I tried switching to Gmail for Android and noped out immediately

I tried switching to Gmail for Android and noped out immediately

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority The Gmail app comes pre-installed on the best Android phones you can buy. Gmail is also used by over 1.8 billion people — roughly 20% of the world’s population. Given the number of people who use the service, its pre-installation state on Android, all the fancy AI features in Gmail, … Read more

C Drops, Java (and Rust) Climb in Popularity – as Coders Seek Easy, Secure Languages

C Drops, Java (and Rust) Climb in Popularity – as Coders Seek Easy, Secure Languages

Last month C dropped from 3rd to 4th in TIOBE’s ranking of programming language popularity (which tries to calculate each language’s share of search engine results). Java moved up into the #3 position in September, reports TechRepublic, which notes that by comparison October “saw relatively little change” — though percentages of search results increased slightly. … Read more

Apple Announced the HomePod Mini Four Years Ago Today

Apple Announced the HomePod Mini Four Years Ago Today

Apple announced the HomePod mini smart speaker four years ago today at its “Hi, Speed” special event. The low-cost smart speaker was announced alongside the iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 12, ‌iPhone‌ 12 Pro, and iPhone 12 Pro Max in October 2020. The ‌HomePod mini‌ is Apple’s first compact smart speaker, offering high-quality audio, Siri voice … Read more

Volkswagen bets on 8 new affordable EVs by 2027

Volkswagen bets on 8 new affordable EVs by 2027

Back in the early 1970s, when soaring oil prices stifled consumer demand for gas-powered vehicles, Volkswagen took a bet on a battery system that would power its first-ever electric concept vehicle, the Elektro Bus. Now that the German auto maker is facing a huge slump in sales in Europe and China, it’s again … Read more

Should You Upgrade Your Phone Just for AI?

Should You Upgrade Your Phone Just for AI?

AI is everywhere and there is seemingly no getting away from it – especially when it comes to our phones. Should you be interested in this new technology and its proliferation, do you actually need to upgrade your device to take advantage? And should you actually care? That’s what we discuss in today’s video. Source … Read more

From Wimbledon to VAR, is tech making sport less dramatic?

From Wimbledon to VAR, is tech making sport less dramatic?

Getty Images Line judges will no longer feature at Wimbledon from next year “The drama of a player shouting and making a challenge, and the crowd watching the screen and waiting for Hawk-Eye to make a decision, all of that drama is now lost.” David Bayliss is describing a scene he saw play out many … Read more

Can AI really compete with human data scientists? OpenAI’s new benchmark puts it to the test

Can AI really compete with human data scientists? OpenAI’s new benchmark puts it to the test

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More OpenAI has introduced a new tool to measure artificial intelligence capabilities in machine learning engineering. The benchmark, called MLE-bench, challenges AI systems with 75 real-world data science competitions from Kaggle, a popular platform for machine learning … Read more

The 65+ best Walmart deals you can shop now: Live updates

The 65+ best Walmart deals you can shop now: Live updates

ZDNET Summer is over, and we have officially entered the holiday shopping season with some of the biggest deal events of the year. Walmart’s holiday shopping event is in full-wing and the best part is that Walmart allows you to shop for deals without a pricey membership. All you have to do is visit the … Read more

TikTok is reportedly aware of its bad effects on teen users

TikTok is reportedly aware of its bad effects on teen users

TikTok’s executives and employees were well aware that its features foster compulsive use of the app, as well as of its corresponding negative mental health effects, according to NPR. The broadcasting organization reviewed the unredacted documents from the lawsuit filed by the Kentucky Attorney General’s Office as published by the Kentucky Public Radio. More than … Read more

The Foolproof Way to Fold a Fitted Sheet (With Pictures)

The Foolproof Way to Fold a Fitted Sheet (With Pictures)

CNET If you’ve ever tried folding a fitted sheet before, you might have had a nightmare experience that went a little something like this: violently folding and refolding the sheet, sighing in frustration, cursing and eventually balling it up and throwing it in a heap in some tragic corner of your closet. You don’t have … Read more