Can’t find your pics amongst a sea of GIFs and memes? A Google Photos update could fix that

Can’t find your pics amongst a sea of GIFs and memes? A Google Photos update could fix that

An update to Google Photos could help you better organize pictures and make it easier to find your photos among all those saved memes, WhatsApp pics, and GIFs. Reliable Tipster AssembleDebug spotted details of the update in the code for Google Photos version 6.79.0.624777117, which seemingly lets you view and organize all the pictures on … Read more

Finally, someone used Pareto’s economic theories to find the best Mario Kart 8 racer

Finally, someone used Pareto’s economic theories to find the best Mario Kart 8 racer

Who hasn’t spent sleepless nights pondering what would happen if we applied Vilfredo Pareto’s (the early 20th-century Italian economist) theories to Mario, the Mushroom Kingdom’s Italian high-jump champion and part-time elephant cosplayer? Data scientist Antoine Mayerowitz, PhD, tackled that age-old question, and the resulting work provides an objective way to tell us the best Mario … Read more

WhatsApp Rolls Out Chat Filters to Help Find Conversations Faster

WhatsApp Rolls Out Chat Filters to Help Find Conversations Faster

WhatsApp is rolling out new Chat Filters to make it easier to find the messages you are looking for and reduce the need to scroll through your inbox. The following three new filters appear at the top of the app’s main conversation list: All, Unread, and Groups. In a blog post, WhatsApp describes them like … Read more

ICYMI: the week’s 7 biggest news story from the best smartphone for eclipse photography to Android Find My device

ICYMI: the week’s 7 biggest news story from the best smartphone for eclipse photography to Android Find My device

Tech. Tech never changes. Well… okay… tech does a lot of changing – there’s exciting new gadgets released everyday – but one constant in the space is the unrelenting speed with which hardware and software updates roll out (and we really wanted to make a Fallout reference because the new show is fantastic, more on … Read more

One UI 6.1: Find Circle to Search overrated? Here’s how to disable it

One UI 6.1: Find Circle to Search overrated? Here’s how to disable it

As you may know by now, some of the AI features on the Galaxy S24 series are powered by Google. In fact, one of the features doesn’t even require a Samsung phone nor is it exclusive to Galaxy devices. It’s called Circle to Search, which can be used to do Google searches on anything that … Read more

Confused about Google’s Find My Device? Here are 7 things you need to know

Confused about Google’s Find My Device? Here are 7 things you need to know

It took a while, but Google has released the long-awaited upgrade to its Find My Device network. This may come as a surprise. The update was originally announced back in May 2023, but was soon delayed with apparent launch date. Then, out of nowhere, Google decided to release the software on April 8 without major … Read more

Android’s Find My clone launches along with Apple-compatible tracker tags

Android’s Find My clone launches along with Apple-compatible tracker tags

Google thinks Apple’s Find My network is so clever it “borrowed” the idea. After announcing the system last year, Android’s Find My Device network is ready to locate misplaced handsets, tablets and tracking tags. Aside from an opportunity to mock Google for its “innovation,” the new system is relevant to iPhone users because Rolling Square … Read more

Google Launches Android Find My Device Network

Google Launches Android Find My Device Network

Google today introduced the Find My Device network for Android-based products, mirroring the functionality of Apple’s ‌Find My‌ network that’s designed to locate Apple devices. Like Apple ‌Find My‌, the Android ‌Find My‌ Device network is able to use the millions of Android devices (running Android 9 or later) out in the wild to track … Read more

Google’s long-awaited Find My Device network launches today

Google’s long-awaited Find My Device network launches today

Google has finally launched its long-awaited Find My Device network after . The technology leverages a crowdsourced network of over a billion Android devices to help people locate lost gadgets, with a basic functionality in line with similar offerings from Apple and Tile. It’s rolling out today to Android users in the US and Canada, … Read more

How Will the Solar Eclipse Affect Animals? NASA Needs Your Help to Find Out

How Will the Solar Eclipse Affect Animals? NASA Needs Your Help to Find Out

In other anecdotes, onlookers have reported birds that stop singing, crickets that stopped chirping, or bees that return to their hive, reduce their foraging, or suspend their flight during total darkness. But there are also studies that deny that some of these behaviors occur or can be attributed to the eclipse. Therefore, NASA scientists plan … Read more