Author: Zach_Wilson
Your Google Pixel Watch is now a much better remote for your phone’s camera
Google is updating the Camera app on the Pixel Watch giving users the ability to, on their paired Google Pixel Phone, jump between photography and video modes on the fly. The company made no effort to let people know about the patch as a formal announcement was never made. Not…
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“Approaching the dream of the alchemist”: Scientists have been able to transform transparent glass into a photovoltaic surface — using a laser similar to that used in eye surgeries
Scientists have successfully converted transparent glass into a photovoltaic surface using a laser similar to that used in eye surgeries. The revolutionary discovery was made by physicists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) in collaboration with scientists from Tokyo Tech. Led by Gözden Torun at the Galatea…
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Indie labels cry foul over Apple Music’s enhanced spatial audio royalties
As first reported by the Financial Times, independent labels Beggars Group, Secretly Group, and Partisan Records are pushing back against Apple’s preferential payouts for spatial audio. They say independent artists who can’t afford to record in spatial audio would make less because of how streaming music payouts work. Apple said…
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Google’s Pixel Tablet and first-gen Pixel Watch are both on sale for Verge readers
Apple may not have released new iPads last year, but you know who didn’t rest on its laurels in 2023? Every other company, including OnePlus, Samsung, and Amazon. For the first time in what feels like ages, there are several solid Android tablets to choose from — including the Google Pixel…
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Vision Pro launch: all the news about Apple’s pricey new headset
Although it’s an unofficial third-party app, Juno supports most of the features you’d expect out of a native YouTube app. You can watch videos (obviously), scrub and skip through them using pinch gestures, and it’ll even respect the videos’ aspect ratios. Browsing YouTube’s catalog is also supported (though you can’t…
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NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti Super and 4080 Super review: Two faster GPUs, one better deal
For the discerning gamer who didn’t rush out to grab NVIDIA’s RTX 40-series GPUs over the last few years, the company’s new Super cards are genuinely compelling. They all deliver far more power than before — so much so that the $599 RTX 4070 Super is actually a decent 4K…
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