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Google giving Wear OS ‘low-power user interface expertise’ with KoruLab acquisition

December 18, 2022
With battery capacity inherently constrained by the size of wearables, optimizing the OS that runs on miniature devices is the approach to take. Google has acquired KoruLab to boost Wear OS on this front. When Wear OS 3 was announced in May of 2021, Google said it worked with Samsung “to optimize the lower layers of the operating system – taking advantage of low-power hardware cores to enable…
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AI art: Death of creative industry, or its savior?

December 18, 2022
Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here. With the arrival of AI-generated art and the proliferation of tools like Midjourney, Stable Diffusion and DALL-E, questions have been rife in circles across the creative industry. Is this a…
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OnePlus 11 appears in official teaser

December 17, 2022
OnePlus hosted an event today in China to celebrate its ninth anniversary, and as expected, it teased the OnePlus 11 that we’ve been hearing about for some time now. The video shared by OnePlus doesn’t entirely reveal the OnePlus 11, but you can see the circular…
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Google Wallet adds whimsical Pay animations for the holidays

December 17, 2022
If you recently used Google Wallet on Android, you might have noticed a touch of holiday whimsy on the Pay screen. Normally, tapping your Android phone to an NFC reader shows the card used and a loading animation just above it. The blue circular progress indicator morphs into a checkmark with that circle then shrinking to make way for the Google Pay logo.  During the holidays, the blue…
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Google enables Matter across Nest Home and Android devices

December 17, 2022
This Thursday, Google officially launches support for Matter on Google Nest and Android devices. Matter is a new unified smart home platform that aids the interoperability between ecosystems and lets one platform borrow an incompatible device’s support. Google has added support for the Matter platform on the Nest Mini, Nest Audio, Nest Hub (1st and 2nd gen), Nest Hub Max, Nest Wi-Fi Pro…
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Vanilla Oppo Find X6 also coming with three 50MP cameras

December 17, 2022
Last month, tipster Digital Chat Station suggested the Oppo Find X6 Pro will have three 50MP cameras on the back, and today we learned the vanilla Find X6 will match that. According to the report, the main cam will skip on the 1” Sony IMX989 sensor and bring the smaller but still capable Sony IMX890 with an f/1.8 aperture with OIS. The Find X6 camera setup is also co-developed with Hasselblad…
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