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Hisense is ‘happy’ with standard Android TV; 2021 models won’t get Google TV anytime soon

May 20, 2021
Android TV has seen hefty growth over the past few years, recently with a big boost in the United States. Helping to lead that charge is Android TV built into smart TVs. As Google TV takes over, we’re still waiting to find out who will and won’t adopt it. As far as Hisense goes, the company tells us it’s “happy” with Android TV as it stands with no immediate plans for Google TV. The…
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These light, thin, flexible solar panels ‘peel and stick’ to roofs

May 20, 2021
Singapore-based Maxeon Solar Technologies has announced that it will commercially release its Maxeon Air solar panels this summer. The company says the Air solar panels are frameless, thin, lightweight, and conformable, with efficiency and performance the same as standard solar panels. Thin, flexible, stick-on solar panels Basically, the Air is a solar panel sticker, or, as Maxeon describes it…
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Google apps are beginning to adopt ‘Google Sans Text’

May 20, 2021
At the “What’s new in Material Design” session this morning, Google shared that its apps are starting to use Google Sans Text. We’ve seen it pop-up in some products already, but the company at I/O 2021 better detailed the font. As we learned in 2018, Google Sans is a size-optimized version of Product Sans, which is only intended for the company’s official product logos. Since then, the…
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Google Says It is Creating a More Racially Inclusive Android Camera

May 19, 2021
Google has announced that it is trying to build a camera system that, through software, is more inclusive. By working with a diverse group of imaging and industry experts, the company hopes to make its cameras better at rendering a wider range of skin tones. The idea that photography is biased towards lighter-colored skin is not new. In 2015, Vox published a video that analyzed how early film…
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