Android 15 is now available for certain Android phones. It’s been in development since February, went through three phases, and is finally beginning to roll out, starting with Google’s Pixel phones. If you’re waiting for the latest software, well, you don’t have long to wait.
If you’re wondering when your current Android smartphone will get the Android 15 update, here are all the details so far.
As we mentioned already, the typical Android release cycle has three phases: developer preview, public beta testing, and the final release.
The developer preview began on February 16, 2024. With the developer preview, app developers got a look at the upcoming changes so that they can familiarize themselves with the new software. This allows them to plan ahead to add new features to their own apps if desired.
On April 11, we had the first public beta of Android 15. This allows anyone who wants to try out the software ahead of release to test the new features. Beta testers can report issues and bugs to Google, which helps shape the final release of the software. The public beta versions are much more stable and less buggy than the developer preview builds, but remember — it was still considered early software, so it’s wasn’t perfect.
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As of August 20, Google has released Android 15 Beta 4.1 for eligible devices for those who are enrolled in Google’s beta testing program. This is available to the public, so you don’t need a special invite or account. Once you’re enrolled in the program, just download the Android 15 beta.
On October 15, 2024, Google began to roll out Android 15 to select devices. Since Android phones consist of several different manufacturers, major OS upgrades roll out at different times. As Google makes the Pixel hardware, it makes sense that Pixel devices would get Android 15 first.
Since each manufacturer is different, we’ll go over each one individually as far as when they’ll get the final Android 15 release.
The fastest way to get access to Android 15 is to have a Google Pixel device. That’s because Android is developed by Google, and the Pixel lineup is Google’s own hardware, similar to Apple’s iPhone and iOS, so it makes sense that Pixels would get it first.
Android 15 is available for the following Pixel devices:
Unfortunately, the Pixel 5 and earlier won’t be able to get the Android 15 update. But if you have any of the above Pixel devices, then you’re good to go.
Unfortunately, though we originally thought that the One UI 7 beta was to start rolling out soon, it looks like Samsung revealed in a keynote speech that it would be significantly delayed. How delayed? It will likely arrive with the Galaxy S25 launch in January, which means that this delay is around three months at least.
At the moment, Samsung has not announced any concrete plans about which of its devices will be able to get Android 15. But we can make some educated guesses.
First, Samsung offers at least two years of software upgrades, which it recently bumped up to seven for the latest Galaxy S24 lineup. With this in mind, it’s safe to assume that any Samsung device that shipped with Android 13 out of the box will be eligible for the Android 15 update.
Another set of devices that should get Android 15 are any flagships and midrange phones that launched with Android 11 and have four years of major OS upgrades, as that was Samsung’s policy prior to the change to seven years.
Here’s a list of possible Samsung devices that could get Android 15 based on those factors:
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Galaxy S Series
Galaxy Z Series
Galaxy A Series
Galaxy A73
Galaxy A55
Galaxy A54
Galaxy A53
Galaxy A35
Galaxy A34
Galaxy A33
Galaxy A25
Galaxy A24
Galaxy A23
Galaxy A15
Galaxy A14
Galaxy Tab Series
Galaxy Tab S9 FE Plus
Galaxy Tab S9 FE
Galaxy Tab S9 Ultra
Galaxy Tab S9 Plus
Galaxy Tab S9
Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra
Galaxy Tab S8 Plus
Galaxy Tab S8
There are also Samsung’s Galaxy F and M Series phones. In short, there are a lot of possible Samsung phones that will receive the Android 15 update. We just listed out some of the more popular and more recent devices, but as long as it falls within the criteria mentioned above, it should get Android 15.
We will hear from Samsung later with a confirmed list of supported devices for Android 15 and update accordingly.
OnePlus will announce OxygenOS 15, based on Android 15, at an event on October 24. At that time, it will reveal new features, but in the meantime, it’s highlighting how the software will focus on speed and AI. Also during the event, it will confirm which devices will be eligible, and when the new software will be released.
