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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google details Android 12's new design, based on the flexible Material You system, with better widgets and buttons, more animation, privacy features, and more — There are new features, but it's the biggest design update in years — Google is announcing the latest beta for Android 12 today …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google debuts Material You design language, letting users personalize the look of apps and the OS, coming to Pixels this fall, then to Chrome OS, the web, more — “Material You” is Google's “radical new way to think about design.” It's a hyper-personalized approach to designing custom appearances …
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| Erik Kay / The Keyword: |
Google says its working on a new digital car key feature for Android 12 to unlock or start your car, announces Fast Pair for faster Bluetooth pairing, and more — Phones are at the center of our digital lives. When purchasing a phone these days, we're buying not only a phone …
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| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Google says Android now powers over 3B active devices worldwide, up from 2.5B in 2019 and 2B in 2017
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TechCrunch, The Verge, Android Police, XDA Developers, Gizmodo, Android Headlines, and Gizmodo. Tweets: @jhamby
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is planning MacBook Pros, Airs, Mac Pros, Mac minis, and larger iMacs with faster CPUs, new IO, more; MacBook Pro could debut as soon as summer — - Company developing Mac Pro desktop with 40 cores, new Mac mini — Apple plans to swap remaining Intel part with in-house design
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Macworld, TechSpot, MacRumors, Redmond Pie, Fortune, Engadget, ExtremeTech, Tom's Guide, Pocketnow, Tom's Hardware, iDownloadBlog.com, The Verge, MacDailyNews, Wccftech, 9to5Mac, Input, Six Colors, iMore, Laptop Mag, Gizmodo, MacRumors, and iThinkDifferent. Tweets: @rsgnl
| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
iMac 24-inch (M1 2021) review: great CPU, sleek design, and good webcam, but limited ports, not the best value for money, can't upgrade anything after purchase — A new design, new processor, and new screen make for a winning combination — This is an iMac unlike any other iMac we've seen before …
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| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
Early look at Google's Project Starline, a video booth with a 65" display and several sensors and cameras allowing for 3D representations of video call subjects — Our reporter tests out a “video booth” to glimpse of the future of telepresence. — OVER THE PAST several years …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google unveils new features for Workspace, part of an initiative called “smart canvas”, including smart objects in Docs and deeper integration of Meet — Google is launching a slate of new features for its Workspace productivity suite today, starting with new “smart chips” that connect Google Docs to other products.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft confirms that Windows 10X won't launch in 2021 as planned, instead being integrated into parts of Windows and other products — Microsoft officials have admitted what leaked a week-plus ago: Its Chrome-OS competitor, Windows 10X, isn't coming. Instead, some of the 10X technologies …
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Windows Experience Blog, Laptop Mag, PCMag, Tom's Hardware, AppleInsider, XDA Developers, PCWorld, Thurrott, Windows Central, Petri, and The Verge
Tweets: @tomwarren and @maryjofoley
| Scott Stein / CNET: |
Google unveils Wear OS 3.0, with a revamped design and 30% performance boost, and partners with Samsung, which will use Wear OS, not Tizen, for its next watches — Were you considering buying a smartwatch for your Android phone? Hold off until the fall. Google and Samsung have announced … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google says Duplex will help Chrome users more easily fix compromised passwords, rolling out slowly to Chrome users with limited site compatibility at first — Google announced a new feature for its Chrome browser today that alerts you when one of your passwords has been compromised …
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The Keyword, The Keyword, The Verge, Thurrott, Protocol, techadvisor.com, BleepingComputer, Ars Technica, ZDNet, XDA Developers, TNW, Neowin, Android Police, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, Engadget, The Verge, Tom's Guide, and AndroidGuys. Tweets: @gvarisco
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Google announces LaMDA, a language model for dialogue applications that it says represents a “breakthrough” for having natural conversations with AI — Google wants to build AI that understands language better — Artificial intelligence is a huge part of Google's business …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nvidia extends its crypto mining limits to newly manufactured GeForce RTX 3080, RTX 3070, and RTX 3060 Ti graphics cards, which will be labeled “Lite Hash Rate” — New Nvidia cards will be branded as Lite Hash Rate — Nvidia is extending its cryptocurrency mining limits …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google teams with Shopify to let Shopify's 1.7M+ merchants easily sign up to have their products appear across YouTube, Search, Maps, Images, and Lens — Google today announced it's partnering with Shopify, giving the e-commerce platform's over 1.7 million merchants the ability …
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The Keyword, BetaKit, XDA Developers, Engadget, ZDNet, The Keyword, Social Media Today, chainstoreage.com, 9to5Google, CNBC, and SlashGear
Tweets: @ecommerce, @shopify, and @williamready
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google updates Photos with AI-powered Memories, a Locked Folder, Cinematic moments to animate static photos, and more — Google announced a series of upgrades to its Google Photos service, used by over a billion users, at today's Google I/O developer event, which was virtually streamed this year due to Covid.
