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Meet the People Behind the SWOT Water-Tracking Satellite

November 23, 2022
As the international Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission finishes final preparations for its December launch, a new video series focuses on some of the engineers and scientists behind the satellite, which will be the first to observe nearly all water on Earth’s surface. Led by NASA and the French space agency Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES), SWOT will measure the…
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Shazam’s new Android widget lets you stay on the homescreen

November 23, 2022
Homescreen widgets have seen a new resurgence in the past year with Android 12+, and Shazam has just revamped theirs to be more than just a shortcut that opens the app. The old Shazam widget was just a larger shortcut that immediately opened the app on-click to start listening. Version 13.7 introduces a widget that lets you “Shazam music directly from your home screen.” A “Tap to Shazam”…
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Pixel Watch confirmed to support transit cards in Google Wallet with future update

November 23, 2022
The first Pixel Watch app update has widely rolled out at this point, with Google last week sharing a few other community updates, including future transit card support. In a vaguely newsletter-esque forum post called “The Google Pixel Watch minute,” a “Trending topics in the community” section provides some interesting answers. As we’ve expected, the company is “planning to bring”…
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What apps support the new Android 13 media player [Updated]

November 23, 2022
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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EA's return to college football games will arrive in summer 2024

November 23, 2022
A year after it was first announced, EA’s return to college football has a release window. In an interview with ESPN, Daryl Holt, the vice president and general manager of the company’s EA Sports division, said the publisher plans to release the game in the summer of 2024. If another year-and-a-half of development sounds like a lot for what will become an annual release for EA, it’s because…
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