We can make educated guesses about which OnePlus smartphones will get OxygenOS 15, based on promises by the brand. They include the following:
OxygenOS 15’s arrival follows the availability of Android 15 as a beta for two OnePlus phones, the OnePlus 12 and the OnePlus Open, starting May 15, 2024. It required manual installation, and the specific steps were laid out for the process on the OnePlus forums. It was highly recommended that a backup was performed before installing, and the device needed to be running Android 14.0.0.610 or below.
Problems were reported after installing the Android 15 beta, so approach with caution if you plan to install it on your only phone. If that hasn’t deterred you from installing Android 15 Beta 2 on your OnePlus 12 or OnePlus Open, go ahead and check out how to install it on the forums.
At the moment, you can get the Android 15 beta on your Nothing phone, as long as it’s a Nothing Phone 2 or Nothing Phone 2a. Unfortunately, those who have an original Nothing Phone are out of luck.
If you have one of those eligible Nothing Phones, then you should head over to the Nothing Community forums to check out how to download the Android 15 beta on your device.
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Based on promises made by Nothing at the time of launching phones, we can expect Android 15 to be delivered to these devices:
Right now, the Android 15 beta is only available for the following devices from Honor:
If you have one of those devices, you can grab the Android 15 beta right now. Similar to OnePlus, there are some known issues, though a few of them have been fixed. As of July 30, it seems that the only real concern is that there continues to be a low probability of the phone restarting in certain scenarios.
Xiaomi gave its Android skin a complete overhaul — from visuals to the underlying code — with Android 14. In this process, it transitioned the majority of its devices from the landmark MIUI to the new HyperOS that is also slated to run across other smart devices, including its line of EVs.
Xiaomi has already rolled out Android 15 developer preview builds for its flagship, the Xiaomi 14, alongside the Xiaomi 13T Pro and its premium tablet, Xiaomi Pad 6S Pro (12.4-inch only). To download and install the respective firmware updates, head over to Xiaomi’s support page for Android 15 beta updates.
Although the company has yet to declare which devices (in addition to those above) will receive Android 15 updates, we can speculate based on earlier claims about the number of updates. For the sake of simplicity, we limit these to phones only available globally and not limited to specific regions.
Here is the list of phones from Xiaomi and its sister brands Redmi and Poco:
Redmi Note 13 (LTE and 5G variants), 13 Pro, and 13 Pro Plus
Redmi 13C
Redmi Note 12
Redmi 12 (LTE and 5G variants)
Poco X6 Pro
Poco F6 and F6 Pro
Poco M6 and M6 Pro
As previously with MIUI, Xiaomi’s HyperOS updates are not necessarily tied to Android updates. This means that two phones can get the same HyperOS versions with similar features while running different generations. This is good news for cheaper and older phones that are excluded from receiving Android 15 updates, such as the flagship Mi 11 and Mi 10 series.
Realme, OnePlus’ sister brand, is fairly popular in Asia and is slowly creeping up the charts in other parts of the world. Though the interface it runs is called Realme UI, the interface closely resembles OnePlus’ OxygenOS, which itself is drawn largely from parent Oppo’s ColorOS.
Just like OnePlus, Realme also has an Android 15 beta program, but specifically for the Realme 12 Pro Plus but only for users in India. The instructions are listed in a Realme community post if you have an Indian unit.
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However, a larger batch of devices in more regions can be expected to roll out following Google’s and Oppo’ release of their respective updates. Based on previous promises, here are all the Realme phones expected to get the Android 15 update:
Like Xiaomi, we have limited the list to devices widely available globally.
Though Google has officially released Android 15, only select devices have the final build, namely Pixel phones. Other manufacturers will be rolling out their own custom user interfaces based on Android 15 on their own schedules, and Samsung is typically the first one in this race, though its One UI 7 interface has faced big delays.
If you don’t have a Pixel, you could still access the Android 15 beta, but it’s important to remember to keep a backup of any crucial data just in case there are any malfunctions in the beta before the final version is released on non-Pixel phones.
The Super Nintendo World theme park in Orlando is nearly ready for visitors. Universal Orlando Resort just announced that the Mario-friendly attraction will open its doors on May 22, 2025. That gives you over six months to find the perfect Goomba costume to wear on opening day.
