OnePlus 13 is expected to launch with the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chipset, and today, we have a clearer timeframe for its arrival. Louis Lee, President of OnePlus China, confirmed the new flagship will be introduced next month. The executive confirmed that OnePlus 13 is coming with “the latest generation of flagship chips,” meaning
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YouTube Music rolling out artist page redesign [U]
After Mark as played for podcast episodes and Sound Search, YouTube Music is rolling out a redesign of artist pages on Android and iOS. Update 9/8: The redesign is back with the main change being a play button instead of shuffle. There’s also the “More” button next to “Top songs” getting replaced by a chevron
Pixel Thermometer rolling out body temperature support in Europe [U]
At the start of this year, Google added body temperature support to the Pixel Thermometer app in the US, with an expansion to Europe now set to arrive. Update 9/8: We’re now seeing body temperature in the Pixel Thermometer app on two devices in Europe. This is on the Pixel 9 Pro XL with Android
MI6 and CIA using generative AI to combat tech-driven threat actors
CIA director Bill Burns and UK Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) chief Richard Moore have for the first time penned a joint opinion piece in which the two spookmasters reveal their agencies have adopted generative AI. “We are now using AI, including generative AI, to enable and improve intelligence activities – from summarization to ideation to
Scientists find a common food dye can make a live mouse’s skin transparent
Scientists have discovered a common food colorant has a remarkable property – making the skin of live mice transparent, so the organs beneath become visible. The dye – tartrazine, aka E102 – is a mostly-harmless dye used to make food yellow. In a paper published in the journal Science last week, scientists describe how the
Perennial Order is a stunning 2D Soulslike filled with plant monsters that’ll kill you in one hit
Indie developer Gardenfiend Games just released a gorgeous plant horror game that its team describes as “Hollow Knight meets Titan Souls.” Perennial Order , which dropped on September 6 for PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, is a 2D boss rush game that pulls inspiration from Dark Souls, Princess Mononoke, and the art style of
Genmoji and image-generation tools for iPhone reportedly delayed until iOS 18.2
Many of Apple Intelligence’s most anticipated features will arrive in a trickle well after the release of iOS 18, and according to Bloomberg ’s Mark Gurman, it could be December before the iPhone will offer things like AI-generated images and custom emoji. Apple Intelligence is expected to make its debut with iOS 18.1, which Gurman
Bitten by Unicode
by joseph carboni Parsing Dollar Figures One product of mine takes reports that come in as a table that’s been exported to PDF, which means text extraction. For dollar figures I find a prefixed dollar symbol and convert the number following it into a float. If there’s a hyphen in addition to the dollar symbol, it’s
QUIC Is Not Quick Enough over Fast Internet
AbstractQUIC is expected to be a game-changer in improving web application performance. In this paper, we conduct a systematic examination of QUIC’s performance over high-speed networks. We find that over fast Internet, the UDP+QUIC+HTTP/3 stack suffers a data rate reduction of up to 45.2% compared to the TCP+TLS+HTTP/2 counterpart. Moreover, the performance gap between QUIC
The 8 Most Expensive Samsung Products Ever Produced
We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Wongsakorn Napaeng/Shutterstock Samsung is one of the most recognized names in consumer electronics. With its diverse array of products ranging from mobile devices to household appliances to entertainment systems, Samsung remains a popular one-stop shop for tech fans and average buyers alike. But while most