Google is currently testing a new security feature in Chrome Canary for Android that can scan APK downloads for potential malware, as reported by MSPowerUser. This comes after recent updates to the Play Store that reduced warnings for downloading APK files.The feature is currently hidden behind a flag in Chrome …
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It didn’t take long for people to start testing their gear with DeepSeek’s benchmarks. And as you’d expect, the companies making hardware for AI were quick to see how their models fared with a different structure than that of the leading LLM, OpenAI. Now, AMD is letting it be known …
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Intel announced its upcoming Snapdragon X Elite SoC in late 2023, and it’s promising to shake up the Windows processor landscape in 2024 by being a serious competitor to mobile chips from both AMD and Intel. The Qualcomm SoC will be targeting the ultra-thin laptop market when it debuts later …
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Electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicles may be gaining momentum, but they can only succeed long-term as a transportation option if passengers feel safe enough to ride them. To that end, some eVTOL companies are researching ways to implement last-ditch safety mechanisms. The Guangdong-based AeroHT shared Tuesday that its …
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Netflix is developing features that would allow members to play its mobile games with one another and competitively rank themselves on gaming leaderboards. The company, starting last month, quietly launched the ability for users to create unique “game handles” in a subset of its mobile games, including Into The Breach, …
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Sending in a resume is the main way a person hopes to get noticed for a job. But a startup out of Amsterdam called TestGorilla is today announcing $70 million in funding for a very different kind of approach: It has built an assessment platform that can be used to …
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TikTok has seen its short-form video feed copied by a host of competitors, from Instagram to Snap to YouTube and even Netflix. Now it looks like you can add Spotify to that list. The company has confirmed it’s currently testing a new feature in its app, Discover, which presents a …
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Physicists from CERN’s LHCb (Large Hadron Collider beauty) Collaboration have carried out new tests of lepton universality, one of the basic principles of the Standard Model of particle physics. This principle states that the Standard Model treats the three charged leptons — electrons, muons and taus — identically, except for …
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SpaceX has been launching batches of Starlink internet satellites on a regular basis since May 2019, and there are now hundreds of nodes in its megaconstellation. That provides sufficient coverage that SpaceX has started rolling out a beta test of its new satellite internet service. According to data from …
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Google is testing a new feature that could improve discovery for Android apps on Google Play. The company confirmed it’s experimenting with a “Compare Apps” option that would allow Google Play users to quickly and more easily understand the slight differences between otherwise similar apps by comparing specific features …
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