Fjolårets Fairphone 6 har nu börjat få Android 16. Uppdateringen skickas ut med start idag, 16 mars. Även om Fairphones uppdatering inte är snabb är den ändå snabbare än vad företaget hade räknat med, då Android 16 förväntades vara redo först i april.
Eventuellt baseras uppdateringen på en tidig version av Android 16 och inte på någon av de senare QPR-versionerna med designspråket Material 3 Expressive. Fairphone har specialiserat sig på att skapa smartphones som är lätta att reparera och med batterier som går att byta ut själv. En annan fokus är mer rättvis ersättning till alla i ledet, samt minskad miljöpåverkan.
This update is all about the user experience, providing a fast, clean, and intuitive interface that feels modern and personal. We’ve worked hard to ensure that these new features, from the smart notification management to the enhanced privacy tools, feel like a natural and positive evolution of what it means to use a Fairphone.
Two Doctor Who episodes that no one has seen since the 1960s have, astonishingly, turned up. Among the objects in the estate of an anonymous collector, whose films were donated to the charitable trust Film is Fabulous! after his death, were copies of two episodes that aired in the show’s third season.
“The Nightmare Begins” and “Devil’s Planet” both originally aired in November 1965. In the 13-episode The Daleks’ Master Plan arc—written by Dalek creator Terry Nation—the first Doctor (William Hartnell) faced the Daleks as they planned to take over the galaxy. This storyline, according to the BBC, was “dark and gritty,” and was “ordered to be wiped.” (There were kind of a lot of deaths.) Apparently, neither Australia nor New Zealand would take the episodes, finding them too violent, and “without their buy-in, selling to other markets was not profitable.” So these episodes have never been seen outside the UK. (A third episode in the arc was found in 2004.)
The two newly found episodes were apparently the gems in a collection that mostly included film of canals and trains.
Possibly the funniest part of this story, though, is the fact that actor Peter Purvess, who played the Doctor’s companion Steven Taylor, was lured to a screening of the episodes “under false pretenses.” For unclear reasons, he was told he was going to do “interviews with the media about television in the 1960s.”
Purvess, bless him, said, “My flabber has never been so gasted.” He also immediately had his eye on the future: “I’m absolutely thrilled and maybe I’ll [get] quite a few invites to conventions and various things.”
Purvess was invited to the screening by Doctor Who historian Toby Hadoke, who said, “I’m a grown man and I’ve been wishing I could see ‘The Nightmare Begins’ since I saw the name on a list of missing episodes of Doctor Who 30 years ago. Forget Glastonbury, I think if you put on a screening of these tomorrow it would sell out in seconds.”
A special screening is in fact taking place in London on April 4, which is the same day the episodes will arrive on BBC iPlayer.
Seven episodes in this story arc are still missing; they’re among the 95 remaining lost Doctor Who episodes. Perhaps yet more will be found in the unlikeliest of places.[end-mark]
Om du äger en Pixel och har valt att stanna laddningen vid 80 procent för att förlänga batteriets livslängd har du kanske lagt märke till att det blivit svårt att överhuvudtaget nå 80 procent. Laddningen stannar nämligen vid 77 eller 78 procent och tycks inte komma längre.
Det nya laddningsbeteendet är del av Android 16 QPR3. Telefonen sänker laddningshastigheten efter 77 procent så pass att telefonen till synes slutar ladda. Enligt ett inlägg i Issue Tracker är beteendet medvetet och till för att ”hantera batterihälsan”. Beteendet kommer optimeras i framtida versioner.
Laddningshastigheten sänks alltid när nivån börjar närma sig 100 procent – ofta sker sänkningen vid 80 procent. Att Google kraftigt sänker laddningshastigheten innan 80 procent kan därför tyckas en smula märkligt. Att laddningen stannar vid 77 procent gör dock mindre i praktiken och ändringen märks endast för de som laddar dagtid och inte över natten.
Om du undrat varför din Pixel plötsligt stannat vid 77 eller 78 procent laddning finns i vilket fall en naturlig förklaring och det är ingen bugg i just din telefon.
Avinstallationerna av Chat GPT ökade med 295 procent från dag till dag i helgen, rapporterar Techcrunch. Att Chat GPT tagits bort från telefoner i större utsträckning än vanligt är en reaktion på Open AI:s avtal med USA:s krigsdepartement (omdöpt från försvarsdepartement).
