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Find My Device will remind you about suspending, deleting Android 12 car keys [APK Insight]

June 19, 2021
Android 12 this fall will introduce support for digital car keys. With our phones growing ever more capable, losing them will become a greater and greater inconvenience. As such, the Find My Device process will incorporate deleting and suspending car keys if you misplace your phone. About APK Insight: In this “APK Insight” post, we’ve decompiled the latest version of an application that…
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Canon Rebuffs Rumors That Its R3 Sensor is Made by Sony

June 18, 2021
Since Canon’s initial development announcement for the EOS R3, rumors have swirled that the company — despite its statement otherwise — was not the manufacturer of the backside illuminated sensor at its core. A report published on June 17 stated factually that the R3…
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Samsung Patents Describe Methods That Solve Two Camera Limitations

June 18, 2021
Samsung has filed a patent for a folding smartphone with a rotating camera as well as another for an under-display camera as well as other sensors such as an in-display fingerprint sensor. Although Samsung has already released a smartphone with rotating camera technology — the Samsung A80 was the company’s first smartphone to have a popup selfie camera that uses a rotating module — it…
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The standalone Google Assistant app reaches 500 million Play Store downloads

June 18, 2021
While the Google Assistant comes pre-installed on what feels like every single product released now, the standalone app has now amassed 500 million downloads on the Play Store. Now, it’s worth nothing that the “app” is simply just a shortcut to launch into voice controls. It’s completely unnecessary, especially as tons of smartphones have quick gestures to activate the Google Assistant…
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Google Fit changes how distance and calories are calculated, deleting old data in 30 days

June 18, 2021
Google today notified users of a change to how Fit works to calculate some metrics. End users of the Google Fit apps should not see a real impact due to this, but “some data” will be deleted in 30 days.  Google changed how “Cumulative distance” and “Calories consumed” are calculated “to make it easier for other apps to connect to Google Fit.” Those data types are used to…
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