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How to improve your Android phone's battery life
Fix your Android’s worst power drains in under five minutes. You really shouldn't have to worry about your phone's battery levels dropping to half by noon, but here we are — a common frustration among Android users. As frustrating as the situation is, there are fairly easy fixes to this that can add hours back to your day and extend your battery's lifespan in the long run. Most Android phones are running out of…
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Aurora CFO says 30,000 driverless trucks by 2030 isn’t as far-fetched as it sounds
Autonomous vehicle technology company Aurora told investors last week that it expects to have more than 30,000 self-driving trucks on the road generating $5 billion in annual revenue by the end of 2030 — an audacious plan considering it expects to end 2026 with just 200 driverless trucks and an $80 million revenue run rate. CFO David Maday contends the seemingly outsized target isn’t as large or as out of reach as it might…
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California is banning public officials from making memecoins
The state has enacted several new rules around cryptocurrencies. California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed legislation aimed at restricting how elected leaders can leverage crypto for personal gain. The state's public officials are not permitted to issue memecoins, a form of cryptocurrency based on online jokes, trends or celebrities. The governor's office pointed to reports that about a million investors lost an alleged $3.8 billion on their purchases of the memecoin released by President…
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Apps & Logiciels
macOS 27: How to use the new ‘Notify Me’ feature in Safari
9to5Mac is brought to you by CleanMyMac by MacPaw. With the release of macOS 27 Golden Gate, use CleanMyMac first to free up space, optimize your system, and ensure your new Mac runs at 100% on day one. Learn more. One of the many new features included in macOS 27 Golden Gate is Safari’s new “Notify Me” feature, which lets users get alerted when a website updates content they’re interested in. Here’s how to…
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IA
Gemini app adding Google Wallet integration for ‘personalized insights’
The latest Gemini Connected App is Google Wallet for “information and personalized insights based on your saved info.” Once this integration is enabled, you can “get info from passes, such as loyalty cards, event tickets, and boarding passes.” Prompts include: The Plaid integration dates back to the Google Pay app and is only available for Google Wallet users in the US. This lets you ask prompts like: “How much did I spend on groceries…
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Smartphones
My iPhone hit 1,000 charge cycles — Here's how it's holding up
What's it like using an iPhone with a "consumed" battery? Here's my experience after three years. You may recall the "batterygate" controversy from 2017, where iPhone users reported that their iPhones noticeably slowed down as the batteries aged. Apple clarified that this was by design as a way to intentionally manage performance on devices with degraded batteries to keep them from unexpectedly shutting down. Lots of understandable criticism followed, which led to Apple introducing…
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Boeing "incredibly excited" to serve as nation's only astronaut transportation
NASA announced on Monday that it will exercise options to purchase two additional flights on Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, as well as financially support the company in its efforts to return the crewed vehicle to flight and find a new rocket after the Atlas V vehicle retires. The space agency’s announcement confirms reporting by Ars Technica earlier this month on NASA’s plans to maintain access to low-Earth orbit after the impending retirement of SpaceX’s Crew…
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Roundtables: The Deadly Failures of The Virtual Border Wall
Listen to the session or watch below The US has spent billions building a “virtual wall” of surveillance towers along its southern border over the past 25 years, promising they will help detect and apprehend border crossers and save lives. But a groundbreaking investigation by MIT Technology Review has documented over a thousand people who moved through areas watched by these towers without being reached or apprehended, and who ultimately died there. Some were…
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How to improve your FPS for better gaming (without buying new hardware)
You don't need a new GPU to increase your frame rates, but you'll need to turn off some fancy graphical enhancements. Generally, PC gamers care more about frame rates than their console-playing counterparts. And they should: as a platform, PC offers far greater levels of customization than consoles, letting you tweak all manner of graphical presets, output resolutions and advanced rendering techniques like ray tracing. But what if you're a PC player who doesn't…
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IA
Experts worry about Nvidia's AI chip sales in China and influence over Trump
On its face, the recent summit between Donald Trump and China’s president Xi Jinping didn’t change much in the world of AI regulation. Export controls were not discussed, with neither country seemingly interested in making concessions. An already tenuous trade truce was temporarily extended for just two months, and looming US controls that could drop soon could easily end that and trigger China to retaliate by cutting off exports of rare earths, analysts expect.…
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Smartphones
What’s new in Android’s September 2026 Google System Updates [U]
The monthly “Google System Release Notes” primarily detail what’s new in Play services, Play Store, and Play system update across Android phones/tablets, Wear OS, Google/Android TV, Auto, and PC. Some features apply to end users, while others are aimed at developers. The following first-party apps comprise the “Google System”: To update, open the Settings app > tap your name at the very top for “Google services” (on Pixel) > All services tab > Privacy…
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A Day in the Life of a Roboticist: Charlie Kemp
In this edition of our A Day in the Life of a Roboticist series, we meet Charlie Kemp, cofounder and chief technology officer of Hello Robot, who develops mobile manipulators to help people in their homes and workplaces. His interest in robotics began with the grand challenges of artificial intelligence, and his work has taken him from humanoid robots at MIT to assistive robots for older adults and people with disabilities. "Working at Hello…
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IA
AMD is acquiring AI company World Labs in a deal worth more than $8 billion
