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The real reason your Android phone stops getting updates has nothing to do with the brand

The real reason your Android phone stops getting updates has nothing to do with the brand

Published by skeptic

When your Android phone ages out of updates, don’t blame the manufacturer. Sure, sometimes they’re the problem, but the deeper reason your phone stops getting updates is due to the chipset. More specifically, it’s the company that made the chipset decided to support. Related I realized why the same Android app works differently on my two phones — and it’s not what I expected Think your apps are identical across devices? From custom APKs to aggressive battery management, here is why Android apps rarely behave the same way The bottleneck is the Board Support Package What the chipset vendor actually controls Image Credit: SamsungCredit: Samsung Your phone’s chipset (Qualcomm Snapdragon, MediaTek Dimensity, or the like) ships with a Board SUpport Package, which contains the low-level firmware, kernel drivers, and hardware abstraction layers that let Android talk to the silicon. The GPU, modem, image signal processor and security chips all need vendor-supplied drivers to work with each new version of Android. When MediaTek or Qualcomm stops updating the BSP for a given chip, the phone’s OEM can …

Audemars Piguet Is the Funnest Brand in Watches Right Now

Audemars Piguet Is the Funnest Brand in Watches Right Now

Published by Jenni Sidey

After causing quite the stir last month, Audemars Piguet is keeping its streak of making vivid and super-fun watches going. If the Royal Pop proved AP could dominate a cultural moment (and break the internet), the new Royal Oak Offshores is yet more proof that when AP has something to say, it does so loudly. Because ever since the oversized Offshore collection was launched in 1993, its nickname in the industry has been the Beast. In time for the summer, our favorite beast mode has kicked in; the Offshore is back in full colour, clearly turning a blind eye to the watch world’s current obsession with smaller and slimmer pieces. Six new Royal Oak Offshore Selfwinding Chronographs have landed across two lines—three at 37 mm, three at the full 42 mm—and between them, they cover enough color ground to supercharge your summer wardrobe. Think hues of ice blue or bubblegum pink and pops of fiery yellow and orange. At a time when too many new releases are playing it safe with varying shades of neutral, …

Brand Beckham is out of control – and the performative nepotism is everything Brooklyn warned us about

Brand Beckham is out of control – and the performative nepotism is everything Brooklyn warned us about

Published by Daniella Wilson

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Romeo Beckham, 23, is following in his mum Victoria’s footsteps with the launch of his own fashion brand, Intra, selling sportswear with a retro style – and the Beckham family, fresh off their yacht in Ibiza, have posed en masse in the label’s football jackets, influenced by England, Brazil and America, as if they are starring in a cheesy high street fashion catalogue. The photo, which has since been posted to Victoria and Romeo’s Instagram with over 200k likes, sees Victoria, 52, David, 51, Cruz, 21, Romeo and their respective girlfriends, Jackie Apostel, 30, and Kim Turnball, 24, standing on a staircase and wearing Romeo’s new England-style bomber jackets. Except of course for Victoria, who opted instead to wear a white sleeveless top and …

Sisyphus in the Kitchen: The Tradwife Brand and the Closed Menu of Women’s Lives

Sisyphus in the Kitchen: The Tradwife Brand and the Closed Menu of Women’s Lives

Published by Jenni Sidey

The slogan: “Make America Great Again” works by inviting us to long for a past that was ordered, stable, and allegedly better than the present, without ever specifying for whom it was great or what made it so. When that nostalgia is cashed out in concrete proposals about women’s lives, a particular picture emerges in which women appear primarily as wives, mothers, and helpmates whose worth is exhausted by domestic and reproductive labor. This picture, I argue, is hostile to women in that it curtails, on an arbitrary basis, those activities women have available to them to make meaning in their lives. The central claim is that by reviving and seeking to mandate traditional gender roles, these movements constrict the range of life projects women can pursue, relegating women to a more extreme Sisyphean existence than they would otherwise experience. The harm is not that some households choose to organize themselves around these roles, but that the choice to do otherwise is increasingly pushed out of reach. The greater danger lies in enforcing traditional roles …

