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Scientists attach insect antennae to drones for smell-based navigation

techspot.com Zo Ahmed 2025-06-21 08:57:00

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust In a nutshell: Researchers in Japan have merged robotic technology with the finely tuned senses of silk moths to create a bio-hybrid drone. By harnessing nature's expertly evolved ability to track scents over long distances, this innovation could aid in disaster response efforts. Traditional drones rely on visual sensors like cameras and lasers for navigation, but these can be unreliable in harsh c

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These classic Star Wars RPGs are free on Android for a limited time

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-06-21 04:20:56

TL;DR Star Wars: KOTOR and Star Wars: KOTOR II are free on the Epic Games Store mobile app. Both claims can be claimed until March 20 and will remain in your library forever. The games are free on Android worldwide, but only in Europe on iOS. Epic Games has been giving away free games every week for years. In 2025, it promised to do the same with its new mobile app. The second round of giveaways includes two hit Star Wars RPGs: KOTOR and KOTOR II. In case you haven’t played the Xbox-era clas

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One year later, the Galaxy S24 Ultra is still ripping a hole in people’s pockets — literally

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-06-21 07:54:22

TL;DR Multiple Galaxy S24 Ultra users are reporting ripped pockets due to the phone’s sharp corners. A phone case can help, but it adds bulk to the already large device. Samsung has softened the corners on the Galaxy S25 Ultra, fixing the design flaw on the new phone. The Galaxy S24 Ultra is considered one of the top Android flagships of its time. Even though the Galaxy S25 Ultra has been released, the Galaxy S24 Ultra has enough overkill across all of its specifications for it to remain in p

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Sony’s next Xperia flagship could go all out with not one, not two, but three Exmor T sensors

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-06-21 07:59:52

Alex Walker-Todd / Android Authority TL;DR A rumor claims the Xperia 1 VII will use Exmor T sensors for all three rear cameras. Last year’s model only had an Exmor T sensor for the main camera. The Exmor T sensors could reduce noise in low-light shots and improve dynamic range. Last year’s Xperia 1 VI did little to improve the rear camera situation from the previous year. The hardware was largely identical to the Xperia V, but with some quality-of-life improvements. But a new rumor suggests

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Apple is removing iCloud end-to-encryption features from the UK after government compelled it to add backdoors

9to5mac.com Benjamin Mayo 2025-06-21 07:03:00

Apple is removing the option to enable Advanced Data Protection for iCloud users in the United Kingdom. This feature let users fully protect their data stored in iCloud with end-to-end encryption. However, a recent UK government order forces companies like Apple to put backdoors in its encryption systems. Rather than comply and compromise Advanced Data Protection, Apple is left with no choice but to remove the feature altogether. In a statement to 9to5Mac, Apple said that current users of ADP i

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Apple disables iCloud's Advanced Data Protection feature in the UK

engadget.com Unknown 2025-06-21 09:30:17

Apple users in the UK can no longer access one of the company's most powerful data protection tools, as first reported by Bloomberg. The feature, Advanced Data Protection (ADP), allows iPhone users to add optional end-to-end encryption to a variety of iCloud data. The move comes amid an ongoing dispute between Apple and the UK over a government order that would require the company to build a backdoor to allow British security officials to access the encrypted data of users globally. "ADP protec

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Tech pioneer who accelerated internet speeds receives prestigious IEEE Medal

zdnet.com Tiernan Ray 2025-06-21 06:26:00

"Today, I don't know anybody who can say they know what artificial intelligence is going to bring us in five years, let alone one year or two years," says Henry Samueli, a pioneer in digital modem technology and recipient of the IEEE's 2025 Medal of Honor. Tiernan Ray/ZDNET In the early days of the consumer internet, most access was via a dial-up modem, a device hooked up to a phone line that transmitted requests for web pages via squeaks and squawks like someone yelling into the line. Also: M

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Want to fight misinformation on Facebook? Join the Meta Community Notes editor waitlist

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-06-21 07:37:34

ZDNET If you're tired of seeing misinformation online, here's your chance to be part of the fight against it. Also: How to delete Facebook, Messenger, or Instagram Last month, Meta announced that it was ditching its third-party fact checkers in favor of X-style community notes on its social media platforms: Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. Meta will officially roll out the feature in a few months, but you can join the waitlist now to be among the first community notes editors. How to sign u

