Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR SpaceX will start beta testing its Direct-to-Cell service on January 27, 2025. The test is expected to run until July 26, 2025. Sign-ups to join the beta started last month. It’s been almost three years since SpaceX and T-Mobile announced a partnership that would bring satellite coverage to regular … Read more
Sony will cease production of recordable Blu-ray discs at its last factory in February, ending an 18-year manufacturing run amid declining demand for physical media. The Japanese electronics giant will also halt production of MiniDiscs and MiniDV cassettes. The company had already stopped making consumer recordable Blu-ray and optical disks in mid-2024, maintaining production only … Read more
Making quantum computers is really very difficult. The quantum bits, or qubits, are made up of superconducting circuits operating at thousands of a Kelvin above absolute zero, or individual atoms, or photons. Aside from the challenges of engineering at those extremes, there is the whole matter of the rest of the universe having a very … Read more
When threat actors use backdoor malware to gain access to a network, they want to make sure all their hard work can’t be leveraged by competing groups or detected by defenders. One countermeasure is to equip the backdoor with a passive agent that remains dormant until it receives what’s known in the business as a … Read more
Sony could be close to launching the successor model to its popular WH-1000XM5 over-ear noise-canceling headphones, if a new FCC filing is anything to go by. The company’s WH-1000XM5 cans, which we compared to Apple’s AirPods Max back in May 2022, are considered by many to offer some of the best noise-canceling in the business, … Read more
After you’ve unwrapped and set up your new Galaxy S25, you may notice an app previously always installed on Samsung phones has disappeared. Samsung has stopped pre-installing its own Samsung Messages app, and handed cellular messaging duties solely over to Google. On the Galaxy S25, Google Messages is the only pre-installed, and therefore default, messaging … Read more
Summary With an MSRP of $70, PearlClip Pro wireless open-ear earbuds are a bit more affordable (and comfortable) than similar designs. The earbuds look sleek, sound good, and have excellent battery life. Tap controls can be inconsistent, the app and sound modes don’t improve much, and the microphone quality isn’t great. SoundPeats PearlClip Pro open-ear … Read more
In the race to develop autonomous vehicle technology, some companies are steering away from robotaxis to explore a different avenue: driverless buses. With an anticipated shortage of qualified bus drivers looming and concerns growing about the relative inefficiency of robotaxis, companies are opting to equip city buses with advanced levels of autonomy. This a far … Read more
The mobile network Three say a major outage which affected its services on Thursday is fixed, but have warned of further problems due to Storm Éowyn. Customers told the BBC they couldn’t make 999 calls during the interruption. The firm has apologised after more than ten thousand people told outage tracker Downdetector they were unable … Read more
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More As of a few days ago, only the nerdiest of nerds (I say this as one) had ever heard of DeepSeek, a Chinese A.I. subsidiary of the equally evocatively named High-Flyer Capital Management, a quantitative analysis … Read more