This is the third Nintendo theme park throughout the world, as the Orlando location joins pre-existing parks in Los Angeles and Japan. If the layout looks anything like the other two parks, you should expect a large interactive area to explore, special themed rides and, of course, all kinds of Nintendo-adjacent dining and shopping. The original Japanese park just got a nifty Donkey Kong Country area, and Nintendo confirmed earlier this year that it would come to Orlando as well.
This is part of a larger expansion of Universal Resort Orlando, called Universal Epic Universe. This includes five areas to explore. There’s the aforementioned Super Nintendo World, but this expansion will also host the pre-existing Harry Potter attraction.
The area will be home to a theme park based on the How to Train Your Dragon franchise and another based on the Dark Universe franchise. That last one is pretty odd to me, being as how the Dark Universe franchise peaked with a few middling horror films in the 2010s. Most of the planned films in this shared cinematic universe were scrapped after 2017’s The Mummy crashed and burned.
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Finally, there’s Celestial Park. This looks to be a standard amusement park with a slight sci-fi bent. There are space-themed roller coasters and the like.
Correction, October 18 2024, 8:45AM ET: This story originally stated that it wasn’t clear if the Donkey Kong Country attraction was coming to Orlando. Nintendo had announced that it would be in the Orlando park earlier this year.
It’s been decades since Australia’s thylacine, known as the Tasmanian tiger, was declared extinct and scientists say they’ve made a breakthrough as they research ways to bring back the carnivore.
Colossal Biosciences in a Thursday press release said its reconstructed thylacine genome is about 99.9% complete, with 45 gaps that they’ll work to close through additional sequencing in the coming months. The company also isolated long RNA molecules from a 110-year-old preserved head, which was skinned and kept in ethanol.
“The thylacine samples used for our new reference genome are among the best preserved ancient specimens my team has worked with,” said Beth Shapiro, Colossal’s chief science officer and the director of the UCSC Paleogenomics Lab, where the samples were processed. “It’s rare to have a sample that allows you to push the envelope in ancient DNA methods to such an extent.”
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Efforts to bring back the Tasmanian tiger
The preservation of a complete Tasmanian tiger head meant that scientists could study RNA samples from several important tissue areas, including the tongue, nasal cavity, brain and eye. It will allow researchers to determine what a thylacine could taste and smell, along with what type of vision it had and how its brain worked, according to Andrew Park, a member of Colossal’s Scientific Advisory Board and a researcher at the University of Melbourne’s TIGRR Lab.
“We’re getting closer every day to being able to place the thylacine back into the ecosystem – which of course is a major conservation benefit as well,” Pask said.
Pask, speaking with 60 Minutes earlier this year, said researchers were working with the closest living relative of the Tasmanian tiger — a small marsupial called the fat-tailed dunnart — as a way to bring the animal back.
“But that little dunnart is a ferocious carnivore, even though it’s very, very small,” Pask said. “And it’s a very good surrogate for us to be able to do all of this editing in.”
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Scientists have been comparing the DNA of the dunnart and the thylacine, Pask told 60 Minutes. From there, it’s a matter of going in and editing the DNA to turn a fat-tailed dunnart cell into a thylacine cell.
Colossal Biosciences on Thursday said it had edited more than 300 unique genetic changes into a dunnart cell, making it “the most edited animal cell to date.”
“We are really pushing forward the frontier of de-extinction technologies,” Pask said, “from innovative ways of finding the regions of the genome driving evolution to novel methods to determine gene function. We are in the best place ever to rebuild this species using the most thorough genome resources and the best informed experiments to determine function.”
Efforts aiding the revival of the Tasmanian tiger are not confined to Australia. Last year, scientists recovered and sequenced RNA from a 130-year-old Tasmanian tiger specimen preserved at room temperature in Sweden’s Museum of Natural History.
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How the Tasmanian tiger died off
Thylacines roamed Tasmania for thousands of years. Despite the Tasmanian tiger moniker, the carnivores were marsupials, like kangaroos, koalas and Tasmanian devils.
The local government in the late 1800s paid out bounties to hunters presenting carcasses of Tasmanian tigers because the animals had been eating farmers’ sheep, 60 Minutes previously reported. By the mid-1930s, the Tasmanian tiger population had dwindled to a single thylacine at the Beaumaris Zoo in Hobart, Tasmania’s capital. It died there in 1936.
