How to record your screen on an Android device

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There are all kinds of reasons you might want to record what’s happening on your Android screen, from capturing your gaming exploits to trying to explain to a family member how to fix a problem they’re having with their favorite app.

And when you do need this function, you’ll find it built right into Android (as it is on iOS). Since Android 11 launched in 2020, you haven’t needed a third-party app for the job — though you can still use one if you need extra features.

Here’s how to get screen recordings on Android, as tested with both a Pixel 8 running Android 15 and a Galaxy Z Fold 5 running Android 14 (One UI 6.1.1). If you need more options, there are a couple of third-party apps mentioned at the end.

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Microsoft’s new Windows Resiliency Initiative aims to avoid another CrowdStrike incident

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The CrowdStrike catastrophe that took down 8.5 million Windows PCs and servers in July has left many of Microsoft’s biggest customers looking for answers to make sure that such an event never happens again. Now, Microsoft has some answers in the form of a new Windows Resiliency Initiative that’s designed to improve Windows security and reliability.

The Windows Resiliency Initiative includes core changes to Windows that will make it easier for Microsoft’s customers to recover Windows-based machines if there’s ever another CrowdStrike-like incident. There are also some new Windows platform improvements to provider stronger controls over what apps and drivers are allowed to run, and to help allow anti-virus processing outside of kernel...

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Microsoft’s new Copilot Actions use AI to automate repetitive tasks

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At Microsoft’s Ignite conference today the software giant is introducing Copilot Actions, a new way for Microsoft 365 Copilot users to automate repetitive tasks. Microsoft is also adding AI agents to SharePoint, allowing PowerPoint to translate entire presentations, and improving how Copilot works in Outlook to find the best time for meetings.

Copilot Actions, now in private preview, enables anyone to automate repetitive everyday tasks. That could include automating a summary of meeting actions from Teams meetings, generating weekly reports, or even automating meeting prep. Copilot Actions are designed to be something you set and forget, much like an AI-powered macro that goes off and does its thing based on some fill-in-the-blank...

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Microsoft Teams will help you speak in a foreign language during meetings

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Microsoft Teams meetings are getting a new interpreter feature that lets each participant speak or listen in the language of their choosing. Interpreter in Teams uses real-time AI-powered speech-to-speech translation to simulate your speaking voice during meetings.

A preview will be available in early 2025 that will include up to nine languages, and the ability for the interpreter feature to simulate your personal voice in a different language.

It’s part of a series of AI-powered changes coming to Microsoft Teams. Meeting transcription will soon support multilingual meetings, so that up to 31 translation languages will be supported for a meeting transcript.

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Microsoft announces its own Black Hat-like hacking event with big rewards for AI security

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Microsoft is creating an in-person hacking event, Zero Day Quest, which it says will be the largest of its kind. The event will build upon Microsoft’s existing bug bounty program, and incentivize research into high-impact security flaws that can affect the software powering cloud and AI workloads.

“This new hacking event will be the largest of its kind, with an additional $4 million in potential awards for research into high-impact areas, specifically cloud and AI,” explains Tom Gallagher, VP of engineering at Microsoft’s security response center. “Zero Day Quest will provide new opportunities for the security community to work hand in hand with Microsoft engineers and security researchers — bringing together the best minds in security...

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Windows 365 Link is a $349 mini PC that streams Windows from the cloud

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Microsoft is planning to launch a new purpose-built miniature PC for its Windows 365 cloud service next year. Windows 365 Link is a $349 device that acts like a thin client PC to connect to the cloud and stream a version of Windows 11.

The Link device is designed to be a compact, fanless, and easy to use cloud PC for your local monitors and peripherals. It’s meant to be the ideal companion to Microsoft’s Windows 365 service, which lets businesses transition employees over to virtual machines that exist in the cloud and can be streamed securely to multiple devices.

“We want the focus of Link to be the Windows 365 part of it,” explains Pavan Davuluri, Microsoft’s head of Windows and Surface, in an interview with The Verge. “We want to make...

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Microsoft Ignite 2024: all the news from Microsoft’s IT pro event

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Ignite is Microsoft’s big event to sell the future of Windows, AI, and Office to its biggest customers.

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Instagram will let you rebuild your recommendations from scratch

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Instagram is testing a new feature that will let users completely refresh the content that’s recommended to them on the platform. The recommendations reset feature will “soon roll out globally,” according to Meta’s announcement, and can be used to clear the algorithmic content that currently appears in Feeds, Explore, and Reels.

The new feature will be available to users of all ages, including Teen accounts. “We want to make sure everyone on Instagram – especially teens – has safe, positive, age-appropriate experiences and feels the time they’re spending on Instagram is valuable,” Meta said. “We want to give teens new ways to shape their Instagram experience, so it can continue to reflect their passions and interests as they evolve.”

