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Bypass charging helps extend the lifespan of your smartphone with little to no effort, and it's now available on newer Pixel devices. Here's how the feature works, which Android phones support it, and how to enable it.

Android Authority

Here are all the phones that support bypass charging, and why you should use it

Few phones on the market can draw power directly from the wall, bypassing the battery while charging. But are the benefits tangible enough?

techhelpkb 1 year ago

Experts believe that one day, quantum computers could make today’s systems of encryption utterly obsolete. But Google says its new “breakthrough” Willow chip is nowhere near ready for that.

The Verge

Google says its breakthrough quantum chip can’t break modern cryptography

Come learn what a CRQC is — even if Google doesn’t have one yet.

techhelpkb 1 year ago

Google has released an update to the Privacy Dashboard for Android devices, bringing a new 7-day view of permissions-related activity.

ExtremeTech

Google Rolls Out Extended Privacy Dashboard View to Android 15 Devices

Android now offers users extended visibility into app permissions usage, enhancing privacy control and security awareness on their devices.

techhelpkb 1 year ago

Google Quantum AI founder H. Neven wrote that this chip was so mind-boggling fast that it must have borrowed computational power from other universes, indicating that parallel universes exist and “we live in a multiverse.”

TechCrunch

Google says its new quantum chip indicates that multiple universes exist | TechCrunch

Google announced its latest quantum chip, Willow. But what really caught the industry's attention was a wild claim tucked into the blog post.

techhelpkb 1 year ago

Linux Mint is an impressive Linux distribution. The user experience has been getting better with subtle and some significant changes.

It's FOSS

Here's How Linux Mint is Silently Redefining User Experience

A lot of people like Linux Mint. Do you know why? We think it's the user experience.

techhelpkb 1 year ago

Cloudflare has shared some statistics regarding just how much everyone around the world has been surfing this year — and their figures show a huge increase in internet traffic globally.

Global internet traffic grew significantly in 2024, and that's not all | PCWorld

techhelpkb 1 year ago

Starting today, Google Wallet can carry a digital copy of your US passport and use them at Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) checkpoints.

Engadget

Google Wallet can now hold your US passport

Certain TSA checkpoints will accept a digital copy of your US passport in Google Wallet.

techhelpkb 1 year ago

The first wave of Apple Intelligence features didn’t include much in the way of AI image generation. But that’s changing in a big way very soon with the release of iOS 18.2.

9to5Mac

iOS 18.2 adds three powerful image creation features to Apple Intelligence

Apple Intelligence will add three key Image Tools in iOS 18.2, including the highly anticipated Genmoji. Here’s everything new that’s coming.

techhelpkb 1 year ago

The Windows tool Diskpart overwrites all data on the hard drive with a zero, which is considered a secure deletion method. Here's how to use it.

This obscure Windows tool securely and utterly deletes hard drive data | PCWorld

techhelpkb 1 year ago

Cybersecurity professionals sprayed their screens with coffee this week as Microsoft claimed, "security is our top priority," as it talked up its Secure Future Initiative and explained how Windows could be secured.

Microsoft aims for better Windows security

Did we say CrowdStrike? We meant, er, The July Incident...

techhelpkb 1 year ago

A new open-source AI system, OpenScholar, is promising to rewrite the rules for how researchers access, evaluate, and synthesize scientific literature. It even outperforms much larger proprietary models like GPT-4o. https://venturebeat.com/ai/openscholar-the-open-source-a-i-thats-outperforming-gpt-4o-in-scientific-research/

techhelpkb 1 year ago

Signal Messenger update brings support for Windows on Arm devices running Qualcomm processors, enhancing the encrypted messenger app's speed and responsiveness.

Windows Central

Edward Snowden

techhelpkb 1 year ago

The headline security feature announced at Ignite 2024 is Quick Machine Recovery. The feature allows IT admins to execute targeted fixes from Windows Update remotely, even if a PC is unable to boot.

Windows Central

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Quick Machine Recovery is a new feature for Windows 11 that helps IT admins fix PCs that are unable to boot.

techhelpkb 1 year ago

If you Google it, you’ll find every site suggesting that you restart your phone regularly. Most sources agree that a reboot every week or two is sufficient, although some even say daily is even better. But is it?

Android Authority

Myth-busting: Do you really need to restart your phone regularly?

Everyone from the manufacturers to the NSA says that it's a good idea to restart your phone regularly. But is it true? We're skeptical.

techhelpkb 1 year ago

Google appears to be readying a new feature called Shielded Email that allows users to create email aliases when signing up for online services and better combat spam.

The Hacker News

Gmail's New Shielded Email Feature Lets Users Create Aliases for Email Privacy

Google launches Shielded Email, enabling unique aliases for sign-ups to boost privacy and reduce spam.

techhelpkb 1 year ago

Open-source software is a bit of a modern miracle. Here are some of the excellent reasons why open-source software is better than the commercial alternative.

XDA

5 ways open-source software can save you time and money

Here's how using open-source software feels great, has a host of benefits, and can save you some serious money.

techhelpkb 1 year ago

In a new study, scientists with MIT, Harvard and Cornell found that the large language models (LLMs), like GPT-4 or Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus, fail to produce underlying models that accurately represent the real world.

Live Science

Large language models not fit for real-world use, scientists warn — even slight changes cause their world models to collapse

Large language model AIs might seem smart on a surface level but they struggle to actually understand the real world and model it accurately, a new...

techhelpkb 1 year ago

On Windows 11, if you have multiple hard drives, you can combine them into a single large volume to avoid fragmenting your data manually across those drives.

Windows Central

How to span storage to multiple drives on Windows 11

You can combine multiple drives to create a single volume to store data in one place, and here

techhelpkb 1 year ago

Apple is facing a nearly $4B lawsuit after a British consumer group alleged that the company breached competition law by locking millions of its customers out of its iCloud service and charging them "rip-off prices." Isn't rip-off pricing Apple's entire model?

MacRumors

Apple Accused of Trapping 40 Million UK Customers Into iCloud Service

Apple is facing an almost £3 billion ($3.78 billion) lawsuit after British consumer group Which? on Thursday alleged that the company breached com...

techhelpkb 1 year ago

Recently, some of that AI "scaling law" optimism has been replaced by fears that we may already be hitting a plateau in the capabilities of large language models trained with standard methods.

Ars Technica

What if AI doesn’t just keep getting better forever?

New reports highlight fears of diminishing returns for traditional LLM training.