Apple is increasingly focusing on building its own devices and expanding its ecosystem by taking steps towards a more native experience for users and relying less on third-party accessories. While the Cupertino-based tech giant's HomePod and AppleTV have left quite the mark in the smart home category, it generally relies more on outsourcing cameras and other hardware for smart homes. Now, a new report suggests that the company intends to create a fully integrated experience by developing its own smart home accessories. Gurman hints about Apple working on making smart home products like security cameras for a more integrated experience […]
We’re continuing our Best of Black Friday posts today with a look at the best current deals on power stations and their respective bundle options. Folks across the country and beyond have been steadily investing more and more in the industry for a vari...
Blizzard has announced that two decades after its release, World of Warcraft is finally going to let players build a home and live in it. The feature has long been requested by WoW players and now it’s finally coming in the game’s next expansion.Read m...
Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds will receive the Godspawn update, adding a new 50-player boss battle, a new 10-player raid, and a legendary spear. Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds is getting the first major update "Godspawn" on November 19th, expanding the story with new story chapters The MMORPG Guild Wars 2 by ArenaNet is receiving its first major update for the Janthir Wilds expansion soon. It's the first of three major updates, and it'll land on November 19. The update will add new content to the game for the players. The Janthir Wilds expansion DLC was released in August this year, […]
Google Maps is one of the quintessential Google apps that almost all of us actively use. I know I do every time I have to head out somewhere, and it is one of the best apps in general. The app normally gets updated and there are several features added to make the user experience a lot better. Now, some lines of code discovered within the app suggest that Google could be bringing a chatbot to the app. Google Maps' chatbot could be a very useful feature or something that no one uses Google Maps v11.105 beta includes strings of code […]
Google is gunning for iMessage as the advertising giant wishes Apple’s service to fall under the umbrella of the ‘core platform service.’ To help bring its plan to fruition, the company has partnered with several European telecom companies to push the European Commission to force Apple to make iMessage a cross-platform messaging service with other apps such as Google Messages and more. Several telecom companies and Google have sent a letter to the European Union stating that iMessage meets the new Digital Markets Act’s conditions A paywalled report from Financial Times that was spotted by Android Authority states that in […]
We probably agree that “Modern Warfare III” is a bad name for a brand-new Call of Duty game. It doesn’t help that 2011 first-person shooter Modern Warfare 3 is, to this day, a fan-favorite title in the neverending war series, while series reboot Modern...
YouTube is doing something different in the form of testing new generative AI features that should make the platform a lot more intuitive. So far, my only idea about using the platform is to look up obscure clips from old movies or perhaps check out some new music videos, but Google thinks there is more to the platform than just these things, and having generative AI features is always a good thing. YouTube's new generative AI features should improve the user experience Google has announced that it is currently testing new generative AI experiments for YouTube. The new features include […]
Epic and Google are finally seeing each other in court this week, and things have actually taken a rather interesting turn. For starters, Gary Bornstein, who is representing Epic Games in this case, claims that the search engine giant has destroyed evidence, which is a bold claim, to say the least. Google's fight with Epic Games continues as more accusations are thrown at the search engine giant Bornstein made the following statement, “All we know is whatever is in the destroyed chats, as bad as the documents are, is worse. Or at least it was worse, before they were destroyed." […]
On Monday, during the first day of the Epic v. Google legal showdown over app store fees, both companies gave their opening statements and began poking at each other’s witnesses. And during the day, Epic admitted that its digital PC game store still is...
The Pixel phones are known for delivering some of the best camera performance on Android smartphones. The pictures from these phones look real, with true-to-life colors and excellent dynamic range. Now, we have confirmation that the Pixel 8 Pro uses Samsung's latest ISOELL GNK sensor. The Pixel 8 Pro has an excellent Samsung camera sensor that might appear in other non-Google phones too The new ISOCELL camera was unveiled a few days ago and promises to deliver better overall performance as compared ot the predecessors. Now, the report confirms that the Pixel 8 Pro is using this sensor, which explains […]
The COVID-19 pandemic took the world by storm a couple of years ago, and even though it feels like a different lifetime., as a two-time COVID survivor, I can tell that the suffering was at its peak. During the pandemic, we also saw companies coming tog...
Google Maps is one of the quintessential Google apps that almost all of us actively use. I know I do every time I have to head out somewhere, and it is one of the best apps in general. The app normally gets updated and there are several features added to make the user experience a lot better. Now, some lines of code discovered within the app suggest that Google could be bringing a chatbot to the app. Google Maps' chatbot could be a very useful feature or something that no one uses Google Maps v11.105 beta includes strings of code […]
Google is gunning for iMessage as the advertising giant wishes Apple’s service to fall under the umbrella of the ‘core platform service.’ To help bring its plan to fruition, the company has partnered with several European telecom companies to push the European Commission to force Apple to make iMessage a cross-platform messaging service with other apps such as Google Messages and more. Several telecom companies and Google have sent a letter to the European Union stating that iMessage meets the new Digital Markets Act’s conditions A paywalled report from Financial Times that was spotted by Android Authority states that in […]
We probably agree that “Modern Warfare III” is a bad name for a brand-new Call of Duty game. It doesn’t help that 2011 first-person shooter Modern Warfare 3 is, to this day, a fan-favorite title in the neverending war series, while series reboot Modern...
YouTube is doing something different in the form of testing new generative AI features that should make the platform a lot more intuitive. So far, my only idea about using the platform is to look up obscure clips from old movies or perhaps check out some new music videos, but Google thinks there is more to the platform than just these things, and having generative AI features is always a good thing. YouTube's new generative AI features should improve the user experience Google has announced that it is currently testing new generative AI experiments for YouTube. The new features include […]
Epic and Google are finally seeing each other in court this week, and things have actually taken a rather interesting turn. For starters, Gary Bornstein, who is representing Epic Games in this case, claims that the search engine giant has destroyed evidence, which is a bold claim, to say the least. Google's fight with Epic Games continues as more accusations are thrown at the search engine giant Bornstein made the following statement, “All we know is whatever is in the destroyed chats, as bad as the documents are, is worse. Or at least it was worse, before they were destroyed." […]
On Monday, during the first day of the Epic v. Google legal showdown over app store fees, both companies gave their opening statements and began poking at each other’s witnesses. And during the day, Epic admitted that its digital PC game store still is...
The Pixel phones are known for delivering some of the best camera performance on Android smartphones. The pictures from these phones look real, with true-to-life colors and excellent dynamic range. Now, we have confirmation that the Pixel 8 Pro uses Samsung's latest ISOELL GNK sensor. The Pixel 8 Pro has an excellent Samsung camera sensor that might appear in other non-Google phones too The new ISOCELL camera was unveiled a few days ago and promises to deliver better overall performance as compared ot the predecessors. Now, the report confirms that the Pixel 8 Pro is using this sensor, which explains […]
The COVID-19 pandemic took the world by storm a couple of years ago, and even though it feels like a different lifetime., as a two-time COVID survivor, I can tell that the suffering was at its peak. During the pandemic, we also saw companies coming tog...