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iPhones Are Making False 911 Calls at Bonnaroo
There’s bound to be a few extra emergency calls when 80,000 people descend upon your city for a weekend music and arts festival, but according to authorities in Coffee County, Tennessee, the iPhone 14’s automatic crash detection was responsible for a spike in false 911 calls at Bonnaroo as it is mistook revelers’ enthusiastic dancing for car crashes. Is USB-C Finally Coming To iPhone? As Apple continues to push its smartphones and wearables as health and safety devices, the iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Pro, Apple Watch Series 8, Apple Watch Ultra, and the 2nd gen Apple Watch SE were all…
Foxconn’s Zhengzhou factory offers bigger bonuses to new staff
A Foxconn worker Foxconn is offering sign-up bonuses to new employees at its Zhengzhou factory, in advance of its annual busy period when it mass-produces the next model of iPhone. Every year, Foxconn tries to get its workforce as large as possible at its Zhengzhou facility in Henan province, China, so it can keep up with orders for Apple’s iPhone. The swelling of the workforce to its potential maximum of 200,000 employees is a seasonal affair, with Foxconn typically offering bonuses to those who join the company’s production lines. On Monday, the bonus offerings were raised for new recruits, reports…
The real secret to better Android battery life
If there’s one question I hear more than any other here in the land o’ Googley matters, it’s how to grant oneself the invaluable gift of better battery life on Android. Hey, we all struggle with stamina these days. Our favorite phones are no different. Here’s the good news, though: While the notion of achieving better Android battery life may sometimes seem like rocket science, it’s actually just regular science — and the secret to making it happen actually isn’t all that difficult at all, once you understand the mechanics around it. In fact, all it requires is a touch…
Best free apps for streaming movies on iPhone
With countless increasingly expensive streaming services flooding the market, you can only subscribe to so many at once. Thankfully, there are plenty of free apps where you can stream your favorite movies and TV shows. If you want to discover some of them, here are the best free apps for streaming movies on your iPhone. 1. Tubi – Watch Movies & TV Shows Tubi is one of the best free apps for streaming movies on the iPhone, iPad, and even Apple TV. It has thousands of hit movies and TV series and is 100% legal. It doesn’t require a credit…
Entering your phone’s PIN in public could be less scary with Android 14
The feature was spotted in Android 13 QPR3 Beta 2 Android 13 QPR3 Beta 2 was finally released this week for all Pixel phones from the Pixel 4a and up. This beta gives us an early glimpse of what’s to come with June’s Pixel Feature Drop and has arrived not too long after the first beta. While the latest Android 13 QPR3 beta doesn’t bring a whole lot of changes, barring the usual suite of bug fixes and performance improvements, there is a feature addition that could be extremely helpful for users entering their PIN code in public places, such…