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Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-06-21 07:52:14

A system to organise your life Johnny.Decimal is designed to help you find things quickly, with more confidence, and less stress. You assign a unique ID to everything in your life. These IDs help you stay organised. They impose constraints that make it harder to get lost. And you create your own index to link everything in your life together. The system is free to use and the concepts are the same at home, work, or that club you manage. The problem In real life, if you stored your stuff in

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Govee Smart LED Floor Lamp Brings 16 Million Colors at Its Lowest Price Yet

gizmodo.com Brittany Vincent 2025-06-21 07:45:14

Transform your space from boring to brilliant with Govee’s RGBIC Floor Lamp – it’s not just a light, it’s practically a party in a pole. This sleek 136cm tall lamp packs serious illumination power with its 1000 lumens, but the real magic is in its ability to display multiple colors simultaneously, making it perfect for gaming setups, movie nights, or just adding some life to that dull corner of your room. Deal alert: Amazon’s slashed the price from $100 to just $60, making this a whopping 40% d

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DC Is Relaunching Batman for Only the Fourth Time in Almost 85 Years

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-06-21 07:00:58

A Batman #1 doesn’t come along very often. Well, unless you’ve been reading comics for the past 15 years, in which case, it’s come along a couple times already. Modern comic books! But even then, in what is about to be eight-and-a-half-decades of Batman that’s still not a lot of relaunches–and DC is going all-in to make this fourth one stand out. Last night at ComicsPro DC confirmed that the fourth-ever relaunch of the primary, solo Batman book (there are of course, dozens upon dozens upon doze

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Musk’s Plan to Kill the ISS Early Is a Selfish, Shortsighted Move

gizmodo.com Adam Kovac 2025-06-21 07:05:34

The immediate future of the International Space Station is suddenly in doubt thanks to a single tweet. Elon Musk, owner of SpaceX and unelected advisor to President Donald Trump on basically everything, wants the venerable station gone, and he wants it gone sooner rather than later. On Thursday, Musk posted on his X platform that he believes it’s “time to begin preparations for deorbiting” the ISS. “It has served its purpose,” he declared. “There is very little incremental utility. Let’s go to

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Apple Intelligence and ChatGPT Are Coming to the Vision Pro

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-06-21 10:08:42

Did you think the one missing feature on Vision Pro was the ability to create AI-generated emojis to text to friends? On Friday, Apple declared its planning to launch the first few Apple Intelligence features on its $3,500 Vision Pro. While the features are well-known if you’ve used a Mac in the last six months, they may indicate Apple’s MR headset may also receive the cross-app AI-ified Siri whenever that finally becomes a reality. The visionOS 2.4 beta (which should be available to users befo

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Best Foam Rollers for 2025

cnet.com Giselle Castro-Sloboda 2025-06-21 05:22:00

CNET’s expert staff reviews and rates dozens of new products and services each month, building on more than a quarter century of expertise. Anyone can experience bad muscle pain, whether they have a physical job or sit at a desk all day. One easy way to relax and relieve pain is by using a good foam roller. Foam rolling is a type of self-myofascial therapy that's become a go-to for athletes and fitness enthusiasts alike. It offers an affordable way to warm up, recover and release tension. The

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6 of the Best Pull-Up Bars for Your Home Gym in 2025

cnet.com Giselle Castro-Sloboda 2025-06-21 07:13:00

Pull-up bars have different height and weight capacities. Make sure the one you pick can handle your weight and height. Pull-up bars can come straight or with handles in different angles intended to target different upper body muscles. Determine whether you prefer an over the door, free standing or wall-installed pull-up bar for personal use. CNET’s expert staff reviews and rates dozens of new products and services each month, building on more than a quarter century of expertise. A pull-up b

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Apple Pulls iCloud Encryption Feature Following UK Government Demands

cnet.com Katie Collins 2025-06-21 08:24:00

Apple is withdrawing its Advanced Data Protection tool from the UK, leaving iCloud users without the highest level of encryption the company currently offers. The move comes just weeks after reports emerged that the British government was pressuring Apple to create a backdoor into its encrypted services for law enforcement and spying purposes. ADP is an opt-in security tool, which provides end-to-end encryption for iCloud services to those who want it. The UK's Home Office had refused to confir

