Naturally, we’re excited to hear that a new version is on the way! It’s called the G4, but rather than replacing the G3, GoCycle says the G4 and G4i will come in to replace the fast-folding GX and premium folder the GXi. You can read SHIFT’s review of the GX here. GoCycle hasn’t yet released full details and specifications, but it has given us a playful little tease of what’s to come....
The search giant said it’s testing a feature to indicate in all of its apps that your account might be at risk. This involves a newly designed alert that animates the area around your profile picture to show that there’s a security incident that you need to address. [Read: Gmail has a colorful new logo, but I’m going to miss the old envelope] Google said that this alert is spoof-proof, so unlike emails, you don’t need to worry or check if it’s sent by a hacker trying to gain access to your account....
The feature — dubbed Fast Share — is set to replace the NFC-based Android Beam sharing method Google introduced with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich in 2011. Google has confirmed its plans to deprecate the API in the final version of Android Q scheduled for release later this year. The alternative, instead, will leverage the Nearby service in Google Play Services to allow you share to devices around you without an internet connection....
It’s not always perfect, however. While the app might help me get near the place, I often have a hard time locating it, and I end up roaming around like a headless chicken. Thankfully, Google is rolling out a new feature for the app that speaks the name and address of the place in the local language. To trigger this, open the information card of the place, and tap on the speaker icon as shown below....
Last month, Google posted a video that confirmed the phone will have face unlock capabilities along with the capability to control it with hand gestures, thanks to Soli radar chip. However, the new leak spills the beans on all the other aspects of the phone. Here are the leaked specs from 9to5Google’s ‘reliable source’ at a glance: Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Screen: 5.7-inch full HD+/6.3-inch QuadHD+; both displays have a 90Hz refresh rate for smoother animations Camera: 12-megapixel main sensor + 16-megapixel telephoto sensor Internal storage: 64GB and 128GB options on both models Battery: 2,800mAh/3,700mAh...
In Google’s early years, users would type in a query and get back a page of 10 “blue links” that led to different websites. “We want to get you out of Google and to the right place as fast as possible,” co-founder Larry Page said in 2004. Today, Google often considers that “right place” to be Google, an investigation by The Markup has found. We examined more than 15,000 recent popular queries and found that Google devoted 41 percent of the first page of search results on mobile devices to its own properties and what it calls “direct answers,” which are populated with information copied from other sources, sometimes without their knowledge or consent....
In the last quarter of 2019, Google amassed close to 850 million downloads compared to Facebook’s nearly 800 million, according to data from app intelligence monitor Sensor Tower. Despite this minor triumph, Google still trails behind Facebook when it comes to overall downloads for the year. While the Big G raked in nearly 2.3 billion downloads, the Zuckerberg empire netted almost 3 billion downloads over the past 12 months. Considering that Facebook owns four out of the top five most downloaded apps worldwide (including WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger), that doesn’t come as a huge surprise....
“Recently, we have been notified by our customers and community members about funds on their XRP Ledger wallets being stolen and immediately started monitoring network activity, and conducted an extensive internal investigation,” wrote GateHub chief Enej Pungercar. Unfortunately, the company has yet to identify what caused the issue. GateHub say it’s in the process of reviewing the suspicious activity, but no official conclusions have been posted at the time of writing....
Less than 100,000 people had their information compromised by the attack, according to a law enforcement official. The database, which comprised of photos of people’s faces and license plates, had been transferred to the subcontractor’s network without the federal agency’s authorization or knowledge, a CBP spokesperson told The Register. However, the stolen photo data didn’t include any identifying information, and no passport or other travel document photos were compromised. The breach first came to light on May 31....
Although the British Army scornfully refused offers from women willing to travel overseas, that failed to stop many brave volunteers from getting involved. Although now forgotten, Gleichen was Britain’s war-time Marie Curie – the Polish scientist who invented mobile X-ray units that she took to the French front. While Curie was saving French lives, this English landscape artist was rescuing Italian soldiers. Medical radiography was still in its infancy. The German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen had discovered X-rays in 1895, and the following year created the first X-ray photograph, memorably revealing the bones of his wife’s hand....
