the squares in your profile grid vertical rectangles. Some users recently spotted the test, and there have been indications from at least 2022 that the company has toyed with a rectangular grid. “The vast majority of what is uploaded...

Instagram is testing vertical profile grids — and knows that might mess up layouts

Ubisoft has published the PC requirements for Star Wars Outlaws, which is releasing later this month on August 30th, in a post that also points to a new gameplay trailer for the Grand Theft Auto-style space adventure. The trailer compares the game’s looks when certain features, like DLSS, are turned...

Star Wars Outlaws gets a new trailer and PC hardware requirements

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The multiverse of Apple TV Plus’ Dark Matter is about to get bigger as the show heads into its second season. Apple announced on Friday that Dark Matter, Blake Crouch’s adaptation of his own 2016 novel about a physicist who gets sucked into multiple alternate realities, has been renewed for a new batch of episodes.

Dark Matter is coming back for a second season on Apple TV Plus

National Public Data (NPD), a company that resells collected personal data for background checks, has confirmed that a data breach leaked names, Social Security numbers, physical addresses, and more. As reported by Bleeping Computer, dark web forum posters have advertised and shared supposedly stolen data from a breach of the company’s systems for months without a statement or response from NPD.

National Public Data admits it leaked Social Security numbers in a massive data breach

The Chromecast with Google TV will continue to receive some much-needed love.

Google TV Streamer may be great, but your older Chromecast is still getting a huge free upgrade

In early July, Amazon made a surprise hardware product reveal with the 2024 edition of the Amazon Echo Spot smart speaker. The price for the speaker was set for $79.99, but the company immediately put in a deep discount that was available just for members of the Amazon Prime service for a limited time.

The new 2024 Amazon Echo Spot smart speaker gets its first non-Prime discount to $54.99

Google unveiled the Pixel 9 series, Pixel Watch 3 series, and Pixel Buds 2 Pro at the Made by Google event, with Gemini stealing the spotlight. Gemini is the default AI assistant on the Pixel 9 series, promising smarter, more intuitive AI interaction tailored to users' needs. Google plans to...

The Google Assistant era is over

As reported by Bleeping Computer, Google is testing a new experimental flag that can hide sensitive content while “screen sharing, screen recording and similar actions” in regular tabs — redacting the user's entire screen if things like credit card details or passwords are detected. There’s no mention...

Chrome for Android is making screen sharing more secure.

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Google Assistant gets Siri-ous on Android Auto.

After a recent update, Android Auto now displays a circle with Google Assistant’s...

Google Assistant gets Siri-ous on Android Auto.

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