Month: September 2024
You might start seeing Instagram comments on Threads soon
Instagram might roll out a way to share comments on other Instagram posts to Threads, according to Alessandro Paluzzi, who often reverse engineers Meta’s social media apps to find coming features. Paluzzi shared an image showing that when commenting on an Instagram post, there could be a new dropdown menu…
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Meta Connect 2024: 5 things I want to see at the rumored Meta Quest 3S launch event
With Meta Connect 2024 just around the corner – September 25-26 – I’m sharing the five announcements I most want to see at the event, as well as explaining why I think they are (or aren’t in one entry’s case) likely to happen. Meta Connect is an annual Meta event…
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Apple will charge more to swap your iPhone 16 Pro battery
Defective batteries are covered under Apple’s one-year warranty, and replacements are free under AppleCare Plus plans if your battery has less than 80 percent of its original capacity. If it’s higher than that and you’re still disappointed with its longevity, your options are limited to third-party repair or going the…
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Flappy Bird reboot will never match the awfulness of the original and that’s a problem
Flappy Bird set the bar (or rather pipes, placed randomly) for mobile game simplicity. Between that and its bizarrely high level of difficulty, it created a devilish blend of game-playing compulsion I have rarely seen, before or since. When indie developer Dong Nguyen launched it in 2014, it was almost…
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Researchers design tech that could ‘potentially replace solar cells’ in certain applications — novel supercapacitor is charged by light and could appear in a smartphone near you
Researchers at the Department of Instrumentation and Applied Physics (IAP), Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and collaborators have developed a new supercapacitor that can be charged by light. This innovation could be used in streetlights and self-powered electronic devices, including sensors, as unlike standard capacitors, which store energy electrostatically, supercapacitors…
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We could be witnessing the death of the graphics card in real time right now, and I couldn’t be happier about it
A little over two years ago, I wrote about how integrated graphics were the future of gaming. I stand by the things I said in that article – if anything, recent developments in the computer hardware industry have vindicated me, and further convinced me that we’re seeing the slow death…
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