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TCL adopts Google TV in 2021 models starting in the United States

TCL is one of the biggest names in TV right now thanks to super affordable hardware that, frankly, is really good. After bringing Android TV models to the US market in 2020, TCL has just announced that it will be adopting Google TV in 2021. At CES 2021 today, TCL announced that it would be bringing Google TV-powered models to the market this year, even expanding the company’s offerings.
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Google reiterates that the Assistant Driving Mode preview is still rolling out

Back in November, Google announced an “early preview” of Assistant Driving Mode in the US. It has officially been “rolling out” since late last year, but most users have yet to receive it. The company today reiterated that the preview is coming. Intended to replace the Android Auto app on phones, the preview of Driving Mode available today resides in Google Maps. The navigation…
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Google Chrome address bar may soon default to HTTPS

Google Chrome will soon have an experiment that will automatically try to connect to the HTTPS versions of website URLs that you type into the address bar instead of the insecure HTTP version. For years now, HTTPS has steadily grown from being a way of feeling secure about…
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Qualcomm’s new ultrasonic fingerprint sensor is larger and faster, probably debuting in Galaxy S21

The Samsung Galaxy S21 reveal event is just a few days away, and today Qualcomm might have given us a preview of one piece of that phone’s hardware with its latest in-display fingerprint sensor, which is both larger and faster. As CES 2021 is now officially underway, Qualcomm is following up last month’s announcements of the latest lineup of smartphone chips with its next generation of…
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Ambarella unveils 8K AI vision processor for car, drone, and robot cameras

Ambarella has unveiled the CV5 AI Vision Processor to handle 8K image processing for car, consumer, crone, and robot cameras. The new 5-nanometer camera system on chip (SoC) is the latest in the company’s CVflow family, and it consumes under 2 watts of power. The chip is about 4 times more powerful than the previous-generation chip. Chris Day, VP of marketing and business development at…
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