Instagram’s ‘Add Yours’ sticker now lets you share songs

Instagram just announced , including a suite of interactive stickers. The music one is perhaps the most interesting, as it’s an extension of the . The Add Yours Music sticker lets users share their favorite songs, along with a prompt for followers to get in on the fun by sharing their own related tracks. Of … Read more

Virologist who was first to share COVID genome is shut out of lab in China

The first person to publicly release the genome sequence of the virus that causes COVID-19 — virologist Zhang Yongzhen — appears to have resolved a public dispute with the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center (SPHCC), Fudan University, that erupted last week. Zhang had been photographed camping outside his laboratory since Sunday, after the SPHCC closed … Read more

Wear OS smartwatch market share to grow in 2024, thanks to Samsung

There’s some good news for Samsung and the Wear OS segment overall. A new report indicates that sales of Wear OS-based smartwatches will improve considerably this year. This will come at the expense of Apple’s WatchOS, which is quite interesting. Wear OS smartwatches sales to increase in 2024 According to a new report from Counterpoint … Read more

Quick Share can now send files to Samsung Family Hub refrigerators

Samsung has released an update to the Quick Share app for Galaxy smartphones and tablets. It bumps the version of the app to 13.6.13.6 and brings a huge feature, and that is the ability to share files with Samsung’s Family Hub lineup of refrigerators. At the moment, there’s no information about what kind of files … Read more

Android Bosses iPhone in Smartphone Activation Market Share

New iPhone activations are down to a low not seen in the U.S. smartphone market for the last six years, according to a new Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) report. While CIRP notes that Apple’s installed smartphone base is higher than recorded activations, the figures show its share of new iPhone activations fell from 40% … Read more

Samsung grew its smartphone market share in India, ranked first in Q1 2024

Despite challenging market conditions globally, Samsung has been quite resilient in India over the past year. While Apple stole Samsung’s crown in 2023 worldwide, it isn’t even close in the Indian market. In Q1 2024, Samsung was India’s biggest smartphone manufacturer, and it achieved growth compared to Q1 2023. Samsung performed well in the Indian … Read more

Is there a moral imperative for businesses to share data?

Imagine a world where knowledge, data, insights, breakthroughs aren’t hoarded but shared, with a purpose: to tackle the monumental challenges facing our communities, societies and planet. This isn’t a utopian ideal, but a technical reality, and more importantly, moral imperative today. Debates that were once the domain of Ivory Tower academics are front and center … Read more

How to share passwords with your family on iPhone

This is an easier way to share passwords with your friends and family. Image: Santeri Viinamäki/Wikimedia Commons/D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac You can share passwords on iPhone automatically with your entire family, so you don’t have to reuse the same password everywhere or let everyone in your family know when a shared password is changed. … Read more

YouTube Music for Android gets a redesigned share sheet

Last updated: April 1st, 2024 at 12:11 UTC+02:00 Google is updating the YouTube Music app for Android with a redesigned share sheet, which looks more organized/sophisticated and takes up much less space on the display compared to the older one (via 9To5Google). The new share sheet design is the same as the one found in … Read more