Enlarge / The “detach video” option Opera provides for YouTube and similar videos is really nice—aside from detaching the video from the browser, it strips off the useless control/info elements that tend to not-so-accidentally ugly up your video when you pause it. Jim Salter When the topic of Web browsers comes up, most people only …
The Lenovo ThinkPad T14S is one of the company’s premium business models. The Lenovo ThinkPad X13 Yoga is a convertible, the latest in a line of Lenovo convertibles Ars reviewers have liked. Lenovo’s L13 Yoga and L14. Lenovo has announced updates to its ThinkPad lineup with a number of improvements, chief among them the option …
The IQoo 3. The front and back. The added heat from the separate 5G modem melted the wallpaper into lava. iQoo The back, with many cameras. iQoo The sides have these shoulder buttons for gaming, which is neat. A lovingly detailed render of the bottom. iQoo Hey look! A headphone jack. It’s Qualcomm’s world, and …
Firefox will start switching browser users to Cloudflare’s encrypted-DNS service today and roll out the change across the United States in the coming weeks. “Today, Firefox began the rollout of encrypted DNS over HTTPS (DoH) by default for US-based users,” Firefox maker Mozilla said in an announcement scheduled to go live at this link Tuesday morning. …
Diamond City Fenway Park in Boston, as seen in Apple Maps’ Look Around feature. Samuel Axon The US Capitol Building in Look Around. The Philadelphia Museum of Art in Look Around. Samuel Axon Boston Public Garden in Look Around. Samuel Axon The White House in Look Around—or about as close as you can get, anyway. …
The Sony Xperia 1 II. The rear camera setup is very handsome, with just a touch of red. It also comes in purple. Another shot of the front and back. It has a headphone jack! Whoa. There are many cameras. The cameras, labeled. Here’s a clear shot of the display. There are stereo speakers in …
Enlarge / Most open source projects are vastly more restrictive with their trademarks than their code. OpenBSD’s Puffy, Linux’s Tux, and the FSF’s Meditating Gnu are among the few FOSS logos that can easily and legally be remixed and reused for simple illustrative purposes. Most people have at least heard of open source software by …
Enlarge / The top floor of our test house is relatively straightforward—although like many houses, it suffers from terrible router placement nowhere near its center. Jim Salter Here at Ars, we’ve spent a lot of time covering how Wi-Fi works, which kits perform the best, and how upcoming standards will affect you. Today, we’re going …
Ron Amadeo Alongside the launch of the Android 11 Developer Preview, Google announced a plan to crack down on Android apps that request the user’s location in the background. Just as we saw with Google’s pushback against apps that use the accessibility APIs for things that aren’t accessibility related, Google will be flexing the power it …
Samuel Axon Apple is seriously considering the possibility of allowing users to change the default apps for Web browsing, mail, or music on their iPhones. The company might also allow users to listen to Spotify or other music streaming services besides Apple Music via Siri on the iPhone or on the HomePod smart speaker. These …