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Google now lets you manage all of your old Nest Cams from the Home app

Google now lets you manage Nest Cam IQ indoor and outdoor cameras — which were both released in 2017 — through a public preview in the Google Home app, meaning that you can now technically manage all Nest cams from as early as 2015 from the Home app instead of the Nest app.

Google has been slowly making it possible to bring Nest cams into Home over the past year and change. When you transfer your Nest Cam IQ cameras over to Home, you’ll be able to “review video history in event and timeline views, access camera settings, and more without switching between the Nest and Google Home apps,” Google says. From Home, Google also lets you view live streams from cameras in your favorites tab and set up automations.

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The best deals on MacBooks right now

You can already save more than $200 on an M4 MacBook Pro. | Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge

Apple currently sells MacBooks equipped with its own M-series chips in a wide range of sizes and price points. It discontinued the M1 MacBook Air to make room for the latest models, but some retailers are still selling the last-gen laptop starting at $649 — a far cry from the $2,499 starting price of the latest 16-inch MacBook Pro with M4 Pro. Purchasing a new MacBook can certainly be a pricey endeavor, but thankfully, finding a deal on more recent models is actually not that difficult. Apple has recently shaken up the starting RAM for several models, creating more options than ever before and resulting in steeper discounts on older models.

Although Macs may not experience perpetual discounts, it’s not uncommon to see various models...

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Tesla’s first 500kW V4 Superchargers are coming next year

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Tesla will launch fully realized V4 Supercharger stations that support up to 500kW charging for EVs and 1.2MW for Tesla’s commercial Semi trucks next year. Sites with new V4 cabinets are going into permitting now. When they open next year, they’ll connect the charging stalls EVs plug into with upgraded electronics that support faster charging on Cybertruck and other manufacturers’ EVs.

Tesla started rolling out the V4 stalls in Europe and limited places in the US last year. However, their power cabinets are limited to the capabilities of V3 Supercharger stations that support 250kW max charging. The updated V4 stalls include new physical payment terminals, longer cords that can reach the charge ports of other manufacturers’ EVs without...

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Dozens of states ask Congress to un-doom the Kids Online Safety Act

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A group of state attorneys general are pushing Congress to pass the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), which has stalled in the House of Representatives thanks to concerns over online censorship. An open letter published today is signed by 32 attorneys general, including those of 31 states and the District of Columbia. It urges leaders of both parties in the House and Senate to vote on the bill before the current congressional session ends early next year.

“While an increasingly online world has improved many aspects of our material well-being, prolific internet usage negatively impacts our children,” reads the letter, whose signatories include the attorneys general of Florida, New Mexico, and New York. “KOSA will establish better safeguards...

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US lawyers will reportedly try to force Google to sell Chrome and unbundle Android

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The Department of Justice is planning to ask for Google’s antitrust trial judge to force the company to sell off its Chrome browser after the judge ruled the company has maintained an illegal search monopoly, reports Bloomberg.

Chrome is the world’s most widely used browser, and the government’s lawyers have argued that its use in cross-promoting Google’s products is one of the things limiting available channels and incentives for competition to grow.

Requirements that officials are preparing to propose include that Google separate Android from Search and Google Play, but without trying to force Google to sell off Android. Another requirement would say it has to share more information with advertisers and that it “give them more control...

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Amazon and SpaceX attack US labor watchdog in court

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Amazon and SpaceX are seeking to hamstring the National Labor Relations Board, asking a court to declare its processes for upholding labor law unconstitutional. But judges on a three-person panel appeared skeptical when the companies presented their arguments Monday.

In two separate cases before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, the two companies argued that the NLRB is unlawfully forcing them to participate in administrative law proceedings over alleged anti-labor actions. The Amazon case centers around whether it’s required to bargain with the union at its JFK 8 fulfillment center on Staten Island, while the SpaceX case involves a charge by former employees who claimed they were fired after being critical of CEO Elon Musk.

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Razzlekhan, crypto’s most embarrassing rapper, is going to prison

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A federal judge has sentenced Heather Morgan to 18 months in prison for her role in helping husband Ilya “Dutch” Lichtenstein launder stolen Bitcoin, CoinDesk reports. Lichtenstein has admitted to hacking the cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex in 2016 and stealing 120,000 Bitcoin, worth $71 million at the time (and almost $11 billion as of this writing).

Before she was arrested, Morgan was a Forbes and Inc. blogger. When the Department of Justice announced her arrest, the internet found out she also made crypto-themed rap videos under the name “Razzlekhan.” The whole story is expected to be immortalized in a Netflix documentary series and a film called Dutch & Razzlekhan.