Australia has similarly allowed the culling of Kangaroos, approving the deaths of thousands of kangaroos over the years. Officials have said the kangaroo population was eating through grassy habitats of endangered species. Officials have also warned in the past that there isn’t enough food available to sustain large kangaroo populations.
Aliza Chasan is a Digital Content Producer for “60 Minutes” and CBSNews.com. She has previously written for outlets including PIX11 News, The New York Daily News, Inside Edition and DNAinfo. Aliza covers trending news, often focusing on crime and politics.
For many a year, Windows users have been dragging their program windows over to the borders of the screen to snap them into position, splitting the screen up evenly into halves or quarters. Now, with the rollout of macOS Sequoia, Mac users can do the same. You can get a Spotify playlist up alongside your email inbox, for example, or a report you’re writing up alongside the online articles you’re reporting on. It means less switching between windows and more information on the screen.
Once you’ve got macOS Sequoia installed on your Mac, you can take advantage of what Apple calls window tiling. There are several methods you can use.
Get your apps into position with window tiling. Screenshot: Apple
Alternatively, you can click and drag an open window into position to tile it.
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The third method for window tiling is via the Window drop-down menu in whatever app you’re using.
You can also create tiles via your app’s Window drop-down menu.Screenshot: Apple
If you want to keep your fingers on the keyboard, keyboard shortcuts are supported as well. (Note: unfortunately, there aren’t any specific keyboard shortcuts for moving windows into the quarter sections of the screen.)
Here’s the list for controlling individual windows:
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There are also shortcuts for moving the active window and arranging other windows to match:
macOS gives you a few ways to customize your tiling settings. Screenshot: Apple
You can customize a few aspects of window tiling using System Settings on the Apple menu. Choose Desktop & Dock to find them. You can turn drag-to-tile and the Option key shortcut on or off and choose whether tiled windows have margins between them.
Several third-party tools have previously filled the feature gap when it comes to window tiling, and generally speaking, they give you more options and more control than macOS Sequoia does, at least for now — they’re not completely Sherlocked yet.
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I can only speak firsthand about two that I’ve personally used. One is Magnet, which will set you back $9.99 but is very much worth it, especially if you use a larger display. You can divide the screen up by thirds and sixths as well as halves and quarters and set up trigger areas for dragging and custom keyboard shortcuts.
The other is Rectangle; the basic version is free, but if you pay $9.99 for the Pro version, you can customize snap areas and keyboard shortcuts, set up specific layouts for specific apps, and pin certain program windows into position. It’s packed with every feature you could possibly want, though I think Magnet is a little more intuitive to use.
World’s most powerful desktop PC has 256 EPYC Genoa cores, 6TB (yes TB) RAM and costs only $120,000 — but you will have to bring your own Windows 11 Pro for Workstations OS
The Titan A900 might look like an ordinary desktop PC at first glance, but it’s a powerful workstation designed for deep learning and AI applications.
The machine from Titan Computers is built around AMD’s EPYC Genoa 9004 series, featuring dual EPYC Genoa 9124 CPUs with 32 cores each, providing a total of 64 cores in the default configuration.
For users who need even more computational power you can customize the choice of processor all the way up to EPYC Genoa 9124 CPUs supporting up to 256 cores.
It isn’t cheap
The workstation’s design is housed in a Titan Chariot mid-tower case made from anodized aluminum and steel, so it’s durable and looks great too. It comes with 64GB of DDR5 ECC RAM as standard but supports upgrades up to a massive 6TB, making it highly adaptable for memory-intensive applications.
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Storage is a default 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD delivering fast read/write speeds and a 4TB Seagate Enterprise HDD for additional storage needs. You can expand the total storage capacity even further if required, with 8TB SSDs and a 20TB HDDs on offer.
In terms of graphics, the default configuration includes an Nvidia Quadro T400 4GB GDDR6 workstation video card, suitable for general-purpose applications. However – you guessed it – the Titan A900 can be customized with a range of more powerful GPUs, including liquid-cooled options.
Efficient cooling is obviously crucial for the level of performance we’re looking at here, and the A900 features dual SilverStone Technology CPU coolers, Antec Nano Diamond Thermal Compound, and five high-performance silent fans. Again, you can customize the set up as required.
