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YouTube Music for Android preps support for podcasts

March 15, 2023

YouTube announced last month that podcasts are coming to YouTube Music, and we’re now seeing the Android app add the necessary support with version 5.48. About APK Insight: In this “APK Insight” post, we’ve decompiled the latest version of an application that Google uploaded to the Play Store. When we decompile these files (called APKs, in the case of Android apps), we’re able to see…

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Tibco scales data analytics and visualization with an eye on AI

March 15, 2023

Enterprise analytics vendor Tibco is updating its software portfolio today with a series of releases designed to help improve analysis and data visualization with enhanced scalability, data streaming and integration of artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. This…

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Lensrentals' most rented-out point-and-shoot isn't a point-and-shoot at all

March 15, 2023

The Leica Q2 certainly has a built-in lens, but does that really make it a ‘point-and-shoot?’ We’d say not, and that making that distinction helps illuminate the niches in which there’s still room for compacts to do interesting things. Photo: Dan…

NASA’s Webb Telescope Captures Rarely Seen Prelude to Supernova

March 15, 2023

The rare sight of a Wolf-Rayet star – among the most luminous, most massive, and most briefly detectable stars known – was one of the first observations made by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope in June 2022. Webb shows the star, WR 124, in unprecedented detail with its powerful infrared instruments. The star is 15,000 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius. Massive stars race…

Google Play will now machine translate Android apps for free

March 15, 2023

At the Google for Games Summit, Google announced the launch of free machine translation for Android apps. This will make it easier for developers to launch their apps in seven languages. The translations will presumably use the same technology that powers Google Translate…

Google Pixel 8 Pro adds a mysterious new sensor, flat display in first leaked renders

March 15, 2023

Leak season is starting. Following a retail leak of Pixel Fold and Pixel 7a just a little while ago, the first renders of Google Pixel 8 Pro have arrived, showing off a mysterious new sensor on the camera bar. Courtesy of @OnLeaks and SmartPrix, this first look at the…

Google’s PaLM API and MakerSuite will make working with generative AI more approachable

March 15, 2023

With all eyes on generative AI products like ChatGPT, Microsoft’s new Bing, and Google’s upcoming Bard, Google has built PaLM and MakerSuite as new ways to help developers experiment with creating their own AI-powered projects. Considering AI technology is still just beginning to arrive and be understood, the idea of creating an application that offers AI can seem far-fetched for developers.

Google Doodle celebrates the taste and aroma of Filipino adobo

March 15, 2023

Today’s Google Doodle is in celebration of adobo, which is both a style of cooking and a mainstay dish of Filipino cuisine. When you hear the word “adobo,” you’ll likely think of one of two types of cuisine. There’s Spanish adobo, which is a technique for…

Change the brightness of your Galaxy S23 flashlight with a couple of taps, here’s how

March 15, 2023

Samsung Galaxy devices are some of the best Android phones because of their unique features. One neat one that seems to fly under the radar is the flashlight brightness settings. Here’s how you can change the brightness of your flashlight on the Galaxy S23. In truth…

9to5Google Log Out: A series of Pixel update oddities

March 15, 2023

9to5Google has a rebooted newsletter that highlights the biggest Google stories with added commentary and other tidbits. Sign up to get it early in your inbox, or continue reading 9to5Google Log Out below: After a week-long delay, the March 2022 Pixel Feature Drop arrived on Monday as a somewhat unexciting update. It would have been a total bust if it weren’t for Cross Device Timers that…