While I’ve always been a chicken when it comes to horror, I devoured Apple TV’s new horror comedy series Widow’s Bay. The humor in the show is incredible. It reminds me why I love Shaun of the Dead so much: it’s simultaneously hilarious and terrifying, which makes for exactly the kind of combination I need…
Having written this column since mid-2021, I sometimes forget what I’ve covered. In some ways, I haven’t written anything new in the world of book censorship because the tactics, goals, and outcomes have not changed much at all over the course of this significant era of censorship, even if the trends in how those means…
Macworld Apple has finally brought a touch interface to the Mac, 43 years after the first commercial PC with a touchscreen, the HP 150. It’s a momentous event in Apple history, one that longtime Mac users never thought would come. The new laptop is going to be mainly referred to as the “touchscreen MacBook Pro,”…
Under antitrust pressure in yet another country, Apple has shaved a little off the top of its customary 30% commission in Taiwan’s App Store. Starting October 31, the commission rate for standard Apple In-App Purchase and paid app transactions will be 26% on the Taiwan storefront. https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=w9mxlhek Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our…
What you need to know Google is rolling out a late October patch for Gemini for Home and its smart home app, upgrading its capabilities and introducing major fixes. The patch notes state Gemini’s “Sorry, I didn’t understand” response has been fixed, as users would receive this when nothing was explicitly said. Fixes for “zero-volume”…
Credit: Motorola Last month, Motorola announced that the Signature 27 was on its way. Unlike its predecessor, the new ultra-high-end model will be available globally, including in the US. The Signature series represents Motorola’s best, with cutting-edge specs like a Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme SoC and a high-end cooling system. Another major difference is its…
TL;DR A newly disclosed Android vulnerability allows malicious text messages to silently crash a phone’s calling service, potentially interrupting emergency calls. Repeated messages can trigger persistent crashes and reboot loops, making affected devices hard to recover without technical help. Google developed a fix months before the public disclosure, but questions remain about when users will…
TL;DR Google has added a new “Textbooks” feature to Gemini Notebook. It lets users add textbooks from OpenStax, Open Textbook Library, and S. Chand Publishing as sources. The feature is rolling out to users in the US and India. Google is making Gemini Notebook (previously called NotebookLM) even more useful for people looking to use…
Back in April, Google’s Gemini gained the ability to generate files for you, from Docs and Sheets to PDFs and Markdown. Until now, though, if you wanted to tweak what it came up with, you had to download or export the file first. Today, Google is fixing that by letting you preview and edit documents,…
TL;DR A teardown of the Galaxy Fit 4’s companion app has revealed nearly all of its features. The budget tracker could offer a similar set of health tracking features as the Galaxy Fit 3. It could come with a slightly taller display, use the same tile-based UI, and support 12 tiles. Samsung is expected to…