If you have a Galaxy phone of 2019 vintage, I would be careful with your software updates. An update from Samsung is reportedly rolling out Brick devices from Galaxy S10 and Galaxy Note 10 series of phones. 9 to 5 Google reported that some users have the same problem with Galaxy M51 and A90 models. The Galaxy S10 and Galaxy S10+ are five years old, running Android 12 and old enough to not support updates.
Affected devices probably got stuck in a boot loop and couldn’t fully reboot. Do not factory reset your device as you will lose your data.
Was this some shady plan to get you to buy the new foldable Galaxy? No. Now there is Samsung and shared a newer version (2.2.03.1) with no issues — be sure to check that update number.
– Matt Smith
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The lawsuit comes a month after the state passed the law.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against TikTok, claiming the company violated the state’s new child privacy law. This will be the first trial of Texas’ Keeping Kids Online through Empowering Parents (SCOPE) Act. It requires social media platforms to verify the age of young users and implement parental control features, including allowing parents to opt out of their children’s data collection.
Paxton argues that TikTok’s existing parental control features are inadequate, lacking “parental tools that allow certain minors to control or limit most privacy and account settings.”
It will triple the refresh time to three minutes.
Starting October 15, YouTube Shorts is increasing video limits from one to three minutes. For reference, its biggest competitor, TikTok, has allowed users to share 10-minute videos for more than two years. The company is working on making it possible to capture clips from YouTube and make remix clips through the Shorts camera. If shorts aren’t your thing, it’s also easy to skip them as YouTube provides a tool to show less Shorts, although it’s temporary.
The James Webb Space Telescope captured the image.
The James Webb Space Telescope captured the supernova three times at three different times during the explosion in one photograph. The image could help scientists better understand how fast the universe is expanding. An image above shows a streak of light with three distinct points that appear brighter than the rest. As Dr Brenda Frye of the University of Arizona explains, these points correspond to an exploding white dwarf star. It is also gravitationally lensed – there are many galaxies between it and the star, which bend the light from the supernova into several images.
