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Alphabet Scoop 126: Android 12 Beta 2, Pixel Feature Drop, and Stadia for Google/Android TV

June 11, 2021
This week 9to5Google’s Abner Li, Ben Schoon, and Kyle Bradshaw discuss the new features and changes that came to Android 12 Beta 2 and the 3 major announcements that came to Google’s Stadia platform. New episodes of Alphabet Scoop are published every Friday. Subscribe to our podcast in Google Play or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes are delivered as soon as they’re…
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Chrome for Android may soon follow Material You color theming

June 11, 2021
One of the hallmarks of the upcoming Material You design language, featured in Android 12, is apps theming themselves based on your current wallpaper. Signs have begun to point toward Chrome for Android preparing to support Material You color theming. Material You is set to freshen up Material Design on Android and beyond, improving on 2018’s Material Theming. Beyond changes to cards and UI…
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SASC advances Air Force secretary pick, six other nominees

June 11, 2021
WASHINGTON ― President Joe Biden’s nominee for Air Force secretary and six other top Pentagon picks advanced out of the Senate Armed Services Committee by a voice vote June 10. The Senate must consider them before they can be confirmed. The nominations are as follows: …
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Samsung’s 50MP JN1 Camera Sensor Has Industry’s Smallest Pixels

June 10, 2021
Samsung has announced that it is beginning mass production of what it claims has the smallest pixels in the industry: 0.64μm-pixels. The 50-megapixel sensor is called the ISOCELL JN1 and is equipped with ISOCELL 2.0, Smart-ISO, and “Double Super PDAF.” Smaller pixels usually means lower image quality and the possibility of introducing more noise, but Samsung specifically chose to push the…
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Horse Photobombs Maternity Shoot, Smiles for the Camera

June 10, 2021
An Ohio wedding photographer recently found herself working the “best maternity session ever” when one of the couple’s horses decided to join in on the shoot, smile for the camera, and crack everyone up. Cincinnati photographer Kristen Zaffiro was conducting the photo…
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Police Accused of Illegally Seizing Journalist’s Phone to Access Photos

June 10, 2021
A reporter from a Univision affiliate in Arizona has accused police of illegally seizing his phone and threatening to access its contents by “brute force” during an incident in April. In a 28-page motion filed in Gilbert Arizona’s Municipal court, journalist León Felipe González Cortés of Univision Arizona says that police violated his First Amendment rights as a reporter by unlawfully…
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