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The Keyword, The Verge, Thurrott, USA Today, Android Authority, Engadget, 9to5Google, and Android Police. Tweets: @googlephotos
| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
Amazon says it is extending its ban on selling facial recognition tech to police indefinitely — The firm said in June its freeze would last a year to ‘give Congress enough time to implement appropriate rules.’ No federal laws have been passed since. — Amazon is extending its global ban …
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Spotify will auto-transcribe certain original shows in the coming weeks as part of a beta rollout of the feature that it aims to eventually enable for all shows — With a goal of a wider rollout — Spotify announced multiple updates to make its app more accessible across iOS and Android today …
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Tweets: @ashleyrcarman, @pstr, @amythibodeau, @prof_kalkyl, and @tsuvik
| Jessica Conditt / Engadget: |
Google announces plans to build a commercial-grade quantum computer by 2029 and unveiled its new quantum AI campus in Santa Barbara, California — Google developers are confident they can build a commercial-grade quantum computer by 2029. Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced the plan during
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Tweets: @lukolejnik and @kent_walker
| Carl Beekhuizen / Ethereum Blog: |
Ethereum Foundation says “in the upcoming months” Ethereum will fully transition from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake, which requires far less power consumption — TL;DR: Ethereum will use at least ~99.95% less energy post merge. — Ethereum will be completing the transition …
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Crypto Briefing and The Voice of 3D Printing
Tweets: @carlbeek, @monolith_web3, @grady_booch, @carlbeek, @carlbeek, and @mycrypto
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Cloud launches Vertex AI, a managed machine learning platform for developers to deploy and maintain AI models — At Google I/O today Google Cloud announced Vertex AI, a new managed machine learning platform that is meant to make it easier for developers to deploy and maintain their AI models.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook debuts “Live Shopping Fridays” event series, featuring brands live streaming beauty, skincare, and fashion content on a weekly basis starting May 22 — Facebook wants to whet consumers' appetite for live streamed shopping with this week's launch of “Live Shopping Fridays” …
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About Facebook, Social Media Today, Digiday, Quartz, Android Central, MUO, Tubefilter, and Input. Tweets: @justiacom
| Packy McCormick / Not Boring: |
Profile of fashion e-commerce app Shein, which ranks #1 in the App Store's Shopping category in 56 countries and is the most trafficked fashion site globally — The Quiet Chinese Quindecacorn America's Gen Z Shoppers Are #Addicted To … This week's Not Boring is brought to you by... It's Not Magic.| Zoe Kleinman / BBC: |
Google unveils a tool that uses AI to help spot skin, hair, and nail conditions, based on images from patients, says it plans to launch it later this year — Google has unveiled a tool that uses artificial intelligence to help spot skin, hair and nail conditions, based on images uploaded by patients.
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The Keyword, Engadget, Android Police, Financial Times, MUO, Mashable, phonearena.com, and MyHealthyApple
| Kishan Vyas / XDA Developers: |
Google adds two new APIs to ARCore, providing more detailed raw depth maps, as well as new recording and playback features for developers — At Google I/O 2021, Google is announcing some important upgrades for ARCore, the company's augmented reality platform that powers more than 850 million Android smartphones worldwide.
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Google Developers Blog, CNET, and Google Developers
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Google unveils version 2.2 of its open source UI development kit Flutter, with a payment plugin for IAPs, says 200K apps in Play Store were built using Flutter — Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. — Google has unveiled version 2.2 of its open source UI development kit Flutter.
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Flutter, 9to5Google, Thurrott, Engadget, Android Police, XDA Developers, and 9to5Google
| Marie Huillet / Cointelegraph: |
Coinbase says it plans to raise $1.25B via a private offering of debt securities for institutional investors, following its direct listing on Nasdaq in April — With shares in the Nasdaq-listed cryptocurrency exchange continuing to underperform, Coinbase is seeking a $1.25 billion cash injection from institutional investors.
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Business Wire, Invezz, Bitcoin News, and InsideBitcoins.com
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Many ransomware strains like DarkSide's will not install on Windows PCs with specific virtual keyboards enabled, like Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian — In a Twitter discussion last week on ransomware attacks, KrebsOnSecurity noted that virtually all ransomware strains have a built …
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Gizmodo, Slate, Decrypt, Schneier on Security, and PCMag
Tweets: @briankrebs, @briankrebs, and @villi
| Miles Parks / NPR: |
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