Aug 08
Britney Spears Reacts To Kevin Federline’s ‘Hurtful’ Claims About Sons ‘Not Seeing Her’
Posted in: Today's ChiliThe former couple share two sons, who Federline claimed have chosen not to see their mother for months.
Aug 08
“I think there’s a potential to get this back in the box, but it’s going to be very difficult,” Scott Gottlieb said Sunday.
Aug 08
Billionaite Sam Bankman-Fried is practicing effective altruism, which means he’ll effectively give away massive amounts of his fortune.
Aug 08
Samsung has launched its Android 13-flavored One UI 5 OS in beta for Galaxy S22 smartphones, the company announced. Much like Android 13 itself, most of the changes are minor, with some cosmetic improvements along with enhancements for security, notifications, the camera and more. However, Android 13 may offer significant improvements for foldable phones like the Galaxy Fold 4 set to arrive at Samsung’s August 10th Unpacked event.
Samsung is getting its OS updates out more quickly, as One UI 5 launched over a month earlier than UI 4 did last year. It takes advantage of Android 13’s theme makeover with 12 new color options for the home screen, icons and quick panels. It also lets you save a bit of space by stacking widgets, while adding accessibility options like a Magnifier tool to zoom in on texts and objects. It also adds a system that can read your keyboard entry out loud.
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You’ll also see Android 13 updates like new notification settings that require apps to request permission before sending notifications. A new security dashboard can check perform a security and privacy check, and you’ll be able to setting your preferred language on an app-by-app basis.
Android 13’s foldable enhancements appear designed for devices like the Fold 3 that have different sizes, resolutions and pixel densities on the inner and outer displays. Samsung already offers that feature for the Fold 3, but native Android 13 support might open up more options like enhanced productivity tools.
We’ll find out more in a few days at Unpacked, set for August 10th at 9am ET. Meanwhile, if you live in the US, South Korea or German and have a Galaxy S22, you can try out the One UI 5 update using the Samsung Members app — just bear in mind the usual risks of using beta software.
Aug 08
Police are investigating if the killings of four Muslim men in Albuquerque are connected.
Aug 08
Apple fans are eagerly awaiting the next HomePod speaker, but that may just be the start of a wider line of smart home devices to take on Amazon and Google.
Aug 08
A 29-year-old Los Angeles bank executive was one of three people killed last week when lightning struck in a park across from the White House.
Aug 08
Samsung’s foldable Galaxy phones are old news by now, but that may not matter soon as the company is reportedly planning to kick off its foldable tablets line.
Aug 08
Baidu has obtained permits to run a fully driverless robotaxi service in China. It says it’s the first company in the country to obtain such permissions. Back in April, Baidu received approval to run an autonomous taxi service in Beijing, as long as there was a human operator in the driver or front passenger seat. Now, it will be able to offer a service where the car’s only occupants are passengers.
There are some limits to the permits. Driverless Apollo Go vehicles will ferry paying passengers around designated zones in Wuhan and Chongqing during daytime hours only. The service areas cover 13 square kilometers in Wuhan’s Economic & Technological Development Zone (WHDZ) and 30 square kilometers in Chongqing’s Yongchuan District. The WHDZ has been overhauled over the last year to support AV testing and operations.
Baidu says its robotaxis have multiple safety measures to back up the core autonomous driving functions. Those include monitoring redundancy, remote driving capability and a safety operation system.
This is a notable step forward for Baidu as it looks to offer robotaxi services at a large scale. The company has also been testing its vehicles in the US for several years and it could ultimately prove a competitor to the likes of Waymo and Cruise.
Aug 08
The penultimate episode of the fourth season of Westworld is titled “Metanoia,” a word I was surprised to learn means “change in one’s way of life resulting from penitence or spiritual conversion,” according to the Oxford English Dictionary. I had assumed it was a portmanteau combining the words “meta-narrative” and…
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