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After launching support for the Google Store just in time for the Pixel 7, Rakuten is now offering massively boosted rates for the Samsung Galaxy S23 series, offering up to 15% cash back. Rakuten has long offered online shoppers a chance to get a buck or two back on their purchases, but often that comes in the form of just 1%-3% back. But from time to time, various merchants will boost that…

Android SVP Hiroshi Lockheimer made an appearance at the end of the Galaxy 23 event today to talk about Google’s partnership with Samsung and Qualcomm on extended reality (XR). As of late, Samsung and Google have been working together (including through joint marketing) on highlighting the latter’s services on the former’s hardware. Lockheimer highlighted Google Meet (with Live Sharing for…

The latest Android 13 QPR2 beta shows that Google has made quite a bit of progress on customizing the shortcuts and clock design shown on the lock screen. With Android 13’s second quarterly update, we’ve previously seen signs that Google is working on a way to customize the two shortcuts that appear on the lock screen. In fact, while this feature is still a work-in-progress on Pixel phones…

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has celebrated the arrival in the App Store of the first Nostr iPhone app, Damus. Dorsey described the launch of the app as “a milestone for open protocols,” effectively for the creation of a new generation of social tools that are free from big tech control … What is Nostr? If you’re not yet familiar with Nostr, the technical definition isn’t…