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The A900 comes with dual RJ45 10GbE LAN ports, four USB ports, and a front-facing USB 3.2 Gen2x2 Type-C port, but you can add loads more ports if you wish. Wireless connectivity is provided by Intel 802.11ax Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3.
The default set up will cost you just under $8,000, but if you want the top of the range CPUs and RAM that price rockets up to $120,000 and extra features, including a copy of Windows 11 Pro for Workstation, will push the total even higher. You can customize your dream setup here.
It might have taken a while, and slumping sales of its most popular SUV, but Nissan has finally taken the step to offer hybrid vehicles in the U.S.
The Japanese automaker will add a plug-in hybrid (PHEV) powertrain to the 2026 Rogue compact SUV, which should be available stateside sometime next year, Nissan Americas chief planning officer Ponz Pandikuthira told Automotive News.
A plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) typically runs on electric power until its battery is almost depleted, at which point it automatically switches over to using a gasoline-powered internal combustion engine. The battery can be recharged conventionally from the outside or through regenerative braking.
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While Nissan has been offering popular fully electric vehicles (EVs) such as the Leaf and the Ariya for years, it has surprised many by not joining the hybrid bandwagon, especially for the Rogue. Competitors such as the Toyota RAV4 and the Honda CR-V, which do provide the part-fuel, part-electric power capacity, have seen their sales surging. Meanwhile, sales of the Rogue have slumped this year.
That’s why Nissan is partnering with Mitsubishi to start offering its first-ever electrically assisted car in the U.S. next year.
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According to the Automotive News report, the Rogue will be outfitted with a similar powertrain found in the Mitsubishi Outlander. In that model, a 2.4-liter gas engine powers the front wheels, while two electric motors create an all-wheel drive system that can either work on its own or in conjunction with the gas engine. As the Outlander is able to deliver 248 horsepower, that would make the Rogue PHEV more powerful than the existing model’s 201 hp. The Outlander is also rated for 38 miles of electric driving by the EPA.
In addition, Nissan is planning to bring its non-plug-in, e-Power series hybrid technology to the U.S. in 2026. This technology, already available outside the U.S., also uses electric motors to power the wheels while using the gas engine to charge the battery.
These days, artificial intelligence is everywhere. The majority of large tech companies have embraced artificial intelligence, either by creating their own models or incorporating third-party models into their services or new features. Meta, one of the industry’s big players, has announced a new “Self-Taught Evaluator” AI model that aims to autonomously evaluate and train other AI models.
One of the main problems with developing AI models is the related costs. In the current state of the industry, large investments are needed to catch up and be competitive. Furthermore, developers use a technique known as “Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback” (RLAIF) during the training process. As its name suggests, RLAIF requires human participation, which can slow down the process. That said, Meta’s new Self-Taught Evaluator aims to eliminate such a requirement.
Meta’s Self-Taught Evaluator AI model can train and evaluate other AIs without human intervention
RLAIF makes use of human experts to ensure that the AI in development gives solid and reliable answers. After all, it doesn’t matter how powerful an AI is if it has a high error rate. Human parties must also ensure that the data used for the AI training process is factually correct. This not only increases development times but also associated costs.
However, Meta’s Self-Taught Evaluator model is capable of evaluating and training other AI models. To achieve this, Self-Taught Evaluator uses the “chain of thought” technique that OpenAI implemented in the o1 models. This technique is based on addressing complex problems by dividing them into smaller logical steps. This results in more precise answers in advanced areas such as science, coding, and mathematics.
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In fact, Meta developed the Self-Taught Evaluator model itself with the chain of thought technique. They used data purely generated by AI to train it. “We hope, as AI becomes more and more super-human, that it will get better and better at checking its work so that it will actually be better than the average human,” said Jason Weston, one of the researchers involved.
Teasing a potential future full of autonomous AIs
AI capable of learning and evaluating by itself without human intervention sounds like a futuristic concept straight out of a science fiction movie. However, recent developments suggest that we might not be too far away from something like this. AI experts suggest that the implementation of such models in various fields could largely eliminate human intervention.
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