That’s so metal. | Image: Samsung Samsung has formally announced its winter Unpacked — coming right on the heels of CES and just down the street from some of its biggest competitors’ HQs. As previously leaked announced, the event is scheduled for Wednesday, January 17th. It’ll be hosted at the SAP Center, because nothing says “go big or go home” like an NHL arena.The company says we’ll see the “newest additions to the Galaxy mobile device portfolio,” which is all but guaranteed to be the S24 series. AI will be a major focus — no surprise there. Rumors have also pointed to the S24 Ultra getting a new titanium build — that should ring a bell if you’ve seen literally any advertisement for the iPhone 15 Pro — and the 3D metallic graphic in the event invitation certainly... Continue reading…

Samsung has been gearing up for its live Galaxy Unpacked event, which it unveiled today is slated for January 17, and many are speculating about what the company will debut. Among the products expected to launch is the new Galaxy series, presumably the S24 lineup of phones. As usual, Samsung wants to sweeten the deal for potential customers with a cash-based offer.

The new Ultraloq Bolt Fingerprint Matter smart lock brings Matter-over-Thread support to the company’s line-up. | Image: U-Tec Smart lock manufacturer U-tec has announced the first deadbolt smart lock with a fingerprint reader to support Matter-over-Thread. A fingerprint reader is the fastest and easiest way to unlock a smart lock, and Matter-over-Thread connectivity should solve two of the biggest issues of smart locks: poor battery life and poor connectivity.With most connected locks on the market today, you get either a year of battery life but are stuck with the limited range and smart home compatibility of Bluetooth or just a few months of battery life but all the smart home connections you can eat over Wi-Fi. Thread, with its low-power mesh network, is specifically designed to help battery-operated devices last longer, and the new smart home standard... Continue reading…

Horrible. 0/10. The thing about CAPTCHAs is that they’re old enough to drink. The bots are better at them than I am. So why am I still being asked to fill them out?I am not talking about the inoffensive ones with the puzzle pieces. I am not talking, even, about matching or rotating shapes. I am talking, specifically, about the grid of insane photos — the kind of thing you may be familiar with from Google’s reCAPTCHA system. If you are looking for a measured take on why they exist or the efforts to build replacements, go read this. I am not feeling measured, although I will resentfully note that CAPTCHA exists in order to stop bots and does an okay job at it. You know how I am feeling? Furious.I was trying to buy tickets to a double-feature of Blade... Continue reading…

If you're using a great Linux distribution like Ubuntu, or even another Linux flavor like Linux Mint, you'll probably have to take a screenshot one time or another. Regardless of whether you want to share a part of a document or take a picture of your screen, there's more than one way you can take a screenshot on Linux, depending on which distribution you're using. The most common method is to use the Print Screen key, but you can also use the built-in Screenshot application or even a third-party tool like GIMP. More sophisticated users might also want to consider using the terminal.

The curved Odyssey OLED G9 above the flat OLED G6 and G8. | Image: Samsung Samsung has announced a trio of new gaming monitors ahead of CES 2024. There’s the 49-inch curved ultra-wide Odyssey OLED G9 (G95SD), the 32-inch flat Odyssey OLED G8 (G80SD), and the 27-inch flat Odyssey OLED G6 (G60SD). The latter two are the first flat monitors Samsung has brought to its Odyssey lineup.Because I’m a simple man with simple wants, the Odyssey OLED G6 is the most interesting of these models to me on paper. That’s because of its frankly excessive 360Hz refresh rate, which it pairs with a 1440p resolution and 16:9 aspect ratio. Samsung Display announced the start of mass manufacturing of these super-fast OLED panels last month, and the likes of Dell and MSI also appear to be making use of them in their upcoming monitors. ... Continue reading…

A week ahead of CES 2024, Samsung has announced three new Odyssey gaming monitors. All the new monitors have OLED panels and put top-notch image quality first. Notably, one of the highlights is Samsung's first flat panel 32-inch 4K resolution OLED gaming monitor.

In November 2023, details of a range of AMD Ryzen 8000G APUs leaked online. While we didn't have all the specifications available then, more information has surfaced showing us what these chips can do. Now, AMD Ryzen 5 8600G Hawk Point benchmarks have appeared online, and it sheds some light on how this new 8000 range will shape up.

A media server is a fantastic investment for your home theater setup. It not only provides video streaming services but also serves as a centralized hub for all your media files. Luckily, you don’t need to spend a fortune on a new media playback system. A cheap single-board computer like the Raspberry Pi is more than enough to run a lightweight media server OS. This guide will cover all the steps required to convert your spare Raspberry Pi into a full-fledged media server.

Apple is famous for its "it just works" philosophy, with a wide suite of products that behave intuitively with each other and the way users expect. This execution largely depends on the company's tight ecosystem, in which iOS 17 and macOS Sonoma work as a single unit through system-level interoperability. As a result, once a customer gives in and adopts the company's hardware, software, and services, they will likely feel stuck with these devices.

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge A new patent granted to Apple details how the company is thinking of using the Vision Pro’s external display to show what the wearer is looking at inside the device.The patent, which includes Jony Ive as an inventor, details ways an outside screen on a generic head-mounted display could be used to indicate what the wearer is seeing to people around them. While the patent isn’t specifically about the Vision Pro and its “EyeSight” display feature, it’s clear that some of the ideas here informed the features in the final headset.For example, Apple has talked publicly about how the outer screen on the Vision Pro can let outsiders see the eyes of the person wearing the headset or display a colorful pattern that indicates the wearer is fully... Continue reading…

Photo by Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty Images Pornhub has restricted access in two more states in protest of continued nationwide state-level efforts to regulate online access to porn. 404Media reported that residents in both North Carolina and Montana visiting Pornhub and other Aylo-owned sites like Redtube or Brazzers are now greeted by a video of performer Cherie DeVille, and a handful of paragraphs, telling them their states are now blocked. Aylo began blocking access in the states last week, according to reporting from multiple outlets including The Fayetteville Observer and KRTV in Great Falls, Montana. The move is meant to protest laws that went into effect in both states on January 1st. Montana passed a standalone ID verification law in May, and North Carolina’s new law was... Continue reading…