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Delightful Google ad imagines the Perseverance Mars rover using Google Photos [Video]

NASA’s Perseverance landed on Mars six months ago and has been chronicling its mission with good imagery and video. Google is marking the anniversary with a very fun ad that imagines if the Mars rover used Google Photos.  At under a minute long, “A Mars Rover Looks Back” is set to “Put On Your Sunday Clothes” by Jerry Herman. If that song is familiar, especially in the context of…
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Workspace admins can now limit external Google Chat to specific teams, domains

Last year, Google Chat added support for talking with users outside their company, thus expanding from being just an internal team communication tool. Google Workspace admins are now getting the ability to limit that external Chat access. Initially, Workspace admins could either allow or disable external Chat with other Gmail users and other companies that use Google for email. More granulation…
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MobileNews

Galaxy Buds 2 Review: Best of the Pro for less

You can buy truly wireless earbuds at just about any price point now, whether that’s super-premium options that cost well over $200 or super-affordable options that cost just $20. It’s the middle ground, though, which I find the most interesting. That’s where…
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Twitter is making it easier for other apps to point to Spaces

Twitter is updating its API v2 so that developers can look up its Spaces social audio rooms, the company announced Wednesday, which could allow them to share information about Spaces more easily outside the Twitter app. Twitter has been rapidly improving Spaces, but before now, you could only see them on Twitter’s own apps. But starting Wednesday, “all developers using the new Twitter API v2…
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GamingNews

Epic Games Store’s self-publishing tools enter closed beta

A new GamesBeat event is around the corner! Learn more about what comes next.  The Epic Games Store is launching a closed beta for its self-publishing tools today. You can sign up for for it here. The Epic Games Store isn’t as large as Steam, but it still has 58 million…
AI & RoboticsNews

EdgeQ samples SoC for 5G and AI inference engines

A new GamesBeat event is around the corner! Learn more about what comes next.  EdgeQ revealed today it has begun sampling a 5G base station-on-a-chip that allows AI inference engines to run at the network edge. The goal is to make it less costly to build enterprise-grade…
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AI-powered design platform Uizard picks up $15M

A new GamesBeat event is around the corner! Learn more about what comes next.  Uizard, a startup developing AI-powered tools to build apps and websites, today announced that it raised $15 million in funding from Insight Partners with participation from Mariano Suarez-Battan, byFounders, LDV Capital, and av8 Ventures. According to CEO Tony Beltramelli, the proceeds will be used to grow…
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