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Google Contacts feed highlighting upcoming birthdays with ‘For you’

Google added “Highlights” to Contacts in December that made the Android app decidedly more than just a list of people. That Google Contacts feed now has a “For you” section that shows upcoming birthdays.  Slotting in between Favorites and Recents is the “For you” section that shows upcoming birthdays. You see the contact’s profile picture and name, as well as the date and a…
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Best Galaxy S23 cases you can get right now

The Galaxy S23 series is a physically gorgeous lineup of phones. Both the S23 and S23+ take on a rounded and modern design, while the S23 Ultra is big and boxy – just how we like it. Before pre-orders ship out, we suggest taking a look at some of the best cases you can get…
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Xiaomi may be preparing a new Wear OS 3 smartwatch

After years of releasing watches on its own proprietary system, Xiaomi appears to be preparing to launch a smartwatch that runs on Google’s Wear OS 3. 9to5Google has a rebooted newsletter that highlights the biggest Google stories with added commentary and other…
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Android 14 will bring passkey support for Dashlane and other apps

Passkeys are coming up soon as a way of using your phone and its biometrics in place of traditional passwords, and Android 14 is set to bring native support for passkeys to apps, including Dashlane. In a blog post today, Dashlane explained that it will add native support for passkeys in Android 14. The upcoming version of Android unlocks support for passkeys within third-party apps, meaning that…
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Forrester: Question generative AI uses before experimentation

The onslaught of ChatGPT and generative AI news is not necessarily helpful to today’s enterprise decision-makers. Early indications are that conversations with OpenAI’s trained language model can take some strange paths. Still, innovators need to take care, explore and probe this AI technology’s use cases. That’s the word from Rowan Curran, analyst with Forrester Research. While the…
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Google running survey on Pixel Watch satisfaction

Google is using the Pixel Watch companion app to run a simple survey that’s seeing a pretty wide rollout. The survey, which appears in the main feed, starts by asking “how satisfied are you with your Pixel Watch,” with a scale from very unsatisfied to very…
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Google Doodle celebrates St. David’s Day 2023

Today’s limited Google Doodle is celebrating St. David’s Day 2023 or Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Sant in Wales and, by extension, the United Kingdom. For those unaware, St. David’s Day is a celebration of the patron saint of Wales who died on this day all the way back in the…
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Galaxy Watch 6 battery increases likely, according to leak

We could get yet another battery gain for the Galaxy Watch 6, according to a leak of the internal cells of the upcoming wearable. 9to5Google has a rebooted newsletter that highlights the biggest Google stories with added commentary and other tidbits. Sign up here! GalaxyClub.nl spotted that South Korean regulators have certified two internal cells that are likely to be utilized by the upcoming…
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