Despite its control of hardware and firmware, Google triggers a surprising number of serious issues for Pixel users after security updates are installed. This pattern has repeated in recent months, and now there’s a new worry for users.Per 9to5Google, “following the rollout of the April 2026 update on Google Pixel phones, a widespread battery drain issue has hit, but the company is looking into the matter.” There’s no fix as yet, but Google has asked forum users for more info. The number of users complaining is accelerating quickly.“The sheer amount of attention on this thread tells us this issue is…
Marketing budgets have increasingly moved toward short-form vertical platforms such as TikTok and Instagram, where speed, algorithmic distribution and performance measurement offer clear advantages. At the same time, YouTube has quietly strengthened its position across long-form content, connected television viewing and recurring audience engagement.Industry data shows that YouTube now accounts…
Today, Square Enix announced that it’ll be replacing the PC port of the original Final Fantasy VII on Steam with a new version. However, Square Enix didn’t exactly say when the change will take place, or what the new version entails.The company was quite vague on its announcement, only providing…
It’s Thor’s Day, and we have yesterday’s Wordle Wednesday riddle to solve before we get to the daily Wordle. This was the riddle:The answer: The letter “e” which you can find in a tree, but in the woods, and in the sea, but not in light. Okay, Wordle time!Looking for…
It’s Odin’s day, Wednesday, known around here as Wordle Wednesday. On this day, every week I hand out a special challenge. A riddle, brain-teaser or logic puzzle for you to solve before the daily Wordle. Here’s today’s riddle:I’m not in the woodsbut I am in a treenot in the mountainsbut…
An interesting start to the week for WhatsApp. Just hours after Telegram’s Pavel Durov warned that Meta’s messenger has “multiple attack vectors,” comes a report that Google has found a serious WhatsApp vulnerability that “opens up (an) attack surface.”Any warning from Google’s Project Zero threat hunters is taken seriously. This…
According to genetic evidence published in a 2023 study from Science, our ancestors experienced an extreme population bottleneck around 900,000 years ago. This means just over a thousand breeding individuals persisted for more than 100,000 years. If true, this would’ve been one of the most severe population crashes ever inferred…
The weekend is here. Huzzah! It looks like we’re going to get snow this weekend, but I won’t believe it until I see the white fluffy stuff on the ground. At least it’s not supposed to be too terribly cold. A friend of mine sent a screenshot of the temperature…
Your iPhone does so much, from surfing the web, to offering games and banking apps, that sometimes smaller details can slip through the cracks. If one of those details is the rather important one of the alarm clock and it has mysteriously gone silent, you’re not alone. Some users have…
Shutting down during conflict is a habit that often goes misunderstood because it’s usually confused with weakness, indifference or an avoidance tactic. In reality, however, it is usually a stress response.Many people who shut down care deeply about the conversation or event that’s causing them to close up. And like…
Key TakeawaysGoogle Photos is testing a new “Optimize backup for battery life” featureThe app can currently cause significant battery drain in the backgroundThe feature is under development with no set release dateJan 20 Update below: This article was originally published on Jan 17Your smartphone works hard when shooting photos and…
WhatsApp is about to introduce a major new capability, it’s reported and it will finally allow users of the WhatsApp web app to take part in voice and video calls. The report comes from the authoritative WhatsApp watcher, WABetaInfo, which cautions that the new features are not quite live yet,…
Updated on Jan. 18 with a new warning for Gmail users as an attack is confirmed underway, tricking users into changing their email addresses to hijack accounts.Google has just changed Gmail after twenty years. In among countless AI upgrades — including “personalized AI” that gives Gemini access to all your…
For decades, humans have assumed that recognizing faces, especially our own faces, is a task that requires a large, complex brain. It’s also why animals like primates and birds are central in conversations about intelligence. Fish, on the other hand, are usually dismissed as instinct-driven and forgettable. However, there’s one…
At the 2026 CES Jensen Huang made many announcements associated with the introduction of Nvidia’s Rubin Vera AI architecture and the various open-source AI foundational models that the company created for various applications, including Alpamayo for automotive. One interesting announcement from NVIDIA was about an Inference Context Memory Storage Platform…
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