World Labs’ co-founder and CEO will become AMD’s chief scientist. World Labs’ co-founder and CEO will become AMD’s chief scientist. AMD announced today that it’s acquiring World Labs, an AI research lab co-founded by the prominent researcher Dr. Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock deal worth approximately $8.2 billion. World Labs launched in 2024 and was valued at $1 billion in a matter of months. The startup launched its first commercial product, a world generation…
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Source: Inference provider Modal Labs closing in on $750M round at $15.75B valuation
AI inference infrastructure provider Modal Labs is nearing a $750 million funding round led by Accel at a $15.75 billion valuation that includes the investment, according to a source with knowledge of the funding. The size of the round has not been previously reported, though Axios and Bloomberg have reported other details of the deal. The new round would more than triple Modal’s valuation from the $4.65 billion it reached when it announced its…
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IT & Science & Technology
SpaceX's Starship goes orbital, deploying first next-gen Starlinks
SpaceX's Starship rocket thundered into the sky over South Texas early Monday. It was the 14th test flight of the world's most powerful launch vehicle. This time, however, the rocket's massive upper stage squeezed out some extra oomph from its Raptor engines and accelerated to orbital velocity. On all of Starship's previous flights, SpaceX intentionally dialed back the full capability of the rocket to fly a suborbital trajectory, slow enough for Earth's gravity to…
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Accessoires
I miss wired earbuds, and Bose just fixed my biggest problem with them
What you need to know Bose has launched new $99 USB-C wired earbuds that bring active noise cancellation without needing a battery. The earbuds draw power directly from your device and support lossless playback with output fixed at 24-bit/48kHz. Bose offers Quiet, Aware, and ANC Off modes, with an inline remote for playback, volume, calls, and ANC controls. Bose has just launched a new pair of wired earbuds that come with active noise cancellation…
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IA
Faster, safer, smarter, cheaper: Anthropic makes the case for Claude Sonnet 5.5
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. With as fast as things move in AI, you can’t just innovate along one narrow axis and expect to get ahead. Outshining your competition means delivering palpable gains across a whole spectrum of angles — and somehow, the biggest AI models around keep managing to do that, nearly week after week. We already saw how Claude Sonnet 5 delivered some real benefits…
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Wearable
watchOS 27.0.1 is now available for all compatible Apple Watch models
Apple today expanded the availability of watchOS 27.0.1 to more Apple Watch models, following last week’s initial release for Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4. Here are the details. Last week, Apple released watchOS 27.0.1 exclusively for Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4, with a fix for an issue that could cause some devices to restart unexpectedly. Today, the company rolled out watchOS 27.0.1 for all other Apple…
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IA
Florida invokes extinction fears in legal bid to halt OpenAI development
The state of Florida is seeking a temporary injunction to stop OpenAI from continuing to develop what it calls a "reckless, unacceptably risky product" without the deployment of "third-party approved safety guardrails." The new legal motion, filed Monday morning, is part of a civil lawsuit the state of Florida originally filed in June, arguing that ChatGPT represented "a threat to the public safety of Floridians," specifically by preying on vulnerable populations like children and…
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IA
Gemini fully replaces Google Assistant on Android
At the start of September, the Google Assistant deprecation on mobile got underway. It now looks to be widely rolling out. Google has been moving Assistant users to Gemini over the past few weeks. This deprecation was originally set for 2025 and later extended to 2026. In early August, Google announced the final timeline. From various user reports today, this migration appears to be fully underway. Google Assistant is gone on all devices/accounts we…
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Your T-Mobile price lock guarantee won’t save you from this latest hike
Credit: Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR T-Mobile is notifying customers of an upcoming change to their monthly bills. The Regulatory Programs and Telco Recovery fee will increase by $1 per line for voice lines and $0.50 per line for mobile internet. The change is scheduled to go into effect on October 12, 2026. T-Mobile customers had a few things to be happy about last week. For example, a recent report suggests that the…
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AMD will acquire Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2 billion
AMD is acquiring World Labs, one of the leading developers of deep learning models intended to understand physical reality, in an $8.2 billion deal, the two companies said today. World Labs justified the deal in a statement saying that AI development required “close collaboration across model research, systems and compute.” AMD, in turn, says that understanding frontier workloads, like those created at World Labs, will shape its chip-making roadmap. The acquisition will see World…
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New device captures carbon dioxide by pumping it across a battery
Equipment to capture carbon dioxide from ambient air or smokestacks generally works through a sort of reversible filter. Air is passed through granules or a liquid that absorbs the CO2, then that CO2-loaded substance undergoes a process (usually heating) that causes it to let go of all that CO2. The resulting gas can be collected in a separated stream. It’s also possible to do a similar sort of operation on a smaller scale—like inside…
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Apps & Logiciels
Apple’s Taptic Engine patent defeat sends litigation funder’s shares up 9%
Shares in litigation funder Burford Capital jumped more than 9% today as a result of Apple’s $5.7 billion verdict over Taptic Engine patent infringement. Here are the details. Last Friday, a US jury ruled that Apple’s Taptic Engine infringes on two patents held by California-based company Taction Technology. Apple introduced the Taptic Engine in September 2014 with the first Apple Watch, and the technology has since expanded to other products, including the iPhone, where…
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