I’m talkin’ no cell phone, no Wi-Fi alone. When was the last time you were by yourself and didn’t try to sweeten, avoid, or supercharge the moment? Were you fearful, anxious, or hungry for something more? We are awash in studies telling us that we need each other to survive and to be happy. And it’s true, we do. But when we lose the ability to be alone with ourselves, our overstimulated nervous systems suffer from no place to rest and recharge....

They will focus on two areas where wearables, smartwatches in particular, have sorely needed some upgrades. Namely battery life and better performance. Qualcomm is calling these new platforms its most advanced leap yet. Stating that with them on board, smartwatches can offer increased performance by up to two times that of the currently available platform. The Snapdragon Wear 4100+. The key improvements are exactly what Google has been promising since it announced Wear OS 3....

Twitter’s Senior Product Designer Paula Barcante gave us a preview of these features. It’s worth pointing out that this is only a concept at the moment, and hasn’t made its way to the platform yet. Twitter is currently taking suggestions from users on the feasibility of the feature. Twitter is also reportedly working on a ‘downvote’ button on the platform Twitter is also reportedly working on a ‘downvote’ button on the platform...

The new report doesn’t shed much light on the patents involved in this probe. It simply states that the ITC has confirmed the investigation. The regulatory body is reportedly looking to ascertain alleged patent infringement by Samsung and TSMC while manufacturing certain semiconductors. It will also investigate some integrated circuits from Samsung and Qualcomm, as well as mobile devices that employ the infringed technology and components. The complaint from Daedalus Prime LLC that led to this investigation came last month....

Google has been long working on making RCS ubiquitous on Android smartphones in the US. However, carriers were slow to adopt the new messaging standard. The half-hearted support from the carriers led to nowhere. Google eventually had to take matters into its own hands and those efforts are now starting to come to fruition. In March this year, T-Mobile announced that it’ll switch to RCS as the default messaging service on its Android devices by the end of this year....