Last October at its Pixel event, Google announced an exclusive feature that was both useful and, to some extent, mildly entertaining. Call Screen put Google Assistant’s intelligence at your service to intercept incoming calls and help determine whether they’re even worth your attention. That conversation between the caller and Google Assistant all happens in the background but, apparently, there’s a … Continue reading
Several years ago, Facebook launched an app called Moments. The app was designed to be a private photo sharing platform where users could upload and share photos with people that they wanted to, versus their Facebook profiles which are sometimes visible to the public. Unfortunately it seems that the app has come to an end.
In a statement made to CNET, director of product management for Moments, Rushabh Doshi, confirmed that the app would be killed off and that the service would be shutting down. “We’re ending support for the Moments app, which we originally launched as a place for people to save their photo. We know the photos people share are important to them so we will continue offering ways to save memories within the Facebook app.”
Presumably this is due to the lack of usage of the app, which shouldn’t be too surprising since we’re not sure if the app was ever necessary to begin with. In more recent times with the Facebook privacy scandals, it feels like there are now even less reasons to use such an app. Users who want to export their photos that they’ve uploaded to Moments will be able to do so by heading to a special website that Facebook has setup for this purpose.
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It’s a weird quirk of the current generation of AirPods: they support Siri, but only if you double-tap one of the earbuds first. Unlike with iPhones, iPads, Apple Watches and HomePods, you can’t just say “Hey Siri” and babble out your request.
Rumors have been floating around for a while suggesting that a new iteration of AirPods — AirPods 2, the rumor mill is calling them — would bring “Hey Siri” functionality. Now a screen hiding in the latest iOS beta seems to suggest the same.
While it’s not a publicly accessible screen, Guilherme Rambo of 9to5mac managed to trigger the following prompt in the just-released iOS 12.2 beta:
(Image Credit: 9to5Mac)
“Talk to Siri with your AirPods or iPhone by saying ‘Hey Siri’,” it reads.
Its absence from the current generation of AirPods presumably boils down to a matter of battery life. Apple figured out how to make “Hey Siri” work with minimal impact on battery life with the iPhone 6s, then broke down how it all works in a post on its Machine Learning Journal in April of 2018. But to pull off the same trick in a tiny earbud — each having a battery capacity of 93 milliwatt hours, or roughly 1 percent of that of an iPhone — is an entirely new challenge. For the first gen, it was just easier to let the headphones wait for that double-tap, queueing it up as a new selling point whenever Apple figured out how to pull it off.
Rumors have also hinted at other features for the eventual AirPods sequel, from waterproofing to sensors that help track health data. Alas, no sneaky hidden prompts hinting at any of that have been found yet.
Last October at its Pixel event, Google announced an exclusive feature that was both useful and, to some extent, mildly entertaining. Call Screen put Google Assistant’s intelligence at your service to intercept incoming calls and help determine whether they’re even worth your attention. That conversation between the caller and Google Assistant all happens in the background but, apparently, there’s a … Continue reading
Samsung was slow to accept the inevitable and embrace the notch but when it finally did, it did so in a way few probably wished it did. It introduced the Infinity-O type screen that exchanged the notch for a circular cutout, a.k.a. the punch hole (or hole punch) camera. First to debut in the Galaxy A8s last month, the same … Continue reading
As if it weren’t enough that an AI has been beating humans at a game that is considered part strategy but mostly memorization of strategies, now an AI is also beating them at a game that requires quick strategic thinking and quick mouse-clicking. Of course, the former is probably too easy for a computer to do, since it requires no … Continue reading
It wasn’t too long ago that Google launched its third-gen Pixel phones. In fact, we might still be waiting for a Pixel 3 Lite, if that truly exists. That doesn’t mean, however, that Google isn’t already working on what would be the Pixel 4 later this year. That does seem to be the implication in this extremely early sighting of … Continue reading
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