Places and Things

Instead of attacking Apple, Samsung should notice the log in its own eye It's important what you're photographing with, but it's far more important what you're photographing. Yes, people, I'm talking about things like subject, composition, concept, lighting, colors, tone, emotion and all the rest. Continue Reading . . . https://www.phonearena.com/news/samsung-apple-scandal_id160125

Dear Roku, you ruined my TV Roku has made my TV unusable. On June 6th, my TCL TV’s Roku OS was updated to version 13.0.0. Ever since, on everything I watch, there is motion smoothing — a TV and film purists’ deepest nightmare. There is no way to turn it off. Continue Reading . . . https://www.theverge.com/24188282/roku-tv-update-motion-smoothing-turn-off

Samsung Issues Critical Update For Millions Of Galaxy Users Samsung has again beaten Pixel to the punch when it comes to issuing details of this month’s security release. But be warned, this update is actually bad news for your Galaxy device—the alarming issue is what’s missing, not what’s been fixed. Continue Reading . . . https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2024/07/02/samsung-s24-ultra-s23-free-update-warning-for-galaxy-android-users/

Google’s greenhouse gas emissions climbed nearly 50 percent in five years due to AI Google’s greenhouse gas emissions spiked by nearly 50 percent in the last five years thanks to energy-guzzling data centers required to power artificial intelligence, according to the company’s 2024 Environmental Report Continue Reading . . . https://www.engadget.com/googles-greenhouse-gas-emissions-climbed-nearly-50-percent-in-five-years-due-to-ai-002646115.html

Google’s carbon footprint balloons in its Gemini AI era Google’s greenhouse gas emissions have ballooned, according to the company’s latest environmental report, showing how much harder it’ll be for the company to meet its climate goals as it prioritizes AI. Continue Reading . . . https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/2/24190874/google-ai-climate-change-carbon-emissions-rise

How to find your phone's expiration date and make it last as long as possible Your phone is dying as you’re reading this. Like milk, bike helmets and condoms, phones are sold with a built-in expiration date. At the low end, we’re talking just a couple of years, but most are supported for three to four. Continue Reading . . . https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/komando/2024/06/13/how-to-find-phone-expiration-date/74003192007/

Intel says it still doesn’t have the true fix for its crashing i9 desktop chips For months, Intel’s highest-end desktop gaming processors have had a strange tendency to occasionally make games crash — and despite what you might have seen earlier today, Intel says it doesn’t have a final fix for its 13th and 14th Gen Intel Core i9 “Raptor Lake” and “Raptor Lake S” Continue Reading . . . https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/14/24178751/intel-raptor-lake-crash-fix-etvb-not-yet

ULTRAVIEW ARCHERY UV SLIDER™ - RESERVE NOW Choosing a selection results in a full page refresh. Press the space key then arrow keys to make a selection. Continue Reading . . . https://ultraviewarchery.com/

Google’s AI Is Churning Out a Deluge of Completely Inaccurate, Totally Confident Garbage Google's AI search, which swallows up web results and delivers them to users in a regurgitated package, delivers each of its AI-paraphrased answers to user queries in a concise, coolly confident tone. Just one tiny problem: it's wrong. A lot. Continue Reading . . . https://futurism.com/google-ai-inaccurate-garbage

Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search Social media is abuzz with examples of Google’s new AI Overview product saying weird stuff, from telling users to put glue on their pizza to suggesting they eat rocks. Continue Reading . . . https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/24/24164119/google-ai-overview-mistakes-search-race-openai

Apple needs to explain that bug that resurfaced deleted photos Earlier today, Apple issued a fix in iOS and iPadOS 17.5.1. Patching buggy software is a good, normal thing. But that’s not the issue here. Continue Reading . . . https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/20/24161152/apple-ios-17-photo-bug

Adobe Lightroom gets a magic eraser, and it’s impressive Adobe is adding some new generative AI tools to Lightroom that aim to make the photo editing platform easier to use for both professional creatives and inexperienced users alike, even from a phone. Continue Reading . . . https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/21/24161490/adobe-lightroom-generative-remove-object-removal-tool

Google all in on AI and Gemini: How it will affect your Google searches For Google, Gemini season has arrived early. Gemini, Google's language model that powers its Gemini AI chatbot and other multimodal tools, is expanding into other apps and features in the coming months, the tech company announced earlier this week at their annual developer conference, Google I/O. Continue Reading . . . https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2024/05/17/google-ai-overview-search/73728192007/

The Acolyte's New Promo Whips Up a Sick New Weapon In more than ways than one, The Acolyte is being poisitioned as a different Star Wars show than the other live-action offerings. Continue Reading . . . https://gizmodo.com/star-wars-acolyte-lightwhip-weapon-1851486594

Android 15 could reach iPhone levels of standby battery life Summary Android 15 will offer better battery standby thanks to Doze Mode upgrades, potentially adding up to three hours of standby time. The new software will be able to go into doze mode 50% faster than Android 14, according to Google's Dave Burke. Continue Reading . . . https://www.androidpolice.com/android-15-doze-mode-improved-battery-life/

Google Messages notifications will show names of unknown people who contact you Wish you could know who that unknown sender who just contacted you out of the blue is? Google appears to be working on a feature for Messages that will tell you that person’s name in the text message notification you receive. Continue Reading . . . https://www.androidauthority.com/google-messages-name-notifications-3441178/

US revokes Intel and Qualcomm's licenses for chip sales to Huawei The US has stopped Intel and Qualcomm from selling and sending chips to Chinese-based Huawei Technologies. Continue Reading . . . https://www.engadget.com/us-revokes-intel-and-qualcomms-licenses-for-chip-sales-to-huawei-125304886.html

Apple TV Plus is turning into the best place for streaming sci-fi Since it launched in 2019, Apple TV Plus has won awards and generated hits, but it still sits in an odd spot in the streaming landscape. It’s not as big as competitors like Netflix or Disney Plus, nor is it as prolific. Continue Reading . . . https://www.theverge.com/24150193/apple-tv-plus-sci-fi-streaming-dark-matter-constellation

Continue Reading . . . https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/08/climate/direct-air-capture-plant-iceland-climate-intl/index.html

The 2025 Real ID deadline for new licenses is really real this time, DHS says If you plan on flying around the country in 2025 and beyond, you might want to listen up. The Real ID compliance is part of a larger act passed by Congress in 2005 to set “minimum security standards” for the distribution of identification materials, including driver’s licenses. Continue Reading . . . https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2024/05/07/real-id-license-deadline-2025/73590391007/