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Google released Android 12 nearly two months ago, bringing major changes to the user interface of its mobile operating system, updated privacy features, and new accessibility features. But big updates have a habit of breaking compatibility with third-party apps from developers who haven’t updated their software to ensure compatibility. And for most of the past […]
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Google released Android 12 nearly two months ago, bringing major changes to the user interface of its mobile operating system, updated privacy features, and new accessibility features.
But big updates have a habit of breaking compatibility with third-party apps from developers who haven’t updated their software to ensure compatibility. And for most of the past two months the Amazon Appstore fell into that category. But now Amazon says its app store is finally compatible with Android 12.
The Amazon Appstore for Android is basically Amazon’s version of the Google Play Store: a central location where you can find apps and games and pay for in-app purchases including game items or newspaper or media streaming subscriptions.
Amazon first launched the Appstore in early 2011, about half a year before the company began selling its own line of tablets running the Android-based Fire OS. Initially one of the key reasons to use the Amazon Appstore was that the company gave away a free app or game every day. That program was eventually discontinued, but I’ve still got some decent games in my library that I picked up nearly a decade ago.
These days the primary reason to install the Amazon Appstore on an Android phone or tablet is probably because you’ve already paid for apps or games for an Amazon Fire tablet and you’d rather not have to buy them again from the Google Play Store in order to use them on your phone or other devices.
And so when folks who had been using the Amazon Appstore on devices running Android 11 or earlier started updating to Android 12 and found that the Appstore no longer worked, they began leaving complaints in Amazon support forums.
The problem is that not only did the app not load, but any games you’d already installed through the Appstore wouldn’t run either. Now they should:
An Amazon representative says:
“We have released a fix for an issue impacting app launches for Amazon Appstore customers that have upgraded to Android 12 on their mobile devices. We are contacting customers with steps to update their Appstore experience. We are sorry for any disruption this has caused.”
I just downloaded and installed the Appstore on my Pixel 4a 5G running Android 12 and I can confirm that I was able to run the app and download and install a game linked to my account. So it looks like we’re good to go… a few months after Android 12 was released.
While it’s not unheard of for an app developer might not update their apps or games to be compatible with the latest Google APIs in time for a major Android OS update, it’s more than a little surprising that a company as big as Amazon took this long to ensure that their software worked with the latest version of Android. But better later than never, I guess.
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Dutch authority for nuclear safety issues warning, bans 10 scammy “negative ion” products.
Enlarge / This "quantum pendant" purports to protect the wearer from 5G signals. The anti-5G hysteria is a groundless conspiracy theory, but the pendants aren't just useless trinkets. They emit low levels of ionizing radiation that can cause adverse health effects over time. (credit: Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu)
Worried that 5G cell phone towers are beaming dangerous levels of radiofrequency radiation into your brain? Forget the classic tinfoil hat and try the "quantum pendant" pictured above. It's a much more stylish accessory. The product leans on a tried and true pseudoscientific marketing gimmick: Slap the label "quantum" on something, and the word imparts an aura of magical mystery in the minds of the perpetually gullible.
These kinds of "negative ion" products can be found for sale all over the Internet, claiming to enhance immune function, increase energy, and, yes, protect the wearer from supposedly harmful 5G waves, among other purported benefits. The hysteria over 5G risks has no scientific basis, and even if it did, "negative ions" aren't some kind of magical defense. But if people want to spend their hard-earned cash on nonsense, that's their prerogative. No harm, no foul, right?
Not so fast. It turns out that many of these products emit low levels of ionizing radiation that could be dangerous over prolonged use—so much so that the Authority for Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection (ANVS) in the Netherlands has just issued a consumer warning and banned the sale of ten such products, including that snazzy quantum pendant.
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The LG Wing was one of the last (and weirdest) smartphones LG released before the company exited the smartphone space earlier this year. What looks at first glance like a normal smartphone with a 6.8 inch display is actually a dual-screen phone with a smaller 3.9 inch display that folds out to give the Wing a […]
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The LG Wing was one of the last (and weirdest) smartphones LG released before the company exited the smartphone space earlier this year. What looks at first glance like a normal smartphone with a 6.8 inch display is actually a dual-screen phone with a smaller 3.9 inch display that folds out to give the Wing a T-shaped design.
Theoretically this lets you view multiple apps at once or use the smaller portion as a controller. But now that the phone has been discontinued, one hacker has found another use for the smaller screen – rip out the smartphone’s guts and cram them behind the display to create a small standalone.
