Google updates Android Bench with new LLMs, but Gemini still lags behind

Google created a benchmark earlier this year to evaluate how LLMs perform in Android app development, and Android Bench is ...

Android’s background data habit is now written into Google Play’s fine print

Google’s updated Play terms explain how Android system services can use cellular data in the background, even while phones ...

Digital-native startups are ditching rigid databases for their agentic stacks

The data layer underneath an agentic system must handle variable schemas, vector embeddings, real-time retrieval, and ...

Android backups are changing and it's going to affect everyone's Google cloud storage

Storing your data in the cloud isn't cheap, which is most likely why Google has been making changes to its services, with a ...

Claude Fable 5 is back, but I'm sticking with Opus 4.8 for daily work: 5 reasons why

Anthropic's Fable 5 promises mythic AI power, but surprise restrictions make me wonder if it's more trouble than it's worth ...

I stopped trusting standard note apps with my personal diaries and hosted my own instead

Here is why I stopped trusting standard note apps with my personal diaries and hosted my own instead. I've tried a plethora ...
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This Open-Source App Lets You Use Your Whoop Band Without A Subscription Fee

Sick of paying steep, ongoing subscription fees to use your fitness tracker? An app called Noop aims to rectify that, at least in the case of the Whoop Band (or you could skip the Whoop entirely for ...