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In the volatile universe of Industry, all debts must be paid. No one understands that better than Rishi (Sagar Radia), whose gambling addiction finally caught up with him in Sunday night’s season three finale, “Infinite Largesse,” (Spoiler alert: The following includes spoilers for Industry’s third season finale.) Rishi, for the uninitiated, spent much of the … Read more

A massive Verizon outage has caused widespread, nationwide connectivity issues for customers across the U.S. Based on Google Trends, there’s been an uptick of people searching for, “Why is my phone in SOS?” This captures the experience many Verizon users are reporting; many have claimed that their phones are now limited to SOS service. Verizon … Read more

Google’s first leak of the fall is here, with new renders of its upcoming Pixel 9A posted online for the world to see. As with the Pixel 8A leak earlier this year, Android Headlines has yet again acquired images of Google’s next budget A-series release, this time by way of OnLeaks, which was responsible for … Read more

A Waymo robotaxi got stuck making a U-turn in front of Vice President Kamala Harris’ motorcade Friday evening in San Francisco.  ABC 7 reported that a San Francisco police officer had to manually drive the vehicle out of the way.  Waymo has not yet responded to TechCrunch’s questions, including what went wrong on the backend … Read more

How long is the Google Pixel Buds Pro 2 battery life? Best answer: The Google Pixel Buds Pro 2 have up to 12 hours of listening time with ANC off and eight hours with it on. You also get up to 48 hours of total listening time using the charging case with ANC off and … Read more

TL;DR Renders of the upcoming Pixel 9a have emerged. The renders reveal that Google could ditch the camera bar. The Pixel 9a is expected to launch with Android 15. Just it has done in years prior, it’s expected Google will complete the Pixel 9 series with an A series phone. While not much is known … Read more

AmiMoJo writes: The UK is about to stop producing any electricity from burning coal — ending its 142-year reliance on the fossil fuel. The country’s last coal power station, at Ratcliffe-on-Soar, finishes operations on Monday after running since 1967. This marks a major milestone in the country’s ambitions to reduce its contribution to climate change. … Read more

Platform engineering is the latest buzzword in IT operations. And like all other buzzwords, it’s in danger of becoming meaningless—in danger of meaning whatever some company with a “platform engineering” product wants to sell. We’ve seen that happen to too many useful concepts: Edge computing meant everything from caches at a cloud provider’s data center … Read more

Enlarge / An updated onboarding screen for Recall, with clearly visible buttons for opting in or out; Microsoft says Recall will be opt-in by default and can even be removed from PCs entirely. Microsoft Microsoft is having another whack at its controversial Recall feature for Copilot+ Windows PCs, after the original version crashed and burned … Read more

Apple’s iOS 18 update brings powerful new search functions to the Photos app, allowing you to find specific images with unprecedented precision. Here’s how to make the most of its new capabilities. In iOS 18, the key to effective searching in Photos is using natural language. Instead of simple keywords, try describing the photo you’re … Read more