In a short video posted to Chinese site bilbibili, the hacker shows an LG Wing that’s been disassembled and repurposed to build a tiny-but-functional smartphone.
While the video is light on details, it looks like the hacker discovered that the smartphone’s mainboard and battery could both fit behind the smaller display if they were stacked on top of one another. The end result is a rather thick, but apparently functional phone.
The LG Wing’s original specs included a 6.8 inch 2460 x 1080 pixel plastic OLED primary display, that 3.9 inch, 1240 x 1080 pixel pOLED secondary display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G processor, 8GB of RAM, at least 128GB of storage, a 4,000 mAh battery, triple rear cameras, and a 32MP pop-up selfie camera and in-display fingerprint reader.
It’s unclear if all of those parts have been transplanted into the new Wingless mini, but at the end of the video you can see a brief demo showing that the touchscreen display is functional, the pop-up camera seems to have survived the surgery, and there’s even an LED light bar on top of the small-screen smartphone.
It’s unclear whether it can do things like, you know, connect to the internet or make phone calls, but if anyone who understands Chinese wants to watch the video and let us know if there are some details we might have missed, the comments are open.
via @MishaalRahman
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Best Buy is running a 72-hour flash sale this weekend. The Microsoft Store has kicked off a “Countdown Sale” with deep discounts on select PCs, games, and other goodies. And the Epic Games Store is giving away another free PC game today. Here are some of the day’s best deals. Chromebooks HP Chromebook 11 w/MT8183/4GB/32GB […]
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Best Buy is running a 72-hour flash sale this weekend. The Microsoft Store has kicked off a “Countdown Sale” with deep discounts on select PCs, games, and other goodies. And the Epic Games Store is giving away another free PC game today.
Here are some of the day’s best deals.
Chromebooks
Windows
Tablets, smartphones & eReaders
Webcams
Wireless audio
Downloads & Streaming
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Add to a charity haul that’s raised nearly $9,000 in just three days.
Enlarge / Just some of the prizes available in this year's Ars Technica Charity Drive Sweepstakes.
[Dec. 22: As we approach Christmas and the midway point of this year's Charity Drive, we've now raised over $18,000 from nearly 200 separate donations. Child's Play is in the lead over EFF, approximately $9,600 to $8,400, for those who keep track of such things.
That's a great start, but we still have a ways to go to beat last year's $58,000 record. Read on below to find out how you can take part!]
If you've been too busy playing Halo Infinite to take part in this year's Ars Technica Charity Drive sweepstakes, don't worry. You still have time to donate to a good cause and get a chance to win your share of over $1,600 worth of swag (no purchase necessary to win).
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Company is adding a third dose to the trial after finding a low immune response.
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On Friday, Pfizer and BioNTech announced that their latest vaccine trial was showing some odd results in children within a specific age range. Children in the 2- to 5-year age group didn't produce as strong of an antibody response to the vaccine as older and younger children did. As a result, the trial is being modified to include a third dose of vaccine for participants in this age group.
The trial was designed to enroll as many as 4,500 children to test the safety and efficacy of the companies' messenger RNA vaccine. It included an early test of how well the vaccine was tolerated in different age groups. Based on these results, the companies went ahead with a two-tiered strategy: children from 5 to 11 years of age got two doses of 10 µg; younger children (down to six months in this trial) received two doses of 3 µg.
The trial is ongoing, and both the participants and doctors involved remain blinded to the status of the participants. But blood samples were obtained from some participants one month after the second dose and analyzed by a separate group of researchers who were not blinded as to the vaccine/placebo status of the participants. The analysis they performed showed an unexpected pattern.
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A notorious invasive species stays scared for weeks after seeing a fake predator.
Enlarge / The Robo-bass, along with some actual fish. (credit: Giovanni Polverino)
The mosquitofish is a particularly troublesome invasive species that has spread from its original home in North America to various locales around the world, including Europe and Australia. The small, 3 cm-long fish likes to chew the tails off fish and tadpoles and consume the eggs of other freshwater denizens.
Being an invasive species, the fish are mostly fearless, and they have no predators in the places they've colonized. However, an international team of biologists and engineers has found a solution to the problem: a robot.
Back in 2019, Giovanni Polverino—currently a post-doc at the University of Western Australia—and his colleagues developed a mechanical largemouth bass that proved to be effective in scaring mosquitofish. In North America, juvenile largemouth bass regularly make meals of the species; the primal fear of this predator has stuck with the mosquito fish as they traversed the globe.
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