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Pixel 11’s big modem switch hasn’t ended familiar connectivity complaints

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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. Google’s switch from Samsung Exynos to a MediaTek modem on the Pixel 11 series was supposed to close one of the longest-running chapters in Pixel history. After years of complaints around reception, connectivity, and cellular battery drain, the new modem arrived as one […]

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The Witcher 3 Remastered should run just fine on the Steam Deck, say devs

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As is the case with a lot of older games (I regret to inform you that The Witcher 3 is 11 years old) that get the remaster treatment, there’s been some anxiety over whether The Witcher 3 Remastered will run properly on the Steam Deck—especially given it’ll be a free update. It’s always frustrating when

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Google could soon make it easier to listen to your Gemini Daily Brief

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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. Google has been working on several new features and improvements for the Gemini Daily Brief. We’ve seen the company working on making the Daily Brief easier to customize and even adding it to the At a Glance widget on Pixel phones. Now, it

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Nvidia snuck me into a room to show off DLSS 5 in person, and it’s somehow beautiful, ugly, impressive, and troubling all at the same time

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I think it’s fair to say that DLSS 5 is the most controversial Nvidia creation… well, ever. After the huge amounts of backlash it received in reaction to its unveiling earlier this year, Nvidia’s AI image enhancing tech has been mostly kept under lock and key. However, myself and a select group of journalists were

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DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement

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I walked into Nvidia’s DLSS 5 demo last week with some preconceptions, I’ll be honest. I hadn’t enjoyed the images it had produced to date, and I was sceptical about the benefits it could bring to our beloved games. Not to mention the troubling notion of AI-generated (or at least, altered) images entering into our

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Android Auto could soon get its own Quick Settings tiles, one toggle at a time

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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. Google has already made bold claims about a major Android Auto redesign and promised to deliver it by the end of the year. The refresh brings a borderless design that adapts better to a variety of screen shapes, widget support, and a media

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Ultrahuman wants real-world health data, and is asking its users for it

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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. Health trackers like smartwatches and smart rings rely heavily on algorithms and models to collect and analyze health data and provide helpful summaries and insights. Usually, these models are developed through research studies, but Ultrahuman wants to take things a step further. Today,

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Laid off id Software developer says crunch on Doom: The Dark Ages’ Revelations DLC was “brutal” with up to 17-hour days

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"You spend so much of your energy and sacrifice a bunch of things, and then they lay you off." One of the developers who had spent weeks crunching to ship Revelations on time were laid off just as the expansion was released. Producer Andrew Willis said they spent the two months leading up to launch

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Linux manages to avoid the age verification apocalypse, but SteamOS isn’t in the clear yet

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California’s Digital Age Assurance Act is due to take effect at the very start of 2027, bringing in sweeping age-verification checks by system providers. As part of it, operating systems will have to do age checks on users to lock down certain functions, which had led some Linux developers to go full crisis mode in

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Dropbox breach seemingly caused by egregious authentication failure

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Multiple Dropbox users have been emailed by the cloud storage company to advise them that a security breach saw unauthorised access to their account. The root cause appears to be a lack of authentication by Dropbox when attackers created a single sign-on option through a third-party company … Developer Yoni Levy posted a copy of

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