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Android 17 QPR2 Beta 1 Released for Pixel Devices, Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro Reach End of Life

July 22, 2026
Android 17 QPR2 Beta 1 has been released by Google for eligible Pixel phones. The new update brings a few bug fixes and comes at a time when QPR1 preview is now finished. The update will be released for the public in December this year. Google’s list of eligible devices for the QPR2 unsurprisingly excludes the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro, the first devices which came with Google’s Proprietary…
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AI & RoboticsNews

AI and the rise of the universal entertainment app

July 22, 2026
All the big entertainment apps are starting to look the same, and that’s not an accident. For a decade, platforms fought over who would dominate a single format: music, video, podcasts, audiobooks. Now, powered by AI, they’re fighting over something bigger – becoming…
AI & RoboticsNews

Gritt exits stealth with $32 million for robots to build solar plants — then, everything else

July 22, 2026
One of the most important things happening on Earth today is the solar energy build-out. Around the world, companies and countries are racing to deploy solar and batteries to achieve energy independence and limit the effects of climate change. That build-out, though, is running into a labor market challenge, with a limited supply of workers to meet a growing demand for installation. Robots could…
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This camera-less photo is so large it took a bridge, 100 volunteers, and more than 100 hours to create – and could be the longest of its kind ever made

July 22, 2026
A photograph so large it took up most of an entire bridge could break a world record for the world’s largest cyanotype. Created by a group of artists and nearly 100 volunteers in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the cyanotype stretches more than 430 feet long. Bobby Philips (@improvgnosis), filmmaker and director of Yeah Media, and Meg Roach (@adventuretextiles), cyanotype and fabric artist and Owner of…
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Florida AG asks court to erase Tesla's $243M Autopilot crash verdict

July 22, 2026
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is asking a federal appeals court to wipe out the $243 million verdict a Miami jury handed Tesla over a fatal Autopilot crash. The attorneys general of Alabama and Georgia joined the July 9 brief, which asks the 11th Circuit to throw out the judgment entirely — or, failing that, cut the $200 million punitive award down to three times compensatory…
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