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AI Test Kitchen adding text-to-image demos as Google releases short stories co-written with AI

November 3, 2022
Google announced AI Test Kitchen as a way to let people “learn about, experience, and give feedback on emerging AI technology.” First announced at I/O 2022 in May and rolled out in August, AI Test Kitchen “Season 2” was previewed today with a focus on text-to-image generators. The existing three demos — Imagine It, List It, and Talk About It — are focused on more conversational…
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Google Play adopting new app quality thresholds for top charts and recommendations

November 3, 2022
Google is introducing a new “app quality bar” for the Play Store to give more prominence to higher-quality titles. The Google Play Store will steer users away from low-quality apps and games by excluding them “from impactful discovery surfaces such as recommendations.” The two core vitals are user-perceived crash and ANR (Application Not Responding) rates that apps must remain…
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YouTube for Android updated with Material You homescreen widgets

November 3, 2022
Following iOS last month, YouTube for Android now offers homescreen widgets that provide quick access to search and core parts of the app. The first capability available is being able to quickly “Search YouTube.” Tapping the text field opens the YouTube app to the search…
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Microsoft fights phishing with passwordless authentication for Azure AD on iOS and Android 

November 3, 2022
Join us on November 9 to learn how to successfully innovate and achieve efficiency by upskilling and scaling citizen developers at the Low-Code/No-Code Summit. Register here. The FIDO alliance-driven crackdown on passwords and phishing scams has been one of this year’s most significant security developments, with vendors including Microsoft, Google and Apple all committing to developing…
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2023 iPhone models to keep using Qualcomm’s 5G modem

November 3, 2022
Apple has been developing its own modem chips for iPhone, and some reports suggested that the company would start using them as soon as 2023. However, a statement from Qualcomm suggests that Apple will keep using third-party modems rather than its own chips for the 2023 iPhone models. Apple delays plans to put its own 5G modem in the iPhone According to a Bloomberg report on Wednesday, Qualcomm…
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