General Motors says it aims to help NASA bring electric and autonomous vehicles to the moon this decade to allow Artemis astronauts to zip around the lunar surface. The legacy car company announced Wednesday that it’s teaming up with longtime NASA contractor Lockheed Martin to develop new moon buggies. “These next-generation rovers will dramatically extend […]
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Spy Alarm turns your Switch into an invisible tripwire
Sabec, the studio that turned Nintendo Switch into a scientific calculator, is back at it with another pretty ridiculous app for the console. Spy Alarm creates an invisible beam using the infrared sensor on the right Joy-Con. When someone or something triggers the tripwire, an alarm will sound on your Switch and the app will […]
Tidal now also offers offline listening on the Apple Watch
Tidal has released its first Apple Watch app, giving you the chance to either play offline music or stream without needing your iPhone nearby. You’ll need to link your Tidal account through a web browser, but after that you can blast your running playlist from your wrist at any time. Tidal was available on Samsung […]
Huawei to launch first mobile devices powered by HarmonyOS 2.0 on June 2
Earlier this year, we learned that Huawei’s homegrown HarmonyOS 2.0 amounted to little more than a poorly-disguised Android 10 clone, despite the company’s insistence that it was a new and radically different operating system that would be able to fit a variety of computing scenarios. For the past years, the Chinese company has been navigating […]
Microsoft wants Teams to be your go-to for collaborative apps
Microsoft is making a bigger push to make Teams a platform for collaborative apps. After launching apps for Team Meetings last Fall, Microsoft is now giving developers more flexibility. For one, their apps will no longer have to be confined into sidebars, as Teams is now testing testing main stage collaboration. That could, for example, […]
Google Photos will help you delete blurry pictures
As you may know that Google is ending its free unlimited storage service of Google Photos from June 01, 2021. For those who are unaware, Google offers 15GB of free storage with each Google account. And as of now, if you upload images, videos in the original quality, it counts in your 15GB free plan […]
Apple releases iOS 14.6 and iPadOS 14.6 to the public
Apple has released iOS 14.6 and iPadOS 14.6 with paid podcast subscriptions, and Apple Card Family. iOS 14.6 and iPadOS 14.6 are media focused releases with changes to Apple Podcasts and Apple Music being the headlining features. Apple has already begun the iOS 14.7 beta cycle signaling that the company still isn’t done with updates […]
Russia orders Google to delete ‘illegal’ content or face slowdowns
Google faces an ultimatum in Russia. Per Reuters, the country’s Roskomnadzor internet commission gave the company 24 hours to delete more than 26,000 instances of what it’s classifying as illegal content. The watchdog, Roskomnadzor, said it had sent more than 26,000 calls to Google to remove illegal information, including videos containing information on drugs or […]
Qualcomm refreshed its Snapdragon 7c chip for PCs and Chromebooks
Qualcomm has announced a second-generation Snapdragon 7c Arm-powered processor that’s designed to be used inside entry-level Windows PCs and Chromebooks. The biggest change to the Snapdragon 7c Gen 2 (the official name) appears to be a clock speed bump, which Anandtech reports is a jump from 2.4GHz to 2.55GHz. And like the original Snapdragon 7c, […]
Instagram now shows creators how well their live videos and Reels are doing
Instagram started to roll out new insight data for live videos and Reels on the platform. With this feature, creators will be able to better understand their performances online. With the new insights data in place, users will be able to see how many plays, likes, comments, saves and shares their short-form Reel videos get […]
Samsung unveils a 43-inch version of its versatile Smart Monitor
Samsung has expanded its all-in-one Smart Monitor range with two new models, the company announced. On top of the 27- and 32-inch models launched late last year, it’s now offering the 43-inch 4K M7 and 24-inch 1080p M5, filling in the top and bottom of the range. As before, the new models are designed for […]
Ransomware gang behind Ireland attack also hit US health and emergency networks
The same hackers that took down the Irish health system last week also hit at least 16 U.S. medical and first responder networks in the past year, according to a Federal Bureau of Investigation alert made public Thursday by the American Hospital Association. As first spotted by the security news site Bleeping Computer, the FBI […]
Glastonbury Festival’s first livestreamed event ran into major snags
The Glastonbury Festival’s first livestreamed event didn’t exactly go according to plan. The BBC reports that organizer Emily Eavis has apologized after thousands of ticket holders faced technical trouble that either locked them out from the start of the May 22nd virtual performance or kicked them out later on. The festival team made a free […]
Virgin Galactic completes rocket-powered test flight after months of delays
Virgin Galactic’s private spaceflight program is back on track. As promised, the company completed a rocket-powered test flight on May 22nd that saw VSS Unity, its two pilots and NASA experiments reach space. It’s the first human spaceflight out of Virgin’s New Mexico-based Spaceport America. The flight was originally slated for December 2020, but failed […]
Spotify users can finally download music on Apple Watch
Spotify has updated its Apple Watch app with the ability to download songs to your wrist, giving you true offline playback without needing your iPhone nearby. You can go for a run while keeping a favorite playlist on hand. You can download songs or podcasts by finding them on the Apple Watch, tapping the three-dots […]