Four iPhones are all it takes to turn almost anywhere into a motion capture studio

MAMMA uses four iPhones to capture complex human movement without tracking markers, showing how smartphone cameras could ...

The new Mac Mini goes back to the stingy ways at the hardware level

Apple’s new M6 and M5 Pro Mac minis solder their storage drives back onto the logic board, effectively killing that workaround. Furthermore, the base 256GB model now runs noticeably slower than its ...

Qualcomm wants your Android phone to become a PC gaming machine

Qualcomm is reportedly building official GPU drivers for PC game emulation on Android and may even bring DirectX 12 support, which could mean smoother gameplay and better compatibility.

Snapchat Lens+ Subscribers get five new AI tricks, including one that sings your messages

Snapchat is rolling out five new AI-powered Lens+ features, including Chat to Song, AI Photoshoot, AI Remix, sticker ...

Spotify is finally fixing one of the most annoying ways it eats your phone storage

Spotify is testing a Cache Limit setting on Android that lets you control how much space the app's temporary files take up, while leaving your downloads alone.

Forgot your Android phone’s PIN? Google could soon let you unlock your phone without wiping everything

Android 17 beta code reveals a new "Unlock with Google Account" feature that could replace factory resets for locked phones.

Apple’s Health app is a proper health dashboard. It can even book your blood work

Apple’s redesigned Health app uses Apple Intelligence to surface personalized insights, track long-term health through Longevity, and even schedule $119 Quest Diagnostics lab testing in the US.

Scientists turned a regular camera into a much cheaper solar-panel testing tool

Researchers showed that modified consumer camera hardware can measure useful solar-cell performance data, potentially lowering the cost of testing that normally depends on far more expensive ...

Discord’s controversial age checks are back, but most users won’t need to verify manually

Discord is rolling out its revised age-verification system, using account activity and other signals to classify most users while also adding new ways to confirm age that don’t require an ID or face ...

Remember that brutal human vs robot cage fight? Apparently, there’s an ‘insane’ demand for more

A viral human-versus-robot cage fight may have changed REK’s plans after the promoter said demand for more people fighting humanoid machines has been “insane.” ...

Beat a boss, watch an ad? Microsoft’s latest patent is for exactly that

A newly published Microsoft patent describes an ad-supported gaming system that waits for natural breaks, then pauses access and rewards players with more uninterrupted playtime after an ad.

Samsung’s AI fridge update went so badly that some refrigerators stopped refrigerating

A faulty Samsung SmartThings update reportedly sent internal test software to some Bespoke AI refrigerators, knocking out cooling and other functions and forcing the company to send engineers to ...