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Google Wallet now available in six new countries for a total of 45

Following last month’s launch, Google Wallet is now available in six new countries: South Africa, Serbia, Moldova, Azerbaijan, Qatar, and Iceland. Availability is staggered, and starts in Moldova, Qatar, Serbia, and South Africa. People in those four markets can add credit and debit cards to Google Wallet starting today and pay with Android phones or Wear OS watches. Google Wallet will be…
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Android Auto 8.0 begins rolling out, still no sign of redesign

Google has begun releasing Android Auto version 8.0, but despite the jump in version number, there’s no sign of the highly anticipated redesign. For the last few months, fans of Android Auto have been anticipating a major redesign of the app’s car screen layout. That…
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Google enables Pixel VoLTE roaming for ‘many’ carriers [Update: Pixel 6a w/ Android 13]

This year, carriers in the US are phasing out support for 3G cellular networks and Google is detailing how it will impact Pixel owners, while it released a Voice over LTE (VoLTE) roaming update this month. Update 8/23: Out of the box, the Pixel 6a was running an April security patch and Google updated it to a June build on day one. This was then followed by a GPS fix at the start of August. With…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Ray, the machine learning tech behind OpenAI, levels up to Ray 2.0

Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! Watch here. Over the last two years, one of the most common ways for organizations to scale and run increasingly large and complex artificial intelligence (AI) workloads has been with the open-source Ray framework, used by companies from OpenAI to Shopify and Instacart. Ray enables machine…
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GamingNews

Justin Roiland's 'High on Life' hits Xbox and PC in December

High on Life, the sci-fi shooter from Rick and Morty creator Justin Roiland, is scheduled to come out on Xbox and PC on December 13th. High on Life looks like a ridiculous mix of Galaxy Quest, Oddworld and Bugsnax, sending players on an interstellar journey to save their…
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iOS 16 beta 7 now available as Apple wraps up final development

The weekly beta cycle continues. iOS 16 beta 7 is now available to developer beta testers as we inch closer to an official release next month. We aren’t expecting many new features in iOS 16 beta 7 as Apple is finalizing the release ahead of a September launch. iOS 16 beta 7, build 20A5356a, is available to download now to registered developers via the Settings app. Open the Settings app, choose…
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