Gemini is rolling out to Maps on Android and iOS, with Android Auto coming soon. Google is in the process of purging Assistant across its products, and the next target is Google Maps. Starting today, Gemini will begin rolling out in Maps, powering new experiences for navigation, location info,…
Can more creator control fix motion smoothing? Motion smoothing has a bad reputation among most cinephiles, as well as many home theater enthusiasts and content creators. Also known as motion or video interpolation, motion smoothing is available in virtually every modern TV today. It’s supposed to remove judder from…
Google is already zapping TPUs with radiation to get ready. The tech industry is on a tear, building data centers for AI as quickly as they can buy up the land. The sky-high energy costs and logistical headaches of managing all those data centers have prompted interest in space-based…
New updates include a small but noteworthy batch of fixes and features. After several weeks of testing, Apple has released the final versions of the 26.1 update to its various operating systems. Those include iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, visionOS, and the HomePod operating system, all of which switched…
Re-using old silicon means that dropping “old” GPUs can affect “new” products. Last week, AMD released version 25.10.2 of its Adrenalin driver package for Radeon GPUs. It seemed like a relatively routine driver release with a typical list of bug fixes and game performance improvements, except for one accompanying…
Bug affects Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2 users using the October update preview. One reason to use the Task Manager in Windows is to see if any of the apps running on your computer are misbehaving or using a disproportionate amount of resources. But what do you do when…
Gemini for Home unleashes gen AI on your Nest camera footage, but it gets a lot wrong. You just can’t ignore the effects of the generative AI boom. Even if you don’t go looking for AI bots, they’re being integrated into virtually every product and service. And for what?…
Cellebrite can apparently extract data from most Pixel phones, unless they’re running GrapheneOS. Despite being a vast repository of personal information, smartphones used to have little by way of security. That has thankfully changed, but companies like Cellebrite offer law enforcement tools that can bypass security on some devices.…
Updated app is “free forever,” but won’t get a perpetually licensed version. When graphic design platform-provider Canva bought the Affinity image-editing and publishing apps early last year, we had some major questions about how the companies’ priorities and products would mesh. How would Canva serve the users who preferred…
Disney+ joins Netflix, Apple TV in supporting the Dolby Vision rival. Disney+ has started streaming movies and shows in the HDR10+ format. Support is somewhat limited for now. Only certain content from Hulu, which The Walt Disney Company acquired in June, is available in HDR10+. In an announcement today,…
