Samsung has become the latest phone maker to get ahead of right-to-repair legislation by helping customers fix their own devices. Starting this summer, Samsung says it will sell genuine parts and tools to customers needed to repair its Galaxy S20 and Galaxy S21 smartphones, along with its Galaxy Tab S7+ tablet. The company, which is partnering with device repair resource iFixit on the initiative, will also provide access to step-by-step repair guides, and it plans to support more devices and rep
From film and digital portfolios to the infinite scroll of social media, photography has long fueled our imagination, evolving in step with our technology while helping us distill a timeless version of reality. Think about flipping through your camera roll. Colors, faces, landscapes whizzing by. Photos have the power to transport you. And yet the destination remains two-dimensional, no matter how high the pixel count or how masterful the composition. Imagine the reality-altering effe
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In 2020, Dr. Muneeb Shah started posting on TikTok out of boredom. As a resident dermatologist at Campbell University in North Carolina, he figured he’d make videos about skin issues that frequently came up during his clinic sessions. Two years later, he’s still posting the same kind of content—but now with 13.8 million TikTo
For all the meetings most of us seem to have on our calendars these days, you’d think the act of scheduling would be a heck of a lot easier. Sure, Google Calendar has its own built-in booking system, which is rolling out slowly but surely as we speak. But that system is available only for paying Workspace customers, and it feels more imitative than innovative. The source of its inspiration is pretty clearly Calendly—the de facto standard scheduling tool for business professionals.
For the third time in seven years, Washington and Brussels have shaken hands on a deal to keep customer data flowing—and to keep a certain American social network afloat—across the Atlantic. The new Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework’s provisions for E.U. individuals to seek redress against overreaching U.S. intelligence collection may or may not survive court scrutiny in Europe. But this much about the arrangement seems clear: Once again, U.S. inaction on privacy has let
When the British army liberated the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April 1945, they found horrors so shocking that a journalist’s eyewitness reports to the BCC were held for days because their veracity was in doubt. “We lived among heaps of bodies,” says Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, a survivor of the camp whose firsthand experience at both Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz is now memorialized in a 130-minute video testimony. In the 1998 video, she tells an interviewer from the USC
Anti-vaxxers in public office. QAnon supporters on the school boards. According to a number of media outlets, we are living in a “golden age of conspiracy theories.” Except, maybe we’re not. A new report from Google’s Jigsaw group explains how conspiracy theories are, in fact, no more numerous than in the past. Rather, it’s the distribution and means of proliferation that’s changed—the technology and internet platforms that focus more attention on
The fusing of Sony’s PlayStation Plus and PlayStation Now services was inevitable. Not only did the two subscription offerings individually fall short of Microsoft’s Game Pass offerings, the similar names of the offerings created confusion among some users. So Tuesday’s announcement that a new combined service would launch in June didn’t pack the punch that many gamers were hoping for. Instead of picking up the gauntlet Microsoft threw at its feet, Sony continues to p
Otter, the AI-powered meeting transcription service, is rolling out a set of new features designed to boost collaboration even after meetings are over. The company’s Otter Assistant can already find meeting invitations in your Google or Outlook calendar, automatically join meetings on platforms such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams, and transcribe them for you—even when you can’t attend the meetings yourself. Now, a new newsfeed-style view integrates calendar information directly
On the internet, no one knows you’re a dog. But what about at work? Running a people business is anything but dull. And when you employ enough people—especially in a remote-first, distributed company—you’re guaranteed to run into interesting questions about identity. With new paradigms of distributed computing and cryptographic identifiers erupting around us with blockchains, NFTs, and web3, I’m left wondering: Is there a better way than how w