The state of Wear OS remains uncertain. With Wear OS 3, Google promised an overhaul, and we anticipate a new Google Pixel Watch running the software. Samsung's smartwatches were the first to use Wear OS 3 last year, but they have now been discontinued for iOS users. This lead us to believe that Wear OS 3 smartwatches would no longer be compatible with iPhone users.
According to Mark Gurman of Bloomberg, a new HomePod is on the way. The journalist claims that Apple is developing a new smart speaker for next year that will look and function similarly to the current model, which was discontinued last year.
Snapchat is the most recent service to introduce a premium pay tier in its line-up. Snapchat+ is a $3.99/month subscription that adds several extra features, including the ability to see who has rewatched your stories and change the app's logo.
Although direct air capture's potential overall contribution to addressing climate change remains to be determined, there is no lack of firms, governments, and research groups pushing the technology forward. Climeworks AG is a prominent figure in this field, having today broken ground on its second direct air capture (DAC) plant in Iceland and one that represents significant progress toward its goal of removing gigatons of CO2 from the atmosphere each year by 2050.
The head of the Servant of the People faction, David Arakhamia, said that Ukraine is developing a new Mriya aircraft.
Google is officially encouraging Hangouts holdouts to migrate to the new messaging system, known as Chat. If you're still using Hangouts on your mobile device, you'll see an in-app screen urging you to switch over to Gmail's Chat or the separate Chat app starting today. Beginning in July, if you're using Chrome, you'll begin seeing a prompt asking you whether it's time to accept reality. The online version of Hangouts will continue to function until later this year.
Wayfair and Waymo announced Tuesday that it will use its fleet of autonomous semi-trailer trucks to deliver home goods for the company. Waymo and JB Hunt Transport Services are conducting a pilot test in Texas to see if self-driving trucks can travel along certain shipping routes. Wayfair, one of JB Hunt's clients, will begin distributing goods using Waymo's vehicles for a six-week test starting July and August.
The Russian ro-ro ship Angara transported 570 vehicles from Japan to Vladivostok, but the entire load burned down along the way. The Japanese refused to help the Russians put out the ship.
Brendan Carr revealed the letter he sent to Apple and Google, asking them to remove TikTok from their app stores, in a tweet. The agency's senior Republican commissioner made reference to a recent BuzzFeed News report that looked at leaked audio recordings from 80 internal TikTok gatherings. According on those leaked audio tapes, China-based staff of TikTok parent company ByteDance had repeatedly accessed private information on users in the United States.
On the night of June 29, an unmanned aerial vehicle was shot down in the sky over Kursk. Russia claims that the air defense managed to destroy the Ukrainian drone.
Hyundai has shown off the design for Ioniq 6, its next electric car, which was inspired by the Prophecy concept EV it debuted in 2020. It looks like a prop from a sci-fi film without looking like it's been pulled out of a movie studio. Hyundai claims the car will have an ultra-low drag coefficient of 0.21, which is lower than most vehicles on the road today (0.25 or 0.3). Its elliptical wing-inspired spoiler and tiny boat-tail design aid in its aerodynamic improvement as well.
ARM introduced the newest mobile flagship GPU, that will offer hardware-based ray tracing, a first for the company. The Immortalis-G715 promises a 15 percent performance upgrade compared to the firm’s previous generation of premium Mali GPUs. The performance improvement is courtesy of architectural improvements and a design that can accommodate up to 16 cores.
The Ukrainian multiple launch rocket system "Bureviy" continues to help the Armed Forces to destroy the positions of the Russian invaders.
Servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine began to undergo training in the management of multiple rocket launchers MARS II in Germany.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine have once again demonstrated the importance of even simple consumer drones in modern warfare.
