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Hot on the heels of the United Auto Workers’ strike victory against the “Big Three” US automakers, President Joe Biden said he would support UAW’s push to unionize Tesla and Toyota ahead of a planned meeting with UAW president Shawn Fain. UAW just finished a historic strike against GM, Ford, and Stellantis, declaring victory in gaining improved pay and contract provisions for its workers at all three companies. But in declaring victory, the UAW already put forward plans for the coming years,…

After unveiling the Galaxy Watch 6 series during the Galaxy Unpacked event two days ago, Samsung announced the pricing and availability of its new smartwatches for the Indian market. The Galaxy Watch 6 is now available for pre-order in India. During the price reveal, the company announced that the Galaxy Watch 6 series supports NFC payments (Tap & Pay) in India. Galaxy Watch 6 gets NFC payments in India via Samsung Wallet With the Galaxy Watch 6 and the Galaxy Watch 6 Classic, users in India can make mobile payments…

Naver, the 24-year-old South Korean search engine, now supports the IndexNow protocol. That makes four search engines that use IndexNow to discover and index content for their search engines. Those four search engines include Bing, Yandex, Seznam, Naver. Naver and IndexNow. Naver announced this on their blog in Korean saying starting today, Naver Search supports IndexNow so that search engines can recognize the latest website content. Naver posted how this works in its webmaster portal (again in Korean language) over…

The screen mirroring feature helps users to view content available on mobile devices on bigger screens like TVs. However, the native option to do so on Samsung Galaxy smartphones and tablets have remained limited for a long time. Galaxy devices also don't support screen mirroring for Google’s Chromecast platform and Android TVs. This is now changing.According to a report by Android Police, a new change has been discovered in the labs menu hidden within One UI. This change is expected to enable Samsung users to mirror…

Actress Priyanka Chopra Jonas has shown her support for the ongoing Hollywood strike. Taking to her Instagram account, she posted an image and captioned it, “I stand with my union and colleagues. In solidarity, we build a better tomorrow.” The post quickly went viral, with her fans appreciating her stance and expressing their support. One user commented, “I stand with you, fight for justice while it lasts.” Another user simply wrote, “I stand with you.” Talking about the strike, it’s the first time two major Hollywood…

George Clooney voiced his support for the SAG-AFTRA strike Friday morning in a statement to the press. “This is an inflection point in our industry,” he said. “For our industry to survive that has to change. For actors, that journey starts now.” Deadline reports that the actor, one of the most high-profile to throw his weight behind the strike, was speaking with SAG members mounting to picket until the early hours in Los Angeles and that, in his statement, he also said, “Actors and writers in large numbers have lost…

It’s called Barbenheimer. What began as a meme mashing the two films going head-to-head at the box office on July 21 has apparently blossomed into a full-on movement of people refusing to choose between Greta Gerwig’s colorful satire and Christopher Nolan’s monochrome biopic. Reports suggest that Barbie will easily step over Oppenheimer in opening weekend grosses — but maybe that’s just because Hollywood insiders assume people aren’t willing to see both. However, if it’s a good enough strategy for Tom Cruise, it’s a…

The Phoenix Fire Department has released its report on the Nikola truck fire that happened at the company’s headquarters last month. Despite Nikola quickly claiming that “foul play” was behind the fire, the fire department says it found “no evidence at all that supports arson.” The fire department listed the cause of the fire as “undetermined.” On June 23, we reported on the Phoenix fire department confirming that five Nikola semitrucks caught on fire at its headquarters. The company was…

Introduced last year, the 13-inch MacBook Air with the M2 chip was announced with Bluetooth 5.0 support. With the release of a 15-inch model during the WWDC 2023, the company said this Mac, which has the same specs as the smaller version, now offers a better standard with Bluetooth 5.3. Interestingly enough, after the announcement, Apple updated the tech specs page of the 13-inch MacBook Air (via MacRumors) to acknowledge that this machine also supports the newer standard. That said, the company keeps…

Frame rate matching originally became available on Android TV sometime last year. Google TV devices also got this feature at about the same time its counterpart (Android TV) got it as well. However, up until this point, Netflix has not supported frame rate matching on their streaming platform. Finally, users of Android and Google TV can now benefit from frame rate matching while streaming. In a recent YouTube video from FlatpanelsHD, this feature can be seen in action on the Netflix app. What this feature does is very…