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| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Google Maps brings a new “immersive view”, a combination of Street View and aerial shots, for select cities and will let third-party apps use Live View's AR — At Google I/O 2022, the company unveiled improvements for Google Maps including a new “immersive view” …
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| Damien Wilde / 9to5Google: |
Google Translate adds support for 24 additional languages, including regional dialects from India, South America, and Africa, used by 300M people — Google Translate has today confirmed support for a further 24 new languages and dialects on its online translation service.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google updates Nest Hub Max with quick phrases and Look and Talk, which lets users ask a question just by looking at its display without a “Hey Google” prompt — The company is adding a couple features to let you use Assistant without saying ‘Hey Google’| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google debuts Google Wallet, for storing payment cards, state IDs, event and transit tickets, vaccination records, and more on Android, Wear OS in 40+ countries — After its previous payments push (which involved modernizing banking and making it mobile-friendly) ended …
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google confirms that over 500M people are actively using RCS messaging, while imploring all mobile OSes to “upgrade” in a dig at iOS — Today at Google I/O 2022, Google confirmed that over 500 million people are actively using RCS messaging and took the chance to throw another dig at Apple.
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Google says it will launch a Pixel Tablet coming in 2023, after quietly discontinuing its Pixel Slate last year — Offering a sneak preview of the Pixel 7 wasn't enough, so Google's really leaning in. Today at I/O, the company announced that it's returning to the tablet business with a new device set for, get this, a 2023 launch.
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| Damien Wilde / 9to5Google: |
Google unveils the $449 Pixel 6a, with its Tensor chip, 6.1" OLED screen, in-display fingerprint sensor, wide-angle and ultra-wide rear cameras, and more — During the annual I/O Developer conference Google has officially launched the affordably-focused Pixel 6a which acts as the entry-level model … | Andrew Romero / 9to5Google: |
Google announces the Pixel Buds Pro, with ANC, pass-through, and spatial audio coming later in an OTA, available preorder on July 21 for $199 — This year at Google I/O 2022, Google is focusing on bringing us brand-new hardware. One product of this year's event is Google's new addition … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
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| Tim Copeland / The Block: |
LUNA and the UST stablecoin continue to dive; LUNA dropped as low as $0.84, a ~97% slide in 24 hours, while UST dropped as low as $0.26, a ~70% fall in 24 hours — Quick Take — The price of Luna has dropped 82% in the last 24 hours. — Its related stablecoin UST has retreated …
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Sources: Terraform Labs CEO Do Kwon pseudonymously co-founded Basis Cash, a failed algorithmic stablecoin set up in 2020 that peaked at $174M total value locked — Basis Cash, an algorithmic stablecoin project founded by the anonymous “Rick” and “Morty” in 2020, was actually the work of Terraform Labs employees.| Tim Copeland / The Block: |
As Luna crashes, Terra Analytics says ~152M LUNA tokens, or 30% of the circulating supply, are being staked, meaning many can't exit their position for weeks — Quick Take — The price of Luna has dropped 93% in the last 24 hours. — Those who have their Luna tokens staked … | James Vincent / The Verge: |
The European Commission proposes regulation that would require tech companies to scan for CSAM and “grooming”, worrying privacy experts and threatening E2EE — The proposal has been called unworkable and invasive by privacy experts — The European Commission has proposed controversial …
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| Sami Fathi / MacRumors: |
Kuo: Apple will ditch its proprietary Lightning port and switch to USB-C for the iPhone 15 in the second half of 2023, improving transfer and charging speeds — Apple will ditch its proprietary Lightning port and switch to USB-C on all or possibly some models of the iPhone 15 lineup destined …
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| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Google adopts the 10-grade Monk Skin Tone Scale to teach diversity to its AI, replacing the six-tone Fitzpatrick Scale — You'll notice the Monk Skin Tone Scale in beauty related searches, but Google is also building it deeply into its AI infrastructure, it says at Google I/O. — Stephen Shankland| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
In a first, Meta withdraws its policy guidance request from the Oversight Board about Russia's invasion of Ukraine, over “ongoing safety and security concerns” — Facebook-parent Meta on Wednesday said it would be withdrawing its earlier request for policy guidance …
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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Senate votes 51-50 to confirm privacy expert Alvaro Bedoya to the Federal Trade Commission, establishing a Democratic majority — Vice President Kamala Harris broke a 50-50 tie in the Senate — On Wednesday, the Senate voted to confirm privacy expert Alvaro Bedoya to the Federal Trade Commission.
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SEC chair Gary Gensler says crypto exchanges are “commingling” services, which is not in clients' best interest, and notes their ties to popular stablecoins — Gary Gensler is ratcheting up his criticism of digital-asset exchanges, arguing that some platforms are shirking rules … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Sonos will launch its Sonos Voice Control assistant to all voice-enabled Sonos smart speakers via software update on June 1 in the US — Sonos Voice Control is all about the music and isn't a direct competitor to Alexa or Google Assistant — Sonos will roll out its very own voice control assistant on June 1st in the United States.
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Sony unveils the $1,599 Xperia 1 IV, with a 6.5" 120Hz OLED display, a Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor, and a continuous optical zoom lens, shipping in September — Smartphones have point-and-shoot cameras (remember those?) beat in a lot of ways, but there's one thing traditional cameras still do better than phones: zoom.| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Saudi Aramco surpasses Apple as the world's most valuable company, FactSet says at a $2.43T market cap compared to Apple's $2.37T; Apple stock closes down 5% — - Oil giant Saudi Aramco is now the world's most valuable company. — It surpassed Apple on Wednesday.
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| Ben Brody / Protocol: |
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals votes 2-1 to let Texas enforce a social media law prohibiting Twitter, Facebook, and others from suppressing user content — A three-person panel of federal appeals court judges is letting a Texas law aimed at punishing social media companies for alleged anti-conservative bias go into effect for now.
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Google signs deals to pay 300+ outlets in Germany, France, Hungary, Austria, the Netherlands, and Ireland for news content and plans to roll out a sign-up tool — Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit Google has signed deals to pay more than 300 publishers in Germany, France and four other EU countries … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Reno-based CIQ, which develops Rocky Linux, an open-source CentOS-successor Linux distribution, raises a $26M Series A led by Two Bear Capital — Sign up here. — CIQ, a company that's setting out to commercialize a new open-source Linux distribution and CentOS-successor called Rocky Linux …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google Chrome for desktop will let users easily create virtual cards for safer online shopping using Autofill, coming later to Android and iOS — One of Google's big payments and privacy announcements at I/O 2022 is a very convenient feature that masks your physical credit card with a virtual one when shopping online with Chrome.
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Twitter rolls out a new “Copypasta and Duplicate Content” policy to clarify how it combats spam and duplicative content, and what it considers to be a violation — Twitter announced today that it's rolling out a new “Copypasta and Duplicate Content” policy to clarify … Sponsor Posts
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