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| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Google updates Maps with an “immersive view”, which combines 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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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google confirms that Messages for Android will get end-to-end encryption for RCS group chats, rolling out “later this year” in open beta — While it wasn't mentioned on stage during Google I/O 2022 today, the company did announce a big new feature coming to Google Messages.
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Google announces Workspace updates, including AI-powered tools to control how users look and sound on Meet and automated transcriptions of Meet meetings — Making your Meet meetings a little better — There's a good chance you've spent much of the last two-plus years sitting at home …
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| Damien Wilde / 9to5Google: |
Google updates Google Translate with 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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| Paul Hill / Neowin: |
Google releases Android 13 Beta 2 with finer privacy controls, an improved Material You theme system, the ability to change the language of each app, and more — At its Google I/O event on Wednesday, Google released the second beta of Android 13. The search giant highlighted several …
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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, 12.2MP wide and 12MP ultra-wide rear cameras, and more — During the annual I/O Developer conference Google has officially launched the affordably-focused Pixel 6a which acts …
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Google plans to launch an Android-based Pixel Tablet in 2023, with speakers and a rear camera, after killing its Chrome OS-based Pixel Slate in February 2021 — Offering a sneak preview of the Pixel 7 wasn't enough, so Google's really leaning in. Today at I/O, the company announced …
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Google teases an early look at lightweight AR glasses that can display the text of a conversation, transcribed and translated in real time — The consensus has long been that Google Glass was ahead of its time. But in recent years, much of the world has since lapped the company in the AR department.
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| Andrew Romero / 9to5Google: |
Google announces the Pixel Buds Pro with ANC, pass-through, and spatial audio coming later in 2022 via an OTA update, available for 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 …
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| Joanna Ossinger / Bloomberg: |
Most rival algorithmic stablecoins are below the dollar peg after UST's collapse, while the two largest stablecoins Tether and USDC are holding their dollar peg — Stablecoins besides TerraUSD are failing to live up to their billing as the collapse of the algorithmic token has investors pondering … | CoinDesk: |
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| Financial Times: |
Brian Armstrong says there's “no risk of bankruptcy” after Coinbase said in its filing that its users might lose all their crypto if the exchange goes bankrupt — Shares in crypto exchange fall 23% after bleak results and new risk disclosure — Shares in cryptocurrency exchange …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
A US appeals court rules 2-1 to let Texas enforce a social media law stopping Twitter, Facebook, and other services with 50M+ users from moderating content — A judge blocked a similar law in Florida on First Amendment grounds — The controversial Texas social media law HB 20 …
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| Aaron Gordon / VICE: |
A San Francisco Police department training document notes that video footage from continuously recording autonomous vehicles can be obtained as evidence — “Autonomous vehicles are recording their surroundings continuously and have the potential to help with investigative leads," an internal training document states.
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| Crystal Tse / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Instacart confidentially filed documents for an IPO, which could happen as soon as 2022, though the timing could slip or the startup could stay private — Instacart Inc., the grocery delivery platform, has confidentially filed documents for an initial public offering, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
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Tweets: @david32375134, @stevehouf, @carnage4life, @sawyermerritt, and @darian314
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google unveils the Pixel Watch with a round glass cover that curves all the way to the metal sides, Fitbit integration, and a clickable crown, coming this fall — At I/O 2022, Google finally confirmed that it's making the Pixel Watch. That said, we only got a teaser as it's not coming until later this year.
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Samsung Newsroom, The Verge, The Keyword, BGR India, Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Neowin, TechRadar, AndroidGuys, and MobileSyrup
Tweets: @madebygoogle, @madebygoogle, @benwood, @detroitborg, @ihnatko, @montblanc_world, and @tomwarren
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google launches Flutter 3, making the multiplatform UI development framework generally available on Linux and macOS, as well as adding support for Apple Silicon — At its I/O developer conference, Google today announced the launch of Flutter 3, the latest version of its open source … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Twitter launches Data Dash, a browser game intended to help explain some of its privacy settings, as part of a bigger push around its rewritten privacy policy — Avoid ads and trolls in Twitter Data Dash — Twitter released a new browser game on Wednesday that's intended to help explain some of its privacy settings.
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Twitter, 9to5Mac, The Mac Observer, Social Media Today, GameRevolution, and Gizmodo
Tweets: @twittersafety, @lizmhull, @rkmac, and @mmasnick
| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Google adopts the 10-grade Monk Skin Tone Scale to teach diversity to its AI, replacing the six-tone Fitzpatrick Scale; the first results hit the US this week — 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.
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