Enligt Techcrunch reagerade även användare på Open AI:s avtal genom betygsättning: antalet enstjärniga betyg av Chat GPT ska ha ökat med 775 procent i lördags. Konkurrenten Anthropic vägrade som kontrast att gå med på krigsdepartementets krav på obegränsad tillgång till AI, av etiska anledningar.
Anthropics ställningstagande mot massövervakning och dödliga autonoma vapen ledde till att företaget svartlistades av USA:s regering som hämnd. Många verkar dock ha föredragit Anthropics approach framför Open AI:s, då installationerna av Claude ökade med 37 procent i fredags och med 51 procent i lördags.
Motorola har tillkännagivit ett långsiktigt samarbete med Graphene OS Foundation. För de som inte är bekanta med Graphene kan nämnas att det är ett OS som baseras på Androids öppna källkod, med fokus på säkerhet och integritet. Systemet kan användas utan Google-tjänster och utan Google Play Services.
En framtida Motorola smartphone kommer ha Graphene OS förinstallerat och vissa funktioner från Graphene ska integreras i Motorolas gränssnitt. Motorola har inte berättat vilken kommande mobil som kommer köra Graphene OS från början.
We are thrilled to be partnering with Motorola to bring GrapheneOS’s industry‑leading privacy and security‑focused mobile operating system to their next-generation smartphone. This collaboration marks a significant milestone in expanding the reach of GrapheneOS, and we applaud Motorola for taking this meaningful step towards advancing mobile security.
In 2019, the FDA approved the drug bremelanotide for use in female hypoactive sexual desire disorder.
Bremelanotide was discovered a bit by accident. The tiny pharmaceutical company that developed it, Palatin Technologies, was looking for a drug that would let you tan without exposure to light (tanning is the result of certain biochemical changes that are usually triggered by exposure to ultraviolet light, but they thought, what if that change could be tipped off by a drug?)
It didn’t work well, but it did, to the researchers’s surprise, do something else: it made some people in clinical trials super-duper extra special horny. In search of a sunless tanning agent, they discovered the world’s first true aphrodisiac.
Fast forward, skipping over a nasal spray trial that was halted in 2004 ostensibly over fears of blood pressure spikes but, behind the scenes, possibly also because the Bush administration’s FDA didn’t like the idea of a real aphrodisiac (women’s sexuality has always, always been political), some licensing agreements, changes of hands, and so forth, in 2014 bremelanotide was approved as an injectable under the trade name Vyleesi. It has not exactly set the world on fire, likely in part because injectible drugs are not generally popular.
It’s also approved only in women, not men, because once again, women’s sexual desire has always been political. (Men can be dagnosed with male hypoactive sexual desire disorder, but the standard treatment modalities are talk therapy and testosterone supplements, because of course the normal state of men is to be horny all the time, so if you’re not horny you either have psychological problems or you don’t have enough testosterone…but I digress.)
I’ve tried it. It’s available from custom peptide synthesis houses, and man, in me (and about half the people who try it) it hits like a truck. There’s nothing subtle about it, no “hmm, is it working, I can’t tell?”, it’s like being flattened by a train. About half an hour after I take it, I’m ready to kick a hole in a vrick wall, and I don’t mean with my foot.
Now, I honestly think this is a good thing. This is in fact a point that Eunice and I make in the Passionate Pantheon novels, our book series set in a post-scarcity society. People in the City have access to “blessings,” sort of like drugs that allow their users to tailor their subjective experiences in almost any way they can imagine.
The reason being, everything that extends human agency, anything that enables people to be who they want to be and make the choices they want to make, is a force for good. Human agency is a desireable goal.
And honestly, I do have that feeling about aphrodisiacs. I personally know people who aren’t generally horny who would like to be. Something that gives you control over your own libido, allowing you to tailor it to what you want it to be? That’s a boon.
And yet…
I find it highly strange that Vyleesi is only available by prescription to women. The cultural narrative is that women should feel retiscent about sex, so a litle pharmacological boost to their libidos is reasonable and normal, but if men don’t want sex we need to find out what’s really wrong with them.
I bet the fact that Vyleesi is available to women but not men sends a message that a lot of women hear loud and clear: if you’re not horny enough for your man, you need medication. In a world where people all had about the same range of autonomy, bremelanotide would be unremarkable; in the world as it is, I worry that there will be those who want it not out of desire to be more horny, but out of fear that they need to please their partners.
Mind you, I am still cautiously optimistic that available of a real aphrodisiac is a good thing, generally speaking. But i see potential for the pathologization of people (by which, of ourse, I mean mostly women) who aren’t interested in sex, or who are fine with having a low libido, and making it available only to women kind of shows where society puts the blame for sexless relationships.
