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NASA-Built Weather Sensors Capture Vital Data on Hurricane Ian

September 29, 2022
A pair of microwave radiometers collected data on the storm as they passed over the Caribbean Sea aboard the International Space Station. Two recently launched instruments that were designed and built at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California to provide forecasters data on weather over the open ocean captured images of Hurricane Ian on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022, as the storm…
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Galaxy Watch 3 update rolling out now with watch faces from Wear OS, more

September 29, 2022
While Samsung has moved on to Wear OS for its smartwatch needs, the company isn’t done with Tizen wearables just yet. The Galaxy Watch 3 is now getting an update with new watch faces and health improvements. Rolling out now to the Galaxy Watch 3 (SM-R840), Samsung’s latest update carries the version number R840XXU1DVH4. What’s new? The first key change here is that Samsung has added two new…
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Square is working to bring iPhone-like ‘Tap to Pay’ for merchants on Android

September 29, 2022
Square appears to be preparing to allow merchants with Android devices to accept “Tap to Pay” contactless NFC payments without a dedicated card reader. About APK Insight: In this “APK Insight” post, we’ve decompiled the latest version of an application that Google uploaded to the Play Store. When we decompile these files (called APKs, in the case of Android apps), we’re able to see…
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Android apps are getting a ‘major’ Google TTS quality upgrade

September 29, 2022
“Speech Services by Google” is responsible for providing text-to-speech (TTS) and speech-to-text (transcription) capabilities for Android apps. Google is now rolling out a major TTS audio quality upgrade for 64-bit Android devices. Android text-to-speech is getting “clearer, more natural voices” with a “significant side by side quality increase” touted. A new voice model and…
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