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Google Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL get final update with February security patch

Google has updated the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL for the final time, bringing the two phones up to the February 2023 security patch. First released in 2019, the Google Pixel 4 series received three years of monthly Android security updates and Pixel-specific improvements, including the full update to Android 13 last August. Traditionally, for flagship Pixel phones, Google releases one final update…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Google and Microsoft prepare dueling generative AI debuts

Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here. Google and Microsoft, in separate surprise announcements, confirmed they plan to offer dueling generative AI debuts over the next two days. Today, Google unveiled a new ChatGPT-like chatbot named Bard, as it races to catch up in the wake of ChatGPT’s massive viral success (growing faster than TikTok, apparently).
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MobileNews

How to block blue light on iPhone and more tips to fall asleep

Curious how to use your iPhone more intentionally so it’s not making it difficult for you to get to sleep at night? While blue light has gotten a lot of focus as something to avoid, there’s also recent research that shows more than just blue light can have a negative…
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Exclusive: iPhone reverse wireless charging development continues after Apple missed target

Apple is continuing its work on full reverse wireless charging support for the iPhone, despite engineering delays. 9to5Mac has heard from sources familiar with the matter that Apple had hoped to debut the feature with the iPhone 14 Pro lineup, but failed to meet that deadline. Nonetheless, our sources indicate that Apple engineers are pressing ahead with the development of bilateral wireless…
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NewsSpace

Webb Detects Extremely Small Main Belt Asteroid

An asteroid roughly the size of Rome’s Colosseum – between 300 to 650 feet (100 to 200 meters) in length – has been detected by an international team of European astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Their project used data from the calibration of the Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI), in which the team serendipitously detected an interloping asteroid. The object is likely the…
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