Paramount lyckades med sin fientliga budgivning som inleddes i början av december förra året. Netflix har lagt sig och kommer inte köpa Warner Bros och HBO Max. I ett uttalande säger Netflix att det inte är ”finansiellt attraktivt” att matcha Paramounts bud.
Paramount kommer betala Warner Bros uppsägningsavgift till Netflix på 2,87 miljarder dollar för att ha brutit det befintliga avtalet. HBO Max och hela Warner Bros Discovery bör nu gå till Paramount. Affären finansieras bland annat genom pengar från Saudiarabien, Qatar och Abu Dhabi.
Amerikanska snabbmatskedjan Burger King har introducerat en AI som håller till inuti anställdas headsets. Utöver att hjälpa till med matförberedelser ska BK Assistant även utvärdera hur trevliga och tillmötesgående anställda är mot kunder.
Burger King mäter bland annat ”vänligheten” genom att hålla utkik efter särskilda ord och fraser likt ”välkommen till Burger King” och ”tack”. Företaget arbetar på att även kunna utvärdera samtalstonen och inte bara basera analysen på själva orden.
Föreståndare kan utnyttja AI-assistenten till att se hur restaurangen presterar gällande ”vänligheten”. Thibault Roux från Burger King säger att assistenten är tänkt att vara ett ”coaching-verktyg”.
I Sverige sker nästan all beställning i snabbmatsrestauranger via automater, så interaktionen mellan kunder och anställda är ofta nästintill obefintlig. Burger King-personalen kan ställa frågor till assistenten om saker likt matförberedelser och rengöring. Assistenten håller dessutom reda på ifall maskiner är nere för underhåll eller ifall ett menyval inte längre är tillgängligt och uppdaterar menyerna automatiskt.
BK Assistant ska integreras i alla amerikanska Burger King-restauranger innan årets slut.
In a sweeping interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Andor creator Tony Gilroy directly discusses the show’s parallels to current U.S. politics under the Trump administration and confirms that Disney discouraged the Andor team from using the word “fascism” during the series’ 2025 promotional campaign.
“Diego [Luna] and I had some early, super long-lead press, and we tiptoed out. We were like, ‘Oh my God, this is really electric,'” Gilroy says regarding how the team navigated that time with the restrictions that were suggested. “The actors have a broad spectrum of political ideas, and we didn’t want anybody to perjure themselves or violate their conscience. So we came up with a legit historical model, and it’s a version of what I’m telling you now.”
That historical model Gilroy refers to involved studying the patterns in the rise of authoritarian regimes throughout history and identifying the common tactics that even an empire in a galaxy far, far away may also employ.
“We were pretty much doing a story about authoritarianism and fascism, and the Empire is very clearly a great example of that,” Gilroy says. “So you get out your Fascism for Dummies book for the 15 things you do, and we tried to include as many of them as we could in the most artful way possible.”
Despite the Andor team’s research and their efforts to express that research as artfully as possible via the show, the team was still discouraged from using the word fascism (and, reportedly, genocide) during the 2025 promotional campaign for Andor‘s second season. It is certainly no coincidence that said campaign coincided with the inauguration of Donald Trump and the start of his second term as President of the United States (as well as other global political events occurring at that time).
So, even though Donald Trump had said “sometimes you need a dictator” in regard to his current administration, has threatened to imprison journalists, publicly attempted to discredit various intellectual institutions, has continuously spread false and disputed narratives regarding subjects like fair and free elections, and generally exhibited many of the traits historians commonly associate with fascist regimes, the Andor team was discouraged from using the word fascism during the early days of Trump’s second term. Mind you, many of those events occurred before Andor‘s season 2 premiere (and related press tour), so they do not account for actions such as the DHS occupation of the city of Minneapolis which has resulted in multiple civilian deaths or the imprisonment and deportation of children and U.S. citizens.
And while it’s true that some scholars dispute the precise validity of the word fascism in regards to the specifics of the Trump administration’s broad political policies, Disney’s publicity fears concerning the use of that word are more likely related to the concerns regarding that administration’s possible political and legal retaliations. ABC and Disney controversially settled a defamation lawsuit with Trump in 2024 that resulted in a $15 million payout and have approved actions (including the brief suspension of Late Night host Jimmy Kimmel) that have left some Disney employees concerned about the company’s desire to appease the president. Now that Gilroy is finished with Andor, though, he’s allowed to be much more open regarding his thoughts on such matters.