Morgan issued a statement on X, saying she “will soon be telling my...

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Corsair now has a gaming keyboard and mouse for the Mac

Corsair has upgraded its K65 Plus wireless keyboard and M75 wireless mouse so they’re Mac compatible with new colorways. | Image: Corsair

Corsair has announced an updated version of the K65 Plus wireless keyboard it debuted earlier this year that’s now compatible with the Mac. It’s joined by a new version of Corsair’s M75 wireless mouse, and both peripherals are available in Mac-exclusive colors including glacier blue and a white version the company calls frost.

The frost versions of the K65 Plus wireless keyboard and M75 wireless mouse are available now from Apple’s online and retail stores for $179.95 and $129.95, respectively. The glacier blue versions will be available for the same price, but at a later date.

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The Mac version of the Corsair K65 Plus wireless keyboard is exclusively available in glacier blue and frost (white)...

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HarperCollins is asking authors to license their books for AI training

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HarperCollins has agreed with an unnamed AI tech company to let the company use some nonfiction titles to train its models, 404 Media reports, but only if authors opt-in to having their books be used for training. Some authors are currently suing companies like OpenAI, accusing them of copyright infringement for training AI models on their works without permission.

According to a statement HarperCollins gave to 404 Media, the agreement protects authors’ “underlying value of their works and our shared revenue and royalty streams.” Author Daniel Kibblesmith posted screenshots of an email showing that he would be paid $2,500 if he allowed one of his books to be licensed.

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Toyota shows off its latest big idea for cold hydrogen vehicles

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Toyota is pushing hydrogen-powered vehicle technology forward with a liquid hydrogen system design that includes a self-pressurizer to save escaping gas and reuse it as fuel to increase engine efficiency.

Toyota introduced a liquid system in the GR Corolla H2 Concept in 2023, which keeps hydrogen at -253 degrees Celsius during filling and storing in the tank. Hydrogen exists as a gas at room temperature, so the pumps have to operate cold to prevent the liquid from boiling. Inherently, the system still has boil-off gas that gets wasted.

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Boil-off gas chart for the system.

So what’s the solution? Toyota exhibited a “self-pressurizer” at the Super Taikyu Series 2024 race this past weekend that “uses the...

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Donald Trump’s pick for energy secretary says ‘there is no climate crisis’

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President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Energy is fossil fuel executive Chris Wright — who has misleadingly claimed on LinkedIn that “there is no climate crisis, and we’re not in the midst of an energy transition either.”

Hurricanes, wildfires, droughts, and other disasters exacerbated by climate change are already hitting the US. And renewable energy capacity is on course to more than double globally by the end of the decade.

Nevertheless, Wright is a staunch evangelist for fossil fuels who consistently rejects mainstream climate science. While Wright also has ties to the nuclear energy industry, clean energy advocates say that with Trump’s cabinet picks, the US is losing ground in the race to deploy renewable...

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Inside Elon Musk’s messy breakup with OpenAI

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Emails in Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI expose the startup’s rocky origins.

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Dbrand’s new glow-in-the-dark skins have a circuit board texture you can feel

Dbrand’s Circuit Board skins could make it easier to find your devices in the dark. | Image: Dbrand

Dbrand’s latest gadget skins capitalize on our curiosity to peek inside our electronics. Its new Circuit Board collection, created in collaboration with LinusTechTips, features a complex pattern that looks like a functional PCB because the pattern was created with the assistance of engineers that design actual circuit boards.

The company describes the complex design of the new skin collection as being an “accurate representation of a printed circuit board” but it don’t represent a functional PCB copied from an actual device. Instead, the pattern is a “mosaic of functional circuit board elements,” Dbrand CEO Adam Ijaz tells The Verge, that showcases components like resistors, capacitors, and traces laid out in a schematic that prioritizes...

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Google may be about to reboot its laptop and tablet hardware again

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Google might be preparing to make big changes to its laptop and tablet hardware by making the software on its Chromebooks resemble what you’d find on a tablet. One report from Android Authority suggests that Google has a “multi-year project” in the works for migrating ChromeOS to Android, while a second one from the same outlet indicates Google may be planning a second Pixel tablet that comes with a foldable keyboard cover.

That tracks with the moves Google has made in recent months.

In June, Google announced that ChromeOS “will soon be developed on large portions of the Android stack” to make the engineering process easier and bring AI features to ChromeOS faster. Google also merged its Android and hardware teams, began testing desktop...

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The best sleep gadgets to help you catch those Zzzs

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Sleep tech is more than tracking. Here are the best gadgets I’ve tested that help you fall asleep, stay asleep, or wake up earlier.

