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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 satisfied.  Google then asks what you like and dislike across seven categories:  Battery life Hardware design Fitness & health…
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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…
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Galaxy S23 Ultra manages a rare victory against iPhone 14 Pro Max in speed test [Video]

Apple’s killer chipsets and tightly integrated software has long led to iPhones being a bit faster than many Android phones over the years, but in a new speed test, Samsung’s new Galaxy S23 Ultra pulls off a rare victory. YouTube channel PhoneBuff recently published the latest in a long series of speed tests. The channel has, for years now, been running side-by-side speed tests of the latest…
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Abode home security systems get new Google TV, Wear OS apps

Abode has today announced that its home security systems are adding support for Google TV and Wear OS, in an expansion of the company’s Android support. Abode is a do-it-yourself home security brand that has long focused on Apple, but offered Android and Google Home…
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AI-generated content detection tools put to the test

Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here. OpenAI’s Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (ChatGPT) has been the talk of the town since its launch in November 2022. The AI chatbot had more than a million users in just 4 days and…
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How D-Id is merging avatars with conversational AI for enterprise use cases

Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here. Generating digital humans (avatars) is a process increasingly making use of artificial intelligence (AI). And, the power of generative AI is now coming to avatars. This could have wide-ranging implication for enterprises, including customer support and experience. Today, Israeli startup D-ID announced the launch…
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Android 13 QPR2 Beta gets final feedback survey before launch

Google released Android 13 QPR2 Beta 3.2 last week to close out the preview cycle and is now asking for final feedback ahead of launch. Last week’s update was the “final QPR2 Beta build before the official March public release.” At the time, Google said that this…
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Removing Traces of Life in Lab Helps NASA Scientists Study Its Origins

In the Origins and Habitability Lab at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, you can find a world in a test tube – specifically, a simplified simulation of early Earth. By re-creating the conditions that would have been found on our planet roughly 4 billion years ago, scientists can narrow down the possible chemical reactions that could have taken place then – including those that may have been…
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