Wear OS Gets Earthquake Alerts: Early Warnings Now on Your Wrist

Google is expanding one of Android’s most important safety features to smartwatches (like Pixel Watch and others): earthquake alerts. Originally launched for Android phones in 2020, this system uses the motion sensors of millions of devices to detect early seismic activity and warn users seconds before shaking starts. Now, these crucial alerts will come directly […]

Wear OS Gets Earthquake Alerts: Early Warnings Now on Your Wrist Read More »

Galaxy A34’s One UI 7 Update Boosts Gaming with Vulkan Support

For a while now, Samsung has been offering great software support to its devices. This doesn’t just include flagship models but also its more affordable phones. Recently, the company began rolling out One UI 7 to the Galaxy A34, bringing welcome improvements in graphics performance thanks to Vulkan support. There’s also GPUWatch, Samsung’s GPU monitoring

Galaxy A34’s One UI 7 Update Boosts Gaming with Vulkan Support Read More »

Google’s Pixel Camera Embraces Material 3 Expressive: First Look

Google recently announced Material 3 Expressive as the updated design guidelines for Android. The company already introduced the first “Expressive” guidelines for Android 16 and began adapting its own apps to the new UI. Now, leaked images offer a first look at the Material 3 Expressive redesign of the Google Pixel Camera app. The Mountain

Google’s Pixel Camera Embraces Material 3 Expressive: First Look Read More »

The Galaxy Z Fold 7’s camera bump looks big enough to have its own zip code

Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 7 is scheduled to be unveiled in July, and while the design has leaked before, a newly leaked image showcases just how big the phone’s camera bump might be. The camera bump on just about every single phone is always a big point of contention for users. Some think the camera

The Galaxy Z Fold 7’s camera bump looks big enough to have its own zip code Read More »

Your Google Drive PDFs are getting actionable AI brainpower

Google has been integrating Gemini into several different areas of Android and the desktop experience since it was first rolled out, such as the recently launched Scheduled Actions, and now that includes additional areas of Google Drive with a newly added feature for PDF actions. Specifically, Drive now supports what Google is calling PDF Summary

Your Google Drive PDFs are getting actionable AI brainpower Read More »

Bills & Corporate Greed: The Struggles of Building an AI Content Economy

The transition is well underway; the entire digital news industry is undergoing a massive metamorphosis thanks to generative AI. In a perfect world, the transition would be graceful, with governments and companies developing an AI content economy that would suit all involved. That would be the ideal scenario. AI companies would access content from consenting

Bills & Corporate Greed: The Struggles of Building an AI Content Economy Read More »

Why Your AI Chats Will Probably Never Be Private Again

For millions of us, interacting with AI chatbots has become a daily routine. We ask questions, brainstorm ideas, draft emails, and sometimes, perhaps unknowingly, share sensitive information. There’s an unspoken understanding that when we delete a chat, it’s gone for good. But a recent starting court order involving OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has inadvertently

Why Your AI Chats Will Probably Never Be Private Again Read More »

The AI Apocalypse Might Not Come From the Tech, But From Congress

America is facing a crisis in AI regulation. AI didn’t quietly slip into our lives—it burst through the door. When OpenAI’s ChatGPT went public, it opened the floodgates. Suddenly, dozens of powerful AI tools were available to anyone with an internet connection. You can use them to write, code, generate art, or spin up fake

The AI Apocalypse Might Not Come From the Tech, But From Congress Read More »