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Google plans to resume the Wear OS 5 rollout for older Pixel Watches “later this year,” as previously reported by Droid Life. If the update bricked your watch, there are ways to get it working again. Google’s support site has a bunch of general troubleshooting steps for getting out of a frozen watch, as well … Read more
How do machine learning models do what they do? And are they really “thinking” or “reasoning” the way we understand those things? This is a philosophical question as much as a practical one, but a new paper making the rounds Friday suggests that the answer is, at least for now, a pretty clear “no.” A … Read more
Picking the best Meta Quest games has become harder than ever! VR devs target the Meta Quest store first because it has the most users, so aside from a few rare PC VR or PSVR 2 exclusives, all of the best VR games period are available for the Quest 3, 3S, and 2. Plus, Meta … Read more
Ryan Haines / Android Authority Like any well-adjusted technology enthusiast, you’re probably a big fan of USB-C: reversible, elegant, ubiquitous. Its adoption has been so lauded that’s its little wonder we can’t help but turn our faces in disgust whenever we’re forced to deal with legacy micro-USB (and do not even get us started on … Read more
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR : For the first time, internal TikTok communications have been made public that show a company unconcerned with the harms the app poses for American teenagers. This is despite its own research validating many child safety concerns. The confidential material was part of a more than two-year … Read more
On Thursday, AMD announced its new MI325X AI accelerator chip, which is set to roll out to data center customers in the fourth quarter of this year. At an event hosted in San Francisco, the company claimed the new chip offers “industry-leading” performance compared to Nvidia’s current H200 GPUs, which are widely used in data … Read more
Summaries and smart reply options aren’t the flashiest of Apple Intelligence features, but these are capabilities that Apple is introducing in iOS 18.1 that have the potential to be useful for most people’s day-to-day device usage. Summaries Summaries are available across the operating system and can be used in different ways for apps, notifications, emails, … Read more
On the hunt for a powerful, AI-driven laptop? The just might be your next new tech obsession—and it’s currently $500 off at Best Buy. Typically priced at $1,350, you can snag this high-performance beauty in a striking Sapphire Blue finish for just $850. But don’t wait; this is a flash sale you don’t want to … Read more
When you make a TikTok, you can add effects, and these can do anything from giving you flawless skin to predicting what you’ll look like at 70. My new favorite obsession is playing with the TikTok effects that double as games. TikTok Games Are Simple but Weirdly Engaging TikTok has a bunch of games hidden … Read more
This article is part of our exclusive career advice series in partnership with the IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society. Poor communication causes problems, delays, and failures in teams and organizations. As engineers who want to communicate what we are working on and why it matters, we need to work on getting better at it. … Read more