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Marvel Rivals Season 1.5 Is Live: The Thing and Human Torch Join the Battle

cnet.com Adam Benjamin 2025-06-21 09:30:00

Marvel Rivals, the new hero shooter based on Marvel comics characters, is about halfway through its first full season. The free-to-play game launched season 0 on Dec. 6 and quickly reached 20 million players before starting its first full season in early January. The midseason update brings two new heroes, one new map and (thank Odin) does feature a rank reset as originally announced. Read more: Marvel Rivals: How to Choose Which Heroes and Roles to Play New Marvel Rivals heroes and maps Sea

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An episode of The Simpsons? Fake speakers found in Chinese Volvos.

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-06-21 07:35:50

Do you remember The Simpsons episode "Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield"? It first aired in February 1996, and it's the one where Homer and Bart go to Appliance Zone and are confronted with "genuine" Panaphonics, Sorny, and Magnetbox TVs. Well, it seems a similar brand name game has been going on at a Volvo dealership in China. News started filtering out of China last week about an owner of a Volvo S60 sedan who realized the speakers in his car were not from Bowers and Wilkins, as t

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Game Developers Fear Anti-Trans Measures Could Hit Their Industry Next

wired.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2025-06-21 05:30:00

Ashley Poprik has never been the model for a video game character. As a writer on projects like Spider-Man 2 and Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, they work on games, not as characters within them. In 2023, however, a cabal of angry gamers was convinced otherwise. They were furious over how Spider-Man 2’s Mary Jane looked; more specifically, they complained, she simply wasn’t hot enough. The problem, these gamers falsely claimed, was that Poprik—then a writing intern with no ability to change a charac

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Roll Over Shakespeare: ChatGPT Is Here

wired.com Steven Levy 2025-06-21 07:00:00

Sitting in Lincoln Center awaiting the curtain for Ayad Akhtar’s McNeal—a much anticipated theater production starring Robert Downey Jr., with ChatGPT in a supporting role—I mused how playwrights have been dealing with the implications of AI for over a century. In 1920—well before Alan Turing devised his famous test and decades before the 1956 summer Dartmouth conference that gave artificial intelligence its name—a Czech playwright named Karel Čapek wrote R.U.R.—Rossum’s Universal Robots. Not on

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Apple pulls encryption feature from UK over government spying demands

theverge.com Dominic Preston 2025-06-21 08:29:39

Apple has stopped offering its end-to-end encrypted iCloud storage, Advanced Data Protection (ADP), to new users in the UK, and will require existing users to disable the feature at some point in the future. The move comes following reports earlier this month that UK security services requested Apple grant them backdoor access to worldwide users’ encrypted backups. “Apple can no longer offer Advanced Data Protection (ADP) in the United Kingdom to new users and current UK users will eventually n

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The UK’s war on encryption affects all of us

theverge.com Gadel Valle 2025-06-21 10:19:32

is a policy reporter. Her past work has focused on immigration politics, border surveillance technologies, and the rise of the New Right. Update February 21st: Apple has removed its Advanced Data Protection feature in the UK, calling itself “gravely disappointed” with the move. The encryption wars have reached a fever pitch, and the most contentious battle is not happening in the United States, where much of the action has been in the past — like the government’s efforts to restrict exports of

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OpenAI rolls out its AI agent, Operator, in several countries

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-06-21 02:31:32

OpenAI said on Friday that it is rolling out Operator — its AI agent that can perform tasks on behalf of users — for ChatGPT Pro subscribers in Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, the U.K., and more countries. OpenAI said Operator will be available in most places where ChatGPT is available, apart from the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein, and Iceland. Operator, which launched in January in the U.S., is one of several “AI agent” tools on the market that can be

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Apple pulls iCloud end-to-end encryption feature for UK users after government demanded backdoor

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-06-21 07:58:24

Apple confirmed Friday that it “can no longer” offer a security feature that allows users in the United Kingdom to encrypt their iCloud data. In a statement provided to TechCrunch, Apple spokesperson Fred Sainz said the company’s Advanced Data Protection feature will no longer be available to new users and current U.K. users “will eventually need to disable this security feature.” “We are gravely disappointed that the protections provided by ADP will not be available to our customers in the U.