“How were we supposed to know that this clown car in Washington was going to basically use the same book that we used?” Gilroy says. “I don’t think it’s prescience so much as the sad familiarity of fascism and the karaoke menu of things that you go through to do it. You could list them from the show, or you could list them from the newspaper. In the beginning, it was very confusing. People were like, “Oh, you’re psychic,” or, “The show is prescient.” But in the rear-view mirror, it’s really a much sadder explanation than that.”
As far as what may come next, Gilory once again looks to history to make what feels like less of a prediction and more of an observation.
“We were stunned [about the prescience] for a while, but we’ve really gotten to the point where it’s really sad. It’s just sad how predictable and lame and obvious and wrong it all is,” Gilroy proclaims. “Fascism is just a total fail in the end. It eats itself up in the end. So this will have been an incredible waste of time, an incredibly wasted opportunity and an incredibly dark period in America’s history that it may never recover from.” [end-mark]
———————- LAGO DI TESERO, Italy — A local dog made a bid for Olympic glory Wednesday morning, breaking out of his doghouse and onto the homestretch of the cross-country ski course in the middle of a race.
Two-year-old Nazgul was quickly collared by race officials and returned unharmed to his home at a nearby bed-and-breakfast, but not before his genial presence lit up television sets and social media channels around the world — even if he perplexed some of the athletes who encountered him.
“I was like, ‘Am I hallucinating?” said Tena Hadzic, a 21-year-old Croatian skier who encountered the dog on her trip down the homestretch.
But his owners connected with NPR for a brief interview while they were driving to watch an Olympic biathlon race at another venue.
“He was crying this morning more than normal because he was seeing us leaving — and I think he just wanted to follow us,” said the owner, “He always looks for people.”
Nazgul is a “stubborn, but very sweet” Czechoslovakian wolfdog, the owner said.
Race organizers did not make Nazgul available for questions after his capture. ——————-
My favorite part was showing the Omega photo finish.
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Mozilla har meddelat att alla AI-funktioner i Firefox kommer gå att stänga av. Nyheten kommer vara del av Firefox 148 för desktop som skickas ut 24 februari. De nya inställningarna erbjuder möjligheten att inaktivera alla aktuella och framtida AI-funktioner.
AI-baserade finesser kan även stängas av eller aktiveras individuellt, inklusive översättningar, beskrivande text för bilder i PDF-filer, AI-förstärkt flikhantering, förhandsvisningar av länkar, samt chattbotten i sidofältet. Användares val kommer vara intakta mellan uppdateringar av webbläsaren och inte ändras.
AI is changing the web, and people want very different things from it. We’ve heard from many who want nothing to do with AI. We’ve also heard from others who want AI tools that are genuinely useful. Listening to our community, alongside our ongoing commitment to offer choice, led us to build AI controls.
Counterpoint har publicerat en lista över de tio telefonerna som sålde bäst under 2025 globalt. Precis som tidigare är det Iphone och Galaxy för hela slanten. Apple står för sju av mobilerna på listan medan Samsung har de resterande tre.
Allra bäst sålde Iphone 16 som följs av Iphone 16 Pro Max och Iphone 16 Pro. Trots att Iphone 17 Pro Max bara var tillgänglig i drygt tre månader av 2025 lyckades flaggskeppet ta sig in på fjärdeplatsen, likt föregångaren året innan.
Android har bara en enda toppmodell på listan: Galaxy S25 Ultra. De två övriga Galaxy är budgetmobiler. Enligt Counterpoint representerar de tio telefonerna hela 19 procent av all smartphoneförsäljning under 2025.
På mobiler erbjuds bakgrundsuppspelning i Youtube endast för betalande prenumeranter. Bakgrundsuppspelning innebär att ljudet fortsätter ifall appen som spelar upp videon lämnas, exempelvis genom att gå tillbaka till hemskärmen eller när skärmen släcks. Vissa tredjepartswebbläsare har ändå lyckats erbjuda bakgrundsuppspelning – fram till nu.
Google har bekräftat att bakgrundsuppspelningen stoppats eftersom det är tänkt att vara en Premium-funktion. Användare rapporterar att bakgrundsuppspelningen inte längre fungerar i webbläsare likt Samsung Internet, Vivaldi, Edge och Brave.
Background playback is a feature intended to be exclusive for YouTube Premium members. While some non-Premium users may have previously been able to access this through mobile web browsers in certain scenarios, we have updated the experience to ensure consistency across all our platforms.
