Turns out Roku streaming sticks have a host of secret menus accessed through cheat code-esque combinations of button presses on the remote.
Sure, they’re mostly to do things like check app versions and monitor CPU temperatures, rather than enable infinite lives, but digging into the technical details of your streaming setup can be fun too.
Swiss minimalist phone manufacturer Punkt says it’s working with German company Gigaset on a line of “fully European-built mobile devices,” with the first to launch in Q4 this year.
Punkt makes both smartphones and feature phones, and we don’t know which it’ll be making in Europe, nor how much of the supply chain will be European. But it’s one up on the Trump T1 Phone, which no longer claims to be made in the USA.
The company will appeal the payout, which will otherwise go to Android users in California whose cellular data was used to transmit information back to Google for uses like targeted advertising.
There’s a similar case going to trial in April 2026 on behalf of users in the other 49 states, not to mention a separate class action alleging Google collected some data even from users that had opted out.
That’s the milestone Amazon just crossed. As The Wall Street Journal notes, it’s coming up fast on the company’s total human workforce, which the paper estimates at 1.56 million people right now, and as Amazon’s CEO has said is likely to go down over the next few years.
The million includes the new touch-sensitive Vulcan robot unveiled last month, though probably not Amazon’s rumored work on autonomous humanoid delivery robots.
Android Headlines says it has the specs for the two new Pro Pixels, a week after dropping the details of the base model.
It sounds like not much is changing from last year on the hardware side, but the XL model will reportedly start from 256GB of storage, double the 10 Pro’s 128GB, suggesting Google is trying the same ploy Apple used to justify the iPhone 15 Pro Max price jump in 2023.
[androidheadlines.com]
The Guardian reports that a letter was sent to executives last month, representing more than 200 Amazon employees, accusing the company of violating the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Complaints center around last year’s revamp of the company’s work-from-home policies for disabled employees, which workers also claim have been processed using AI automations. They further allege that the deletion of some Slack messages infringes their rights to organize.
That’s what Apple is working on next, at least according to supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. The more affordable MacBook would use the same A18 Pro chip found in the iPhone 16 Pro series, and pack a 13-inch display and colorful finishes like silver, blue, pink, and yellow.
Apparently Apple is aiming to sell 5-7 million of them too, making up more than a fifth of its overall laptop sales.