Modern Android phones are awesome, but man, they are greedy. My Samsung Fold 4 can do pretty much anything I need in a compact package, but it sucks down juice like a technology journalist at an open bar. So I sometimes have to rein my phone in, persuading it to pace itself so we will both still have some get-up-and-go to spare.
Here are 10 tips for extending the battery life of your Android phone.
Lower the brightness
The most power-hungry pa
John Fetterman had a neat way of saying “Hi everybody!” to his entire electorate recently. The Pennsylvania U.S. Senate candidate tweeted a video comparing his opponent, Dr. Mehmet Oz, to The Simpsons quack Dr. Nick Riviera—an alumnus of Hollywood Upstairs Medical College—using clips of Oz’s many dubious miracle cures. The video proved so brutally effective that a wide array of media outlets contributed to its virality, doing the candidate’s work for
U.S. customers can now enjoy a seemingly ever-improving selection of new electric vehicles across a wide price range. But while these new EVs differ in cost and specification, they typically have at least one thing in common: They’re mostly trucks and SUVs.
According to the website Electrek, 6 out of the 10 best-selling EVs in the U.S. are considered SUVs by either their maker or a government regulatory agency. And these vehicles weigh a lot. For example, the all-electric Fo
When you think of Google Maps, the first thing that springs to mind may be, well, maps—flat representations of streets and locations. For all their comprehensiveness and intelligence, they still have a lot in common with a Rand McNally Road Atlas from the previous century.
But as Google charts a future for the mapping app, it’s increasingly focusing on features that go beyond its most obvious responsibility of directing you from one point to another. Today, at a
Google announced a suite of new features meant to simplify the shopping experience on Search at its annual Search On event on Wednesday.
Personalization is key when it comes to a platform that has more than 35 billion product listings on its shopping graph, its AI-enhanced model that connects things like product data that is utilized to show users relevant listings. Google says that, starting later this year, consumers will be able to get tailored results on Search. In order t
Ahead of an expected initial public offering later this year, Instacart is launching a slew of new features as part of a health initiative aimed at making healthy foods more accessible.
The Instacart Health project touts three goals: simplifying healthy grocery shopping, improving nutrition security, and bolstering the concept of food as medicine.
“Study after study have shown that some of America’s biggest health problems are actually food pr
Gig work has transformed transportation, hospitality, and food. Why not law, too?
Lawtrades, a legal gig work platform founded by Raad Ahmed and Ashish Walia, launched its app this month to help connect its 2,000-plus legal professionals with customers (mostly mid-market and enterprise companies). The goal is for corporate attorneys to essentially run their own practices and take back their time.
For Ahmed, the idea for the app was spurred by first-person accoun
Lyft debuted autonomous vehicles on Thursday for riders in Austin through a partnership with self-driving startup Argo AI and Ford.
The announcement marks Lyft’s latest foray into the autonomous vehicle (AV) space via partnership. Lyft is far from alone on that front: Competitors, including Uber and DoorDash, have also worked with outside autonomous companies to bring robots to consumers.
Gig companies have long eyed automation as a means to cut down cost
On Monday, an app designed to help pull timely information from email messages, like package tracking numbers, was unveiled by one of the companies that helped bring email to the masses: Yahoo.
While many people have moved on from their Yahoo addresses since the company’s heydey in the Web’s infancy—Yahoo first launched free email accounts 25 years ago in October 1997—the company says that one in four U.S. consumers still has a Yahoo Mail accou
Meta said Thursday it has figured out how to teach an AI to create original video content based on text input. The result is a still-in-development generative tool called “Make-a-Video.” You might type in “make a video of a dog riding a horse,” and voilà: AI creates the image. The system can also create videos based on images or other video fed into the system.
That could be great, even revolutionary, for content creators—but also a boo