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A few months ago, we noticed a growing number of Galaxy Watch users experience a persistent battery drainage caused by Play Services. At the time, the problem was evident across multiple generations and models. The issue was resolved relatively quickly, only to return again.Sounds familiar? Wow! | Image by GraveeNito Once again, users in the r/GalaxyWatch subreddit have started sharing their battery stats, showing a frustrating issue is returning. It appears that Google Play Services has started consuming way more power than it should.The posted data shows widely varied consumption levels. Some users report Play Services accounts for around 12-20%…
Mina the Hollower has a total of seven main dungeons. The last dungeon is always the last dungeon, but the other six can be tackled in any order, despite the fact that the “intended” sixth dungeon is significantly harder, longer, and more confusing than any of the five prior. And yet, if you know what you’re doing or are incredibly lucky, you can walk right into the winding, deadly, rainbow-soaked Astral Orrery before you’ve even touched the baby-easy Queensbury Crypt. “Why let players do this?” I asked Yacht Club Games programmer David D’Angelo and designer Alec Faulkner. “Why would we…
Most marketers treat SEO data like a weather report: you check it when you remember, note the conditions, and hope things look better next time you log in. But static competitive intelligence is inherently limited in value. The landscape is shifting all the time. Your competitor just launched a new content hub. A backlink opportunity expired. A keyword you were targeting just got 10x harder to rank for as your rivals all published content in the past week. The Semrush API solves this value issue. Instead of manually pulling reports, you can programmatically access Semrush’s 26+ billion keywords, 808 million…
What even is a photograph these days?As tech giants pack generative AI capabilities into our phones and their camera software, the line between what is a real image and what isn’t continues to blur. Phones from Google and Samsung, for example, now come with features that let you drastically alter a photo by erasing people, moving people around in the shot, and even adding new objects to the scene.Apple is getting in on the action by adding new generative features to its Photos app, though the company’s iPhone camera chief, Jon McCormack, stresses that Apple is taking a more measured…
Google has just seeded the fourth beta of the Android 17 QPR1 feature drop, which gives us an early preview of everything that’s set to arrive to the platform this September. The latest update is currently heavy on bug fixes and doesn’t include any major new features, Which Pixels can try the latest beta?Currently, all recent Pixel phones can join the party aside from the Pixel 6 series. Don’t fret, Google intends to support these models with the next beta release, but the current one skips the Pixel 6 generation. Not a big issue, honestly. Google deviceBeta build numberGoogle Pixel 6a, Pixel…
Pokémon Go’s history of being used to collect data is well documented, with the AR scans people generate while playing the game being used to build AI-powered map models. Though players had to opt into the feature, many have expressed discomfort with the use of the monster-taming game’s in-app features to collect such data, and that discomfort has escalated as it has come out that Niantic Spatial, the separate company that owns all the original scans following developer Niantic’s acquisition by the Saudi-owned Scopely, entered into an agreement with Vantor, a provider of spatial intelligence that seeks to “deliver a…
The average marketing team’s tech stack tells five different stories about the same business. SEO rankings in one platform, AI visibility in another, website analytics somewhere else, campaign performance in a fourth, and an AI assistant that can’t access any of them. The data exists. But these tools simply weren’t built to all work together. Plus, search itself has fragmented. Google is no longer the only place your potential customers discover products, compare solutions, or form opinions about brands. Buyers ask ChatGPT for software recommendations. Developers search for tools and get detailed AI Overviews with recommendations instead of a ranked…
Brian Barrett: Noah, you are a celebrated, venerated national security journalist. You are. You have covered national security for a long time and you have covered, for lack of a better word, real spy stuff. You’ve been deep in it. How does that compare to this in terms of source handling in terms of the process here? Because it really rhymes, right?Noah Shachtman: Beyond. So look, for WIRED back in the day, I went to Iraq a couple of times. I went to Afghanistan. For WIRED, I reported on all the intelligence agencies. And I’ve never had a situation like…
When it comes to older apps that you don’t use anymore, do you uninstall them from your phones or do you leave them installed on the off chance that they might come in handy one day? In some cases, the developers of these apps might have dropped support for them, and Google might have removed these titles from the Play Store. If you weren’t informed about any of these actions, you could end up with these apps and their icons remaining on your device, creating a security risk.Google will soon inform Android users when an app they installed has lost…
The differences between video game consoles have been fading for years. Performance is generally in the same ballpark. Prices are often comparable. The only real question when a new console owner walks into a GameStop anymore is “Do you want to play God of War or Halo?” That changed when Microsoft shifted away from exclusives in a bid to sell more games. The platform has been facing an existential crisis ever since. Xbox’s recently appointed analyst-turned-chief strategist, Matthew Ball, articulated this challenge on stage earlier this week in a live interview with The Game Business at Summer Game Fest 2026. “For…