C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Add Android Authority to Google: TL; DR Google allows you to use live code apps in its AI Studio program and later upload them to your devices or send them through the Play Console for general access. Now the Play Store is working on a new “Your Creations” where … Read more
I went looking up hallucinations at my local LLM and found something even worse. My setup is the proudest thing in my home lab: samples offered by Lemonade, Crush as a terminal-based tool, nothing coming out of my network. But I’ve always wondered how informative these native models are, so I put together a test … Read more
Andy Walker / Android Authority Add Android authority to Google: TL; DR Google has officially taken Android Auto and Android Automotive OS games out of beta and made them available to the public. You can already play supported games on your car’s screen by browsing through Google’s collection of Android Auto and Android Automotive games, … Read more
An old budget phone can serve as a smart home dashboard, but it shouldn’t run a media server. At least I thought so until I started wondering what else old Android could do. So I tried to run the Jellyfin server. The phone in question is the Realme C11 with 4GB of RAM running Android … Read more
Brady Snyder / Android Authority Add Android Authority to Google: I’ve been walking the line between Google Health and Apple Health since I bought my first wearable. I ran with the Fitbit Charge HR for a few weeks before switching back to the Apple Watch Sport in 2015, and I’ve been wearing the Apple Watch … Read more
Resume WallCalToDo uses a Raspberry Pi 3B+ (or newer) and a secondary monitor as a wall-mounted calendar and task display. Syncs with Google Calendar and Microsoft To-Do applications; mirror changes in real time from your phone. Includes a plugin to manage accounts, change settings, enable privacy mode, and is open source on GitHub. One of … Read more
Khamosh Pathak / Android Authority Add Android Authority to Google: I really like the idea of a “dumbphone” or minimalist phone. These are just essentials. Phone, maps, calendar — just the useful bits. Not a single time-sucking, doom-spinning distraction. But I don’t like the idea of spending $500 for a Light Phone or Wisephone. Instead, … Read more
PCIe 3.0 has been around for so long that seeing it on a PC today makes the whole platform feel ancient. Think about that for a second. The very first computer I built with an i7-3770K in 2012 had PCIe 3.0 support, since then we’ve moved on from PCIe 4.0 and now mainstream motherboards have … Read more
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Add Android Authority to Google: TL; DR US Insta360 users will have access to the new Space Capture tab on September 28. This feature uses 3D Gaussian Splatting technology to transform video into 3D views that can be explored. Support will be available for X6, X5 and X4 Air. The … Read more
For years, tampering with physical media you own for personal backup has been in a legal “grey area.” However, I buy physical discs and back them up to MKV files to include in a self-hosted media installation in a media library for Jellyfin and Plex servers. I can then use my physical media titles on … Read more