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Waze ditches its iOS widget in latest updates

February 28, 2023
Google-owned Waze is removing its iOS widget for the left-most homescreen, with the feature being removed in the latest updates rolling out now. 9to5Google has a rebooted newsletter that highlights the biggest Google stories with added commentary and other tidbits. Sign up here! First introduced all the way back in 2014 for iOS 8, the Waze widget for iPhones has long allowed users to quickly…
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Like iPhone, a stolen Android phone’s PIN could be used to change Google account password

February 28, 2023
A report from The Wall Street Journal last week sounded the alarm on an obvious, but frightening issue on iPhone that would allow a criminal to take over your Apple account. But that’s not something exclusive to iOS. Your Google account could be compromised if a criminal stole your Android phone and its PIN, but there are ways to protect yourself. 9to5Google has a rebooted newsletter that…
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What apps support the new Android 13 media player [Updated]

February 28, 2023
Android 13’s most obvious UI change is a redesign of the lockscreen and notification shade media player. However, not all music, podcasts, and audio apps have been updated to support them yet, and here’s our running list of what controls have been modernized. Original…
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The purpose and impact of creative AI

February 28, 2023
Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here. As robotics began to take on more and more tasks, one of the biggest questions has always been, “Will robots ever be creative?” That always seemed a laughably distant goal. Without…
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OpenAI has grand ‘plans’ for AGI. Here’s another way to read its manifesto | The AI Beat

February 28, 2023
Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here. Am I the only one who found Open AI’s latest blog post, “Planning for AGI and Beyond,” problematic? From its inception in 2015, OpenAI has always made it clear that its central goal is to build artificial general intelligence (AGI). Its stated mission is “to ensure that artificial general intelligence…
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Waze ditches its iOS widget in latest updates

February 28, 2023
Google-owned Waze is removing its iOS widget for the left-most homescreen, with the feature being removed in the latest updates rolling out now. 9to5Google has a rebooted newsletter that highlights the biggest Google stories with added commentary and other tidbits. Sign up…
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Wear OS 3 getting new sound and display modes as Chrome for Android adds 300% page zoom

February 27, 2023
Google is rolling out a handful of new accessibilities feature for Android (Chrome zoom) and Wear OS 3 (sound and display modes) as part of a modest Spring feature frop. To improve accessibility on already small screens, Wear OS 3+ will let you set mono-audio to “help limit disorientation caused by split-audio.” Meanwhile, color-correction and grayscale modes, which are also coming soon, aim…
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