Month: March 2024
Google Reveals When to Expect RCS Support on iPhone for Improved Texting With Android Users
In November, Apple announced that the iPhone would support the cross-platform messaging standard RCS (Rich Communication Services) in the Messages app starting “later” in 2024, and Google has since revealed a more narrow timeframe.
In a since-deleted section of the revamped Google Messages web page, spotted by 9to5Google, Google said that Apple would be adopting RCS on the iPhone in the “fall of 2024.” This timeframe suggests that RCS support will be added to the iPhone with iOS 18, which should be available in beta in June and released in September. At the latest, support should be added in iOS 18.1, which is likely to be released in October.
RCS support should result in the following improvements in the Messages app for conversations between iPhones and Android smartphones:
Higher-resolution photos and videos
Audio messages
Typing indicators
Read receipts
Wi-Fi messaging
Improved group chats, including the ability for iPhone users to leave a conversation that includes Android users
These modern features are already available for iMessage, and in many third-party messaging apps, such as WhatsApp and Telegram. RCS support on the iPhone will extend the features to green bubbles in the Messages app.Tags: Android, Messages, RCSThis article, “Google Reveals When to Expect RCS Support on iPhone for Improved Texting With Android Users” first appeared on MacRumors.comDiscuss this article in our forums
In November, Apple announced that the iPhone would support the cross-platform messaging standard RCS (Rich Communication Services) in the Messages app starting “later” in 2024, and Google has since revealed a more narrow timeframe.
In a since-deleted section of the revamped Google Messages web page, spotted by 9to5Google, Google said that Apple would be adopting RCS on the iPhone in the “fall of 2024.” This timeframe suggests that RCS support will be added to the iPhone with iOS 18, which should be available in beta in June and released in September. At the latest, support should be added in iOS 18.1, which is likely to be released in October.
RCS support should result in the following improvements in the Messages app for conversations between iPhones and Android smartphones:
Higher-resolution photos and videos
Audio messages
Typing indicators
Read receipts
Wi-Fi messaging
Improved group chats, including the ability for iPhone users to leave a conversation that includes Android users
These modern features are already available for iMessage, and in many third-party messaging apps, such as WhatsApp and Telegram. RCS support on the iPhone will extend the features to green bubbles in the Messages app.
This article, “Google Reveals When to Expect RCS Support on iPhone for Improved Texting With Android Users” first appeared on MacRumors.com
Discuss this article in our forums
IdeaSoft To Launch an Innovative Perpetual DEX on INTMAX’s Open-source L2 Plasma Next
Luzern, Switzerland, March 29th, 2024, Chainwire Building on Plasma Next would make the DEX as convenient as CEX for trading with low fees, slippage, and waiting period INTMAX, developer of the open-source Ethereum scalability solution Plasma Next that offers near-zero
The post IdeaSoft To Launch an Innovative Perpetual DEX on INTMAX’s Open-source L2 Plasma Next first appeared on Tech Startups.
Luzern, Switzerland, March 29th, 2024, Chainwire Building on Plasma Next would make the DEX as convenient as CEX for trading with low fees, slippage, and waiting period INTMAX, developer of the open-source Ethereum scalability solution Plasma Next that offers near-zero […]
The post IdeaSoft To Launch an Innovative Perpetual DEX on INTMAX’s Open-source L2 Plasma Next first appeared on Tech Startups.
Tesla’s stock wraps up one of its worst quarters on record as global dominance wanes – Tesla shares plunged 29% in the first quarter, the worst period for the stock since the end of 2022 and the third-steepest quarterly drop on record.
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Databricks’ GPT rival and who’s investing in “underdog” founders
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Hello, and welcome to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Friday episode, in which we dig through the most critical stories and themes from the week. As the week comes to a close, we’re also shutting the book on the trial […]
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Amazon is making it easier to sign up for its palm-scanning shopping
Amazon One extends palm-scanning capabilities with new app.
Amazon is looking to make it easier for shoppers to sign up for its biometric security service that allows for moneyless purchases.
The company has launched a new mobile app for its Amazon One technology, allowing users to scan their palms at home in order to register for the service before they visit a store.
Launched in September 2020, Amazon One uses a palm recognition biometric scan to allow users to register purchases at hundreds of Whole Foods Market locations, as well as Amazon’s own stores and more than 150 third-party other outlets.
Amazon One mobile app
In a blog post outlining the news, the company explained how the new Amazon One app lets customers create an online profile by logging into their existing Amazon account on their device, then taking a photo of their palm, and adding a payment method, all within the app.
Previously, users would have needed to visit a store and hover their palm over an Amazon One device to sign up for the service.
Amazon says the new app is backed up by some powerful new generative AI capabilities that combine the phone’s camera image with Amazon One’s own library. This means that a camera phone photo can be matched with the near-infrared imagery from an Amazon One device, allowing for a secure and accurate match.
The service is able to create a “palm signature” by examining both a user’s palm and its underlying vein structure, building a unique numerical, vector representation that the company says is “99.9999%” accurate.
Once complete, the AI system is able to compare and match the palm and vein imagery captured by the in-store Amazon One device when a user hovers their hand over it, with that registered via a phone photo, and completes the registration.
The company says all images taken via the new app are encrypted and sent to a secure Amazon One domain in the AWS cloud, and the images cannot be downloaded or saved to your phone, so there’s no danger of them being leaked accidentally, with the app also offering “additional layers of spoof detection”.
The new Amazon One app is available from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store now.
