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The seamless updates Android feature introduced by Google way back in 2016 was adopted by most Android OEMs except Samsung. Samsung said it was working on implementing seamless updates on its Android smartphones, and after eight years, the Korean brand has finally brought this feature to its devices, with the Galaxy A55 being the first Samsung smartphone to benefit from it. Samsung Galaxy A55 The Samsung Galaxy A55 recently received the March 2024 Android security patch in India with firmware…

Apple has released the first beta of iOS 17.4.1 and iPadOS 17.4.1 to developers. It's part of the wider iOS 17 software that was introduced at WWDC 2023. The release means developers, keen testers, or anyone else that wants to live on the wild side of iOS can start testing out the software. For everyone else, it'll be available in the coming weeks after multiple beta revisions iron out bugs and add additional features.According to Apple's release notes, iOS/iPadOS 17.4.1 comes with a bunch of security updates and bug…

Spotify has added a long-requested Miniplayer to its desktop app, giving you quick playback access while freeing you to focus on other things. The resizable floating window lets you control the audio, including changing tracks, picking playlists and tweaking the volume. The company says the feature has already started rolling out to Premium subscribers.Once it becomes available in your app, you can launch the Spotify Desktop Miniplayer (its proper name) by clicking on a square on the far lower right side of the app, to…

Last updated: March 21st, 2024 at 17:00 UTC+01:00 For whatever reason, Samsung has been avoiding Android's seamless update feature for the past eight years now. Not anymore! The Galaxy A55 is the first Samsung phone to use Google's seamless update feature, and it will likely come to more Galaxy phones soon. Seamless updates work by installing an update to a secondary system partition instead of the primary one, and then booting from that secondary partition the next time the device is restarted. The primary and…

Samsung just provided availability details for a full range of new TVs as part of its . These include Neo QLED 8K models, Neo QLED 4K models and various OLED boxes. Many of these TVs were , but now preorders are actually open for consumers looking for a new way to .Samsung calls the NEO QLED QN900D the “slimmest, most premium 8K TV to ever hit the market.” It’s got everything you can think of, including AI to upscale content to 8K. This should lure in curious, yet wary, consumers into the world of 8K televisions. Most…

Samsung has finally released the Android 14-based One UI 6.0 update to the Galaxy Tab A8 (2021). With this update, the low-end tablet has received a total of three major Android OS updates, and it could be the last major update it will get. Galaxy Tab A8 (2021) gets Android 14 and One UI 6.0 update The Android 14-based One UI 6.0 Galaxy Tab A8 (2021) update is now available (via YashRathoreX) in India. It comes bearing firmware version X200XXU3DXB3 and has a relatively large download size. It also brings the December…

I have this problem that sometimes prevents me from seeing a movie for years. It’s called procrastination. Sometimes if I don’t go see a movie within a few months of its release, I continuously delay watching it. Ghostbusters: Afterlife falls into that category. Curiosity and the Ghostbusters: Afterlife cast made me want to see it during its initial run, I just never got around to it. But, with Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire hitting theaters soon, I finally decided to watch the first movie in this revival series. I didn’t…

Most people in the world are fans of humor. However, what we find funny can vary quite a bit. For instance, some folks absolutely love practical jokes, while others deeply loathe them. And there can be a very fine line between pranking someone and bullying them. In some cases, things get taken way too far, and you’re forced to pick sides between people you love.One anonymous redditor, who recently got married, shared how he felt forced to call out his wife for being a bully for how she ‘pranked’ her mother-in-law during…

This is a feature that we’ve been hearing about for quite some time. We first heard about the Predictive Back feature coming to Android since the lead-up to Android 13. Now, we’re finally getting to see this feature actually making it to devices. Predictive Back is starting to roll out to people using Gmail on Android 14. Predictive back isn’t a major lifestyle change, but it could definitely make life a little more convenient. Since the adaptation of back gestures, it’s become really easy to accidentally go back when…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeIn 2021, the frightfully cynical Ghostbusters: Afterlife reduced one the greatest comedies ever made to a solemn parade of nostalgic artefacts, with moody shots of the famous proton packs and decked-out hearse. It also committed a particularly egregious act of digital necromancy, forcing the CGI-assisted return of the late Harold Ramis as Egon Spengler. Thankfully, there’s a limited…