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What apps support the new Android 13 media player [Updated]

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 8/18: The Android 13 media controls start with a new size that’s taller than what was on Android 12. (There’s a compact…
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The purpose and impact of creative AI

Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here. As robotics began to take on more and more tasks, one of the biggest questions has always been, “Will robots ever be creative?” That always seemed a laughably distant goal. Without…
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Waze ditches its iOS widget in latest updates

Google-owned Waze is removing its iOS widget for the left-most homescreen, with the feature being removed in the latest updates rolling out now. 9to5Google has a rebooted newsletter that highlights the biggest Google stories with added commentary and other tidbits. Sign up here! First introduced all the way back in 2014 for iOS 8, the Waze widget for iPhones has long allowed users to quickly…
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MIUI 14: Here’s every Xiaomi device confirmed to get Android 13

After officially launching the Xiaomi 13 Pro at MWC 2023, the Chinese tech giant confirmed the MIUI 14 based on the Android 13 update is coming to a number of devices very soon. The full-fat Android 13 update was launched way back in August 2022 for Pixel phones. Disappointingly, it has taken a long time for Xiaomi to indicate which device lineups will get MIUI 14 in the coming months. During…
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Android is adding support for eSIM transfer between devices

eSIM has been around for several years at this point, but support and handling is wildly different across different Android devices and carriers. Today, Google is announcing a new tool that will help the future of eSIM on Android, with support for eSIM transfer. Alongside announcements regarding Wear OS 3 and Android, Google revealed that Android is picking up support for an eSIM transfer…
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