To help those getting work done with an Android tablet, Google is rolling out a large-screen redesign of Google Drive, complete with a navigation rail.
Announced on the official Workspace Updates blog, those with workspace accounts enrolled for “Rapid Release” should soon see a new look for Google Drive on Android tablets. Most notably, the redesign ditches the bottom navigation bar in favor…
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Inworld AI had a booth on the show floor of the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, where the company showed off characters in a game with a new kind of…
Messaging is no longer Android’s mess, it’s an iPhone problem: Talking RCS with Hiroshi Lockheimer
March 25, 2023
A few weeks ago, at MWC 2023, I had an opportunity to sit down with Hiroshi Lockheimer, senior vice president of Platforms and Ecosystems at Google, to talk about RCS messaging. While there was not a lot into the future of what Google is planning with Google Messages and RCS…
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Sea level data gathered Jan. 21 in the Gulf Stream by SWOT’s KaRIn instrument, visualized at left, has 10 times the spatial resolution of data taken over the same area by altimeters on seven other satellites, visualized at right. Red represents sea levels higher than the global average, while blue is lower. Credit: left: NASA/JPL-Caltech; right…
In an unexpected turn of events, Asus has just announced an April 13 launch event that will unveil the Asus ROG Phone 7, well ahead of schedule.
Asus has kept up its series of “Republic of Gamers” smartphones for the past few years now, and they’ve been some of the…
As OpenAI rival Character AI announces $1B valuation, reports of ‘industrial capture’ emerge
March 24, 2023
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The steady march of eye-popping investments into companies developing large language models (LLMs) continues. The New York Times…
Large language models (LLMs), like Google Bard, are trained on “trillions of words” to learn how humans talk and predict/generate the next words in a sentence that make for a good response. However, this technology is not actually aware of what’s factually correct. Given the newness of it, some are – understandably – not yet aware of this fact. In the case of Bard, one particular…
Check who can see your Android phone’s location
March 24, 2023
In recent Android versions, safety and privacy have been forefront in the majority of changes made, though are still ways that others can see your Android device’s location without acting in a malicious way. This guide will bring you through several location-sharing…
Report: Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as Google sees a slight decline
March 24, 2023
Microsoft bet big on AI with the “new Bing,” and it seems the gamble succeeded, with Bing gaining new users as Google sees a slight decline.
As reported by Reuters, Microsoft is seeing a boost of roughly 16% on page visits to Bing since the launch of its GPT-4-powered…
Google’s large screen optimization push continues with the Search app adopting a navigation rail on tablets, though it’s clearly early days.
Update 3/23/23: The Google app is once again testing a navigation rail in the beta channel with version 14.12. Last year’s rollout was reverted after a few weeks.
This new iteration moves the three tabs higher up the screen. It’s basically in the…
