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Google is introducing a new artificial intelligence (AI) that can tell if your phone gets grabbed from your hand or off a table, automatically locking it down for security.
The feature, which was announced at Google’s I/O conference, uses sophisticated AI through the phone’s sensors to detect suspicious motions, is being released as part of Android 15, but will also be available to users who have operating systems as old as Android 10. Several other security measures are being introduced by Google over the coming months such as a private space to hide sensitive apps and increased authentication steps.
Automatic protection after a phone is stolen
Auto Theft Detection will use the phone’s accelerometer and gyroscope, among other sensors, to detect when a phone has been grabbed. Google studied how phones tend to get stolen and then had staff reenact phone thefts to gather data on what phone thefts look like from a data and input perspective.
It has been found that if a thief takes a phone that is unlocked, for example out of a user’s hand, they frequently open the camera because this will stop the phone from automatically locking. The new anti-theft technology will prevent them from doing this.
There will also be a new Offline Device Lock feature added. Thieves will often take a device offline to prevent remote locking, but if active, this feature will automatically lock the phone when the device is in offline mode for a predetermined time.
Having your phone stolen is a stressful and potentially traumatic experience, so Google is also making it easier to lock your phone remotely. Previously users would need to log into Find My Device in order to do this, but remembering login details can be difficult under pressure, so you will soon be able to lock the phone’s screen with just the phone number and a security prompt.
This is not the only AI-powered technology Google has announced at this year’s I/O conference – the company will also be increasing the AI in its search engine and has launched Veo, a text-to-video generative AI model.
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It is bizarre to think it is some 14 years since we first caught sight of the RetroArch retro gaming front-end and core loaded. 14 Years. And now, after this crazy amount of time, we can now be grateful to Apple for finally letting us use it on our iOS devices. At least we can, and ultimately the good guys win and we can jump into emulation two-footed with our OLED screens.
But while you, if you have the remotest interest in retrogaming may have dabbled with RetroArch before, things are a little different on the iOS, so if you want to learn how to use it with the minimum amount of fuss, you are in the right place.
Using RetroArch on iPhone
1 – Download the App
First things first we need the App. You can search and download it from the App Store right now. Now we aren’t expecting things to chance and it to suddenly disappear again but these are strange times we live in, so grab it sooner, rather than later.
2: Open RetroArch on iPhone

You probably want a look around the interface now so feel free to open it up and browse. You will need to pop your games in the correct places first, so when you are done pop out and back to your iPhone or iPad home screen.
3 – Using Files to store your games

Obviously we can’t tell you where to get the games from, we assume you own originals and have converted them but once you have your collection at hand on your PC/Mac is is important to understand if they are zipped, rarred or 7zip RetroArch can’t use them. Your game roms need to be uncompressed.
Now what we need to is get the game onto our device’s storage in the Files App. On your iPhone search for and open Files. If you start off in a folder back out of it until you see the screen with On My iPhone in the Locations section. Hop into there.
Use the three dots at the top to make a new folder and call it something like Emulation or RetroArch, something obvious.
Inside that folder I would make further folders for the systems you are interested in to keep things tidy, so make SNES, Genesis, even Amstrad CPC. These are the folders we will be copying our uncompressed Roms too.
4 – Copying games to our folders in Files

Now we need to get the games onto our phone and while not difficult, it’s not exactly user friendly.
There are a couple of ways you can do this. If you only have a few games you are interested in you could attach them to an email and email them to yourself. Old games roms tend to be tiny. From there you can open the email on your phone, click on the attachment and it will ask you if you want to save it to your Files. You do, and you can even browse to the folders you just created and store it there.
If that sounds like too much trouble, or you want to copy across a huge collection you can log into your iCloud on a desktop computer and make the same folder structure then and copy them into the cloud.
From there on your phone you can either browse to your cloud in Files and copy the files back locally to your device or even try loading them from iCloud, obviously this will depend on your connection and most are so small, just copy them unless you are messing around with PlayStation 1 or Mega CD and the likes.
5 – Loading games into RetroArch on iOS

Now you have the makings of your retro gaming library you can load up RetroArch again. Select Load Content and from there then pick Open.
Now you will be in your Files folder and you can just browse from there. If you are looking for your iCloud just hit the Browse button at the bottom and find it in the Locations sections.
Find your game, tap on it and seconds later, retro baby!
Things to consider

While RetroArch is remarkably easy to get going and playing with if you want to emulate games on a computer, say a Commodore 64 or Amstrad CPC, a lot of games for these systems were designed with the fact they had a massive keyboard attached. Sometimes you will need to “press 1 to start” for example.
Fortunately you can bring up a virtual keyboard in RetroArch by pressing the rectangle in the bottom left corner and selecting the option. Enter what you need and press B to get rid of it and into your game.
That should get you up and running at least and we will cover RetroArch in more detail in future articles.
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Huge news for retrogaming fans today who can now pretty much carry their collections around in their own pockets.
Long-standing retro front-end Retroarch has gone live on the Apple App Store and can be installed for free now, opening the possibility of playing thousands of games from yesteryear.
Fancy a bit of Castle of Illusion on the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis while you wait for the bus. No probs. Super Nintendo Mario Kart? Okie dokie. And you can go on forever. Even more obscure cores such as the Amstrad CPC (a British 8-bit computer that happened to be my first proper computer) are catered for.
Of course, you will need the games as well, which you can store in the appropriate folder in the Files app on your phone. Then all you have to do is browse to it and load it. Retroarch iOS will then suggest the appropriate core and from there, you are instantly in the game.
Goodbye wife, it’s been nice knowing you
Some games work better than others. I was excited to try the Amstrad and it was no big deal, but the Amstrad was a computer with a keyboard so I was faced with a keyboard input choice of Press 1 to start, etc.

Fortunately, Retroarch has a virtual keyboard you can bring up and use, so it was no big deal really, you just have to realize the limitations.
No such problems of course if you are playing on Nintendo or Sega cores as the on-screen joypad deals with all that.
We will we be doing some guides to get you through the process in the near future.
Also on the App Store on a very good day for Emulation is the amazing PSPSPP app which you should also pick up for free that emulates PSP games to near perfection. Remember when you thought your PSP games looked amazing on its screen – try them on an iPhone’s OLED?
Emulating old hardware on iOS has been a long time coming and has definitely been worth the wait.
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