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Google helping power this week’s Gorillaz AR performance in NYC and London 

Later this week, Gorillaz will be performing a new song off their upcoming album in New York and London. This AR performance will be available through the “Gorillaz Presents” companion app and is powered by Google’s ARCore Geospatial API. The ARCore Geospatial API was announced at I/O 2022 to make the global localization technology powering Google Maps Live View available to third-party…
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Google Nest Cam previews are still broken on Pixel Watch & Wear OS, but work on Apple Watch

The move over to the Google Home app has been messy for Nest Cam owners for a variety of reasons, but things are finally coming together. If you use a Wear OS watch, though, the Google Home app is still missing the useful previews from Nest Cam, even on Google’s own Pixel Watch. Since its inception, Google’s Wear OS platform has been able to show images within incoming notifications. This…
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Google explains how Recorder Speaker Labels work, plans to use Tensor TPU to save power

As part of December’s Pixel Feature Drop, Google’s excellent Recorder app gained Speaker Labels that can identify multiple people. As with previous editions, the team behind it is out with an explanation of how the feature came to be. Speaker Labels are powered by Turn-to-Diarize, Google’s new speaker diarization system. There are three main components to it that “run fully on the…
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iOS 16.3 beta 1 rolling out today as we await these new iPhone features

Just one day after the release of iOS 16.2 with a slew of new features, Apple is once again starting the beta testing process. iOS 16.3 beta 1 is rolling out to developers today. We’re still waiting to find out what’s new, but there are a number of features that Apple has already announced, but not yet released. iOS 16.3 beta 1 iOS 16.3 beta 1 will be available today to registered developer…
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