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Second group of Activision Blizzard testers wins union vote

December 3, 2022
More Activision Blizzard workers have voted to unionize. Quality assurance testers at Blizzard Albany have voted 14-0 in favor of unionization. The team at the Diablo-focused office will join the Communication Workers of America (CWA), the representative of the existing Raven Software union. The game publisher tried to prevent the vote in October, arguing that 88 developers should be included to…
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Google on the difficulty of designing a 24-hour time picker

December 2, 2022
The Material Design team has an interesting blog post into what it calls the “24-hour Clock Design Challenge” that chronicles Google’s work creating a time picker for those that use a 24-hour format clock on their Android devices. The first Material Design 24 hour…
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Samsung will update these Galaxy devices to Android 13

December 2, 2022
After launching on Pixel phones earlier this year, Android 13 is now headed to Samsung Galaxy devices outside of a beta program. Here’s what devices have already received their update, and which ones will probably get it over the coming months. What’s new in Android 13…
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Stability AI looks to AWS cloud to power the next generation of generative AI

December 2, 2022
Check out the on-demand sessions from the Low-Code/No-Code Summit to learn how to successfully innovate and achieve efficiency by upskilling and scaling citizen developers. Watch now. Generative AI frameworks and models are one of the hottest trends of 2022, as new approaches have come to market that enable users and organizations to generate images and text. Among the organizations building…
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Apple Arcade games for iPhone, Mac, Apple TV [New: Dead Cells+]

December 2, 2022
Apple Arcade launched with close to 100 titles and the service is seeing new games added regularly with over 200 games now in the library. Follow along with our guide on Apple Arcade games. New: Action game Dead Cells+ is the latest release on Apple Arcade. You can learn…
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Huawei teases a smartwatch with built-in wireless earbuds

December 2, 2022
As convenient as wireless earbuds can be, you typically have to carry a case around to store and charge them. Wouldn’t you rather free up your pocket? Huawei thinks so. As The Register notes, the Chinese brand has teased a Watch Buds smartwatch that includes earbuds…
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iPhone users can now share their digital car keys with Pixel owners

December 2, 2022
You no longer need others to use the same phone OS to share your digital car keys. Google has added car key sharing to Pixel devices, making cross-platform swaps available in an early form. If you’re using an iPhone running iOS 16.1, you can send keys stored in Wallet to a Pixel through communications apps like Mail, Messages and WhatsApp. Pixel users share their car access through…
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Android adds a dedicated Reading mode app for web pages and more

December 2, 2022
Google has announced that as part of its expanded Accessibility functions, Android is gaining a new Reading mode capable of turning websites and other content into easier-to-read formats. This new Reading mode can be downloaded to your Android phone and plugs into the existing Accessibility suite to improve the content consumption experience of those with impaired vision, low vision, or…
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