Late last month, the folks over at Android Police posted a pretty interesting feature that might come to a future version of Android — “Ok Google everywhere” — along with a major revamp of the navigation buttons and the recents menu. Now, they have revealed more information about this revamp and it looks like Google is getting ready to give the launcher a drastic overhaul. According to the rumor, the new recents menu is going to play a more important role and will allow users to launch apps as well from a “hot seat”....

Version 4.2 lets you direct an alarm to gradually increase in volume, should you need that extra boost to get out of bed. so, has moved the overflow menu button (three vertical dots) to the top right of the screen. The menu bar is also transparent, keeping in line with ’s llipop Marshmallow design aesthetic. You’re also able to select a separate ringtone for both timers alarms. Version 4.2 is in the ay Store on A Mirror....

Lucasfilm has released two new videos that highlight some of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’s many easter eggs. There are a lot of exciting developments happening in the world of Star Wars. After a ten year break between Revenge of the Sith and The Force Awakens, the movies are now coming once a year; every two years the main story - which began all the way back in 1977 - gets a new chapter, and in the years between audiences are shown a glimpse of other stories which happened “a long time ago in a galaxy far far away....

Roku streaming devices gained the Apple TV app last month for viewing Apple TV+ shows as well as content from HBO, Showtime, and other Apple TV Channels. Now Roku customers are gaining a convenient new way to control the viewing experience from the Apple Watch. Roku announced a new version (specifically 6.1.3) of its remote control app for iPhone today that will bring features like navigating and searching for what to watch to the Apple Watch....

Regé-Jean Page is best known for his role in the History Channel’s 2016 remake of Roots, but what other shows and films has the British-Zimbabwean actor been in? The original Roots miniseries aired in 1977 on ABC and was based on the novel Roots: The Saga Of An American Family by writer Alex Haley. The series tells the tale of Kunta Kinte (The West Wing’s John Amos) – a young man abducted from his Gambian village and sold into slavery in the U....

2016 was a rough year for a lot of people, but for Sony Pictures, it was especially dreadful. The company’s only high-profile successes were The Angry Birds Movie ($350 million worldwide) and Mei Ren Yu, a.ka. The Mermaid (which did $554 million worldwide, but only $3 million domestically). Ghostbusters and The Magnificent Seven failed to validate their inflated budgets and Passengers didn’t fare much better. While smaller projects like The Shallows and Sausage Party managed to turn a profit, it wasn’t enough to prevent the company from treading water at best....

As expected Samsung has launched the Galaxy A22 5G in India. Earlier this month Samsung had introduced 4G version of Galaxy A22. The new 5G variant arrives with a few changes and Samsung’s two years of OS update guarantee. Samsung Galaxy A22 5G Features and Specifications Samsung Galaxy A22 5G comes equipped with a 6.6-inch 90Hz display as opposed to the 6.4-inch on 4G version. However, the display on 5G variant offers HD resolution while the 4G comes with FHD display....

Asus ROG Phone 5 Ultimate is an impressive gaming smartphone that comes out of the box with Android 11. The device gets powerful hardware and also promised to receive regular security patch update and bug fixes. However, it’s not a new case when some of the users haven’t received the latest firmware OTA update notification. Meanwhile, some of the ROG Phone 5 Ultimate owners also look for the stock ROM to install mostly....

UPDATE: The Digital Bits is reporting there is little chance of this happening, based on comments made by Disney’s Theo Gluck and Fox’s Shawn Belston at a presentation. The original cut negatives exist within the special editions, and no reconstruction work has been done to date. Original article follows. - This year marks the 20th anniversary of the release of the special editions of the original Star Wars trilogy. The alternate cuts provided viewers with an opportunity to see the groundbreaking saga on the big screen once more, but many longtime fans were left perturbed by the changes George Lucas made to the Oscar-winning films....

Say the word “Samsung” to someone who owns an HTC One or an iPhone 5 and they’ll laugh. Why? Because Samsung’s phones are made out of plastic, while HTC’s flagship and Apple’s flagship are made out of metal. It’s a perfectly valid reason to not buy Samsung’s products, and even I admit that I put up with Samsung’s plastic because I appreciate the other things they do in terms of providing timely software updates and add new features like the S-Pen....

