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Samsung hands out free storage upgrades & discounts for Galaxy S22, Z Fold 4, and Z Flip 4

December 9, 2022
As the holidays approach, Samsung is offering up some last-minute discounts and free storage upgrades if you’re looking to pick up a Galaxy S22, Galaxy Z Fold 4, or Galaxy Z Flip 4. Here’s the breakdown. Across almost its entire flagship smartphone lineup, Samsung is currently handing out free storage upgrades to buyers. This boosts the usual 128GB storage on Galaxy S22 series devices up to…
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Android 13 is rolling out to the Asus Zenfone 9

December 9, 2022
While Samsung has been pushing Android 13 to dozens of devices lately, Asus is now getting around to its stable rollout as the update lands on the compact Zenfone 9. The Zenfone 9 launched earlier this year as one of the only compact, flagship-tier Android smartphones on…
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Google details how Private Compute Core on Android works

December 9, 2022
The Private Compute Core (PCC) was announced with Android 12 to let ML-backed features operate in a privacy-conscious manner independent of other parts of the OS, including third-party apps. Google recently published a technical whitepaper detailing the Private Compute Core Architecture. “Backed by open-source code in the Android Framework,” the Private Compute Core is a “secure, isolated…
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Stadia ‘dev node’ teardown shows off the hardware Google sent to developers [Updated]

December 9, 2022
Google Stadia is set to shut down for good just a month from now, but a developer kit has now surfaced showing off what was used to get games ready for the now-defunct cloud gaming platform. Gamers Nexus on YouTube obtained a Stadia “Dev Node” which is what Google called the hardware developer kit used for creating games on Stadia. The machine was sent to game studios to prepare games for…
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Chrome 108 for Android, Mac, Windows enables passkey support

December 9, 2022
Google started rolling out passkey support in October, and availability has now entered Chrome’s stable channel with version 108.  You can use passkeys to sign into sites and apps that support them. Signing in with a passkey will require you to authenticate yourself in…
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EU officially says all new iPhones will need USB-C starting in December 2024

December 9, 2022
The EU legislation to mandate a common smartphone charger is now a done deal. After it looked like it would pass back in June, the Council of Ministers ratified the vote in October. Today the law has been officially signed and published with a December 2024 deadline for all new smartphones sold in Europe to use USB-C. We’ve known for some time that it would likely be 2024 before smartphone…
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