Last month I reported that replacement batteries for the original LCD version of the Steam Deck would return to the iFixIt store after a brief absence. Well, Valve sent more batteries, and you can purchase these replacements from iFixIt right now. Unfortunately, the replacement battery alone now costs $130. Purchasing a new L-shaped battery without […]
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. Year-over-year price increases are never ideal for consumers, but it’s especially inconvenient that new phones are getting pricier while everything else is, too. From laptops to game consoles to TV streaming hardware, practically all of consumer tech has shot up this year, not
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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. Rumors abounded as early as January that OnePlus’s US operations were under scrutiny, even though the company denied it at the time. However, to see such an important Android brand up and leave two of the world’s most important markets is still a
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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. I keep an iPhone around for work, and while I can’t imagine using it as my daily driver, there are a few iOS features that genuinely make me jealous. Some of them Android doesn’t have at all. Others exist but feel half-baked by
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It’s so hard for big businesses to get AI tools working reliably that whole new organizations of forward-deployed engineers or FDEs— specialists who drop into a company to get its AI systems up and running — are springing up to help them. “AI, paradoxically, increases the demand for professional services,” says Efrat Rapoport, a former
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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. Over the past couple of years, smartphones have survived some truly absurd situations. A Pixel 8 that spent four days at the bottom of a hot tub. A Galaxy S23 Ultra recovered after five hours beneath Arctic ice. And, of course, the iPhone
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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. A massive leak has revealed the full press image set for the upcoming Lenovo Googlebook 15, giving us our clearest look yet at Google’s next-generation desktop computing effort. Building on earlier reports of Lenovo’s Googlebook laptop, two-in-one tablet, and its companion AI Mouse,
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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. If you’ve ever tried presenting a document, spreadsheet, or slide deck over a spotty Wi-Fi connection, you’ve probably watched your crisp text dissolve into a blurry mess. That’s one of the biggest frustrations with browser-based video calls today, but Chrome and Edge are
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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. Retroid’s latest Android handheld — the Retroid Pocket Nova — started shipping at the end of July. While it’s a powerful handheld, it still runs Android 13, which is outdated, to say the least. Fortunately, that might no longer be a concern. As
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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. Google’s widely admired research tool, previously known as NotebookLM, was rebranded as Gemini Notebook — not to be confused with notebooks inside Gemini — last month. Since then, Google has been working to bridge the gap between the two not-so-dissimilar tools for accessing
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