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This 1.9-pound smartphone battery life can be measured in months

techspot.com Shawn Knight 2025-06-20 19:16:00

Bottom line: Advances in battery technology combined with more efficient hardware and smarter software have allowed smartphones to reach impressive runtime milestones. To borrow a phrase from the automotive world, however, "there's no replacement for displacement" – meaning capacity is still king. The problem, of course, is that few want to lug around a handset with a giant battery just to get more uptime between charges… or at least, that's what most manufacturers believe. For those who priori

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Will quantum computers disrupt critical infrastructure?

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-06-21 05:40:04

Will quantum computers disrupt critical infrastructure? 3 hours ago Joe Fay Technology Reporter Google Many organisations are developing quantum computers Twenty five years ago computer programmers were racing to fix the millennium bug amidst fears that it would cause banking systems to crash and planes to fall out of the sky. Much to everyone's relief the impact turned out to be minimal. Today, some fear there is a new critical threat to the world’s digital infrastructure. But this time, we

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‘Tripsy’ trip planner app can now convert currencies and show nearby places

9to5mac.com Filipe Espósito 2025-06-21 04:33:02

Tripsy, a popular app to help users plan and organize their trips, has just received another major update with some useful new features. The new version of the app makes it easier for users to check their expenses in different currencies and also to see nearby places on a map. What’s new with Trispy For those unfamiliar, Tripsy is a trip planner that “helps you plan your entire trip in one place.” You can share your itinerary with family and friends, receive flight alerts, and make wish lists

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5 Mythical Tales That Need the Big-Screen Treatment After Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-06-21 06:05:54

There’s a very specific niche of Greek mythology geeks who think about the gods and goddesses at least once a day. Yes, it’s our Roman Empire, and with the news that Christopher Nolan (Interstellar) is going to meticulously assemble the grand myth of The Odyssey for the big screen with quite the epic cast, we’re so ready for it to be our time. Most recently, we’ve gotten a smattering of adaptations here and there—big swings resulting in misses, like Netflix’s Kaos starring Jeff Goldblum as Zeus

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Google may be close to launching YouTube Premium Lite

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-06-21 03:42:33

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. YouTube is about to officially launch a cheaper, “premium lite” version of its subscription service in the US, Australia, Germany and Thailand, according to Bloomberg. This new tier will “target viewers who primarily want to watch programs other than music videos,” Bloomberg says. The publication didn’t say what the price might be. YouTube piloted a no-ads version of a tier c

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Reddit reportedly experienced some outages

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-06-21 07:04:09

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Reddit experienced “international outages,” NetBlocks, a global internet monitor, said in a post Thursday evening, though it appears the outages have resolved. In that post, the organization said that the incident was “not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering.” There was also a big spike of outage reports on Downdetector, with a peak of around 56,000 rep

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Latest Tech News

Scientists attach insect antennae to drones for smell-based navigation

These classic Star Wars RPGs are free on Android for a limited time

One year later, the Galaxy S24 Ultra is still ripping a hole in people’s pockets — literally

Sony’s next Xperia flagship could go all out with not one, not two, but three Exmor T sensors

Apple is removing iCloud end-to-encryption features from the UK after government compelled it to add backdoors

Apple disables iCloud's Advanced Data Protection feature in the UK

Tech pioneer who accelerated internet speeds receives prestigious IEEE Medal

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Musk’s Plan to Kill the ISS Early Is a Selfish, Shortsighted Move

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Apple Pulls iCloud Encryption Feature Following UK Government Demands

Marvel Rivals Season 1.5 Is Live: The Thing and Human Torch Join the Battle

An episode of The Simpsons? Fake speakers found in Chinese Volvos.

Game Developers Fear Anti-Trans Measures Could Hit Their Industry Next

Roll Over Shakespeare: ChatGPT Is Here

Apple pulls encryption feature from UK over government spying demands

The UK’s war on encryption affects all of us

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This 1.9-pound smartphone battery life can be measured in months

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‘Tripsy’ trip planner app can now convert currencies and show nearby places

5 Mythical Tales That Need the Big-Screen Treatment After Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey

Google may be close to launching YouTube Premium Lite

Reddit reportedly experienced some outages

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