The Galaxy Note 8 is an impressive device by all means, but its measly 3300mAh battery has many people worried about its battery life. After all, a 3300mAh battery powering a device with a 6.3-inch QHD+ display, an octa-core processor, and iris scanner seems like a recipe for disastrous battery life. In fact, this is even smaller than the 3500mAh battery which Samsung has used on the Galaxy S8+ featuring a 6....

Unlike the Huawei P20 Pro, Samsung’s three-camera arrangement won’t set a new benchmark in the industry which is expected considering the price. It consists of a regular 24-megapixel f/1.7 lens, an 8-megapixel wide-angle sensor, and a third 5-megapixel f/2.2 snapper for depth-sensing. On the front too, the Galaxy A7 offers a high-res 24-megapixel selfie camera which the company says is capable of letting in more light by pixel binning. Apart from that, though, the Galaxy A7 is your usual mid-range smartphone....

aderboard Tamper otection is a new tool for Android developers targeted at ending this practice. It’s one of many new As is offering game developers who want to improve the Android gaming experience. Another new plugin makes it easier for developers to let you save your progress. This way if you’re interrupted by a phone call or need to jump into another app, you’ll be able to pick up where you left off....

Last year, Red Hat decided to stop supporting CentOS 8 and shifted focus to CentOS Stream. CentOS had some huge enterprise users, among them Disney, GoDaddy, RackSpace, Toyota, and Verizon. In response, Greg Kurtzer, one of CentOS’s founders, kicked off Rocky Linux in December 2020. Seven months later, the Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation (RESF) released the first stable release of Rocky Linux 8.4. And now Kurtzer’s firm, CIQ, the founding sponsor and services partner behind Rocky Linux, has secured $26 million in Series A funding led by Two Bear Capital....

The Galaxy J4 Core sports a 6-inch HD+ 720 x 1480 pixels display on the front which is a TFT LCD panel, a considerable upgrade from its predecessor, the J2 Core which had a qHD display. Under the hood, the Galaxy J4 Core houses a quad-core chip clocked at 1.4 GHz which is still unnamed, but given that it is a budget-centric device, we expect it to feature the Exynos 7270 SoC which was also found on the J2 Core....

It’s been a bit of time since the Galaxy Mega initially launched, and now Samsung has officially unveiled the (large) device’s successor — with an even bigger handset. The device went official on Monday, September 22, and it’s the successor to the Galaxy Mega 5.8 that launched in 2013. The successor offers a 6-inch 720p HD display, which means it’s just a bit bigger than the 5.8-inch model from last year....

I normally shy away from operator specific announcements because I recognize that a lot of you probably buy your smartphones like I do, fully unlocked and unsubsidized, but this next bit of a “news” is actually important. According to a leaked document from the office supply store chain Staples, Samsung’s Galaxy S4, the AT&T model, will go on sale on April 26th. That’s less than two weeks away. On the first of May the T-Mobile variant will be available....

And it’s not horribly expensive. though it is a couple hundred dollars more than the Commuter Trucker cket on which it is based, the $350 jacket is set to go on sale in the fall (pushed back from its original spring launch), is presumably the first in a full line of smart clothes. demoed the jacket at SXS like a smartwatch, the technology is concentrated on the part of the sleeve near your wrist....

There’s little doubt in my mind that the Moto X is an incredible phone. Unfortunately, I’m living on the “wrong” side of the planet. You see, in order to buy a Moto X, you have to live either in the USA, Canada, or a handful of countries in Latin America. Why the limited roll out? Beats me. Anyway, rumor has it that a cheaper version of the Moto X will be rolling out to a broader international audience....

It turns out that the spinoff movie Rogue One: A Star Wars Story originated as the pitch for a live-action Star Wars TV series. Rogue One is part of Disney and Lucasfilm’s ambitious plans to release a new Star Wars movie annually, with the first three years in between the “main” installments (Episodes VII, VIII and IX) being filled by spinoffs set in different time periods, regions and even genres in the broader Star Wars universe, in order to space out the various production periods....