Gmail could finally be coming to your Android smartwatch
Home News Computing (Image credit: Future) Google’s latest attempt at a smartwatch has really given Apple something to worry about, but it’s not just the price that’s attractive, because new Wear OS devices like the Pixel Watch may soon be more capable than initially thought.According to rumours noticed by 9To5Google (opens in new tab), the
Something fishy’s afoot in Splatoon 3’s upcoming Big Run event
Home News Gaming (Image credit: Nintendo) It’s time for Splatoon 3 players to assemble for some Salmonid splattering, as Nintendo has announced dates for its upcoming Big Run co-op event. Big Run will take place from December 10 to 12 and sees Splatoon 3’s town of Splatsville overrun by Salmonid, the fish-hybrid creatures previously seen in
Microsoft Defender offers your enterprise a welcome security boost
Home News Computing (Image credit: Shutterstock) Microsoft’s Defender for Endpoint, the company’s endpoint security platform, is being updated to better help protect organizations from ransomware and other cyberthreats. In a recent announcement (opens in new tab), the company said that by having some features on by default, businesses will stand a better chance against evolving cyberattacks
Starfield may be lonely, but that’s exactly what Bethesda wants
Home News Gaming (Image credit: Microsoft) When it comes to Starfield’s expansive open world, you shouldn’t be scared of the isolation in this vast universe. In fact, the loneliness you may encounter hopping from one desolate world to another is exactly the tone developer Bethesda is going for.Rather than focusing on the horror of solo
This top security camera brand might be uploading photos to the cloud without you knowing
Home News Computing (Image credit: Shutterstock) A security researcher has claimed Eufy security cameras are uploading photos containing personally identifiable data to its servers, breaching not only its own key selling proposition but also the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). According to a report by Android Central (opens in new tab), security researcher Paul Moore
Why China Is Still Stuck in a Zero-Covid Nightmare
Scott Kennedy, senior adviser with the Washington, DC, think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies, visited China in October. “When I was there, it seemed clear to me that, privately, officials understood they needed to exit zero-Covid, and that plans were in the works to do so that would be implemented after the 20th
How to Make the Most of In-Person Conferences
“I’ve lost my social skills!” I texted to a friend while en route to my first in-person conference in four years. The workshop itself wasn’t new—I’d been to the same one every other year for the past decade. But between the last live one in 2018, the virtual one in 2020, and this one in 2022
Electric Vehicles Cut US Gas Consumption by a Measly 0.54%
Electric vehicles have never been more popular. Just about every automaker is in the midst of an electrification effort, spurred on by impending government regulations around the world aimed at reducing our dependency on fossil fuels. But is the movement having an effect? Here in the US, plug-in vehicles are selling better than ever, despite
Pliocene-Like Monsoons Are Returning to the American Southwest
Leaf waxes also predate climate records from Antarctic ice cores, which go back only about a million years and require a climate that can support ice. One study used leaf waxes to glimpse the climate of a warmer Spain some 15 to 17 million years ago. Another looked at the moisture history of Southwest Africa for the past
Effective Altruism Is Pushing a Dangerous Brand of ‘AI Safety’
Since then, the quest to proliferate larger and larger language models has accelerated, and many of the dangers we warned about, such as outputting hateful text and disinformation en masse, continue to unfold. Just a few days ago, Meta released its “Galactica” LLM, which is purported to “summarize academic papers, solve math problems, generate Wiki articles, write