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The first apps with support for Material You are already arriving for Android 12 users

Visually, the biggest change coming with Android 12 is the ability for the operating system to change its theme based on your wallpaper. That’s an option that will be available to third-party apps, too, and well ahead of Android 12’s final release, a couple of apps are already adding support for Material You. Recapping briefly, Material You is the next step in Material Design, the style…
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IBM acquires Bluetab to expand hybrid cloud service offerings

Join executive leaders at the AI at the Edge & IoT Summit. Watch now! A week after snatching up startup BoxBoat, IBM today announced another acquisition to expand its portfolio of data, cloud, and analytics services. With Bluetab, IBM aims to further advance its hybrid…
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DigiTimes: iPhone 13 to feature new Wi-Fi 6E standard

As the iPhone 13 launch approaches, we are able to learn even more details about Apple’s upcoming devices. A report by DigiTimes says the company will introduce the Wi-Fi 6E standard in this generation. GaAs IC foundries Win Semiconductors and Advanced Wireless Semiconductor Company (AWSC), and GaAs epi-wafer supplier Visual Photonics Epitaxy Company (VPEC) are all poised to log significant…
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Facebook Messenger for iOS debuts what we’ve all been waiting for: Soundmoji

Before World Emoji Day on July 17, Facebook is launching Soundmoji for its Messenger app, which will add sound to some of your favorite emoji. Here’s how it works. So, what is a Soundmoji? It’s a next-level emoji that lets you send short sound clips in a Messenger chat, ranging from clapping ?, crickets ?,drumroll ?, and evil laughter ?, to audio clips from your favorite artists like…
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Samsung ‘Exynos W920’ to be the first chip for Google’s new Wear OS w/ big performance gains

While software issues did plague Wear OS for years, the biggest problem the platform has faced has been underpowered chips provided by Qualcomm. It’s a problem we really hope to see the new reboot fix, and it seems that might indeed be the case. Today, a new report is detailing the “Exynos W920,” which will be the first chip used on the new Wear OS. SamMobile reports that Samsung’s next…
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