Celebrity voices are disappearing from Amazon’s Alexa including the widely popular voices of Shaquille O’Neal, Melissa McCarthy, and Samuel L. Jackson. Amazon jumpstarted the feature with Jackson in 2019, offering the option for consumers to download the actor’s voice for just .99 cents, but recently increased the…
In 2018, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse blew our collective minds by telling a story about six Spider-people teaming up to save the multiverse. It went on to universal success and acclaim.
A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft carrying four private astronauts is making its way down from the International Space Station (ISS) and is set to splash down in Florida on Tuesday night. The ocean touchdown will be broadcast live.
He did it with Saw, he did it with The Conjuring, and now producer James Wan is expanding Insidious too. Even though the franchise’s fifth film, Insidious: The Red Door, is hitting theaters this summer, the next installment of the Insidious series is already gearing up. It’s called Thread: An Insidious Tale and it’ll…
What complaints you had about the Pixel Watch’s battery life might disappear with its sequel. Sources speaking to 9to5Google claim the Pixel Watch 2 will switch from Samsung’s 2018-era Exynos 9110 to one of Qualcomm’s much newer Snapdragon W5 models. Although the battery in the new smartwatch isn’t supposed to be significantly bigger, the longevity is supposed to be much-improved — reportedly, it can last over a day with the always-on display enabled where that simply wasn’t possible before.
The Pixel Watch 2 is also said to use the same health sensors as the Fitbit Sense 2. That could introduce ways to measure stress (that is, electrodermal activity) and skin temperature. Many other details remain a mystery, but it won’t be surprising if the new model is one of the first devices to run Wear OS 4. The new platform should boost performance, add backup support and increase accessibility.
A previous rumor hinted the Pixel Watch will debut 2 alongside the Pixel 8 this fall. If the wristwear does use Snapdragon hardware, it’ll represent an unusual twist. Google has so far leaned heavily on Samsung-based chips for recent mobile devices, including the Tensor G2 found in phones as recent as the Pixel 7a. This suggests Google is willing to break with recent tradition in the name of a better product.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/googles-pixel-watch-2-will-reportedly-have-significantly-improved-battery-life-201057558.html?src=rss
What complaints you had about the Pixel Watch’s battery life might disappear with its sequel. Sources speaking to 9to5Google claim the Pixel Watch 2 will switch from Samsung’s 2018-era Exynos 9110 to one of Qualcomm’s much newer Snapdragon W5 models. Although the battery in the new smartwatch isn’t supposed to be significantly bigger, the longevity is supposed to be much-improved — reportedly, it can last over a day with the always-on display enabled where that simply wasn’t possible before.
The Pixel Watch 2 is also said to use the same health sensors as the Fitbit Sense 2. That could introduce ways to measure stress (that is, electrodermal activity) and skin temperature. Many other details remain a mystery, but it won’t be surprising if the new model is one of the first devices to run Wear OS 4. The new platform should boost performance, add backup support and increase accessibility.
A previous rumor hinted the Pixel Watch will debut 2 alongside the Pixel 8 this fall. If the wristwear does use Snapdragon hardware, it’ll represent an unusual twist. Google has so far leaned heavily on Samsung-based chips for recent mobile devices, including the Tensor G2 found in phones as recent as the Pixel 7a. This suggests Google is willing to break with recent tradition in the name of a better product.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/googles-pixel-watch-2-will-reportedly-have-significantly-improved-battery-life-201057558.html?src=rss
“Good artist, bad choice!” one person wrote after the four-time Grammy nominee performed at Sunday’s Indianapolis 500.
Apple is really excited to share its next steps into augmented reality tech at this year’s WWDC, so much so that it’s released a teaser of its ‘AR experience’ to iPhones and iPads. We hope the company’s rumored headset is a bit more exciting than this.
In March, a group of mathematicians identified a thirteen-sided shape called “the hat” that can tile a surface without any patterns repeating. Now the researchers are updating the shape to maintain its quirky tiling properties while addressing an important caveat.
The United States Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal to a lawsuit attempting to hold Reddit liable for allegedly letting sexually explicit images of minors run amok on its site. Tuesday’s decision marks the third time in less than a month the court has danced around high-profile cases that could open Section 230…
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