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Red Hat Tries on a McKinsey Cap in Quest To Streamline Techies’ Jobs
An anonymous reader shares a report: Mutterings of alarm are emerging from the cloisters of Red Hat after the world’s largest management consultancy was hired to help the IBM subsidiary focus engineers on their highest-value work. Red Hat confirmed the partnership with McKinsey & Company to The Reg, sharing this extract from an email from CTO Chris Wright to the Global Engineering Team:
“Hey everyone — as I mentioned during the recent Q1 All Hands, my goal is to have Global Engineering recognized as the world’s greatest open-source software engineering organization. This team is already doing amazing work, and we have several initiatives in progress to help us achieve the goal I’ve set. One of those is a partnership with McKinsey. The objective of this project is to help us understand and incorporate learnings on working models, development practices, and tooling from across the software industry.
“We’ve heard your feedback in person, during All Hands, and through RHAS [the annual Red Hat Associate Survey]. This project will help us to identify and remove mundane tasks that drain your energy so that you can focus on the most engaging and highest value work â” to make your job better. The work with McKinsey is one piece of the overall plan to help us become the world’s greatest open-source software engineering organization”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
An anonymous reader shares a report: Mutterings of alarm are emerging from the cloisters of Red Hat after the world’s largest management consultancy was hired to help the IBM subsidiary focus engineers on their highest-value work. Red Hat confirmed the partnership with McKinsey & Company to The Reg, sharing this extract from an email from CTO Chris Wright to the Global Engineering Team:
“Hey everyone — as I mentioned during the recent Q1 All Hands, my goal is to have Global Engineering recognized as the world’s greatest open-source software engineering organization. This team is already doing amazing work, and we have several initiatives in progress to help us achieve the goal I’ve set. One of those is a partnership with McKinsey. The objective of this project is to help us understand and incorporate learnings on working models, development practices, and tooling from across the software industry.
“We’ve heard your feedback in person, during All Hands, and through RHAS [the annual Red Hat Associate Survey]. This project will help us to identify and remove mundane tasks that drain your energy so that you can focus on the most engaging and highest value work â” to make your job better. The work with McKinsey is one piece of the overall plan to help us become the world’s greatest open-source software engineering organization”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
EV bargains to be found as Hertz sells off some of its electric cars
More than 1,200 EVs are cheap enough to qualify for the used clean vehicle tax credit.
Enlarge / Hertz currently has more than a thousand Bolt EUVs for sale as they leave its rental car fleet. (credit: Chevrolet)
Electric vehicles have many advantages over cars that still use internal combustion engines. They’re far more efficient, they’re quieter, and they usually have much more torque than their gasoline-powered equivalents. But we’re still far from achieving price parity between powertrains. In other words, EVs are expensive.
One place you can find some bargains, though, is the rental company Hertz, which currently has more than 2,100 EVs for sale, more than half of which are affordable enough to qualify for the IRS used clean vehicle tax credit.
Hertz has been adding a lot of EVs to its fleet as part of the company’s decarbonization plan. In 2021, it revealed plans to purchase 100,000 Teslas. However, the controversial car maker had delivered fewer than half of those two years later, and long repair times for customer-inflicted damage have seen the rental agency divest itself of many of those Tesla and diversify its fleet, adding plenty of Polestars, Kias, and Chevrolets.
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Does Mario feel pain? It’s complicated
Image: Nintendo
The world of Super Mario is a dangerous place. In the games, the plumber falls off cliffs, gets jabbed with spikes, and has everything from wrenches to fireballs hurled at him. But he always gets back up and goes again, which raises an important question: does Nintendo’s hero actually feel pain? According to Takashi Tezuka, who has worked on the series since the original Super Mario Bros. (including serving as producer on last year’s Wonder), there isn’t really a clear answer. “It may be that Mario does feel pain,” he tells me.
But that ambiguity may be because I was asking the wrong question. The important part, he explains, is the emotions players experience when Mario plummets to his death or is fried by Bowser’s breath. “If the player feels that Mario is feeling pain, that’s a better experience, rather than talking about whether Mario actually does feel pain,” Tezuka says.
And players can sense that emotion much more in Wonder, with the game’s more detailed and lively animations. Mario’s face contorts in uncomfortable ways when the game over screen pops up and jolts into the air when taking damage from a spiky shell or chomping Piranha Plant. It’s enough to make you wince — which is kind of the point.
“For us, if Mario hits an enemy and the person playing goes ‘ow!’ that’s ideal,” says Tezuka.
Image: Nintendo
The world of Super Mario is a dangerous place. In the games, the plumber falls off cliffs, gets jabbed with spikes, and has everything from wrenches to fireballs hurled at him. But he always gets back up and goes again, which raises an important question: does Nintendo’s hero actually feel pain? According to Takashi Tezuka, who has worked on the series since the original Super Mario Bros. (including serving as producer on last year’s Wonder), there isn’t really a clear answer. “It may be that Mario does feel pain,” he tells me.
But that ambiguity may be because I was asking the wrong question. The important part, he explains, is the emotions players experience when Mario plummets to his death or is fried by Bowser’s breath. “If the player feels that Mario is feeling pain, that’s a better experience, rather than talking about whether Mario actually does feel pain,” Tezuka says.
And players can sense that emotion much more in Wonder, with the game’s more detailed and lively animations. Mario’s face contorts in uncomfortable ways when the game over screen pops up and jolts into the air when taking damage from a spiky shell or chomping Piranha Plant. It’s enough to make you wince — which is kind of the point.
“For us, if Mario hits an enemy and the person playing goes ‘ow!’ that’s ideal,” says Tezuka.