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Quick Charge Podcast: June 26, 2021

June 27, 2021
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes are delivered as…
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Google Doodle honors Tommy Kono, Olympic weightlifter

June 27, 2021
With the Olympics just under a month away, Google has replaced their homepage logo with a Doodle celebrating Tommy Kono, a Japanese-American weightlifter and Olympic gold medalist. Tamio “Tommy” Kono was born on June 27, 1930 — 91 years ago, today — in Sacramento…
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This week’s top stories: Google app crashes, Samsung’s ‘new era’ of smartwatches, more

June 27, 2021
In this week’s top stories: recent Google app update causes frequent crashes, Samsung teases a “new era” for smartwatches, Google Play makes a push for Wear OS, Google TV, and Android Auto apps. This week, many Android owners were struggling with frequent crashes in the Google app and its sub-apps like Podcasts and Lens. It was found that the crashes were caused by the update to version…
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S**t Leica Photographers Say…

June 26, 2021
German freelance photographer Samuel Lintaro Hopf made thus humorous 8-minute video that features a whole bunch of things you may hear coming out of a Leica photographer’s mouth. Founded as Ernst Leitz Wetzlar in 1869 by Ernst Leitz in Wetzlar, Germany, Leica is an iconic…
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DeepMind AGI paper adds urgency to ethical AI

June 26, 2021
Where does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve? Take our AI survey to find out. It has been a great year for artificial intelligence. Companies are spending more on large AI projects, and new investment in AI startups is on pace for a record year. All this investment and spending is yielding results that are moving us all closer to the long-sought holy grail — artificial general…
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Samsung Galaxy Watch4 to come with body composition monitor

June 26, 2021
The Samsung Galaxy Watch4 rumored to launch in early August will come with a BIA sensor, claims tipster Max Weinbach. With a BIA (bioelectrical impedance analysis) sensor onboard, the Galaxy Watch4 will be able to measure the wearer’s body composition – in particular body fat and muscle mass – which is an integral part of assessing a person’s health and nutrition. The BIA…
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