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DoorDash will let you import your grocery list from Apple’s Reminders app

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DoorDash now lets you import a grocery list from Apple’s Reminders app to make it easier to buy groceries on the app. To use the feature, while shopping on DoorDash, look for a button to import a list in the app and select the list you’d like to bring over. (You can also paste a list, if you prefer.) DoorDash will then offer suggestions for things to add to your cart based on what’s on your list.

The new feature is part of a suite of updates from DoorDash to make the app more useful for holiday shopping. One other potentially good change: when you search for a retail item, the search results will show where you can buy the product, the price, and the estimated delivery time all in a single view. This change is live first for searches for...

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Netflix’s Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson fight was a big moment for Bluesky

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It was morbid curiosity that made me tune in to Netflix’s live boxing match between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson on Saturday night. The stream ran into technical issues, and the fight itself was slow and ponderous. But there was something else that kept me watching: all of the jokes flying on Bluesky.

That kind of real-time social experience is a large part of what made X feel so vital back when it was still called Twitter. Whether it was the World Cup or a presidential election or a Nintendo Direct, having so many people posting in one place made it feel alive, an experience that Meta’s Threads, with its algorithmic feed, hasn’t been able to replicate. But at least for a brief moment on Saturday night, Bluesky sure did.

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Substack says it could be profitable — but it still isn’t

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Substack still isn’t profitable despite attracting big names in the independent writer world, whose newsletters and blogs rake in a massive digital subscriber base for the platform. Hamish McKenzie, one of Substack’s founders, told The New York Times that it could choose to be profitable but is focusing instead on “investing in and continuing to grow the business.”

According to the Times, X owner Elon Musk offered to acquire Substack during a phone call with its CEO, Chris Best, in April 2023_._ Musk even reportedly suggested making Best “chief executive of the combined company,” but Best turned down the offer.

Substack has repeated the line that it could choose profitability if it wanted for years. Best said on Nilay Patel’s Decoder in...

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Now Telegram’s mini-apps can run in full screen on your phone

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Telegram is pushing a new 2.0 update for its in-app “mini-apps” that allows them to run full screen, enables developers to add subscription plans, allows gift sending from mini-apps, lets you add the apps to your homescreen, and more.

Full-screen mini-apps, including games such as Doom, can run in either portrait or landscape orientations inside Telegram and include “expanded gestures and interfaces” to support more gaming genres. Like native mobile apps, mini-apps can now read your device’s processor and RAM information to optimize performance and support gyro controls.

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Add mini-apps to your homescreen.

Telegram’s additions show the company’s efforts to build an all-in-one super app like China’s...

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Perplexity’s AI search engine can now buy products for you

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Perplexity is rolling out a new feature that will let Pro subscribers purchase a product without leaving its AI search engine. When searching for a product using Perplexity, Pro members based in the US can now choose a “Buy with Pro” button that will automatically order the product using saved shipping and billing information.

Perplexity says all products purchased through Buy with Pro come with free shipping. For products that don’t support Buy with Pro, Perplexity will redirect users to the merchant’s website to complete their purchase.

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Perplexity’s product cards will show whether you can “Buy with Pro.”

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Nike’s Air Max 1000 are almost entirely 3D-printed

Nike collaborated with Zellerfeld to create the 3D-printed Air Max 1000. | Image: Nike

Nike’s new Air Max 1000 are the company’s first shoes manufactured almost entirely using 3D printing. Debuting at ComplexCon this past weekend in Las Vegas, Nike collaborated with Zellerfeld — a company that already has expertise in 3D printing shoes — to create the Air Max 1000, but they’re not currently available to the general public.

The Air Max 1000’s design is an updated take on the Air Max 1, which debuted in 1987 as Nike’s first shoe with an air cushion in the heel that was visible through a window in the midsole. That feature is carried forward to the new Air Max 1000, and although the air cushion itself isn’t 3D-printed, the rest of the shoe uses a single flexible material.

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WD’s 1TB Xbox Series X/S expansion card is down to a record low $100

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We’ve safely exited another summer gaming lull and it looks like we’re entering a bull run of great games heading into 2025. As a result, the 512GB of internal storage supplied by the Xbox Series S is feeling increasingly paltry. You’ll even start to feel the squeeze on the 1TB Series X when you load up on new titles like Call of Duty: Black Ops VI(which demands about 85GB for multiplayer alone, and much more if you’re into the campaign). Don’t even get us started on the spate of games due in the next year and beyond. The 1TB WD_Black C50 expansion card can offer relief, and it’s down to an all-time low of $99.99 ($56 off) at Amazon and Best Buy. You can also get the 512GB card for $67.99 ($12 off), which is $2 more than its lowest...

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