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Android 12 offers new privacy protections including a Privacy Dashboard, mic and camera access toggles in Quick Settings, but stops short of Apple's ATT — On Tuesday, Google unveiled the highlights of Android 12, which will land on the Pixel and other Android phones this fall.| 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: |
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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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| 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 …
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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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.| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Bloomberg: |
NYSE sets Squarespace's reference price at $50 per share for its direct listing on Wednesday, which would give the company a market value of about $6.8B — - Web-hosting service going public via direct listing Wednesday — Squarespace was valued at $10 billion in March funding round| Bloomberg: |
Study finds that tech companies that made #BlackLivesMatter pledges after George Floyd's murder had 20% fewer Black employees on average than those that didn't — After the murder of George Floyd last year prompted widespread protests, dozens of companies released public pledges to promote racial justice.
Tweets: @johnamaechi
| 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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| Miles Parks / NPR: |
Mental health experts, disagreeing with Mark Zuckerberg, increasingly see a correlation between poor mental health and social media use, call for more research — Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers' biggest fear as a parent isn't gun violence, or drunk driving, or anything related to the pandemic.
Tweets: @jesselehrich, @jason_kint, @quinnypig, @teamcmr, @nprpolitics, @briansantamaria, @amandacarpenter, @cathymcmorris, and @dellcam
| Financial Times: |
Investigation shows how dubious Twitter accounts with cultish followings can cause sudden surges in trading for penny stocks after endorsing them — “ALERT!!!”, shouted a Twitter post on February 3 by a user called Alexander Delarge, whose profile picture is the sociopathic protagonist with a similar name from A Clockwork Orange.
Tweets: @ingridlunden, @jessefelder, @khalafroula, @financialtimes, and @mshannahmurphy
| Reuters: |
Baidu reports Q1 revenue of $4.38B, up 25% YoY, driven partly by a 70% YoY growth of its non-ad revenue, and says its flagship app had 558M MAUs as of March — China's Baidu Inc reported quarterly revenue on Tuesday that beat Wall Street estimates, as the company beefed up its cloud … | 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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| 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.Sponsor Posts
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