Summary Apple’s HomeKit Secure Video is a compelling choice thanks to its generous iCloud+ storage plan. The platform also offers face recognition, which can try to identify the people who appear on your smart home cameras or video doorbells. What Is HomeKit Secure Video Face Recognition? HomeKit Secure Video is a feature of Apple’s smart home ecosystem that allows you to store recordings from your smart home cameras and video doorbells in iCloud....

Summary Is a video game a job or a form of recreation? Most people would pick the second option, but if you look at how obsessive some players are about “100%-ing” their games, it seems that the grind doesn’t stop when they clock out of their day jobs. What Does It Mean to 100% Complete a Game Anyway? This might sound like a silly question, but when have you actually finished a game?...

Quick Links Summary The emergence of generative AI has opened new doors for creatives. These tools can be used to create unique art, which has historically been a way for humans to express emotion. Arguably, the most interesting one is music, which follows certain rules, but how good is AI at making music if it doesn’t even have a pair of ears to enjoy it? What Is MusicFX? MusicFXis one of Google’s latest generative AI tools (or, should I say, toys) that allows you to create new music based on a simple prompt....

Summary Notification summaries might be a useful feature for AI to tackle, but the true star of Apple Intelligence is Genmoji. Creating your own emoji pictures on the fly is fun and could even be helpful in communication. However, its speed is its major flaw. Genmoji Is an Apple Intelligence Feature Worth Improving The flashiest part of many artificial intelligence products is image generation. It’s still novel and, frankly, a bit mind-blowing....

It takes a steady hand to safely remove a battery from an iPhone. Now, in a new teardown video, iFixit is showing how the iPhone 16’s battery can be replaced without any tugging, pulling, or cutting—a small electric charge is all it takes. Improved repairability is, to our surprise, adefining featureof the iPhone 16. Apple totally rejigged the interior of the iPhone 16 lineup and introduced a Repair Assistant feature that lets you configure third-party replacement parts as if they are genuine Apple-made components....

Quick Links Summary Apple just introduced the new iPhone 16e (not the iPhone SE 4), with an A18 chipset and Apple Intelligence, making it sound similar to the baseline iPhone 16. However, there are a few critical differences that you should know about before making a decision. iPhone 16e Has a Notch at the Front When you holdthe iPhone 16ein your hand, the first thing you’ll notice is the return of the notch at the top (like the one on theiPhone 14)....

The most popular Linux distribution for phones and tablets is (probably) postmarketOS, and there’s a new release to get excited about. postmarketOS v25.06 comes with new versions of KDE Plasma Mobile and GNOME, and it supports more devices like the Pixel 3A XL. postmarketOS is an Alpine Linux-based distribution built primarily for phones and tablets, including devices that were originally released with Android. It supports mobile GNOME, KDE Plasma Mobile,Phosh,Sxmo, and other graphical environments, with most of the functionality you would expect from desktop Linux....

Quick Links Summary With a new OLED screen and the thinnest profile of any Apple product, the M4 iPad Pro arrived with a bang at Apple’s May 2024 event. So are the upgrades enough for an M2 iPad Pro user to shell out and upgrade? Let’s find out. The Thinnest Apple Product Ever Looking at the two models, you might not be able to see many differences. That is because both the M4 iPad Pro andthe M2 iPad Prolook the same until you look at a lot closer....

Quick Links While the default notifications experience is great in the Windows Phone Link app, it could be better. Luckily, the app allows you to customize it so it suits your needs better. Let’s look at how to do that. 1Pin Important Notifications Sometimes, we see a notification and make a mental note to view it later, only to forget it exists or let it get buried when other notifications flood in....

Summary As 2024 heads ever closer to a new year, I am rapidly approaching my five-year VR anniversary. Around this time in 2019, I acquired an HTC Vive kit and spent the next few months beefing up my PC in order to support the VR infrastructure. So, to put it mildly, I was right on time to embrace the VR renaissance due to COVID-19. Now, after all those years of fun on the first-generation Vive, I am ready for something new....

Every year, for one day only, people from around the world unite to observe, appreciate, and understand the moon’s appearance, science, and links to the art and cultural world. This time around, NASA is celebrating Observe the Moon night with a Twitch livestream. International Observe the Moon Night is on one September or October night every year, when the moon is near its first-quarter waxing phase—the best conditions for appreciating our satellite....

Summary I started crafting a smart home around 2012 with a set of Hue bulbs and the first canister-looking Alexa. Now, after years of slowly migrating to fully embrace Apple’s HomeKit, Siri’s inability to turn on and off certain lights reliably is about to burn everything down. The Problems Keep Spiraling In baseball parlance, neither Siri nor Apple’s Home app has ever batted 1.000. There have always been times when it wouldn’t turn on or off a connected device....

Quick Links Prime Day is just around the corner, and there are already some early tech sales available. This week, you can get Sony’s 85-inch Ultra HD TV for its lowest price of the year, save a large chunk of change on a portable SSD from SanDisk, and much more. Sony X80K Series 85-Inch 4K Google TV For $2,196 ($250 Off) — Best Price of the Year If you choose to invest in this premiumSony X80K Series 85-Inch 4K Google TV, you don’t just get a UHD television–it comes with a built-in A5000 Dolby Atmos soundbar, as well....