A new EV brand wants to shake up Japan’s cheap mini car market

A new EV brand wants to shake up Japan’s cheap mini car market

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BYD isn’t the only Chinese brand that wants to crack open Japan’s kei car market. Five companies, including China’s Chery Automotive and Japanese car parts giant Autobacs Seven, launched a new EV brand that will launch its first vehicle next year with prices on par with gas cars. China and Japan team up to form new low-cost EV brand After BYD introduced “Racco,” its first electric kei car in Japan, China’s Chery Automotive revealed its next in line with its first mini EV set to launch in 2027. EMT Co announced on Wednesday that it launched a new EV brand, EMTA, a joint venture between five Chinese and Japanese companies, including Chery and Autobacs Seven. Standing for “Easy, Made To All,” the new brand is designed to address Japan’s unique needs, such as navigating narrow roads and range anxiety on long trips. Advertisement – scroll for more content EMT CEO He Xiaoqing announced that the first brand will launch its first vehicle, an electric kei car, in Japan in 2027. By 2029, it plans to …

How niche B2B brand became one of most cited in world by AI

How niche B2B brand became one of most cited in world by AI

Published by Sam Flores

Blooloop homepage A B2B newsbrand that was previously fairly unknown outside its niche has become one of the most cited news sources worldwide on AI answer engines. Charles Read, co-founder of Blooloop which covers the visitor attractions industry, told Press Gazette how embracing the LLMs has paid dividends for his business and revealed how the site has grown from being one man and his laptop to employing an 11-strong team. Read launched Blooloop 21 years ago after starting his career selling B2B magazine advertising in something of a “boiler room” environment in London in the 1990s: “To be frank, we were never 100% sure the magazines were actually published and distributed, but we were selling it. So I got to be really good.” After moving to Devon with his wife, Read decided to launch his own online B2B publication and settled on visitor attractions as a vertical that did not seem to be well served by specialist websites at the time. Five years later wife Rachel quit her accountancy job and joined the business full …

Kash Patel’s clothing brand website shut down after reports it was hacked

Kash Patel’s clothing brand website shut down after reports it was hacked

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The merchandise website of FBI director Kash Patel was taken offline on Friday after reports that it had been hijacked by hackers trying to infect visitors with malware, as first reported by Straight Arrow News. As of this writing, the website of Based Apparel is offline. On Thursday, an X user who goes by Debbie posted that the brand’s website apparently had malware on it, in particular an infostealer, a type of malicious software designed to infect victims and steal their credentials and passwords. A security researcher later analyzed the malware.  Brand Apparel could not be reached for comment. TechCrunch emailed a Gmail address previously associated with Patel, but we have not received an answer.   This was not a good week for security for MAGA-associated business ventures.  On Friday, President Trump’s cell phone provider and maker of Trump Mobile confirmed that the company left customers’ personal information exposed online, including names, email addresses, mailing addresses, cell numbers, and order identifiers. The confirmation came days after a researcher alerted two YouTubers who had purchased Trump Mobile’s …

Jensen Huang says he’s found a ‘brand new’ 0B market for Nvidia

Jensen Huang says he’s found a ‘brand new’ $200B market for Nvidia

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Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang is, perhaps, one of the greatest corporate hype men of all time when it comes to his company. He may even surpass Salesforce’s Marc Benioff when it comes to relentless optimism in his company’s future and revenues. Even so, he delivers on the hype, quarter after quarter. Instead of cautioning you to view the proclamation that he’s found a “brand new $200 billion TAM for Nvidia” with skepticism, I’d argue he’s earned a bit of trust. Huang positioned this massive new market at the feet of Nvidia’s new CPU product, Vera, which was introduced in March. Speaking on Wednesday’s earnings call — after Nvidia posted another record-breaking quarter with $81.6 billion in revenue and forecast $91 billion for the next — Huang pitched Vera as a potentially transformative product. And one that already has promising sales figures. But no matter how well Nvidia delivers, Wall Street harbors anxiety over what will knock Nvidia from its perch. Lately, such fears have centered on the CPU. Nvidia is the king of …