Once again, people are talking about how Apple won’t play nice with Android devices. This time Google Senior Vice President Hiroshi Lockheimer, who oversees Android, is taking Apple to task over the green bubble struggle and urging the company to embrace a new text messaging standard that will make cross-platform…
Shazam is a great tool if you’re trying to identify a song that you heard on TV, radio, or in a movie. But what if you’re on your computer and there’s a song playing in the background on a website or YouTube video you’re watching?
Sometimes you might be lucky and the video’s creator would credit the song, but what if they didn’t? The good news is that you won’t have to whip your phone out anymore because it looks like Shazam is now available as a Google Chrome extension. All you need to do is download and install it like any extension and tap the blue icon and you’re good to go.
Basically it functions the same way as Shazam on your phone, but the main difference is that now that it is on your computer, you won’t need to open your phone and launch the app and can just click on it right away. Unfortunately, it appears that the extension is far from perfect at the moment.
Users are reporting that the app doesn’t quite work just yet, at least for some of them. We’re not sure if it’s because it is in beta, so keep that in mind if you download it and it doesn’t work for you. Also, for some reason, you cannot log into your Shazam account to sync with previously identified songs, which would be useful. Hopefully those will be addressed in a future update.
Shazam Now Available As A Chrome Extension
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There have been many RTS games released in the past, and Microsoft’s Age of Empires franchise is right up there with titles such as Blizzard’s StarCraft. The game has typically been released for the PC, but it looks like there is a chance that Age of Empires IV could be making its way onto consoles.
This is according to a tweet by account @ALumia_Italia who discovered some code that suggests that the game could be in the works for the Xbox console. According to the discovery, it references a game codenamed “CAR”, which according to Video Game Chronicle is the internal name for Age of Empires IV over at Microsoft.
XIP_CAR_JANUARY_2022 (aka CARDINAL_JANUARY_2022) now available for internal testing in the Xbox insider Hub
— Aggiornamenti Lumia (@ALumia_Italia) January 8, 2022
This discovery is actually not that surprising because according to MobileSyrup, they spoke to Michael Mann, the executive producer at World’s Edge, about the possibility of the game making its way onto consoles. Mann did not deny that possibility, but instead stated that their current focus at that time was releasing the game for the PC.
Now that Age of Empires IV is out on the PC, we suppose it is possible that the team is now working on bringing it to the Xbox. We’re not sure when it will be released, if at all, but for console gamers looking to play the game on their Xbox consoles, this could be something to keep an eye out for.
Age of Empires IV Could Be Coming To The Xbox
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One of the features Apple introduced in iOS 15 is iCloud Private Relay. It acts almost like a VPN where it basically hides personal data of the user while they browse the web. It’s a useful feature for those who do not like the idea that websites and advertising companies are tracking them and using their data to serve up personalized ads.
However, it seems that over in the US, T-Mobile is reportedly blocking iPhone users from enabling the feature on their phone. According to iPhone users who are on T-Mobile’s network, when they try to turn the feature on, they are greeted with an error message that basically tells them their current cellular plan does not support the feature.
The message reads, “Your cellular plan doesn’t support iCloud Private Relay. With Private Relay turned off, this network can monitor your internet activity, and your IP address is not hidden from known trackers or websites.” T-Mobile wouldn’t be the first carrier to block the feature as there are also recent reports that some carriers in Europe had also started to block the feature.
Neither T-Mobile nor Apple have commented on this issue yet, but as 9to5Mac notes, it is worrying that carriers are interfering with system-level features, and how this seems to underscore some of the limitations of the feature. We’re not sure if other carriers plan on following suit, but if you are affected, you might want to consider using a VPN as an alternative.
T-Mobile Reportedly Blocking iPhone Users From Enabling iCloud Private Relay
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In a desperate effort to save the life of a 57-year-old man, doctors at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have accomplished a medical first. Per The Associated Press, this past Friday, surgeons successfully transplanted a pig heart into a patient as part of an experimental procedure.
In doing so, they showed a genetically modified animal organ could survive and function within the human body without immediate rejection. Three days after the procedure, David Bennett, the individual who underwent the surgery, is alive and “doing well,” according to the hospital.
The Food and Drug Administration authorized the procedure on compassionate grounds. Bennett was ineligible for a traditional heart transplant and had run out of other options. “It was either die or do this transplant. I want to live. I know it’s a shot in the dark, but it’s my last choice,” he said in a statement before doctors operated on him.
Scientists have tried to save humans with animal organs for decades. One of the most notable attempts occurred in 1984 when doctors grafted a baboon heart into Stephanie Fae Beauclair, an infant born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome. The congenital disorder left her body incapable of circulating blood properly. Baby Fae, as she was better known, survived for 21 days before her body eventually rejected the transplanted organ.
According to The New York Times, what makes this latest procedure different is doctors used a heart that had been genetically modified to remove four genes that encode a molecule that causes the body to reject the orphan organ. They also inserted six human genes to make the immune system more tolerable of the foreign tissue. Whether the experiment represents a breakthrough will depend on what happens next. Bennett’s body could still reject the pig heart. For the moment, however, he’s alive, and doctors are understandably excited about what this could mean for patients.
“If this works, there will be an endless supply of these organs for patients who are suffering,” Dr. Muhammad Mohiuddin, scientific director of the University of Maryland School of Medicine’s xenotransplantation program, told The Associated Press. That would be a dramatic change from the status quo. According to the Health Resources and Services Administration, more than 100,000 people are on the national transplant waiting list, and 17 individuals die every day waiting for an organ transplant.
There are few pop culture stories more fascinating than those about projects that were in development but never happened. George Miller’s Justice League. James Cameron’s Spider-Man. Tim Burton’s Superman. And that last one has an even better origin story than the Man of Steel himself. At one point, it was Kevin…
Apple’s new Private Relay feature for iPhones isn’t sitting well with carriers, and some operators are doing all they can to squash the privacy setting before it reaches your iPhone.
When Microsoft released its first Surface devices 10 years ago, people were quick to make comparisons to Apple products not only because of their minimalist aesthetic, but also because they were impossible to repair at home. For years, these machines were so difficult to crack open that attempting to do so was as…
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