Here are the best features coming to your phones with this software upgrade: A new design language called “Material You” to create your own combination of colors and shapes across the operating system. The changes you make will reflect how fonts, widgets, and icons will show up across the phone. This feature will appear in Google Pixel first this year, and to the web, Chrome OS, and wearables. This will change the color palette of your interface based on the wallpaper you apply to your Pixel....
As a public service, I’ve compiled a handful of games that may help tide you over for these next eight months. Keep in mind that based on what we’ve seen so far, and the fact that Keenu Reeves is in the game, there’s simply no satisfaction to be had in video games that came prior to Cyberpunk 2077. Unless, of course, you haven’t played through CD Projekt Red’s previous masterpiece, The Witcher 3, in the last few months....
Despite its capability, innovation in hydropower technology has been relatively slow in the last century, and the potential of hydropower in multiple suitable regions remains untapped. Fortunately for the planet, Julian Hunt, researcher at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), and an international team of scientists have developed a technology that can harness hydropower from steep mountain regions, where the potential for generating electricity from rivers is very high....
Tesla stock rose more than 10% after the company teased the re-opening of its Fremont, California car plant as early as this Wednesday this week. [Read: Elon Musk bought $45M in Tesla stock since ‘that weed joke’ — now it’s worth double] Those hopes were later dashed by a CNBC report that claimed Tesla had canceled plans to bring some employees back to work, citing an internal memo shared with the outlet....
Pundits and experts back in January and February very carefully explained how AI solutions such as contact tracing, predictive modeling, and chemical discovery would lead to a truncated pandemic. Didn’t most of us figure we’d be back to business as usual by mid to late June? But June turned to July and now we’re seeing record case numbers on a daily basis. August looks to be brutal. Despite playing home to nearly all of the world’s largest technology companies, the US has become the epicenter of the outbreak....
My colleagues and I are interested in how this kind of true smart home technology could help people with dementia. We hope it could learn to recognize the different domestic activities a dementia sufferer carries out throughout the day and help them with each one. This could even lead up to the introduction of household robots to automatically assist with chores. The growing number of people with dementia is encouraging care providers to look to technology as a way of supporting human carers and improving patients’ quality of life....
An exoplanet, or extrasolar planet, is a planet orbiting a star beyond our solar system. For thousands of years across many civilizations, humans have wondered whether worlds existed beyond the Earth and the solar system. It is humbling to realize that this question was only answered a mere 24 years ago. In 1995, Mayor and Queloz discovered a giant exoplanet orbiting a sun-like star, 51 Pegasi. The planet, known as 51 Peg b, was similar in mass to Jupiter but 100 times closer to its host star, giving it a temperature of over 1,000℃....
A skilled ring of international fraudsters has been submitting false unemployment claims for individuals that still have steady work. The attackers use previously acquired Personally Identifiable Information (PII) such as social security numbers, addresses, names, phone numbers, and banking account information to trick public officials into accepting the claims. Payouts to these employed people are then redirected to money laundering accomplices who pass the money around to veil the illicit nature of the cash before depositing it into their own accounts....
So while couples face the terrifying prospect of being trapped together for weeks, singles either embrace solitude or search for digital love. I try the latter. My online romance begins on Hinge, “the dating app designed to be deleted.” The company has kept its slogan since non-essential human contact became a crime. It still wants you to meet off-app but now only online. I broke up with my girlfriend just before the outbreak, and still can’t decide whether to regret or celebrate the timing....
Qubits are the basic units of information used in quantum computing. Typically, when scientists create them they go through a complex process involving lasers or shearing single photons off of light using complex, difficult-to-work-with reactants that produce unwanted side-effects. These time consuming methods often require trial-and-error and seldom produce perfect results. The method created by the MIT/Rice team, however, is quick, easy, and it always produces perfect single-photon generators. It involves the creation of fluorescent quantum defects in carbon nanotubes by shining UV light at the chemical compound NaCIO (common househould bleach)....
