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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Completes Mars Sample Depot

January 31, 2023
Less than six weeks after it began, construction of the first sample depot on another world is complete. Confirmation that NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover successfully dropped the 10th and final tube planned for the depot was received around 5 p.m. PST (8 p.m. EST) Sunday, Jan. 29, by mission controllers at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. This major milestone…
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Google Play Games for Android gets its new icon

January 31, 2023
With the launch of Play Games for PC, Google introduced a new icon for the service that’s now coming to the Android app. In 2016, Google redesigned the Play family of logos with a triangle motif. The various icons (book, newspaper, game controller, movie reel, and music note) slid up from that shape and stuck out at the top. Over the years, Google Play Music was replaced by YouTube Music…
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Pixel 6 and 7 Pro get January 2023 Google Play system update [U: Pixel 7]

January 31, 2023
Google Play system updates occasionally lag behind the current month, with the Pixel 6 and 7 series starting to see the January 2023 release today after skipping December entirely. Update 1/30: Coming in just before month’s end, the January 2023 Google Play system update is now available for the smaller Pixel 7 following last week’s wider release for other phones. It also comes in at 63MB…
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Google TV is getting an Android homescreen widget

January 31, 2023
After rolling out a Material You redesign in December, the Google TV Android app is now readying a homescreen widget. With version 4.38.7.4 (from December) Google TV is appearing in the Widgets list, but it’s clearly not ready. The preview says the default size is 4×5…
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Gear in this story

January 30, 2023
The Canon EOS R7, like most modern cameras, has a menu filled with page after page of features. With so many settings (in fact more than 450) it’s easy to gloss over things that you don’t immediately need to adjust. In this article I’d like to take a closer look at a…
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Samsung's Galaxy S23 Unpacked - what to expect

January 30, 2023
Samsung’s February 1 Unpacked event is nearly upon us and despite the myriad of leaks that have taken most of the curiosity away from us, it’s still one of the most important events the year. So let’s summarize all of the leaks to get a better idea of what we expect. Galaxy S23 series We’ll see the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra, along with the S23 and S23+, and likely some new…
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